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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-11-24, Page 3Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Recipes and Other Valuable Information est Partici;ler Interoat to Women Folks, 1111.1•11.11MIRMLIOIMMI1101.....• ramoz•reg,Waf;40 oweperwastarar PICKLING HELPS. Olive Pieklese-Slice gallon crock - Ad of clioumbere. De nut peel. Sprinkle throegli them one cupful of telt, It this sterol for three hour, then dr ein -through a colander. Chop Si/t good sized °wont firm. Per - chests one ounee each of white and lalaok mustarel seed, one ounce of oelerP seed, and one-half pint of 01/3,0 oil. Put layer of cucumbers in crock end sprinkle over them onions, mustard seed and one table- spoonful of olive ...se Then repeat, layer of eucumbers, onions Seeds, and oil, until you have used up me ends of benenes, split lengthwise without removing eking; mark sec- tions crosswise with a knife, and squeeze a little lemon juice over them, and sprinkle with (regale Serve on a lettuce leaf teed gaeniela with slice* of lemon. Nice far breakfast, -- SALADS, Pimente Salsel,—One small hoed cabbage, one-half min 01100 Ina^ r03 -30S. ,Ohop both fine and add ,eay- onnaise <hotting. Beet Salad,—(jook beets, then skim and chop with cabbage, ano cumbers. There wall be some oil add a little vinegar, hone eaclith, left after haying put tablespoonful asus..pretty dish as well as good. Pineapple Sala.a —Take one can of pineapple, draie off all the juice, and on -half pound of marshmal- lows cut up in small pieces. Take your salad dish and' put first a lay- er of pineapple and then a layer of the marshmallows 'until dish is about tsvo-thireis full. Cover with a good thick lager of whipped cream. The sliced pineapple cut up in small pieces is preferable to the over oath layer. This remaining oil should be poneee over the top of all the pickles in crock. Then fill crock with vineear, strong cider vinegar preferred. These are fine and ,are, ready to use in three or four days, Uncoeked Cumnehee Pickles.—At this busy season of the year 0110 lilies to make pickling and canning mks' and at the same time have it greet 1 am sending a recipe for un- cooked cucumber pickles whieh grated. This makes a good sized have made for a number of years salad and IS exeellent. end have never once lost one. Tam Tomato. Salach—Ohop fine one and it for yourselves and be. convinced. Take one teacupful of salt, one of One-half pecks green toznatoes and and you will have a tender joint. sugar, one of ground mustard, and three anions. Add cupful of Balt Meat which is to be stewed shceld one level teaspoonful of pulverized and let stand 0,701 night. Cook in fast be slitiPed in vinegar. There are four causes of redden- ed hands. One is washingain hat water. Another is exposure to cold air. A third is housework withosit taking the precaution of wearing gloves. And the fourth is the ha- bit of holding the hands clownwerche If your pies Overflow it the oven insert a short piece of uncooked macaroni in the top crust. This is an improvement on the paper fun- nel sometimes used. Of reline, the macaroni should be withdrawn af- ter the pie has been baked. Household brushesoihould, at the end of the house cleaning, be thor- oughly -washed. For this, dissolve half an ounce ,of rack anarnotaia, in two quarts o'f hot water. Dip water, put in a layer of cooked the brushes lightly in this till clean, peas, then a layer of small cubes then rinse in cold water and dry in of cold potatoes, emit a layer-ef the air. hard boiled eggs, sliced (two eggs A few drops of glycerine in the are sufficient), then a layer of any Proportion of a oeaspoonful to a kind of cold meat, or chopped nuts pound of flour will ,make a cake may be used in places of the meat. light and feathery. Three teaspoon - MEATS. Sprinkle with salt anal pepper and fuls to every pound of fruit when put another layer of peas en top. making preserves will keep the su- Pour over. it the gelatin and stand gar from fermenting, and stops all aside. overnight. Serve. with may- danger of crystalbeing. onnaise dressing and whole wheat The colors in carpets and uphol- bread and butter, and a perfect stery faerict are much restored if combination of loads is ready for these after being thoroughly brush- lunehecin 'without a moment of time ed, are rubbed over with a clean being apent upon it the day it is Cloth which has been dipped in Wa- served. ter to which a little ammonia has been added. Oxgall, obtainable at HOUSEHOLD HINTS. the butcher's, is similarly useful. Mildew Stains—These sometimes 'junket, To prevent bleak eye rub the in- jured part immediately with butter and it will aever Wee ell celore of L1 e rainbow, AS it $8 Apt to do with- out tilhi trOlitAnCPC ))0 not hOep food of A deem or juley neturti in paper bags. Cherni- eels aro often Wed 211 peeparins the Paloca and when clamp aro 0W3 to 355 f057ti of 00I kind, , Chirpets should be thoroughly beaten on the wrong side first, and then on the right side, after which apots may be removed by 3,11A use of ex gall or ammonia and water. Whorl a elliki takes a cold it is an exeellent plan to take some sweet oil and rub the cheat with it every night and enormino. The hand meat be warm befon applyieg the oil, •. Half a lemon placed in the water in which dish towels and kitchen' clothes are soaked is said to sweet- ee them wonderfully. However, after a thorough washing sunshine will do wanders. A good sized pan or basin of water, changed every day, should be pieced in every sickroom. The water absorbs much interious mat- ter arid acts favorably in other ways upon the patient. . It is not generally known that eggegfovered with boiling watee and ellowed to stand for five minates are more nourishing,and more eas- ily digested than eggs placed in boiling water and allowad 3,3 Mil for three end &half minutes.. Vinegar is' not used as it ehonld be in the prepartion of tough meat. Put one tablespoonful into the wa- ter in which meat is to be boiled, alum. Mix thoroughly together, thee 1144 slowly, stiaring all the time, one gallon good coder vine- gar; if strong weaken with, water, Have yenr pickles washed clean, drain in colander a few minutes, put in earthen jar,. and pone the vinegar over.. I add a teacupful of • horseradish root if I can get it. This makes two gallons.—Mrs. E. J. Grape jain.---Taise your grapes, 'separate the skin from the pulp, keeping them in separate dishes; the pulpin your preserVing kettle, with a teacup of water. When thor- oughly heated run them through a colander to separate the seeds,, then put vow skins withthem and weigh; to earsh pound of fruit add throe -fourths ef a polled of sugar; arid .inerely water enough to keep. from burning.' Cook slowly three- fourths of an hour. This is a delic- ious jam and worth the trouble. own liquor until tender, then drain thoroughly. Scald two quarts of vinegar, two pounds brown sugar, three green or red ,peppers, chop- ped; two tablespoonfuls of ground mustard, two tablespoonfuls ground ginger ; One tablespoonful celery seed, one-half pound white mus- tard seed. Add drained tomatoes: Oneota Salad.—This is to be pre- pared the day before it is used. Cover half -a, box of gelatin with a cupful of cold water and soak for thirty minutes, then add a pint of boiling water, the juice of two le- raone, a teaspoonful of salt, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Stand aside to cool, but do not let it eine geld. Dm a round pan into cold Chicken and Salt Pork, -'-Singe- young chicken, remove pin feathers, clif off the neck on a line with top of the wing bones; out the chicken down through the beekbone and clean on the inside, wash and dry both inside mut out, 'flatten the breast with a cleaver; in a double . roasting pan lay several thin sheet of fat salt 'pork, on these lay the chicken, skin' side up, 'dredge with flour and layover. the top several thin olices of pork, turn in half cup- _ fel of hot water or broth, toter and let cook one hour and three-fourths; baste rieverel Ernes with the drip- ping in the pith, (kedge with 11011T filter each basting, more broth may he added if needed. Aladin Stew,- This is a, cheap eteiv, anti is also .good. Material: One, pound' be.ef one -quart Water, s one teaspoonful salt, six pepper omens, three allspice berries, eine square bleb bay leaf, one-quarter cup carrots, one-quartercop tur- nips, one-mip potatoes, One small onion, two tablespoonfuls flour, one tabletpoontel cold water, one tea- . lemon Worcestershire theme. Me- thod of prepaving: One pound of, beef end one quart of water are brought to the. boiling point rout then placed in a fireless cooker or • timilar arrangement fax six or more lateiet. If yeti want your stew to have 0 gored flavor of the beef it is better it, cut the meat in smell piec- es. One hour before serving the Almonds chojapeel fine and brown- ed in sugar are delicious for 'Ice cream.. ' Often irritation in the throat can be relieved by taking tho juke of a lemon. Aboet twenty minutes is the usual time green vegetables require for cooking. _ • To test beef, press it down with the thumb. If it rises quit:Orly, the meat is good. When cutting bread and butter very thin dip the knife occasionally, it very hot water., Oil of levender, sprinkled about in ,the book thole...to, will prevent hooka from mildewing: . Potato parings dried in the oven are goad to kindle fires, as they light More easily than wood. A pair of Scissors is infinitely bet - tee for trimming off the. rind from ham or bacon than a knife. • Grease on top of allot stove can be quickly rubbed off by putting salt on the scrubbing brush.. , onion, chopped real., fine, and the Plean wandows,tiightly moistened other vegetables cut in half inth with inethOlated spirit, and yo.0 cubes are added- Also add the ace - mining at this time. Cook at a toms peraterc just bodow tho boiling poiet, This can zei 0011e easily by usiug a double boiler. Make as emeoth paste, of the flour and watee asol ladd to stew ten minutes before serving, The Worcestershire theca is added jest before servieg. DESS1?,RT. Lemon and Banana Sherbet --Mash two perfectly ripe and soft hanemas to a pulp, Add the juice of two le- mons and two cups of sugar, mash and blend together, then add ono quiet full milk, pouring it in slew- ly 1,0 prevent curdling, then freeze. Perfectly 'ripe peaches earl be used instee<1 of bananas, if prefeered. Steemed Pudding.—One, cep leo- lessee one cup tour milk, them empt flour, one cup ',Moine, one-half cup flour, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful salt; steam two and one -hail hours, Sauce for steam • 'puddlog ; Two tablespooefult but- ter /311<1 two tablespoonfnit hot ' Seater ; istit in pulverized lemon, rind beat," till as stiff as desired and, kneecu petielizte. ' Bermes on half Shell, --Trim be satisfied with the 'result. If the water be hard, a tiny piece of washing soda will soften it, And give vegetables a brighter eolor. The taecepan thould be left un- covercd when boiling green vege- tobles, end the. color will be all. the brighter. Ginger poultietzt are as efficatei- appear on linen if it is put away darer), or if it ie kept in 53 dasnp plsee: They will useally disappear if.a paste matte of lemon juice and salt, or if water and French chalk is spread upon them: Let the pa,sbe dry thoroughly, then brush off, and wash the Material in the usual way. ge. • PARTICULAR WHO HE GOWNS Famous Parisian. Dressmaker Se- lects Ilk Custoinei.s.. THE S. S LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOT, 27. Leeemi IX.—The . Triel of ;remiss Matt. 20. 57-6O, Goldee Text, L ,Pel, 2, 23, Verse 67, They that heel taken Jettea-The troldiels sent out by the cliief priests and elders. The house ef Camplaas—An inter- val mutt be thought of between We tied the arrest, as described by Luke. Fax is description of the me- diae of procedure before the San- hedrin, see Duannejow'a Commen- tary. Were gathered togother—It is not clear (eompare Mark) whether they mon, wno DIED RECENTLY hied already mot and were antici- Nareowly Escaped With Life in a Te be guilts', of blasphemy was to be worthy of death (06). fio answers ool his attociateo, And they 114 the Jew with them (Lev, 24, 10). It is not probOle that such men as IsTiem- oleinus and Joseph of Arimethaeo, were preserit, . 07, Spit an his form --Such laeat- He was else et, the siege mi Lady reent, of 13 condemned prisorier 11'453 melte in 1900, extraordinary ism its shelessnees, WOUNDED IVIANTY TIMES. 9.1flo moire]) upoe the recerd of th,e From 1872 to 1889 Melton Prim. Jeevisla equal, some of their owe hie- passed only one year in whieh he toriane have sought in vein to wipe did not see service. He was wound out. eet1 many times, 68. Who etre* thee 1—An • Besieles these martial expeditions, and ironical question, called forth 'Prior represented illustrated jour - by the faet that they had blindfold- mils on many of the Royal journeys, ed him (Mark 14. 05), Ho went to Athens with the Prince of Weles' auite in 1875; aecompaei- eel the Marquis /trio 1Verebionesa of A SCORE OF CAMPAIGNS on theirlret visit to Canada; was et the Berlin Confereeee; ss the funeral of the loste Geer and the wedding of the present one; at NG STIRRI' LOB OF MELTON etliveerypselti-aiiteDoellernaronin., tl•h9a0t2rtntanudmaiii, durthe his periods of rest in Eng- land. at the Venetuelan, Breziliae ana Argentine imeirrectious, IL) wes with Jaaneeoll's raid, and eccons- paroled the troops in the Martha:le mad Afridi Wars. was en the nostlewest frentier in :India, and in Crete dertrig her intersection patmg the arrival of their inetina, or whether they came together as he was led in. At any rate, the minimum number of twenty-three were certainly present. ' 58, Peter—He and John had re- covered froin the fright which led them to fiee upon their Mastee being arrested, and at a safe dis- tance they kept track eif what wee going en., At firot Peter remained outside the court of the high priest, but afterward he gained admission through John, who had stime kind of passport there from previous visits (John 18. 16). 69. Sought false witneare--11 this is an eccurate statement, it simply shows that the ease was prejudged. Midnight Attack During War in Spain, Melton Prior, the, war correspon- dent and artist, whose death occur- red on Loudon, England, recently, saw some twenty-four campaigns and revolutions, There have been few men of his day, even among pro- feesional soldiers, who have seen more of the perils of the firieg line. life was one of the soremost war tor - respondents anti illustrators of the last half century. And by means of his facile pen and pencil, the gener- al public of stay-at-homes were like - What they sought was not evidence , wise made familiar with the Ashen - but pretext. (Compare Meek:: tee, Herzegovina, Kaftirian, Zulu, "They sought witnets . . to put Tranavaal, Egyptian, Soudan, Nile, Burmah, 'Leah, Turke-Greek and other campaigns, 1.51310 twenty-four in all. "The most rapid sketcher him to death.") Any testimony would do, whether falae or true, so long as it contributed to the de- sired result. "They met not to try I ever knew," was Stanley's de- but to condemn." No witness was aeription of him. called in the prisoner's behalf, and Mr. Prior was a native of Lon - there was no attempt Whatever to den. It was from his father, Wil - secure a just and impartial judg- liam Henry Prior, draftsman and meet. landscape painter, that he inherie- 60. Many false witnesses tame ed his talent. He studied art in They doubtlesa volunteered all sorts Boulogne and in London, and in of information, but none of it was teee suede his first appearance on of the incriminating kind; and, be- the battlefield daring the Ashantee sides, no two of them agreed. The War, law required that at least two In his pretty villa, in the New - should offer the same testimony. stead Road, which he made his home 01. I am able to destroy the tem- when not dwelling in tent or bivou- ple—In this way, the saying of ao, were souvenirs gathered from Jesus by which he meant to,refer all, the world. A mute witness of to lis body, was perverted a.nd that first campaign of his is the distorted (John 2.• 19). Matthew beheading sword irom Ashaztae, and Mark repoet differently the which' beheaded some thirty human words of these witnesses, a fact vietims in the king's slaughter which tallies with Mark's statement house as a last fetich eacrifice be - that they did not agree. It was fore the entrance of the British this disagreement, doubtless, that troops into Cocanassic, a sight which the artist described toward the close of his career as one of the most terrible be had ever witness- ed. this that elicited the interrogations AIDED BY LORD WOLSELEY. from Caiephas. So long as Jesus It wee while mounting the hill an - said nothing a.nel the -witnesses con- to Coomassie that Prior, overcome tredieted one another, there could with fatigne, found himself telling be no ground fax condemning him. behind the soldiert. He taught the But, as they did not agree, there tail of a passing -mule for support. was no necessity fax him to &newer. The rider turned sharply, and the Besides, were not his life and work artist to his borne recognized Lord a sufficient defense against sueh ac- Welseley. cenetions? "I beg your pinion, sir," gasped I adjure thee by the Oiving God— the offen This was the most solemn possible "Held ori, ,Mr Prior!" laughed way of putting Jesus wader oath, kis lordship. "We'll pull you on." and the solemnity of at is increased There is tho, saddle on which Mr. when it is remembered that Cala- Prior rode during the memorable phas, mecupied the highest position Nile expedition across the desert, in the church and nation. and'in centection with it the owner Whether, thou art the Christ—It used to relate his vain attempt to is not neeessary to believe that the reach ill-fated Khartoum by hiding high priest considered Messiah and himself on a steamer commanded Son of Gbd as equivalent terms. by.Sir Charles Wilson. One of thereat mole thesenvikees Pelham; he united the two with a There ate portraits of his old se- ttle goes over to London from Paris subtle purpose; for, if he could get sociates, Stanley, Boyle, Henty, semi twice a year to- watt en allis dorm] Jesus to claim the latter, he would Cameron, and a sketch of Colonel or so ladies whose gowet he con- have a sufficient ground fax condene North's party on the steamship descends to oompok, is now in Galicia, bound for Chili, Peru, anal F,nglantl making his rounds. Els clients include the Duehess ef borough, Mrs. John Jacob Asti r; but mere millionaisesecan hope t be ineluded isi his list, for lieless a woman's looks and Owe appeal to him rie being worthy of display- ing his •confectitns. he will, like Sargent, the painter, refuse to work for her, caused the implied charge of blas- phemy and anarchy to fall flat. 62. Stood up—In order to aidd dig- nity and weight to his questions. 63. Jesus held his peace ----It was This .artiet in towns insists that lle be treated as 1,0 equal when to calls for orders. Thus whee he statto at Floors castle or at Bill street, he eats with the family. Be has a country seat near Reuilly and some of „the most exclusive ladiee in London 1;00104, have, re- ceived his "command" to. tench nes fie mustard and will not Witter, with him there, if they happen to They should be made in the sam•e damn it on lien to order iroelas hi Way. Paris. When hanging oat clothes, hang Foe a0tietes ise aheolittely ve" fetes to design fiTeMeS, how' groat they may be, Before all else, ise. is ogelusive, and he melees duchesses about es if they were the meeest commoners. When Lady Oheylettnore rented Hughenden, Disraeli's old horn*, he invited himself there to make 53 Study of her style and figure before he made e meet gown fax be that was the sensation of the ,seoson. CANNED. "Whet boeaine, of that peech of a hi tied , ei ni Oen lied I" • Wife (tanned het." elude by the bands, eightdressen by the shoulders, and stockiest by the toes, tireaso• inerkt can often be ees moved by covering them withblot- ting paper ,or thick bi•own paper, and then ironieg this with it hot iron. • A. little eau de cologne ot other spitit rubbed jets) the sob) once oe twice a week helps to keep natur- illy greasy hair in geed condition. Tea and toffee states will usnally go if subbed with powdered lioraxs sIightly d031ii)ed. itt1 • hnihcp water tistoNth the reaskiel Wades. , ,Clhilderve .Whor meet be Metrics -el ho f alto milk as IS hei•erags 1,11 I ten 131,130 il Wirlingl• in Isom 01 Which liores eon more—listeeing soup, custard, cools awl whey ur to pcople's troubles or their joloosl nation. No doubt he was peompted to pet the question by his intimate knowledge of the events conneeted with the triumphal entry. 64. Thou haze seitl—To have kept silent at this critical moment would have been a practical setting aside of all hie claims for all time. The form of our Towel's reply is given differently in Mark ("I am"), but the meaning is tho same. Nevertheless ---Introducing an em- phatic statement to offset what had preeedeel. "It is tree I now stand. omelet:ratted before an earthly tri- henal because of my claim to Mes- siaship; but this is not the end; from slow 00 (heecefoeth) you may leek fax anothee scene when I, the Son of nein, shall sit as judge at the right lured of Power, 68, The high priest rent his gar- nesete-lsTot "an affection of hor- ror," "a mere peeteetre" (David Smith). This is is very old -'way oi exmetsing anguish. Here it is the high priest's ofticial, rather than his personal, distrett. "The high priest was not allewe,d te rend his clothes for bia own sorrows, but he was expected to tic so when a gross offense against God took place 3ri Ws presence" (Plummer). Hie ad- mission therebya,fted by his own weeds, that Jews had spoken blas- phemy, is fell of suggestiveness, Whet further need have we of wit- nestesg-The glee and these of re- lief oz) tho psi rtsof Claiaphisa as thintv in the thickett of the fight. The concealed. "He had tornprilled fights et Abu-Klea ansi Abou-Iterei, Jeset to sperik, andwith emittens syhere he teat hit thew fiance he Ale - mate doxtoritY, hod extorted frein sotibes air the most liazardnes stn,ss- hins '11 a de1israfion as tise S gle lie ever Wi30051S00, lledtill'S inalige purpose regeired," In Seals Amezien lei WAS prOSobt a wow; tumai uut )03)0a. the nitrate fields, He did his first Tesler work fax the old "Penny Miscellany," con- tributing fax three months without pay before his ability wa,s recogniz- ed. Then a sketch of as flower show at the Botank Gardens gave him his first footing on "The Illustrate ed London News," fax which he wrote and drew fax the rest ef his life. The first drawing he sent home, the gallant 42nd el:teaming on the Ashentees in the bush. was ono of the best things he ever pro- duced. NARROW ESCAPE. • During the Carlist War he liar- rowlg escaped wittli bis life in ti midnight attack, surpeising the treopa of Alfonso in the foremost trench at Pempolune. The Hetet- goyinien insurrection against Tur- key found him with Perm Pavia- viteloes Then followed the Resta- Tnekish W01', in which Me. Prior followed the Turkish armies. In the Kaffir and Basuto wars he bed many narrow escapes. lie wiletested the fight with the B0431.8 tit Majuha Hill, and was the only man of tbe English fereee Who slept in the Boar earop the fleet night after the pro» clareation of peace, where lie wit- nessed awl eleseribexl their rein:ark., able thanksgiving ceremonies ' Then foliowed the Zulu \Vero with Mr. Peke everywhere at the front MIGHT HAVE BEEN QUEEN PRINCESS WHO ESCA.PED POR - TUG UESE REVOLUTION. Match Between Ring Manuel and • Alexandre of Fife Vetoed by King Edward. One young woman in England at least is deeply interested in the Portuguese revetetion. -That is Princess Alexandra of Fife, the niece of King George, who, if her mother and the esueen mother cf Portugal had had their way, WOUiCi have been Queen of Portugal be- fore this. Perhaps if she had, Manuel would not have lost his throne, fax the Portuguese people are keenly alive to the value of the alliance with England and the great trade in port wine and fruit white they do with Great Britain, says a London letter. When Manuel came to England .about a year ago he came wife hunt ing and kis thole() was Princees Alexandra. His mother, whose friendship with the Duchess of Fife dates from their school -girl dayi", was keenly anxious that the inaten should be arranged, and the Duen- ess of Fife was equally eager to unite the two houses, but King ]td - ward and the Duke of Fife vetoed the match. The sate King had a veritable flair fax politics anal he felt, rather than enew, that Man- uel's throne was shaky, while the Duke of Fife, who is a Scotchnian, and has all the Scetehman's canni- ness, didn't see the force of an al- liance with one of the POOREST KINGS IN EUROPE. Since then there have been rum- ors about Princess Alexandra's marriage to Prince Christopher, 0310 of the younger sons of Prince George of Greece'but this has been vigorously denied. The chief foun- dation for it seems to rest in the tact time Prime's Christopher is the favorite nephew or Queen Alexan- dra and she would like to see him make a match with a girl so wealthy as her granddaughter is sure. to be. The feet is that Princess Alex- andra's future is a good deal of is problem to the royal family, She is a niece el the King, of tours°, but she is also the daughter of the man who is known as the bourgeois duke. The Duke of Fife was mere- ly an eael before his marriage to the late Ring Edward's elanghter, andlie has never been received as an equal by the highest aristocracy. This is perheps les own fault, for he is notoriously srugal, although Ito is one of the wealthiest men in the kingdom. and as a result he is far from popular'. His daughter will be one of the richest of heiresses and he will be Duchess of Fife in her own right, for SIIE HAS NO BROTHERS and isn't likely to have an and when the dukedom 3,733S created a epecial remainder was granted by which the title oould pass in the female line. She will be one of the greatest territorial magnates in SeotlanO. A marriage with an English or Scottish nobleman would be popes 'kr, but now that Manuel is out of the running as en eligible she is likely to rernitin sheets for some time. She is youlig, and shy, even fax her years, and the goesips de- clare that she is rather stupid and eado voloped. The Geer* marriage was-ent of 1 the queetion. Prince Christophe,' had absoletely no private fortune i and 110 home in Greeoe to wheal) he I eould take her. He \mild have 30 PROM BONNIE SCOILAPI NOTES OP INTExtEsw nom HER II.A.:NliS tlR KRA. ithot Is Going 011 le the Iligieends end Li111115311(1S of Auld Ocotie. A conyolvulus haela moth, is tare visitor, was eaught at, Laegholna, Dumfraestare. A new dry dock is to be eon- etruoted at Renfrew by the Clyde Theist at a 0Ast of 82,590,000. Greonook Gaelic perish church was lately re -opened after a samosa. - tion tasting about 81,500. About 300 weavere in the Aiedale Cotton Works ttruck work end On- • volved amother 400 mill werkers ie idleness. Satisfactory progress is being made at the Itosyth Naval Bate, end the number of wormmen has reached about 1,600. In the new Lanes Valuation De- partment, Ayr will be the emote* for the counties of .&yr, Wigtown and Kirkcudbright. An ornamental drinking fountain has been gifted to Kilmarnock by the local co-operative society in commemoration of its jubilee, Another old Crimean veteran hat passed away in the person of Boo geant Wm. McDonald, Greenbrae, who WELS 87 yeert <of ave. A fountain in memory of J. P. Cleghorn, fax 40^ years headmaster ef Broxtron School, has been placed in the school grounds. Inverness Harbor Trustees are to construct a bet similar estimated to cost $125,000 fax deepening the channel. Selkirkthire is to eppOse the weekly day of rest fax policemen on the ground that policemen in that quiet county are never hard work- ed. The whaler Scotia arrived at Stromness recenty with it catch comprising three whales, yielyeling one ton ef bone, and also 250 white whales. A Linlithgow landmark is being demolished, the time worn struc- ture, aeljoining the County Build- ings, one of the oldest and highest in the town. s There was sold by auction in Ed- inburgh recently fax $20,000 the small estate of Mayisseove, situated about two miles to the south of Dumfries. A herel of 113 pigs, belonging to Messrs. Burns, near 'Dunfermline, has been slaughtered because of swine fever. Dingwall Town Cleuricil have le - solved to go on with the concrete paving of the east side footpath in Tullock street from the Bank of Scotland to the Academy. Clyde shipbuilders have been un- successful in their tenders fax the turbine machinery fax two dockyard battleships in this year's program- me. Both went to the Tyne. The death is announced of Alex. Beaton, for over e0 years a pilot at Bo'ness. His grandfather, John Beaton, was 43110 0 fthe boat's crew that rowed Nelson Behove after the battle of the Nile. The Dundee whaling steamer Morning reached the Tay Item the Davis Straits fishing the other day with a cargo of seven hie& whales. The catch will yield 5Y2 tons of bone and 100 tons of oil. The Hangman's House, St. Jahn street, Stirling, hes fax generatione formed one of the most picturesque buildings in the street, especially after the first storey had been lime- washed. But the old elteelling is now a thing of the poet, having been taken down to meet the needs of the Miss Jane Armour Burns Brown, 'Dumfries, has just made a visit to Edinburgh, in the coulee of whieh she made a. round of the haunts of her illustrious great-grandfather, the national bard MAMMOTH AFRICAN CA.VE. - Once Used as Hiding Place for Native Revolutionists. A mammoth cave has been dis- covered in German Nast Africa in Mount Naugoma, about an hour to the south of Nandembo. Though discovered in August, 3909, it wee not explored till February, 1910, when the police officer, Weekauf, and a missionary named .Axahros Mayer made a partial in.vestigatioe oi it. The entrance is 43 meters wide by 21 meters high and the whole eavo has is length of 323 meters. ib is of npolike shape and has a funnel shaped opening, caused by a nave, n, It is in a chalk- mountain anti eanned by water erosion. The natives had lon,g known of 1, but eonettale41 its existence front he mitite.4. lhiring the uprising of 1,014Y tJtey nsed it for a hiding ilace for thousands, eompleteiy eating the enemy. 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