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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-9-15, Page 3Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Recipes and Other Valuable enformgtion of Particular Interest to Women Polee, MEATS, Luncheon Dish. -Foto' pound pot roast, cub up suet and bring to. brown, out up an onion, celery, and parsley with it. Take ,pisco of Meat, dust it with salt and pep- per, and rub in flour, Sear Taw edges of meat thoroughly. Put in kettle. and cover with told water, adding a tablespoonful of ,salt to ono quart of water, Add one hay leaf, peppercorns, or parsley, and one-fourth teaspoonful of paprika: .Boil slowly tiliree to four }tout's. Spahislt Beef: Steak. -Lay it slice of. supper round steak two inches 'thick, two and ore -half poittids,' on a large pan or spider, add one cup- ful• of hot water, ,and baste every ten minutes for thirty minutes. Iie- riiove from oven, sprinkle with tea- spo'onful of salt, one-half spoonful of pepper, a layer of sliced onion, dust over with salt and pepper, and bake fifteen minutes. Take out of oven, cover with layer of sliced to- matoes, sand return to oven for fifteen minutes more. Take from even .and put two tablespoonfuls bf grated cheese and a little salt on it, then return to 'oven just lopg enough to melt. Ohielcen comets. -Boil chicken slowly until tender. Boil one sweet- bread by itself, • When. cooked put. it away to Goole then grind the :sweetbread and chicken after it is 'out off -from bones. Keep chicken bones for soup, Grind one green pepper, ono stalk of celery; one teaspoonful of onion jnice, mix alt together, then add one cup of cream :sauce, salt and pepper. Roll into 'Oblongs, (lour and fry slowly until brown. Serve with gravy from the •chicken broth, thickened. Add one cup of canned peas, one cup of • :mushrooms, sprinkle with chopped parsley. Italian Veal. -Fry a.veal -steak, it having been cut in small pieces, to a nioi .brow•n, Over' this .put a cupful of spaghetti which has been cooked tender a.nd a can of small mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper. Acid is small amount of water, just enough to inake liquor ever`. all, This is delicious. Quick Yeast Bread, -At supper time mash a good sized boiled po- tato in about one and one-half cups • of lukewarm water; add one tea- spoonful cif sugar and one yeast •cake, which has been dissolved. Add flour to make a thin batter and keep in a. warm place ower night. •.In the morning add to this mixture a tablespoonful at lard and one of salt, together with a quart of drikesearm water, and flour .enough to mix stiff. Let rise twice and make into. four loaves; lot loaves rise well before baking. If :directions arc carefully followed .bread should be.out of the oven by 11 a.m. and will keep moist until used. Whole Wheat Bread. -These long detailed instructions are absolutely essential to make: whole wheat bread 'successful. Ten cupfuls of whole wheat 'flour, two t.ablespoon- fuls of sugar, one heaping teaspuun- ful of salt, sift all together. Dissolve .a yeast cake in half cupful of warm l water, .acid a tablospoonful of but- ter or melted .lard, one quart of warm water. Stir liquid mixture into dry gradually with a wooden ,spoon. Mix thoroughly and beat with a spoon two or three minutes. In the. morning stir, beat with a spoon again fora few minutes, put •dough into greased bread tins half full. Cover and lot it rise again to top of pans. Put into- a moderate oven, In „fifteen minutes when the bi'crul is nicely browned on top turn off the gas power an'cl bake in a slow oven for the rest uf, an hour. The Clough must never be kneaded by this recipe and all brands of flour shill not make palatable. bread if nra.cl0 in this way. , But the flour mentioned will make delicious bread. VEGETABLE HELPS. Paas. -Peas cooked in the follow- the way do nut tined to be shell- ed and the Peas have a delicious flavor -more delicious than can be obtained •by the ordinary method of cooking. Wash the pods ,care- fully and throw thein into boiling a water to cook. The pods will break stud the peas cook and fall to the bottom of pan from pods. When a peas are thoroughly cooked, skim elf the pods, drain and prepare the .peas for the tahle as usual, b ".Onions, -Take a paper . hag, g large -enough to comfortably work r in, and sifter 'removing the outer t peeling cif the onions, insert hands, a onions and small paring knife in bag, , and slice lvitheut weeping, ?t For diced onions aid tile vag-. ' c table firnli in :the palm ofleftI hand, and thea out down, almost, 5 but. not Sento, through, in eriss- cross clasher, about one-fourth of an inch ovate, keeping the onion in shape, and then slicing across, the c whole falls in cubes, Use, the sttnrn ' earthed writ potatoes or apples, without the bag. . TUE LAUNDRY, The Wash Tub -Did you ever try paraffin for mending a leaky wash tub When ours sprung e leak some time ago we emptied it, dried it well with a cloth, and poured Melted paraffin 'around the creeks, It has been in constant use ever since without leaking. When the washing in done the tub should be put upside down on the basement floor, a little water poured over the button), .and they never -will dry otic and fall to pieces, The Wash Boiler -When putting the boiler away, wipe it as dry as possible and always place it upside down. In this way it will last for years. This hint was given tee by art old boiler mender and I never have had to have my boiler re- paired since, TO -Wash Clothes Lines, -A good way to -wash clothes lines is to wind thein on a long board and scrub. them with a scrubbing brush. You will find that in this way you keep them from ;getting tangled. It is so hard to wind them when you wash them in the tub, J. D. Fading is caused by too hot irons. The fading of colored articles is clue, often not to the washing, but the ironing. Too hot irons are used directly on the material and this will fade delicate colors more than any amount of washing. The ef- fect is even worse than strong sun- light. Be store that the article is evenly dampened and that the iron is only hot enough to smooth the wrinkles properly by firm, even pressure and you will have no more trouble from fading. Skirts must never be ironed across the gores, but up -and down; otherwise the, fit, of the garment is ruined. USEFUL HINTS. Orange juice with cracked ice can often be taken by a patient who can retain nothing else. If nervous 'women would only drink more water they would not be so nervous, says a trained nurse. For bleeding of the mouth or tongue a wash in cold water in which alum has been dissolved is very effective. Common alum melted in an iron spoon over hot coals forms an ex- ceedingly strong cement for joining glass, china or breakage of any kind. Kerosene will remove tar, var- nish and other like substance from the hands .and will also cleanse var- nish brushes.. ' at gnielr oven for three-quarters of an hour. Serve with settee or cream. Instead of tacking linoleum at edges and` where widths arojoined together .use prepared glue, on wrong sider. It not only looks bot - ter, but when taking it tip it doesn't leave any holes and no bugs can make it hiding, place under edge. When wailliing flannels -Shako them well before putting them in the water to remove • all dust. Squeeze' them well in a lather made' of boiled soap 'and water, with a little ammonia ,addeel. Rinse thor- oughly and then squeeze dry; shake again vigorously, and hang up to dry in a cool, airy place. For apple food, peel, cure and, ,cut up one poundof good cooking apples; stew them with some sugar, grated nutmeg and a little water,. and when ciuite .done • rub them through a sieve, ,add to the pulp half a pint of cream which has been well whisked, and pour into custard glasses before- serving, For custard pie whip the yolks of three eggs light, adding as you do, so four tablespoonfuls, of powdered sugar. Then add slowly two cup- fuls of boiling milk, -stirring con- stantly and flavoring with vanilla. Line a pie dish with puff paste, brush over the inside with white of an egg, then pour in custard and bake. PA'.L'RICIAN ENGLISH NAMES. Saxon, Norman and Neal' -Norman are They. An English writer has been clas- sifying old families in a publication devoted to. herald,. :The King, it appears, has the oldest pedigree, but it is, wholly German. His Majesty is descended' from Witte- kind, first Duke of Saxony, who died in 807, Among the most fam- ous patrician names of England, Ashburnham, Carew and Wolseley are Saxon; Begot, Blount, Grosve- nor, Stanley and Talbot came over with William the Conqueror, and the Courtenays, Forteseues, Digbys and Rewards came over a little lat- er. This genealogist has not heard of the little girl who claimed de- scent from Queen Boadicea. She was not a Carew, a Talbot or a Howard. "Our family is pretty good, you know," she said, "for most people can't go back farther than the Conquest," -.--3 NOT THE DEADLY KIND. Mrs. Carns was a young house keeper, and naturally . sensitive about her cooking. One evening she put the bread to rise, but with, unreasonable perversity it failed to do any such thing. Early in the morning she slipped out into the pasture and dug a hole. She placed A clash- of vinegar added to the the stubborn dough in it, and care - water in whicheggs ofully covered it with earth andre poached, dead leaves, will do much to prevent the eggs Later in the clay, when she glanc- breaking in the cooking, ed from the window, she saw a boy For the teeth nothing is better near the spot, peering curiously than five drops of.lemon juice in a at the ground. Finally he took a glass of water. It will remove the stick and began poking and digging tartar and sweeten the breath. ,about In packing away hats see that Soon some one else came along they are not crushed in any way, rand stopped to look. In time quite anti pack -plenty of tissue paper a little crowd gathered, They all around them to exclude any pos seemed so interested, .and were sible dust or light. talking matters over so earnestly, Small doses of cod livor oil are that Mrs. Corns, unable to restrain very useful for children who catch her curiosity any longer, went out cold easily. Theyshould be given into the lob to see for herself. What was her surprise to find a high, rounded, puffy mass sprinlc- two or three times a day, directly after food. Children's underskirts should ail- led over with earth and dead ways be hung up by the shoulders leaves. She did not step long _to and adults' skirts by the waist- wonder, for she recognized her un- bends. It saves tearing the 'lace fortunate loaf, 'risen at last; but with the clothes -pins. this is the remark she heard one Turpentine mixed with carbolicman makin to another I aeid and kept in open vessels about g "Oh, that's nothing. T have the room will .greatly lessen the he•arcl of places in the West 'where risk of cantagion in scarlet fever, mushrooms grow much larger than diphtheria, and kindred diseases, 'that;" To make celery sandwiches, chop one-quarter of a cupful of celery fine. Mix: with one hard-boiled egg pressed thrpugh a sieve, and sullt- ment mayonnaise dressing ot• mois- ten properly. ' To make strong buttonholes- Place a fine piece of muslin et lawn earnest about other people's mor - FACT AND: FANCY. • Only the • vaccinated may vote in Norway. A ntoralist..is a person who is in unclei'ncath the buttonhole and als, work it the same as usual, When A man's character can be aceur- it is all finished cut away the mus- ately told by his handwriting, espc- lin chis° to the stitch. dally when his love letters are read To remove tea, coffee, cocoa :or out in courte chocolate stains soak in cold water A:n old stork's nest, built on the first, then place the stain over a roof of the cathedral of Colmar, in bowl and pour boiling water Northern France, became dislodged thruugh it, holding the tea kettle during the winter- and threatened at a height to ensure force. to, fall into the street. Itineasul'- When . roasting meat in an open ec1 five feet across and it was four pan, wet a clean white muslin ' olcth feet high. 1t weighed 1,500 pounds and was stash 11 compact mass that to destroy it picks had to be used. In the nest were foetid seventeen stockings, five fur caps, the sleeve ref it: silk blouse. a large piece of leather and emir metal buttons. :Cin rabbit; which overruns Au- stralia, has almost caused a civil war, In the past certain Austra— lians made oninssal fortunes -by ex- porting millions of rabbits which they secured for nothing, Eventu- ally, though, it became necessary he the government to find a bet- ter moans of exterminating this de- structive creature, for it threaten- susing the troll -which should' not ed to ruin the eonnleve A law was le ton hot -over, passed authorizing far'mer's to ho^ eel Lege podding a good re- son !Ito rabbits,' Thus the ral,hit- ipc i'i one ,enne' cul -of sugar, exporting comeanira were put eel, l, nu anti r't milk, three sups of flour, of business. Tay nn nos' P"hi- and one and a halt leasponntnls of nig' fou a; repeal of the poisoning net lay ever the top of the meat b will keep from getting hard and does not require basting se often, ncl the pleat is much niece. To make apple snow, to a cup of trained apple canoe add the uu- eaten whites of two eggs and se- ar to taste. I'.eat hard with an gg beater - for twenty minutes; lien pile on a chilled glass dish ncl serve at once.. Old ribbons may be made to look s good as new b' trashing them in old suds anti it'gning then just be- ore they get ,dry, A piece of linen houlcl' be placed over them before raking powder, Mix arid' hake in 1nw. ACXS�y WI'i'n 'IUB SUN. !%illus and Emperors J)an't Tufa Oyer and Sleet) 4l;Itul. For generations past, and today, the Grown•e l heads of Europe have. been, and are, early risers. Frederick the Great, always be- gan Isis day at five, and during the • t c 0 o- s 1 S` hist few months prior to his dead his Privy Councillors bad to britt him their reports at four in th mos'uing. The Emperor William I. was ti his desk every morning at seven while his grandso.n, the presen Emperor,. also always rises befer seven, This wee ss severe trial t Prince Bismarck, who hated t have to, attend in conference on' hi sovereign at eight in the morning Up till midnight the Trop Chancel lot' generally had a gathering " o friendly •politicians ,about hire then he worked till foto', and Vey till ten the following morning, The old Emperor Francis Josepl' of Austria leaves his bed ever morning 'at four, sometimes evert a half -past three. Clad in an old worn-out General's cloak, and on his head the only correct regula tion officer's cap in the entire Au strian army, he works until silt on the other hand, he goes to bed every night at eight, HIS SYMPA.TH11:S. The Old Afghan Was Not Particu- lar Who Won. The "new -caught, sullen pee pies;" -except when menaced by mi- litary power, see no reason to pre- fer one breed of white man to an- other,. Dr. T. L. Pennell, in his book, "Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier," tells a story to illustrate their indifference. A British officer in the Kuram Palley once asked an old Afridi where the sympathies of his people were as between England and Russia. "Now tell me,".said the officer, "if there were to be war -which God forbid -between Russia and England, what part would you and your people take? Whom would you side with?" "Do you wish me to tell you what would please you or to tell you the real truth.!'" was the naive reply. "I adjure you to tell me what is the 'white word.'" "Then," said the old graybeard, "we would just sit up here on our mountain tops watching you bath fight, until we saw one or the other defeateci. Then we would come down and loot the vanquished till the last miller Gott is great ! What a time that would be for us!" Preserving the Buffalo. Down to forty years ago a buffalo stampede was one of the things count- ed as a hazard by travelers in prairie schooners across the plains'± Those who can recall Capt. Mayne Reid will remember his description of the omin- ous cloud of dust on the far horizon which anon became a living mass, be- neath whose bounding weight the face of the earth trembled •and became transformed. Within little less than a generation from the time the "great hunt" be. gain, the buffalo had vanished from his wonted haunts. Only by his de• parture in twos and fours into the fastnesses of the desert was he able to save himself from extinction. He had been pursued and shot down re- lentlessly, and while the fever of the hunt was on, it was all lie could do to save his species from annihilation. Only a few were left, and these were scattered. Little by little they were picked up at length by the white man, stow become i'epentent, and for thirty years an honest effort has been put forth, by private individuals and by the Government, to conserve the remnant. As a' result there are now 2,108 American bison in Canada and te United States. Of these 625 are in Canada. In nearlyevery munici- pal zoological garden there are a. few. The number is increasing annually and the prospects are that, in the great national reservation, children of coming generations may see herds almost as great in size as those which were encountered ordinarily by the overland immigrant in ,the days of the making of the.West. The Granary of the World. We bate so long been aceustomed to call the northwestern States the "granary of the world" that in comes as a surprise to be told that that title. is soon to pass to the wheat. raising, fields of Canada, Such is the confident assertion of many prominent Canadians, and if figures afford any proof they have ample reason for so saying, Canada has 25,000,000 acres upon which wheat Islay be grown, or five limes the wheat land now culti- vated in the United States; her crop amounts to 20 bushels and upward per acre, far in advance of our average, 13 bushels; our growing population will eventually consume all the wheat we can raise, and it is not unlikely that we shall have to call on Canada for supplies. Acquiring a-Repu5atidh Archbishop Bewley, who lived In the eighteenth century, most unjustly got the reputation of swearing like a trooper. The explanation is that the Duke of Cumberland, wild fought the battle of Culloden net who was un- speakably profane; once went in quest of the primate to. get his assistance about n certain bill which he disliked. Ile returned to the house of lords, say- ing "it's all right, mylords. I've seen the archbishop, nod be says he'll see the promoters to — before he'll vote for the -• bill!" As a (natter of feet, nil Ilse ptofitnity had been supplied quite In the nrdhrary run et coni•ersa- tinn:by the duke. -London Tatter, THE S. S. LESSON INT1'1RNA'LIONAL LI'ASSION, SEPT, IL. Lesson JCI, The ding's Mtu'riag Feast, titan: '1.''., 04, (golden Text, Platt, 2'A. IA. Verse 1. Jesus answered --Itis re, sponse to their attempt to lay hold on him was to give the third of,tlie parables,ou judgment. 2, A certain .xing--God, Otherr passages may be compared with profit (Matt. 8. 11; 25. 10; 2 ('or. 11. 2; Rev. 19. 7; 91. 2), ilia mar- riage feast was the most import- ant social event in the life of a family, and where wealth permit- ted was a most elaborate .affair. According to Ne'w Testament Sym - holism, this would be the marriage of Christ and the church, though the bride is not 1nentioned, and the son is introduced apparently only to emphasize the lavish splen- dor of the feast, 3, Them that were bidden -The Jews would not come to 'the feast, even though participation in its generous 'bounty was the sum of all good. This is the amazing feature of the parable, that men should re- fuse what God has graciously done for their';highest wee -being, There is a climax in, their refusal. First, they are unwilling; then, they treat the invitation disdainfully; finally, some stoop to abuse .and murder, 4. Other servants -*e first group (3), possibly representing the prophets, simply srunmoned those who were already invited. These later servants are, perhaps, the apostles, The patience and gener-. osity of the king are in keeping with the character of God as re- vealed in his dealings with Israel. Until men have finally and deliber- ately spurned his favors, he con- tinues to seek them out, saying, Come. All things are ready -There is no human need for which God has not. made rich and fitting provision, 5. They made light of it - The tragedy -of human life is, that it can become so absorbed in thefarm and merchandise as to become un- concerned with matters of higher THE UGLY LEOPARD He is a Cattle Thief and Even a fe lj Human Being Thief, ; e WORSE THAN ON OR T GER. 0, Treated them shamefully -It is characteristic of the man who be- ! gins by ignoring with an air of su perior indifference the claims of re- ligion that he ends by treating the !!l messenger of religion with sullen I anger. Having refused God's 1 grace, it hurts his pride and stirs his will into rebellion to have the invitation pressed. 7. The king was wroth -An evi- I dence that in the love of God is a fire. which blazes forth at last against persistent, unchangeable 'refusal to have the gracious bene - !fits of that love. Sane armies -It may be the Rumens who burned their city, are called his because providentially used by him to bring au end to the murderous rulers of Jerusalem. 8, His servants -The first Chris- tian preachers, who went forth to the partings of. the highways (9), , where the roads from the Gentile country led into the city, and there found bath bad aed good (10), sig- nifying that. in the matter of invit- ing, there is to be no discrimina- tion, 11. The king came in to behold the guests -This is a scene of solemn judgment. It is not enough to have- been invited and to' have made hrmal acceptance. There still remains the inescapable scru- tiny of the King. The question of fitaess.is nut finally settled by mem- bership in the visible church. r\ man w -ho ]tad not on a wed- ding garment -This was a violation of the regulations of the feast, and Is as a serious offense, To be in en - seemly attire at at festive 'occasion of such importance w•as disrespect 'to the ling. The man was speeeh- less (1`3) inasmuch as there was no excuse for corning unprepared. As in the parable of the virgins, time was allowed to provide oil, so hero there must have been ample oppor- tunity to caress properly. The garment, then, refers to the char- acter which a man bears, whether goodstr bad. To be disobedient Its the King's will in this matter' is to„ pet oneself on the side of those who lightly or violently refused the in- s itaiion. 13. ,'.!'here shall be the weeping - This is said, not by the kiug to the servants (in this ease the angels,, but by Christ to his hearers by way of explanation ; iu the outer dark- ness there ;stili -lie remorse merited sbt • gnashing of teeth, an evidence of the rebelliousness which makes the doom fitting. 14. Many are Balled, but few chosen -".til the Jews and all the Gentiles were called: but only a few of the former, and not all of the ).atter, were chosen." It is God who both calls and 'finally chooses. But, every man has his destiny in his own keeping. TRAVEL, Little Al Eish-l- ' N hat are ,your summer plans i„ 131g Fish -"T ,shall got away ns usual." Seizes its Prey by the. Throat an ; Clings With Its Claws Until I Breaks the Spine of Its Victim o { Strangles it, Less insize, Out even more ferocious tbo leopard has a worse character tha the tiger or lien. Living mainly in trees and very nocturnal, this flare and dangerous heart Is less often see than far rarer animals. It is widely spread over the world from the Cap of Good Hope to the Atlas mountain and from southern China to the Bine sett, where It is sometimes met with i THE PARSON'S CHICK They Were Politely Prawn, but th+trt: Pants Throw Thom Out, AocordIng to George Cary Ogglestoa, r Vlrginlans of mute liellureflays showed) great luditference fu looney naatlei'OA IUouey in the forth et Coln was rat•elyt seen, The planters were In the liable of writing checks on a 511p of fcoleeepe fnstt'uotieg the bank to "please" pati the amount siaeeftled, Eggiestou impel e "This custom' .of paying by etteck sot t strongly commended itself to a certain/ e unworldly parson of my time that ho resorted to it 0n 0130 occasion ill ee-' tire ignorance ' and Innocence of the necessity of leaving a bank deposit as; a preliminary to the drawing of checks, tie went to :flebmcud and' bought a year's supplies for bis little place -it was too small to be called a plantation -and for each purchase tie drew a particularlypolite check; o "When the banks ,threw these aul a on the ground that their author bad no k 1=0001 the poor old parson fouled the o situation a difficult one to understand„ He had thought tbat the very Purpose of a bank's being was to cash checks) for persons who happenedto be short of money. 'Why, if 1'd had the money! in the bank; be explained, 'i shou)dn'b have written the checks at all; Ll should have got the money and pale the bills.' "Fortunately the matter came to they knowledge of a well to do and gen- erous planter who knew Parson J. as who happened to be in Richmond ab the time. His indorsement made the, checks good and saved the unworldly) old parson a deal of trouble."-Chfcage News. 0 n the Caucasus. Any one who has frequented the zo for any time must have ooUced th difference in size and color betwee leopards from different parts of th world. Oa some the ground color i almost white, In others a clear nu brown. Others are jet black. Wherever they live leopards are cat. tie thieves, sheep- thieves, dog thieves and human being thieves. Though not formidable In appearance, they are iln• mensely strong, and It is not nausea! for them to turn scan eater. Both in India and in Africa they have been knonn to set up in this line as delib- erately as any tiger. They have four er five young at a birth. The cubs can be kept tame for some time and are amusing pets, but it Is extremely don gerous to have thein about. lu Hongkong an i5nglishmau had a tame leopard. It was brought into the dining room by a coolie to be exhibit• ed to the owner's guests. Excited by the smell of food, the leopard refused to go out when one of the women, who did not like his looks, asked that It: be removed. The coolie took bold of its collar and begun to haul it out It seized him by the neck, bit it through and In a minute the coolie was dying, covered with blood, ou the dining room floor: The Chinese leopard ranges as far north as the Siberian tiger and, like the latter, seems to grow larger the farther north it Is found. The color of these northern leopards is very pale, the spots are large and the fur is very long. The natives of all countries are unan- imous in declaring that the leopard Is more dangerous than the lion or tiger. They have no fear of the lion. provided they are not bunting for it, for it will not attack unless provoked, but a leopard is never to be trusted. In Africa a number of natives were tiring the reeds along a stream. One of them, a boy, being thirsty and hot, stooped down to drink. Ile was imme- diately seized by a leopard. The boy's brother, with an admirable nim, burled his spear at the leopard while the boy was to his jaws. The point separated the vertebrae of the neck. and the leopard fell stone dead. But the boy could nsit recover. The leopard's fangs had torn open his chest and injured the lungs. The latter were exposed to view through the cavity of the ribs. Be died during the night, Leopards are essentially tree living and nocturnal animals. Sleeping In trees or cares by day, they are seldom disturbed. They do an incredible amount of mischief among cattle, calves, sheep aad dogs, being especial- ly fond of killing and eating the latter. They seize their prey by the throat and cling with their claws until they succeed in breaking the spine or in strangling the victim, They have a habit of feeding on putrid flesh. This makes wounds Inflicted by their teeth or claws liable to blood poisoning. Nothing to the way of prey comes amiss to them, from a cow in the pas- ture to a fowl up at•roost. In the great mountain ranges of cen- tral Asia the beautiful snow leopard is found. It is a large creature, with thick, woolly coat and n long tall like a fur boa. The color is white, clouded with beautiful gray. like that of an Angora cat. The edges of the cloud - lugs and spots are marked with black or darker gray. The eyes are very large, bluish gray or smoke colored. It lives cm the wild sheep, ibex and other mountain animals. in captivity It la far the tamest and gentlest of the large cartllvora, not excepting the pu- ma. 'Unlike the latter, it is a uteepy, quiet animal, like a domestic, The \Test African leopard skin is more handsome than the Asiatic, the. spots being very distinct and clear. He and she -they usually go in couples - are fond of hunting cantonments and around native towns, where they pick up It goat and now and then a baby. One night 1 was camped in a satire town and after I had retired the no - tires, as was their custom, were eittiiig about a great fire asking my caravan all sorts of questions, for the African savage is the greatest gossip to the world. Suddenly a child's cry rang out, followed by a great clamor, Rush- ing out to discover the cause of alarm, 1 was informed that a leopard had stolen from the darkness and quick as a flash had grabbed a four•year-old child and matte off with it. The child was seated In the midst of the grown men and women. The latter could, only lenient their loss. They knew it wits useless to try to pursue the beast lute the denso bush. The leopard Is so bold that even In daylight he will wander about n town or a white man's promises. It is not at all muses" to get n good shot at a' leopard from n bungalow veranda of a mud but door. -Pittsburg Dfspatrli, 0 e a e a 1 ^mo DEEP SEA WATER. 'L.,i Bottles With Which Samples Ars Taken From Ooean Depths, The water bottle for getting water for analysis from selected depths in, the ocean is a cylinder of brass. Ger-i man silver or other metal which re sists the corrosion of sea water, gen.' erally about two inches in diameter. and twelve or fourteen inches long, with upward opening valve at the top and bottom, connected together on a. central stem. Legs are cast on the side of the cylinder for conveniently securing it at any point along the length of the line by which it is to be lowered into the sea. During the lowering of the line the valves of the bottle are kept unsealed by the pas- sage of the seater through the cylin- der during its descent. but when the motion is reversed the valves seat themselves and are locked by the de- scent of a small propeller in the framework above the upper valve, which rides idly on a sleeve during the lowering of the bottle, but descends along a screw thread to press the valves upon their seats when the Line commences to be hauled up. A speci- men of the water at the depth to wblcli the water bottle has descended is thus, brought to the surface confined with - 1n the bottle, and a series of speci- mens from different depths may be, obtained at one haul by securing a, series of water bottles at the required; intervals along the sounding line.• -.i Scientifle American. 1 OLD TIME LONDON. The Days When Men In the Pillory Were Pelted With Eggs. London in 1700 was a comparatively, small city of about 600,000 Inhabitants, the kept t rough and ill main roads g P ds to which had been but slightly improved since Tudor times. The ghastly spec- tacle of many of the trees on the South- wark road bending under their burden of hanged men had indeed been slight- ly modified, but none the less the de- composing heads of "traitors" stili fill- ed the atmosphere about Loudon bridge and Temple Bar with myriads of bane- ful microbes. Our immedlate forbears were evi- dently vidently not overparticular about sights and smells, They were accustomed to see men sitting in the pillory pelted with rotten eggs and possibly included among their immediate Clete not a few; who bad been deprived of their 'noses.l r.: and ears for expressing too freely their opinions, political'°and religious. The drains were in an appalling con- dition. The innumerable churchyards were so full of coffins that they often. projected through the turf. Bear and bull baiting, dog fights and boxing i matches were attended even by royal- ty as late as 1820, and five years later all tee "dandies" in London were pay - Ing high prices to stand in the carts round Tyburn to behold twenty-two of their fellow creatures hanged for mis- demeanors which In our time would+ be punished with a few days' impris- onment -London mpris-onment-London Saturday Review. Liberties With Priest. 1 Mime. Blanche Marchesi, who has, won innumerable hearts with her sing- ing, added another large number to• her tally by an ease tventioaal act; which brough4 tldwn upon her a feet -leis . cepeintaiitf The other night she sang. l at a concert given in St. Joseph's' School, London, in aid of the schools,: and it was just after her entrance into the hall that the incident occurred. I Father Matthew assisted the singers to the platfornt, and courteously con- ducted them to their places, Mdme,; Marchesi he assisted to the centre of: the platform. She appeared to inti.. mate to the reverend father that hes should retie, but he apparently did!' not understand her for the moment,i ,, Impulsively, she shook the priest by, the shoulder, conducted him to the stairway, and, amid roars of laughter,, kissed hint on the cheek ,as a solatium. for pusbing hint down the stairs! Thi innocent net caused the audience to become boisterous in their enthus- iasm, ;cut Alle worthy priest stood. abashed and 'shockedfor a moment, and then t,ermitted himself to smile at the • Aperte, although he weasel f t §e . nae lith tris mefiut' t Pr h y andShookt his, re. hseses; - ,