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Recipes and Other Valuable Information
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DAINTY DISHES,
Muffins, -Cream together,' one
'tablespoonful of butter and one of
eager, acid one whole egg beaten,
oro teaspoonful salts one-half cup
of sweet milk, and ane cup of flour
with one heaping teaspoonful of
halting powder. Beat, pour in but-
teeed pans, and bake in a quick
oven.
Vltaf'f1es,—'Beat two whole eggs,
add one cupful of sweet milk, two
cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of
baking powcler, one-half teaspoon
of salt, and one tablespoonful of
melted butter.
Corn Cakes. --To one pint of sour
milk acid one level teaspoonful of
soda and a pinch of baking posvdc:r,
one whole egg, two tablespoonfuls
of flour and enough cornmeal to
make a thick batter.
An Emergency .Pickle. -Grate
some raw apple, and acid to it ire
weight in chopped onion. Add some
ehillicaL'hopped fine, and salt, and
mcieten with vinegar. This is de-
licious, but will not keep long,
- Cheese toast is nice for supper.
Put some slices of cheese in a
saucepan, add a little milk, a small
.,!'wu'of butter, pepper and salt to
taste. Stir till quite smooth and
very ]tot and then serve on a square
of hot buttered toast.
Potato and Cucumber Salad.•-
Have some cold boiled potato cut
inti:, dice, with half the quantity of
cucumber treated in the same way.
Rub a salad -bowl with onion if the
flavor is liked, put in the vege-
tables, sprinkle well with chopped
parsley, and pour a good salad'
dressing over.
Peas with Bacon.—Four slices of
bacon cut in small pieces and one
email onion cut fine. Cook togeth-
er until a light brown. Add half
a peck of green peas, salt and pep-
p tr to taste, and just enough warm
water to cover peas; cook until ten-
der and serve. Canned peas can be
prepared in the same way.
Rhubarb Marmalade.—For three
quarts of this delicious marmalade
take three pounds of rhubarb,
three and one-half pounds of sugar,
e juice and grated rind of lemon to
suit taste. boil all together till
thoroughly cooked, then, on remov-
ing from stove, add one pound of
almonds chopped fine. Can and
seal in fruit jars. For winter use
this may be made in the fall of .the
year, when the rhubarb is ripe.
Dandelion Salad. -Boil four me-
dium sized potatoes with jackets
on, cut in cubes while warm. Slice
cue small onion and two hard builed
eggs. Chop one-quarter pound
young dandelion leaves. Fry slow-
ly one-quarter pound lean bacon
cot in cubes. When brown pour
bacon and grease over potatoes.
Heat two tablespoonfuls of vine-
gar in frying pan. When hot mix
all together. Serve at once. Dan-
delion, leaves are easily cleaned if
soaked in cold water several hours.
Lettuce may be used as a 'substi-
tute.
ubsti-tote,
Floating Island.—Make a thick
kle,.
custard with two yolks of eggs, two
bneakfastcupfulls of milk, and three
b teaspoonfuls of flour. Let it cool
a little, and then pour into a glass
(Balt. Take a pint of stewed apple,
and beat till very'fine, the-- ecld the
beaten whites of the eggs, and
i Sugar to taste, and beat 'all t•o-
�}ia•ther till perfectly light.. Put
—• this on the top of the custard, and
serve.
Simple Orange Cream,'' -Mix two
level tablespoonfuls' of earn-fionr
smoothly into half a pint of. cold
water; adcl the strained juice of
five sweet araugee and one lemon,
halt thev'grated rind of the lemon,
and four ounces of loaf sugar. Pour
into' a saucepan and stir till it
boils and comes tiidtiy hewn the sides
of,.'the pan, and then pone into a
wet mould. When cold turn out,
grate a little orange rind over, and
serve:
:Beef Stew,—Rub a hying -pan
welt with a cut 'onion, and then
grease it. Cutup some cold beef
intu 8ma11 pieces, and cover, the bot-
tmtr• of the frying -pan with them.
Dredge with flour, salt and pepper,
anda little chopped .sweet beetle.
Now' put in caere 011005 of cold no-
tate with a few ;hits of dripping on
them.. Pour water over. Cover
with a plate, and cook very gently
h
roe if an hour. It must on no
a
account he nr the meat til p will be
loud,
Gond gravy for a joini'is found
by many people to, be, difficult to
melte. yet, as all the ingredients
1115' l.� hatid lush t nuld 1 not be, In
the dripping -pair when the joint is.
properly cooked is a dark 'brown
ecu which is veal meat es-
sence. When the:joint ie taken up,
grt,lly pour the dripping tele at
our cornet' into a basin, than pour
int: the pun about hall tu. pint of
bailing water, with seasoning of ,
vels and pepper, Stir this well Over
tr• fire till the gravy is a rich
,iwrt color. 'Then pour it ever
tnatat, No "made" grat'y is
s good ns this.
Gtw''ken Cream,—Mince : finely
flit 'tncee of raw chicken, pass
it twice dhrough the machine. 'then
beat on to 'it one egg and two tab-
lespoonfuls of cream. Season
da rrtily with salt and white pepper
anti a few grain• of nutmeg, Rut-
ter a jam -pot, pear in the contents,
,cover with greased paper, and
steam for thirty-five minutes. Turn
oe t on a dish, garinsh with crumb-
led yolk of egg ,and chopped pars-
ley and pour a little' thick white
sauce over.
A Rich Cake Without Eggs --Take
three pounds and 'a half of flour,
ono pound of sultanas, three -quar-
tets of a pound of currants, three
ounces of chopped peel, one pound
of. butter and lard mixed, three-
quarters of a pound of Demerara
sugar. Mix all the ingredients to-
gether, and then dissolve one pen-
nyworth of German yeast in a pint
of warm milk, Stirinto the ingre-
clients, knead into a clougir, and set
to rise for about three hours and a
half. • Mix half a teaspoonful of
mixed spice with a wine -glassful of
brandy. Stir into the dough. Bake
in greased tins in a steady oven.
This cake will keep well.
HINTS FOR THE HOME.
To improve the flavor of coffee,
slightly warm the grits and add a
pinch of salt before pouring on the
•
All jugs for kitchen use should
be large enough to admit the hand,
so that they can'bo' cleaned easily.
When sweeping linoleum, or
boards, tie a duster over the broom.
The dust will then he collected, not.
scattered.
Make every dish on the table as
attractive looking as possible; it
adds to the taste and sharpens the
appetite.
• Wet boots when taken off should.
be filled with soft paper, which ab-
sorbs the moisture and helps to
keep the boots in shape.
When choosing a carpet select,
one with (' ',8,11 pattern, as it will'
nut show ligns'of wear quickly, and
will he more easily turned about
if required to be re -made.
A bent felt hat may be restored!
to its original shape if it is ., first:
held before the fire till the felt feels
pliable, and then worked into shape
with the hands.
- Grease spots on a wooden floor!
should be titatecl with ammonia
before scrubbing. l=our a little of;
the fluid on 'the spot, leave for a
few minutes, and then scrub.
Patent leather boots when new
should be slightly warmed before
wearing, to prevent cracking. A
little salad oil should be rubbed
ever them occasionally if notin
constant wear.
A clothes -peg basket saves much
stooping. Have a wire hook on the.
handlesothat it will hang on the
line, Push the basket along as you
;tang out your clothes.
After emptying a glass of fruit or
jelly wash, dry thoroughly, and fill
with sugar, keep in a dry place, and
next summer you need only to buy
the fruit as you ilrea'dy have the
sugar.
Molasses whieh is required for a
rely -poly pudding should, before
using, be thickened with bread-
crnntbs, so that it will not ooze out
when boiling. Some grated lemon
rind always improves .it.
Useful pumice soup for stained
hands. Take about a teacupful of
scraps of toilet soap, add -a little
water, and put into a gallipot in a
saucepan of hot water till drssoly-
ed, stir in an ounce of powdered
pumice stone, form into balls, and
leave to dry.
Take an egg with the shell crack-
ed and wrap it firmly in a piece of
waxed' paper and twist the. paper
securely at both ends. The egg
wV,: boil as good as any and none
of the inside will came through the
cracked shell,
If yon have an excessively Lab
chicken to cook. do 'not. throw the
extra fat way. Fry it out caotoful
Iv, strain, and save for shortening.
for cakes or pie crust. It is super-
ior to any shortening but the best
butter, and is equal to that. Tur-
key, duck or goose grease may bo
tier, the same way, but before
straining clarify by frying in it
some thinly sliced potatoes.
It is the sleeves of a waist that
reit. mostly from soiled coat
linings. To protect thorn, sew 'up
pair or sleeves of lnost any light
,ntltci,fal-•-muslin will answer.
Whenever your intend to wear a
fancy light ,waist, quickly baste
these sleeves in your coat sleeves.
Should the neck and shoulders of
the eclat soii the waist, threw a
!ergo.• muffler over --}your elm elders
under the real. By all -means; try
Om sleeve,; it's surprising how
they twill protect the want.
limps-"Whenh
�Vu(n a matt r,u,s
veil wattage'. Iris wife, what does lie
mean?" locana' ha
rel. mal '
her do nn,t•thi.sg she
VItINCJI POLICE PLANS,
Ifow•the Czar of Bustle is ,Gnal'dtttl
;When Traveling.
M. Paoli, in his reminiscences of
the Czar of Russia in McClure's
Magazine, shows the thoroughness
with which the Fronds police lay
their plans to insure the safety of
a visiting sovereign,
"We had established observa-
tion poste in all the frontier sta-
tions, posts composed of olloers,
who lost no time in fastening on the
steps of any saspieious traveler, A
special watch had to. be kept along
the railways over which the Imper-
ial train was to travel, and in the
streets through which the proces-
sion would pass, Sentries with
loaded rifled, posted at intervals on
either side of the line, at the . en-
trance and issue of tunnels, on and
under bridges, prevented anyone
from approaching, and had orders
to raise an alarm if they saw on or
near the rails' any object looking
in the least suspicious.
"We also identified the tenants
Of all the houses situated along the
railway line and in the streets
through which our guests were to
chive. As a matter of fact; what
we most feared was the traditional
outrage perpetrated or attempted
from a window. On the ether hand,
wt. refused (contrary to what, has
been stated) to adopt the system
employed by the Spanish, German
and Italian police on the 'occasion
of any visit from a sovereign—the
system that consists in arresting
all suspects during a royal guest's
stay. We sent swarms of police to
beat the forest and search every
copse and thicket; and the chateau
itself (where the royal party was
to stay) was inspected from garret
to cellar by our most trusted de-
tectives. These precatians, how-
ever, seemed insufficient to our col-
leagues of the Russian police."
STARTLING STATISTICS.
The West is Developing With Mar --
venous Strides.
Referring to the fact that the
Grand Trunk Pacific is now bring-
ing large numbers of settlers into
the wheat belt of .Western Canada
—repatriated French-Canadians
from the east and thousands of
American farmers from the south—
a high official of the Grand Trunk
recently stated that the develop -
merit of the West was proceeding
with such gigantic strides as not -to
be fully appreciated by the Cana-
dian people themselves.
"Take these figures, for in-
stance," said the official, "whish.
the Grand Trunk has compiled and
distributed over Great ,Britain and
Europe, and you will see what I
refer to, i
"In 1907 the total wheat acreage
was 5,061,207.
"In 1909 it was 6,878,999 acres, an
increase of 35.9.
"In 1907 the total yield was 71,-
5;1,402 bushels.
"In 1909 the yield was 147,482,-
060, an increase of 106.1.
"The total yield in oats in 1907
was 74,713,561 bushels, while in
1909 it was 185,439,000, an increase
of 14.2 per cent.
"Hero is the summary of all
grains r• In 1907, 165,473,412 bushels.
In 1909 it was 064,270,000, an in --
crease of 120.1 per cent.
'‘No such record of advance could
be shown by any other country in
the world," said the official.
"With wheat at 91 per bushel,,
oats at 35 cents. .and barley at 55;
cents. the millions of dollars actin'
ally brought into Western Canada
can be easily computed. ,
"The Grand Trunk Pacific goes'
right through the heart of the'
wheat belt. The people whom the,
Gland Trunk Pacific have already
brought in have grown wonderful
crops of first class wheat, and got
the money for it in their pockets.
"You have seen that we are
'Winging French-Canadians to tite
:West as wr Il as the American farm-
ers; each with at least 91,000, not
to speak of cattle and other belong-
ings. All this -is- new land, un-
touched until the Grand Trunk Pa-
cific went in."
"What about the alleged danger
of the Americans Americanizing
tae Northwest'?"
"I don't think we need trouble
about that. The americans are
much lilco ourselves, They have the
same tongue. They have been obey-
ing the same laws, only the laws aro
better carried out in Canada than
in the United States. They will
understand the advantages of -order
and 'regnlari.ty more readily than
other nationalities.
b
"Of enurce, they will have admir-
ation .and love for their own coun-
try, whieh is natural, but they will
make the best of citizens,
"During last year 100,000 Ameri-
cans crossed the border and enter
e t the Dominion as ltci•menent sot
tlivs,"•--Montreal Standard:
Yount, man" an" --it was her father
who spoke. --"you've been nailing
on 81551a pretty regular, haven't
t u 7" ''hes,. siu'.t' "';;very Slut -
(ley night for ttyce yeters7" "Yes,.
els ' I want tri:c)tw whet
your 41(4311601iy trj'o!', ``1Why, ,i r:
try intraitltnas tiro ltoit',r;uhle--•but
wants to.'' • remote."
THE S, S, LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
MAY, 22,
The Death of joke the Baptist,
Ahttt. 14. 142, Golden 'Text,
Prov. 16. $2.
Verse 1. Herod the tetrarch
Originally, a tetrarch was the rul-
er of the fourth part of a country.
From the time of Pompey the
Great the title was given to any
dependent prince who, while sub-
ordinate to kings, still enjoyed
many u£ the prerogatives of a sover-
eign. This Herod (Antipas) had
received the govorninent of Gali-
l to and Peraea from his father.
Report concerning . Jesur-For
over a year Jesus had been preach-
ing, and healing in Galileo. Tiber-
ias, the capital of, Herod, stood on
the share of the sea of Galilee with-
in ten pules of Capernaum, and it
wruld have been strange if some
rumor of the excitement of the mul-
titude, had not reached his ears.
2 ,Said, . . This is John the
Baptist—Popular opinion (Luke 9.
7.9) .was divided. Some said this
wonder -worker was Elijah, others
that it was one of the prophets of
old returned, still others that it
was Jolin risen from the dead. The
lass, theory Herod readily adopted,
because his conscience troubled
him. In spite ofhis views as a Sad-
clucee (compare Matt. 16. 6 with
Mark 8. 15), and his consequent de-
nial of the resurrection, his crime
filled him with a haunting dread.
3-12. These verses ' must bo re-
garded as a kind of parenthesis, 'in-
asmuch as verse 13 of the chapter
takes rip the .statements made in
vers e 1 and 1 When Jesus heard
of the suspicions of Herod concern -
ins: himself, then he made his re-
treat across the Lake.
3, 4. Herodias—See Word Studies
for April 17. Philip the half-bro-
ther of Herod was a. private citizen
in Rome, and his wife, Herodias,
war lured away by Antipas while
the latter was visiting the imperial
city. Their marriage was not law-
ful, inasmuch' as she was his own
niece and wife. of his living brother
(Lev. 18. 16).
5.. Feared the multitude—Joseph-
utfdeclares that the arrest of John
was for political reasons, Herod
fearing a rebellion would be raised
under the leadership of this popular
idol. Acting upon this first im-
pulse, the tetrarch would gladly
have killed John, but he dreaded
the insurrection that might follow,
because the crowd regarded the
Baptist as a prophet.
6 • When Herod's birthday came
—The observance of birthdays was
a Greek custom, considered idolat-
rous by the Hebrews, introduced
be the Herods. The birthdays of
kings were widely celebrated in
ancient times.
The daughter of Herodias — Sa-
lome was hor name. Her dancing,
which so greatly pleased her uncle,
Herod, was according to an after-
• dir'ner custom of the Greeks. Pr.o-
fessional dancers were employed to
go through performances of a lieen-
tious character. For a woman of
rank to stoop to such a lewd act;
before a company of drunken rev-;
ekes was a shameless outrage,
7. Whatsoever she should ask —
Mark adds. "even to the half of
lily kingdom." It was a stupid pro -I
mise, made after the Oriental faslr-1
ion, and sealed by an oath, and,
took no account of the fact that he.
could not, without the sanction of
'Rome, dispose' of a foot of ground'•
in his domain. {
e. Put forward by her mother --i
The real ceases, far John's plight,
'was. of course, the bitterness of his
implacable foe, Herodias, whose;
marriage he had so fearlessly de
nuanced. H'ad it not been for her,
it seems likely john would have;
been freed, for iho heart- of Herod
had been • stirred by his interviews
with the Baptist (Marr:'6. 30). But
now was this conscienceless wo-!
man's chance. "As if it were some;
viand she IS speaking, of just so
doth she ask for that sacred and
Released heal to be brought.irt in a
charger" (Chtysoatorn): The plat-
tru was a, flat tray, usuallyof brass,
laid upon a low stool upon whieh
rested the dishes, and around it the
guests reclined. "When she re-
quested tibat the head of John might
be served tip to her on one of the
ti ays from which the guests were
being regaled, the unfeeling jolt
implied that this would be to her
both hes' professional feea
and her
portion of the feast."
9 The king --So Ise •:vas called :n
popular pa:rlaltca.
'PI'as gricverl--The indulgence he
had shown John during his imprte-
oument, and the pleasure with
which he heeled the Bitptisi spcit'c,
show that he luted formed it high es-
timate of the prophet.
For the sok_ of his oaths—Cent-
pare the atcn;y of :Jcphthalt, Judi,
11, 31. To have'witlideawn 'front
his promise would ltttvn been
vie -
tattoo of the crude erode of honor
of that day end Besides lie w rs
(ewer 'to gratify the blood -tit' sty
pttssi,io of his fellow -revelers,
10. Beheaded -John in the o}'`
--The banquet meet, aero""
hove been held at the fortress pa'
lace of Maohaeeue, Mark's ac sunt
cif the tragic end of the Baveiet is
most vivid (Mark 6. 2-29).
11. She brought it to her mother
—The cold-blooded precision with
which these women wrought their
vongeanee is almost inconcett•nblc,
Bit swift- retribution was vnoted
upon Antipas and Herodias, They
went to Rome to seek from the ern -
peter the title of icing, and were
rewarded' by being banished to
Lugdunum' in Gaul, Herodias 141-
urtarily sharing Herod's exile,
12. His clise]ples : , buried nine,
tine , told' Jesus—This 'loving
and faithful devotion to their Rad-
er helps us to understand the fa,t
that twenty years later, in far-
away Ephesus, Paul found tis-.
ciples, including Apollos, who
krew no other baptism than that of
John.
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A SLEI'IPY ALARM CLOCK.
Which Has to be Shaken Every
Morning to Wake 11 L'p, -
"As a rule," said Mr. ,Stuggle-
ton, "the alarm cluck is supposed
to wake up the sleeper,' but I' know
of a case in which the sleeper wakes
uxp the alarm clock.
"This clock keeps time all right,
but there's :something the matter
with its alarm section so that it
doesn't ring automatically. You
car, set the alarm and it will go
when the time comes if you shake
it, but not otherwise.
"You'd think that anybody own-
ing a clack like that would have it
fixed or throw it away and get an-
other, but for some reason this
owner doesn't do either. I don't
know, but -it seems to the as if he
'hart a sort of a friendly feeling for
the clock that thus needs help.
Anyway, he's as kindly to the old
clock as if it was a gentle friend.
Ile helps it all he can.
"Sire -thirty is my friend's rising
time, and every nights; when he goes
to hed he winds the clock and sets
the alarm for. that .hour. He knows
it won't ring, but he doesn't mind
about that, He's a systematic, or-
derly person, accustomed to rising
at a.fixed hour, and he would
wake at that hour whether he had
an alarm clock or not, but from
long habit he winds the alarm just
the same, and then .when he wakes
up in' the morning at 6.30 or so he
looks to see the exact tithe.
r "If it's five er ten minutes be -
past half past 6 -he reaches out at
time comes. or if it's five minutes
past half past 6 he 'leaches out at
once to the convenient table an
which the clock rests and picks it,
' up and shakes it, and then bang kJ
bang! bang! goes /the alarm, rat-
tling away in great shape, and then,
my friend gets up.
t `I think, as I said, that be has a
sort of friendly feeling for the old
• clock and sort of feels that he must
look after it, and really it seems
' as if the clock reciprocated this feel-
ing, and was saying to him when
he has shaken it out of its drowsi-
ness and it starts banging : 'Why.
'hew do you dol Good morning!'
"And that may all be very nice,
but still I do think that if that was
my clock I should very kindly but
very firmly drop it in the ash can.
I'm naturally of a friendly disposi-
tion myself, but I don't think I'd
have any use for an alarm clotek
that didn't alarm."
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;JAPANESE WRESTLERS.
,toe :jsalrrop of lnntjSnR 1mA 111.1i
World's Championship.
iN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
i\Eli'S Bi Dl;A1L. .AIIC)li'f JOUJ
BILI. AND 1115 PEOPLE,
Ote,:,rre►ees in the ).and That
Reigns Supreme in the Com-
nrercial World.
Anthrax, has broken out at Bar-
bhonrley, Cheshire,
A case of small -pox has been no-
tified at Burnley.
The law now permits London
taxicab drivers to smoke.
Viscuurnt Glyadstone left for
South Africa on April 30th.
A universal race congress is to
be held in London in July 1911.
Wages are higher in England
than in either France or Germany.
In Holloway alone last year 6,-
530 worn•en were committed for
drunkenness.
"My husband was a calf's Bead
shaver,"• a woman declared at an
inquest,
Mr, Isaac Earley, a resident of
Eastgartsun, celebrated his 103rd
bit•thday recently.
Covent Garden is flooded with
Tasmanian apples, and the crop is
sale' to be a record one.
England's birth' rate last year
was the lowest on record, 25.58 per
thousand of population.
Apart from snbscriptiens there
was a' loss 'on last year's musical
festival at 'Birmingham of 95,860.
The King has been pleased tocon-
fer the honor of knighthood upon
Mr Rufus Isaacs, N.C., M.P.
British military commanders are
beginning to prohibit excessive cig-
arette smoking by young soldiers.
Birmingham is 113 miles from
London, and the train covers the
distance without a stop in two
hours,
Deaths recorded at Yarmouth
for a recent week includes those of
seven persons whose ages total 576
years.
Aged eighty-nine, a Crimean vet -
c' an named Stevens was burned to
death recently at Trowbridge, Wilt-
; shire.
"A good second-hand hansom cab
can be bought new -a -days for 924,"
a London witness declared reeoit]y.
! Twenty-two children wore a short
time since selected by the Lambeth
!Guardians for emigration to Can-
ada
Chatsworth is to be reopened to
i tae public on Tuesdays, Wednes-
days and Thursdays during May,
June and July.
j Two men named Sinden and
!Husk were badly injured at Dover
by the fall of jars containing.vit-
rrl from a cart.
Bathers at the Leyton Baths are
to be allowed on certain days to
ptaetice life-saving by swimming in
their clothes.
Nearly a mile and a half was
covered by the procession at the
funeral of Sir Frederick Thorpe
Mappin, a Sheffield manufacturer.
Alderman Joe. Moore, Mayor of
Malmesbury, Wilts, has undertaken
to ro=se 81,000 to save the famous
old market cross from ruin.
Lord Charles Beresford has been
informed by the War Office that the
authorities contemplate strengthen-
ions the defences of Gibraltar.
Frederick Moore, ex-cowswain of
trre Southend lifeboat, who died re
recently, helped to save 150 lives
and had many narrow escapes from
-1 group of men whose class has
oo parallel in Europe, and whose!
chief representatives had never
before left their native island, are
about to land in England.
The consist of a score of Japan-
ese wrestlers, including the cham-
pia of Japan, and with their com-
pany are some ten Henchmen. For
these wrestlers will never separ-
ate from their body -servants, of.
when,. perhaps, the most import -
net is the cook, bus the trainer and
masseuse and barber and clothier,
with their assistants, are hardly
less essential,
The physique of the wrestlers is
astonishing, and i$ the result of a
more intensive form of feeding than
at, gourmand ever aimed at.
Weight is the chief requisite, and
b;; means of "passive exercise"
that is to say massage—incredible
quantities of fond can be absorbed
by these giants in girth.
The wrestlers are a complete
euste or class, graded and number -
n registered ac or '
ed and isterecli
g c ng to i,hcir
capacity. As they were originally
formed to provide incumbents of
poor parishes with a sonrec of ;p-
romo, they have -a semi -religious as
well as an athletic cachet.
A teacher at tun everting Wino]
IMO before iter a. class in which'
were many very rough lads, "Stop-
hose," said the teacher, "I .should
env 'Look out boys here wines
/'
;l t
the x,licc . Would abet .b . o ,-
T be
rest 7" There was a silence;
, 1 innlly
a little fellow said. "Norm: ; that
wouldn't be right," "Well," in-
quired the teacher, ''how should it
" "'Chetse it, sullies -
eon!" was the reply.
death.
BUILDINGGREAT CITIES.
German.Arshiteets Plan for the
'Ise of Ftitnrc Generations.
Nn cities in the modern world
compare with those which have
arisen in Germany during the past
tiventy years. The paramountcy of
private property does not exist in
Germany, humanity is first. The
city enjoys - some of tlto sovereign
ty of the Empire. It can promote
the beautiful. It can destroy the
eels,. It can protect its pour. The
German burgomeisters are laying
the foundations of the city of to-
morrow as an architect lays the
fot'.ndations of a forty -story sky-
scraper, or the designer of a
world's fair plans his play city far
in advance of its excavation.
In all the larger German cotnu-
nities, the city ttrehitects have rea-
lized the obvious. They saw that
the city would continue to grow as
it had in the• past. Consequently
in each individual city sufficient
land has been included within the
city limits to nlluw for the budd-
inge that the continued growth of
the city will necessitate.---Scrib-
ner's.
Of the i,ig towns of Scotland,
Dundee, is rho heat- expensive to
live in.
Three doctors were operating on
a titan for appendicitis. After the
operation was completed One of the
dieters missed a small sponge. The
patient was reopened, the sponge:
found within, and the man sewed
Mt again. Immediately the second
doctor missed 15 needle. Again the
patient was opened ' and el ,sr*tl.
'Chou the. third doeior uliesrtl a
pair of scissors. (arttLlcuno'u,''
Y v i
mid the victim, as they were alt n
to open him up again, ''Inc lfen-
eett'a' atilt,', if you're goi'pr to ke:
this up, put Buttons bu mel"
ar
BIG GUNS OF COLOSSUS
TEN 12-INCjI:('AN FIRE AT ONE
'I'.•ARGI.T.,
Nine Dreadnoughts Aube. With
Four Cruisers of Invincible
Class,
H, M. S. Colossus the lairs/eget of
the dreadnought type, aa•d there-
fore the greatest battleship in the
British navy, which was launched
at Greenock recently, was bullt by
the Scotts. Shipbuilding and Engin-
ecring Company, and is the first
ship .of the dreadnought class to be
built on the Clyde,
After the launch the Colossus was
taken in tow by several tugs and
brought into the firm's basin for en-
gineering with turbine machinery
of 25,000 horse -power to give a
speed of 21 knots. The engines will
too completed' this year, and the
trials will take place early in 1911.
The tonnage of the Colossus is
22,500 tons, er 4,000 greater than
that of the original dreadnought.
Her length is 545 feet, as compared
with 'the 490 feet of the first dread-
, nought and with the 425 feet of the
largest battleship of the pre -dread -
ht period. This addition to
the length is a consequence of the
determination of the admiralty to
ensure the maximum utility from
all of the
TEN 12 -INCH GUNS,
which will fire 850 -pound projectiles
at unprecedented velocity. All of
these guns carried in the Colossus
will fire on either broadside, so
that, whether the enemy's line of
ships be to pont or starboard, every
gun will be available. No gun will
therefore be idle.
In addition to the ten 12 -inch
guns, which are mounted in pairs
in barbettes, with revolving armor-
ed hoods protecting the ordnance
machinery, there are a large num-
ber of 35 -pounder guns disposed
throughout the ship for repelling
torpedo-boat attack. The guns and
vital parts of the ship are protect-
ed by armor, the greatest thick-
ness being 11 inches,
The total cost of the battleship
w'i.en completed for cutnmissioning
will probably work out at about
111.700,000.
With the launch of the Colossus
there are nine dreadnought battle-
ships afloat, and there have been
ordered and still to launch five
others. In addition there are four
cruisers of the Invincible class and
two others are building.
1 T'1WO YEARS HENCE,
when all these ships are completed,
there will be fourteen dreadnought
battleships and sia. - dreadnought ..
cruisers.
The completed ships of the
dreadnought type, and those still
to be finished, are as follows:--
1, Dreadnought; 2, Belleorphpn;
3, Temeraire; 4, Superb; 5, St.
Vincent; 6, Collingwaod; 7, Van-
guard;
an•guard; 8,, Neptune : 9, Colossus ;
10 Hercules; 11, Orion; 12, Na. 5;
13, No. 6; 14, No. 7.
The armored cruisers, counted as
dreadnoughts, built and building,
are ; Invincible; Inflexible, Indo-
mitable, Indefatigable, Lion, No.
8.
These lists da not include the
two cruisers for the Australian anti
-
New Zealand governments.
I; is estimated that in 1912 Great
Britain will have twenty-four
dreadnoughts --including the Irwin-
cibles—as against the thirteen of
Germany.
BIRD CIRCUS IN PRISON,
Trained Canaries Enliven -Dull
flours of Inmates.
Trained birds are the latest thing
at the Ohio penitentiary, . John
Atkinson, the runner in the annex,
is the otteial bird trainer ,teethe in-
stitution. Atkinson now has about -
'twelve canary birds which he has
trained to sing and jump, and the
methods of training are the result
Of many anxious ntentents an the
part of Atkinson.
In teaching the birds to jump, At-
kinson has used his ]rand alone.
Hr ldfng ono hand above the ether
;with one finger outstretched, Atkin-
son has taught the birds the art of
jumping. The yellow songstere.
thick around the 'prisoner every
time he whist:lcs, and when he holds
ons his hand, one bird after an-
other 11i11 snake the jump:''
First he will 'told up his right'
hand and one bird will jump to,
that. Be will then hold out his,
left hand, about two feet above`
the right and the first bird will thein
make the jmnp to the lr t. This
t tinucs until all x f thc�at roti
cututa t
have heel a turn at the jumping. •
Inc has taught then,' to' whistle
by a naval mentis. Theta is a, gra•
phc pit ur, in the amine and Some
of the records are whistling pieet tt.
Atl:loser will wind up the gra,
pb„phtme end put on ono of the
whist ling pieces; and then eti it
bird trill be given its lesson. 'latera
le cobs ate frroviug a forrn of
saitll;.4clen'Tt l,u 1 he nendettl ;'ted mer; .
11, ,11:, sancs, ,urd \Warcleu J'nti55 of
1''•• 1'+'9•l:'11triry!k 'nuoiuroging , t-
kinsan in his syerk,
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