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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-3-16, Page 3o, Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Recipes and Other Valuable informative of Particular fatgreat to Women Folks. • VEGETABLES, Peas in Oroam.--One can of peas, Tense well, cover with boiling wa- ter, salt, and cook five or ten min- utes, In .another saucepan melt two ounces of butter, thicken even- ly with a little flour, Shaice over fire, butdo not brown; add one-half cupful of cream, one tablespoonful of sugar, and bring to a boil. Drain the peas well and pour into this mixture stirring them well in. Keep moving over fire fora few minutes until well heated, Serve at once. Baked Poppers,—Take green peppers and out off the top and re- move the inside. Chop up cold boiled beef, cold boiled potatoes, and onion. Season with salt and pepper and add enough gravy to moisten, Use butter if you have no gravy. Fill the pepper with this and put the top back on with tooth- picks. Bake in oven about ten ar fifteen minutes, Tomato Spaghetti.—One can to- matoes, three small onions, four bay leaves, one stink celery, one cup chicken broth and minced breast cooked to a mush and strain- ed. Season to taste with salt and add one saltspoonful curry powder, one-half saltspoonfui ground pinna - mon and allspice, a dash of cloves and red pepper; also the minced chicken._ Add enough water to the remaining chicken broth to make about three pinta; boil and add one pound of Italian spaghetti (this should be no larger than the lead in a pencil. . Cook twenty minutes. Remove from the fire and cover closely to steam while you grate one-quarter pound. dry cheese. Serve the spaghetti on a large platter, each guest using the sauce and cheese to taste. Hot Slaw.—Take a solid head of cabbage, cut fine same as you would for cold slaw, To this add one pint water, teaspoon salt, and table- spoon of lard; stew slowly for one hour, -after which add a . dressing made of one egg beaten withthree tablespoons of sugar, one of four,. pinch of salt,'and half cupof vine- gar. Should the vinegar be strong use some water. Try this. Potato Doughnuts,—Three large potatoes, boil and mash with a. lump of butter size of an egg,beat until smooth threo eggs beaten separate- ly, one and one-half cupfuls sugar, pinch of salt, nutmeg to taste, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, three cupfuls flour; stir in, then add enough more to roll out. Fry in deep lard, smoking hot, drain on paper; then roll in sugar. These o ghnnts are exceptionally light, do not absorb the grease, and are easily digested, Rice Potato Cakes,—One cupful is soaking will draw out most of the salt, Filled Fish,- This is the original "gifilty fish" that is so popular to all that have ever tasted it, A rom- bination of two or throe kinds of fish is always best, as pike and trout, of buffalo and trout, or white Asti. For about four pounds of Ash take two good size onions, half toa- spoon white pepper, level teaspoon. salt, two eggs, tablespoonful of breaed crumbs and a pinch of sug- ar. Clean and wash the fish, cut slices 1 1-2 inches thick, salt over night, or an hour or. two before chopping, put on ice. Cut out all the meat, put in chopping bowl, add onions, salt, pepper, add ab- out half glassful of water a few drops at a time while chopping, Whoa nearly done add the eggs and bread orumbs. Have pan ready (a real heavy bottom pan is best) cut up two onions and put the heads and other bones or' skins of the fiah that you may have left over at the bottom of pan, fill up the empty skins with the chopped fish, and put it carefully in the. pan. If there is any chopped fish left make balls; it will be just as good as the filled skins. Now pour in very carefully so as not to break the balls, enough water to cover the fish, put cover on and boil for three hours, adding more water as it boils down. Great care must be taken that it does not burn. More salt andpepper may be added, for it takes lots of salt and pepper to make it good. Re- move the cover about fifteen minu- tes before removing from the fire, let it boil done to one pint of soup. Servehot or cold with horseradish. CARE OF RUGS. In selecting rugs from a sani- tary standpoint the best rugs are those which are closely woven, as the dust is then retained on the surface ancl can easily bo brushed off. -,It is much better for a rug to be cleaned often, not alone for san- itary reasons but because with fee- quent cleanings the rug becomes richer and more glossy. Small rugs are better cleaned at home thansent' to the professional carpet cleaner, who does not un- derstand the who treatment required by en oriental rug from. a domestic and follows his usual custom of taking one end of the rug to a revolving wheel, which tears and whips it to pieces. Take, small rugs to the, roof or grass plot and beat with a light whip or rug beat- er on the surface, but never on the back, which tends to break the warp and woof, thus destroying the fabric. After beating the face, of boiled rice, stiff and cold ; one which brings the dust to the sur- of boiled cold mashed Goold; one) face, brush off with a broom or, psnow, sweeping with the nap, not egg; one-third cupful of flour; one against it. If a rug becomes badly level teaspoonful baking powder; soiled wash it Do not allow large salt to taste. Drop from spoon on rugs to be cleaned on the floor,. :griddle as and treat like pancakes. While the widely advertised +pro If batterr is stiff as possible the Gass of cleaning without the neees- cakes will be delicious. sit, of taking rugs up gives the sur- face of the rug fresh, bright rook, CAKE. it is sure to rot the fabric. The dirty water, soaking through the carpet, has no way of escaping, and leaves a strata of mud between the warp, which soon or lata weakens the threads. If beaten at home it may afterward be spread upon the floor and spoiled spots washed out Silver Loaf Cake.—Ona and one- fourth cups granulated sugar, one- half oup butter, four egg whites,_ one cup milk, two and one-half cup four, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one; teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Method—Cream butter and sugar until it as smooth and white as ice cream, sift flour ten times and after siftening seven times measure two • and one-half tiupfuls, add soda and sift. Beat whites to a stiff froth, add cream of tartar before beating, add milk and :flour, .alternating and stirring well eaoh time, and lastly add whites of eggs, Cut and, fold them well, Put in loaf or layer tins buttered well and before putting in even take and pound well to burst • .in bubbles and put in cool oven and heat up your oven gradually and you will have a fine cake and may use any filling you like. Out of the tour yolks make another cake, us-. ing the same ingredients and same method, and. you will have two fine, good tasting cakes. Cream Cake,—Three eggs to be beaten separately. Add one scant sup of sugar, one enp of flour, one heaping teaspoonful- : of bakiugpow- " e'er, and one tablespoonful of we- ber. Creamfilling—Two cupfuls of milk, one tablespoonful of corn- starch, one egg with a little speck of salt, one-half cupful of auger, Boil in double boiler until thick. Each layer to be split. and filling put in between while hot, Walnut Loaf .Calve,—Dream to- gether one cupful granulated sug- ,ar, one-half cupful butter, - and yolks of two eggs, one-half cupful milk, one and ono -half cupfuls flour, two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix above and add one cupful of chopped walnuts and last add the two whites stiffly beat- en, Frost with 'any white frosting and sprinkle chopped nuts Oro):top. FISH. Salt in Fish, A lass of vinegar - put into the watt in which salt fish shared will be ;glad to learn' how it is .done.. After careful washing and rinsing have ready the following, Beat an egg to a froth,, add one quart or less of cold water, word - ung to tint required, , Place all laces, etc,, in this and move gently through the egg water several times, Then squeeze gently and hang in the shads to dry, When about half dry put thorn between two cloths and iron, No starching is needed. If above direotions are followed you will be pleased with the result. Lases will have that soft creamy tint they had when fires bought. This was the seoref of do- ing Iace given by an old pillow lace worker who used it for doing ereamy tinted pillow lace, MAN'S KINSHIP WITH APES SHOWN BY TIIkl MOST DELI•• CATS R{No1vi BLOOD TEST. Based on the Chemical Character of the Albumen Dissolved in Blood Serum." Dr. Willcox, official analyst to the British. Home Office, at .a mag- isterial inquiry into . a charge of murder a few days ago gave a piece of evidence that had never before been given in England. Ho testi fled that certain blood stains on the collar of the accused man were caused by human blood and that this fact had been proved by the serological test. This serological test is the last word of science on the subject of discriminating between different kinds of blood stains. Its wonder- ful delicacy will be understood when it is stated that the flesh of Egyptian mummies responds read- ily to it. A special serological lab- oratory has been fitted up recently in the buildings of the Royal So- ciety of Public Health in London, and here special demonstrate ,n was given by Dr. Rajchmau of ti,e way in which this test is carried out. Hitherto all the methods of dis- criminating between different kinds of blood have been based on color or on the appearance of the blood corpuscles under the microscope. The new test is based on the chem- ical character of the albumen dis- solved in THE BLOOD SERUM. Dr. Rajehman took a sample of linen which was markcd•with a dark red stain. He placed it in a watch glass and covered it with dilute salt solution, which he explained would slowly dissolve out any al- bumen which the stain might con- tain and at the same time would re- move any blood corpuscles which might be present. A momentary examination by the microscope re- vealed the presence of the corpus- cles, which proved to be blood of some kind. While the` clot was dissolving in the salt solution he showed six test tubes, each of which contained what he called antiserum, Each had been prepared by injecting the blood of some animal into a rabbit. The different ]curds of blood withwhich different sets of rabbits had been treated were those of a, man, a horse, a pig and an ox. After a certain number of injec- tions the rabbit's blood was found to contain a substance. known as recipitin. A drop of blood taken rom the ear of a rabbit containing he precipitin caused by human food has e eurious effect on the aIbumen dissolved out. by the salt. rom t with a solution of soap bark or'bor-i ax and water, allowing an ounce of f the bark to'.a gallon of water. If this is done carefully and then the surface wiped off dry with a cloth wrung out of fresh water, the rugs will emerge clean, lustrous, and in no wise injured. Some, in summer, think it a saving of their ruga to turn them upside down, walking on the eback. This is a great mistake. d Wear on the surface of a rug makes 1 t b fit th W ly A HUMAN BLOOD CLOT. The test was shown by placing a few drops, one-tenth of a cubic centimeter, of the saline solution ]n a very small test tube and allow- ing a drop of the anti -serene to fall into it. Being rather henry, the rop settled at the bettom of the. ube, and at the point 01 contact etween the two liquids a ring of my opalescence was formed when e human antiserum was used. hen any of the others was drop ed in the liquid remained perfect- clear and transparent. In another experiment some horseflesh was treated with the salt water and the solution so made tested in the same way. Here the horse antiserum gave the telltale ring of opalescence and all the oth- ers remained clear, showing defin- itely to what kind of animal the original flesh belonged, Although this reaction has been known for about five years, it has only been brought to its present perfection lately. There is only, one case known in which the test fails. There is no difference in the result of the teat bebweon the blood of a man and the blood of a high class ape. MEXICAN EAU DEANS. Queer -shaped Bean is Sent to Prance for Tanning Purposes. it all the more silky, but on the re- verse tends to break and injure it, 1f there should be any signs of maths in the winter, hang them in the frosty air for a few nights. In the summer use constantly. It is better for them thari, packing them away. Many going to their sum- mer homes take their rugs with them for use, in the house or lawn. In packing for shipment simply bale and wrap rn burlaps. . If leaving home for some time, beat well, then roll in tar paper or newspapers, leaving no opening for the entrance; of moths. LITTLE HELPS. Easy to clean waIlpaper•. Satur- ate a Turkish towel or piece of can- ton flannel' with gasoline and rub lightly over the paper. Cleans more evenly than stale bread and is not half the trouble .and removes all the dust and dirt. Humane Hint. --After using can- ned fish of any kind be euro to bend the cover into place again before throwing away, , Oats have ,oftcn been badly hurt by forcing their heads it to empty cans in search of of a morsel of fish, io Laundry Hint, -Readers whon want their collars, collarettes, ed cream taco, etc., to keep the deli- ba cato cream they have when put- nu In the forests of Miohoagan, one the most picturesque of the Mex - an states, may be seen groups of tive ive women and children engag- in picking up and placing in skets what at first sight look like ta. Those are the Mexican ear - 4J'*'�Y, r 1 ;�.�� RESPONSIBILITIESPyMAN --Life,' A FAMILY MA --Life, beans, and they are gatiierod and sold by the natives for shipment to France,where they are used to tan leather for shoes. The bean is so named by reason of its 'resemblance to the human ear. It grows wild on a small tree that reaches the height of twenty or thirty feet, with wide branching limbs. As many as ten bushels often grow on a single tree„ When ripe they fall to the grourel, and over many extensive tracts, not only in Michoacan, but in Colima and Quern:), untold thousands of bushels remain ungathered in 'the forests. It is not difficult to hire natives to pick them up at one cent a pound. To be used for tanning, the beans have only to be dried and ground; awl so rich are they in astringent qualities, that a very small quantity of the bean -meal is sufficient to tan a hide. THE r MODERN CHURCH DELI USED IN BRITAIN SINCE THE FIFTH CENTURY. Belts Have Been Used Since Bible Tittles for Secular and Religious Purposes. In the 28th chapter of Exodus, verses 34 and 38, occurs the first mention of bells, and their use is practically the same as that to which modern' church bells are put, namely, to give notice of the time -for public worship. The uses of bells as summons to prayer are not derived directly from this source, as they have been used in all ages for secular as well as religious pur- poses. In the Grecian army the of- ficer of the guard visited the sen- tries at night with a bell as a sig- nal of watchfulness, and the Rom- ana used small ones in their baths and places of business. The honor of inventing the large church bells, howe,er, is ascribed to Paulinus, Bishop of Nola,' a city of Campania, who flourished in the fifth century of the Christian era. Not long af- ter they were introduced into Brit- ain. BAriISM OF THE BELLS. When first set up the- bells were solemnly consecrated by the clergy with a ceremony called baptism, which implied that they were sup- posed to possess some important virtues. It is, certain that many properties of a very remarkable nature were ascribed to them. All evil spirits were understood to en- tertain en insurmountable objec- tion to. the music of the bells, a single flourish making. the fiends disperse with wonderful alacrity. During storms bells were continu- ally rung, and as they continued to ring eo long as the• storm lasted, it is not to be wondered' at that they should receive the. credit of stop, ping them. This; practice• lasted un- til the middle of the eighteenth century. Another•virtus attributed to bells was that of clearing the air during the prevalence of epidemic disorders. But the most remark- able of all their virtues was that of locomotion. It was considered ne- cessary, whenever a bell was re- moved, to secure it with a rope or ehafn•., in order to • prevent it return- ing to its former place. WORK FOR THE EXPERT. Li England the passion for bells prevailed very early; St. Dunstan presented several. to blalmesbury Abbey, and the Abbot of England in Ring Edgar's time made six bolls, which were named after dis- tinguished personages, and, says the historian, such a concert was never heard in the land before. An old picture represents King David as striking with a hammer on little bells instead of his harp. Toward the close of the sixteenth century the English are described as "vast- ly fond of great noises that fill the ear, such as the, firing of cannon, boating of drums, and the ring- ing of bells.". The writer does not appear to be aware, that bell ring- ing was an important atcompiish- ment, hinging a single boll was the work of a novice only, but to ring a bob -major upon twelve mark- ed the ringer was an export. The custom of •ringing upon occasions of public rejoicing ib derived from an early usage of the Catholics, who in this tanner gave edict) of the arrival of `a thumb dignitary within their jurisdiction, and it th THE SUNDAYSCHOOL STUDY Y INTERNA.TIONA.L LESSON. MARCH 19. Lesson XII. Defeat Through Drunk- enness. (Temperance Lesson).'1 Rings 20. 12-21. Golden Text, Prov. 31,4. Verso' 12. This message—He : a the other leaders of the imnien army (estimated at 130,000 m were so confident of their sup iority, that they were wasting th and strength drinking in pavilions, or temporary booths s up for the exigencies of war. In array against the city—T would include the. establishment the war -engines before the wal battering-rams and catapaults, b mg the chief instruments of a' aie Ladders would be set up, and are ers would be placed in commandi positions. It must have looked da to the king and his people coop up in the city. 'hhould the w fall, it meant that desolation a destruction were sure to follow 13. A prophet—Though his n is not given, he probably was o of the schools of the prophets, w seem to have acted in concert. T name of Elijah curiously enough not mentioned in this entire eh ter, 15. Young men. of the.princes. the province -Their number, tw hundred and thirty-two, was n thing as against the great multf- tude of the Syrians and their allie But this prophet wished by the co parison to throw in relief the feet that the victory was to be a super natural one. The sterling youth the nation were picked out to lead the attack. The older men had a ready failed and been driven with in the refuge of the city, and we as a result filled with fear. Th wretched state to which the city it self had been reduced may be con jectured from the sma11 number o men who could he mustered to fol low hehiad the youthful leaders only seven thousand, 16. They noon—Thi went out at was a master stroke. At this hour under the scorching Syrian sun everything would be at a standstill heavy armor being cast aside, and the soldiers lounging about in care- less relaxation. The king continu- ed his brutish drinking with the vassal kings and so rendered him- self more and more helpless. re The young; men ... went out first -This was a ruse intended to deceive the unwary foe. And it succeeded. The drunken king thought the little band were coming out to make terns of peace, and he exclaimed, in a spirit of bravado, Whether . . for peace, or - . , for. war, take them alive (18). 20. They slew every one his man —The motley army outside the. walls were totally unprepared for any onslaught. Their leaders were stupid with drink, the ehariots and horses were unharnessed and un- ready,. the army itself, besides be- ing at ease, backed homogeneity and any sense of loyalty to a com- mon interest. A panic was exactly the thing to look for. It was .Je- hovah's victory, but the Israelites had to exercise the right sort of in- genuity in order to meet conditions as they were. These conditions, of course, could only grow worse un- der the sturdy attack of the young men and their .aroused followers, so that it is little wonder that the proud forces of Ben-hadad suffered utter rout, and he himself was ob- liged to escape on a horse. nd se on) er- heir the et his of Is, e- ge. li- ng rk ed alis red ame ae ho he is it of 0 o- s. M- o Probably there is something more industrious than an idle rumor. A centenarian' named Jas. Wil- son of Orooknagrally, Fivemibe- town, has just been photographed at the age of 104 years -for the first time in his life, The milling firm of John Thomp- son & Sons, of Gamble street, Bel- fast, were recently fined for neg- lecting to have proper safeguards around machinery at a result of which .a man named Charles Sang - stir, reeeived ang-stir,leeeived fatal injuries,' The ;Belfast Corporation, at its monthly meeting on the lot inst,, decided to confer the freedom of the city upon Mt, G. W; Wolff, who for upwards of half a century as .regarded as a high offence ifbias been closely identified with the e bells warts not rung, l commercial progress of that city. SCOTT'S SENSE OF HUMOR A CHIN.AMA.N'S IMPRESSIONS OF ABERDEEN. Former Student at Aberdeen Mal. eoesity Gives itppreeiation of People. There is a' very interesting ' ap. preciatien of Scotsmen by a China- man in the World's Chineao Stu- dents' Journal. It gives the "Im- pressions of Aberdeen" of Slow Tbyo Lee, who was a . student at Aberdeen University. "Aberdeen, like Oxford or Oam- bridge, is a seat oflearning," he writes. "Itis strange to note that the university is very little known among foreigners, more especially among us in the Straits and in China. "The Aberdonians have a very peculiar mode of speech, which could not escape the observation of a stranger ; in fact, some foreign- ers often remark that it is much like singing, ,. RECOMMENDS COUNTRY. "I must say that no foreigner could spend any length of time in Aberdeen, or in Scotland general- ly, without being impressed by the wonderful hospitality. The •sense of humor is wonderfully keen, and one cannot help noticing this, as it is to be found in practically all classes alike. I have particularly noticed that all Scotsmen—rich and poor alike -have a unit of heart. Though their opinions may. differ, they all strive to do their best for the welfare of their country and the people. The sense of duty in which every citizen of a country has a share is deeply carved in the heart of every Scotsman. Not only are they busy and practical, but are more tactful and dignified. The common sense, the serious way they look at life, and their amazing self-centredness and self-confid- ence. MODELS OF POLITENESS. "I have also noticed that a good thing in the Scottish character is its independence, and this is shown by the industrial populaton in hab- its of life. "In a company of strangers you would think that the Scotsman was eeaf, for his eyes never wander from the table or newspaper. He would say that it was impolite to overhear a conversation to which he was not invited. In short, he is always cold and reserved. "Moreover, I was told that Scots- men were well trained in their man- ners; they are said to be the best type of men from whom people that are not well acquainted with man- ners can learn. Whether this cre- dit may rightly be put to them I do not know, but the general impres- sion I have here is that the average Scotsman knows always and every- where exactly what to do and how to do it. He never seems to hesi- tate, and makes no fuss about his doings. It is, I think, also, a fairly general impression in the east that the Scotsman the term in this re- spect also includes the English— keeps himself aloof, reserved, cau- tious of making or accepting ad- vances towards acquaintanceship. This may arise either out of pride or shyness. SCOT A DELIGHTFUL HOST. "At home the Scotsman is a most gracious and delightful host. He is at once the servant, and knows how to please his guest. "In the railway service the civ- ility of the guards and porters, the neatness and carefulness, and the quiet energy of the drivers „and firemen is notable:- In the east railway engines always show a lack of care, and things look very con- fused and disordered. In Scot- land, as in England, they are bright and clean. That shows a workman's pride in his work and its instru- ments. It is the man with the clean engine who. is going to succeed in life." ROYAL CAMP IN INDIA. Splendid Camp Will be Provided for Residence by Ring. The Allahabad Pioneer states that the King -Emperor, during •his stay in Delhi, will not occupy Cir- cuit House, but will go into camp, the idea of a, splendid royal camp appealing to popular imagination. Motor cars and taxicabs, the journal adds, are likely to be more in evidence than horsed carriages, thus obviating the difficulty of the management of wheeled traffic which arose at the Curzon durber. Steps have already been taken to induce the • Calcutta and Bombay companies to send several hundred taxicabs to Delhi. Communication between the different camps will be. by circular railway trains running at short intervals, The programme of the royal tour in Indiaat the end of this and the beginning of next year will inelude a big q'aine shooting trip when his Majesty visits Nepal, The royal, party leaves England about December 12, and, according ! wheels to present arrangements, travel eh overland to the 1Vlediterrauean to ab take steamer for Bombay, Ise PAGEANT ORS THE :EMPIRE Jtlttg'a aub,ieets Will be Able to Tear all liriiai;„; The Empire in the making is a phraea often used,, and perhaps little understood, but one may catch a little of its meaning at the Crystal Palace, Loudon, where the Festival of :Empire is pow being built up. Mr. Frank Laseelies, the master builderof the pageant, showed the writer something of the glories' of the scheme that will fur- nish the chief attraction of the year to millions of the King's subjects from all parts of the world. With the Aid of a miniature rail- way ono will be abbe to make a tour of the whole Empire, Already there are crude outlines of the chief towns and buildings of India, South Africa and Australia, Far down in the grounds below the terrace there are growing the Canadian Parliament Buildings, at present but an outline of woodwork, The treasure to be shown will be worth seeing. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has cabled the Canadian Government's assent to the spending of $330,000 on the Canadian section, The Do Beers Company will lend several million dollars worth of diamonds to add to the sparkling brilliancy of the South African section. As for India, one of King Edward's last• acts was to go through his collec- tion of Indian trophies, and select some of the most remarkable, to be exhibited in the Indian section, As a pageant, the festival will be still more ambitious than the original plan, In addition to the tableaux representing the history of London —to be presented by 12,000 London- ers—there are to be pageants rep- resenting scones from, the history of the colonies. Those who took part in the scene of the Tercentenary of Canada, enacted before King • George on the Plains of Abraham, will reproduce it before an Empire audience. A scene of South African history will be given by the men and women who acted it before the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, under the shadow of Table Mountain. The Delhi Durbar of 1887 will be repro- duced by Indian visitors; and sther colonial visitors will take their r, tat in historical tableaux of Newfo rnd• land, Auss'alia and New Zealand:. ^,F STRAWBERRIES is. 3d. EACH. Never More Than 12 lbs. of Fruit in Loudon Market at One Time. Strawberries from English hot- houses have been selling at Covent Garden at 1s. 3d. each berry. They came from the Worthing district, and not more than a dozen pounds of them have been on the market at one time. "The English strawberry season has begun," a well-known fruit salesman at Covent Garden told the London Daily Mirror recently. "From now onwards, if we have any sun at all, there will be a steady, though strictly limited, sup- ply. Hothouse strawberries, though they are grown under glass, require sun to ripen them, "They have been fetching los. a punnet for the last two days. Each punnet, a little open basket, 031. .0- eight strawberries, so that the price per berry works out at le. 3d. each, "Their quality is good, and so is their color, but not their size, while not small, can best be de- scribed as moderate. An increased, but not large, supply will be com- ing in now for the next few weeks, Theliberrsun.ies are only waiting for a ttle "The price really depends . on what the public will pay. Now that Parliament is sitting, and peo- ple are in town, the demand for strawberries will be rather bigger, and that will neutralize the cheap- ening effects of the somewhat larger supply" POWER OF LIGHTNING. Ordinary Stroke Could Drive Bat- tleship at Top Speed. Frequently surprise is expressed at the effect of a stroke of light- ning which splinters a large tree or wrecks a tall chimney, but if the enormous power developed by an ordinary stroke of lightning is tak- en into consideration, the wonder will be that the effect is so small. Scientists estimate that an. "or- dinary" stroke of lightning is of 60,000 horse-power—that is force sufficient to drive the largest bat- tleship ever built at top speed, The lightning stroke, however, travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per sec- ond. We think we see a stroke of lightning, but as a matter of fact what we see is only the memory of a flash. The electrical current has been absorbed by the earth long before we aro conscious of having seen the flash. A person struck by a direct flash would never see it, The average electromotive' force of a "bolt" of lightning is about 3,500,000 volts and tate current is 14,000,000 amperes. In such a''.olt" there is energy equal to 2,450,000 volts, or 3,284,182 horse -power, Some day a wizard will arise who will capture and bind a "bolt" of a lightning andgreawitt;hcityit, turn all the of The time required for the dia. Argo of a "bolt" of lightning is ont one twenty-tliot.sandth of gond.