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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-6-15, Page 2`, or Tea You Can't Beat Lipto1n1 9p It Ras That Delicious Flavor and Aroma that Satisfies Millions Throughout tho'World, TEA Over 2 Million Packages Sold Weekly. 4,01434, �,s1t iV .d AStd:'"Fii4.'A'ir4Ct ��r�I.Gllk`k CANAQIA S IN THE HOUSE TEN OF THEM IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Ras the Largest Representation of Any of the Over -Sous Dominions: The number of colonials in the British House of Parliament stead- ily increases. In 1887 there were only six. By 1900 there were six- teen. In the present parliament there are twenty-four. Only those are included who were born and bred in Greater Britain or lived in some part long_ enough to acquire a local interest. Otherwise the list would be three times as long, says a writer in the London Express. • But it is not only in numbers that colonials have figured larger at the late general election than at any other, but in their power to arrest public attention. At the be- ginning interest centred in North- west Manchester, where Mr, Bonar Law made such a gallant fight for tariff reform, and there is not the least doubt that the victory of Mr. Max Aitken at Ashton-under-Lyne heartened the Unionists all along the line. Then Sir Charles Rose won back Newmarket for the Radicals, Mr. Hamar Greenwood, Sunderland, and Mr. A. 0, Beck, Saffron Wal- den. Even more remarkable was the return of Mr. Jos. Martin, for St. Pancras East. Because he saw "no reason for an election" he was denied all help from official Liber- alism. But he soon showed he was quite able to dispense with it. is not nicknamed . "Fighting Joe" for nothing. REGRETTED ABSENTEE. All colonial members of the old House of Commons have been re- turned for the new one except Mr. Henniker Heaton, who has retired after representing Canterbury for twenty-five years, surely a record. He will be greatly missed, though with mingled feelings, by Ministers and ex -Ministers, His place as the oldest colonial member is taken by Mr. W. Keswick, who has sat for Epsom since 1899. He is a partner in the great east- ern house of Jardine, Matheson es Co., which he represented in Hong Kong for years. Like Sir Thomas Sutherland, he took an. active share in the affairs of the colony as a member of the, Legislature. The Unionist candidate for Walworth at the late election, as he was in January, 1910, and in 1906, was Mr. Belilios, rptso a colonial from Hong Kong. OANADA HAS TEN. As usual since 1887, Canada com- mands most strength in the, House, ten of the colonial members being ber sons. The best known aro Mr. Bonar Law and Sir Gilbert Parker, already familiar figures in English public life. The coming man is Mr. Max Aitken, whose return was. one of the surprises of the election, He had only ten days in which to make the acquaintance of his eonstitu- ency and to organize the defeat of the sitting member. That he sim- ply romped in was due to his hab- its of business concentration and passionate Imperialism, 'He is on- ly thirty-two, and has made a large fortune in industrial concerns in Canada, the West Indies and South America. His wife is the niece of Admiral Drury, commander in chief at the Noro, himself a Can- adian. FROM THE ANTIPODES. The Australian contingent, which used to be the strongest in the House, is .now the smallest. Ito representative in the Conservative party is Mr. Alan Burgoyne, who is one of the editors of the Naval Annual, and, as a partner in the great Australian wine firm, is fam- iliar with trade conditions in the Commonwealth, Mr. Thomas, who sat MI the New South Wales Legis- lative Assembly as a Labor mem- ber, now sits as . Labor member for Derby in the Parliament at Westminster, and Mr. Lynch, as a Nationalist, whose pro -Boer sym- pathies made him so notorious dur- ing the South African war. S. A. MEMBERS. There are, four South African members—Mr. A. C. Beck, who was defeated in January, 1910, and hits distinguished himself by recov- ering for the Government the seat •lost by Mr. nesse; Mr, 0. S. Gold - Mann, the millionaire' Mr. P. Mol- teno, the only colonial member of Italian descent; and Dr. Hillier, who its for the I3itcbin division of Herts. He is an ar- dent tariff reformer, and a .close student of federalism in politics. His book, "The Commonwealth ; or, a study of the Federal System of olitical Economy," should be read by everyone interested in the subject. There is no change whatever in the personnel of the New Zealhnd- ers in the House. Mr. Fell, Dr,' Chapple, Mr. J', 0. Wesson, Mr, St, George Hamersley and Mr. Mey- sey-Thompson have been duly re- turned by their constituents, two of them without a contest. TWO OF THE FOREMOST. Of the members who were in the Parliament of 1906, and will sit in the Parliament of 1911, the most in- teresting are Sir Charles Rose and Mr. Hamar Greenwood, both Can- adians. They are sure of ahearty welcome. The second son of a dis- tinguished statesman, Sir Charles Rose is a public man who touches English life at many points, He was one of the personal friends of the late Ring; he is a keen sports- man, and a familiar figure in- the social and financial world. It was certainly his personal pop- ularity which enabled him to win New Market -after the, death of Colonel McCalmont, and again at the last election. One of his 'sis- ters is the wife of Sir Stanley Clarke. • Mr. Hamar Greenwood is a breezy speaker and personality, who began his political career as private secretary to Mr. Winston Churchill. • He is, however, an Im- perialist. leo one is likely to for- get the splendid defence of the Governor of Jamaica on his return to England after witnessing the earthquake and the "regrettable incident" which followed it. THEIR POLITICS. Twelve of the colonial members are on the Opposition side and el- even on 1,00 Government. Six of them were once colonial members of Parliament, and one was Prime Minister of his province. 4' INCOGNITOS OF ROYALTY. Queens and Princesses Sometimes Travel as Plain ISes. or Miss. It has always been the custom of royalties to travel under assumed names, but though their incognito is respected most people know who they are. The King and Queen of the Belgians, who lately went to Egypt, travelled under the names of Count and Countess de Resh, and as this was a name not well known they were not recognized by most people. The late Queen Victoria called herself the Countess of Balmoral, the Czar Paul I. and his Empress once went on a long journey to a]1 the great courts of Europe as the Count and Countess du Nord. The last King of Sweden, of the ancient line of Wasa, Gustave Adolph IV., called himself Colonel Gustayson. Queen Alexandra of England . on one occasion, when she stayed in Paris, was under the name of Mrs. Stephens, says the Gentlewoman, and Queen Maud of Norway when she makes an excursion often calls herself Miss Mills, while her sister, the Princess Victoria, travels often as Miss Johnson, The Ring of Bulgaria travels as Count Murany, while the present King of Italy bears the name • of Count Pollenza. The German Crown Prince and Princess call themselves Count and Countess Ravensworth, and his younger brothers Prince August -Wilhelm and Prince Oscar travelled as the Counts von Lingen. The ex -Empress Eugenie when she is incognita is known as the Countess Pierrefonds in remem= brance of a caatle of that name that was once given to her by Na- poleon III. The late Kang Edward was known as the Duke of Leneas- ter and Ring George takes for his travelling name the title of Lord Renfrew, The name under which Queen Alexandra generally travels is the Countess of Chester. The late Empress of Austria al- ways had her name entered as the Countess of Hobenentbs. The King of Sweden is known a$ Count Tul- gard. Ex -King Manuel of Portu- gal also was fond of being incognito and was then known as Count Var- cclles. "I have a very effective way of leading up to a new gown," "How do you work it l" "I begin by talk- ing to my husband about a trip to Europe. Eventually he glee Hall- is .d tJ otnis�b. cam r p BRITISH SCHOOi. PROBLEM HOW IT COMPARES WITH GER. • MANX'S SYSTEM, Big Percentage Taken Away as Soon as '.t'hey Reach Legal Age Age Limit. L, G. Ohiozza Money, the well known publicist, writes in the Lon- don (Eng.) News under the caption "Let us Build Against Germany": On 'several oceasioes, when visit- ing our elementary schools, I have obtained permission to ask: the scholars in the highest classes who have attained the age of fourteen years of age to rise in their places. The test always gives the same re- sult, Of a .class of sixtyor more children, only some five or six' are found to have passed their four- teenth year; the great, majority of children are withdrawn from school by their parents at the very ear- liest moment allowed by the law. At, the period in life when a child begins tt, have, any real capacity to receive instruction systematic training ends: That is to 'say, ed- ucation, in thereal sense, never be- gins in school for the mass of our. population. Even thirteen years of age spells the limit of systematic training for an enormous number of cbi]dren. This will be clear from the follow- ing statistics compiled by the Board of Education, ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOLS (1906-7). Age. No, of Scholars, 11 ....... .... 623,100 12 596,759 13 408,311. 14 ........ .. , 67,811 15 6,923 16 ........ ...... .507 The attendance at twelve years of age is 26,000 less than at eleven. The attendance at thirteen years of age is as many as 88,000 less than at twelve. And then Domes the great etam pede. At fourteen years of age the scholars drop to 67,811, a decline of 340,000! CHILD POPULATION. Now let us carry the matter fur- ther, In 1909 a committee appoint- ed by the Board of Edueation to report on the subject of Continua- tion Schools prepared some valu- able statistics as to the attendance or non-attendance of the entire youthful population between the ages of eleven and twenty-one years. of age. Not only the above facts, but attendances at secondary schools, technical institutions, re- formatories and evening schools, were examined in order to arrive at a definite conception of the pro- portion of children and young peo- ple w'io are under instruction at various ages. All classes of child- ren were considered, and the stud- ents in secondary schools, of all sorts and classes estimated liberal- ly in order not to exaggerate the case as to non-attendance, DAY AND NIGHT SCHOOLS. In 1906-7 there were about, 891,000 children of 14 years of age. Of these, 155,682 attended day schools, and 92,368 attended evening schools, making a total attendance of 248,050, of 35.9 per cent. Thus, as many as 442,950 attended neither day school nor evening school. Ov- er 64 per cent, of our boys and girls aged 14 live done with edu- cation. At 15 years the proportion of children not school rises ' to nearly 77 per cent; at 16 it rises to nearly 82 per cent.; at 17 it rises again to nearly 87 per cent. The figures, bad as they are, would be much worse if the even- ing school scholars were omitted. Those who believe with me that the day is the best time to learn: should note that at 14 years of age only 22.5 per cent. of the child'pop- ulation of these islands is at school in the daytime. MANY NOMINAL SCHOLARS. If should be borne in niind that. the above figures in one important respect make the number of schol- ars appear better than they really are. I refer to the fact that partial exemption from school attendance affects a great many of the nomin- al "scholars," It is unfortunately within the power of the Lower Edu- cation Authorities to grant half time attendance fon dhildren be- tween 12 and 14 years of age. In areas containing over 58 per cent. of the population of England and Wales, partial exemption from school attendance is granted by ed- ucation authorities, We have not eventhe satisfaction of knowing that all children enumerated in ;the early lines of the table attend school full time, MOST SERIOUS NEED. Let ns clearly realize what the position is, Of our boys and girls at 14, 15 and l6 years of age, who number 2,022,000, three-fourths are released from discipline or serious training. The apprenticeship syr-' tem has largely disappeared, and, for an exceedingly large •proportion of those who .are withdrawn from school, employment is a matter of mechanical routine,; or worse. The u ,r 1 boyf r is st ails of natal into a 1 mealier- the boy sketchingalong with a 1. t over his arm, is un - "I n happily typieal of a very large num- ber of those who go to teaks/ up the uneducated 74 per Dent. of our youth. NOT SELF-CONTAINED, It would be bad enough if we were the only nation in the world. It would be sufficiently serious if we were a self-contained nation, to wham foreign progress or foreign competition meant nothing, But,. we are not the only nation in the world, and we are nob a self-con- tained nation. We are in stern competition with countries which realize that, while it is true that education cannot alter the quality 'cf a child's natural gifts, it can so develop what gifts it possesses as to raise it immeasurably above a ohilcl of similar capacity whose fac- ilities have been left dormant. TRICKY NA.'TIVII GUIDES. Some Dangers of Travel Through Tierra del Fuego. Travelling through Tierra del Fuego is not without its dangers, as witness the following story of Charles W..Furiong, in the Outing, as a mere incident of one day: "When in the field, 1i. is remark- able how keen and subconsciously sensitive the mind becomes to ev- ery sound and sight about one, doubly so to anything visual or otherwise not in attune with what seems to be the natural order of things. While my attention was fixed on the further opening of the narrows, I was not unmindful of every movementof the . Fuegians on the four thwarts in front of. me. The nearer ones blocked my view of those. forward. The first man scanned me closely, leaned carelessly to one side over the starboard gunwale,while the second lolled over to port. Before he had fully completed this action my rifle was in my hand, cocked and from my hip, pointing full at the breast of the third man, who sat amidships in the gap they had opened up, down which I looked at the barbed point of a heavy seal spear. His left hand lightly stead- ied the whalebone head, in their manner of throwing. But the man in front had moved a second too soon, for the weapon was poised in that l,reliminary position, but, thank Heaven, not drawn back. By way of subterfuge, he fared with the loose end of a piece of sinew about the, rpear head and shaft, as though to fix it. Then, slightly disconcerted, he put down the spear. It was too accessible for my peace of mind, and he was or- dered to stow it away under the thwarts." CARELESS AS TO HATS. Comparisons as to England's Em- inent Men's headgear. Speaking of hats an English writer says: It is astonishing holy careless many eminent men have been about their headgear. The great Duke of Wellington is credit- ed with wearing one hat until it was so bad that a tactful friend pervaded him to give it away to a servant. Some days afterwards, we are told, the Duke saw this same hat, newly ironed, on a chair in the hall, where the servant had at that moment placed it. "A nice hat that," observed the Duke. "Yes," replied the servant; "it's the one your Grace gave to tee. I've had it done up." "What did it cost you1" inquired the Duke. "One shilling," was the answer. "Here's half-a-crown; .I'll have it back," and Wellington is reported to have taken: it, and worn it again till his friends protested against its shabbiness. Perhaps the remaining most . re- markable historical comparison in hats is between the plain, steeple crowned, broad -brimmed hats of the Puritans and the-flat,.broad, feather -bedecked hats fashionable with the Cavaliers of Charles II. Nowadays the most striking fact about fashion in hats is that while our women vie with one another in carrying the largest artificial gar- den beds and beehives en their heads, our men are eager for the lightest and most easy fitting felts, The demand for a comfortable fit- ing felt has led to the invention of machinery that has numbered the days of the orthodox sizes -the 71-8 worn by the late Ring Edward, the 71-8 of Dickens and John Bright, the 7 3-8 of Mr. Gladstone and the enormous 8 1-2 of Daniel O'Conne.,, etc. SECRET OF THE ORANGE. Here is a wayto tell from the outside appearance of an orange how many pieces, there are within; Look at the stem end of an orange and you will find that there is a little wheel where the scar ii pulled away from the stem, with kl.okes that lead away: from _ the centre, Count the spaces between these spokes and you will know how many pieces the orange has. Your rroof M cagy; you have only to open the orange. TIIE ITALIAN OF IT, "The professor says that music owes a great deal to Rossini," said the young woman. "What's Ros- sini 1" "That," ea plied Mx, CUmrex, "is probably Italian for 'rosin,'" DO 3$1MPLY ASK FAR BAKING POWCOER, OCJT $PI ,CIFY 141 AND GET TOE l EN GI LL TT CO. LTD: TOFRRONTO—oNs- . , 9160sNNIPEG MONTREAL e A E CONSTABLE OF THE WORLD THE WORE OF JOHN HULL AS A POLICEMAN. Elis Life as Not a happy One, As He Gets Plenty of hicks and No Ha'pcnco. Good old .John Bullis the finest; policeman in the world. In fact, he unites he position of policeman and justice of the peace, though for neither office does he receive any reward, or make any profit in the majority of cases. On the contrary, the Continental Press from time to time have much to say regarding what they term his officiousness in interfering in other people's af- fairs, says Pearson's Weekly. Other of the Great Powers from time to time take a hand in polic- ing various unsettled and unruly territories, . but the greater por- tion of the work falls upon the broad shoulders of poor old John. John has recently, been released from one of his beats which he shar- ed with other Powers, this being his Cretan 'eat. The international garrisons have been withdrawn from the turbulent island of Crete, and thus Britain, France, Russia and Italy have gained a respite from their work there, which has occupied them continually for _the last ten years. CHASING LOCAL DE WETS. This one Tittle district is to be al- lowed to run on without foreign intervention. Ever since the time. of the Greco -Turkish War, when General Vassos was sent from Atli, ens and made a burlesque attempt upon the island, the blue -bagged gentry, who regard it as their home, have found, European diplo- macy constant employment. Not very farraway, in the same part of the world, lies another of John Bull's patrols, which he shares with Italy and France. In this case, however, the troops are found by Turkey, and the Powers of the entente merely supply cer- tain effacers. As it the case that the .Greek,. Servian, and Bulgarian Governments connive' at the form ation ..of "bands," who scour the country and terrorise the villages, it is not surprising that the ;Tom- mies of the Sultan under this Eu- ropean leadership have their work ut out in protecting districts and chasing local De Wets who are as slippery as. the .will-o'-the-wisp., The crowning act of insolence oc- curred when 'one of the British of- ficers, Colonel Elliott, was taken prisoner by some Bulgarian band- its; had it not been for the • devote ed bravery of his Turkish orderly, it might have fared 'ill with him. As it was, he was able to effect a wonderful escape the same night, shooting five brigands in six shots with his revolver: Britain and France a:gain share another "beat" along the frontier of Liberia, the queer little negro republic in West Africa, where the liberated• slaves were settled after the American war. They have prov- ed to be quitemnable to cope with the savage .tribes along'•thezr bor- ders with regard to gun -running and smuggling. • WHEN THE BOXERS ROSE, Bribery and corruption are the rule there, and not the exception. For instance, the Postmaster -Gen- eral has bean known to remove all the stamps from the letters before mailing them, At times, of course, the weari- some routine of patrolling and pol- icing is varied by real sharp fight- ing, ght ing. No better example of this could be found than in the Allied march upon Pekin when, after the Boxer risings, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, and .the United Status of America, fearing for the safety of their representa- tives, otganized epresentatives,.organized a joint expedition. They .bon9.lianted and destroyed the Take forts and, after 'heavy fighting, succeeded in relieving the foreigners, wlto had been besieged in the British Legation. In spite of the seares of a'Teu- tonic invasion, Germany and Brit- ain- organized a punitive expediton together through the wild and little known country where Nigeria: and the Oameroons border each other. Sharp fighting was experienced by the two columns, and a German badlyo was t lioutonan wundcd Fortunately, there are one ox -two places where the alscistanee of John Bull, • P.O.; is not required, and he is able to east his eye upon the work of other nations in quelling disorder, and compare• their success with his own, JOHN BULL IN EGYPT. In Morocco, for -instance; whieb is almost as fertile a source of gen- eral trouble as the Near East, France and Spain' have to share the joys and the labor. John's record beat, of course, is that in Egypt. When it became necessary to take steps to put down the lawlessness in that country, France also intended sharing `the beat. However, when the actual fighting took place, and there were heads to .be broken, John Bull found he had to de the work him. self. Therefore, since then, he has had Egypt under his personal super- vision, and to -day has restored the country to such a law-abiding and peaceful condition,that he has earn- ed the plaudits of even rival pol- icemen, He has earned his stripes. for it, though they carry no pay, and he has had to put up with a considerable number of hard knocks, &- A YEAsc :OF DREADNOUGHTS.. Brazil Will Launch the Most Pon*- crful Battleship. Thirty-six Dreadnoughts are due to be launched by, the world's navies during this year. That is, one Dreadnought every ten days. ii.ltogether,, seventy battleships and armored cruisers, with a total tonnage of a million and a half, and valued at. $700,000,000,, are now being built by the navies of the world, A. considerable number of these belong to Russia, which has been busily engaged for some time in: building herself a brand new navy to take the place of that destroyed by Japan in the last great war. She *ill launch four Dreadnoughts, as compared with Germany's seven, and two, each by France, Chili, Ar- gentina, and Japan. One each will be launched by Spain, Brazil, Italy and Austria. Britain will be easily first with at least eleven to her credit. Curiously enough, the most powerful battleship which the year will see launched will belong, not to any of the great Powers, bet to Brazil, whose one venture in this i.ne, the huge Rio de Jane- iro, will carry the record arma- ment of twelve 14.3 inch guns, as compared with the ten 14 ineh guns of the newest American battleship and Britain's ten 13.5 inch. CABS TO RUN DAY AND 'NIGH'T Traffic Will be Continuous in Lon- don at Coronniioin. For two days this summer—that of the Coronation and the clay after —London will be a wide-awake mod- ern pity, forinstead of all traffic and life disappearing from the streets after midnight, tubes, bus- ses and street cars will run day and night. At the close of the evening traf- fic .on June 21st the underground lines will shut down for an hours At 3 a.m., on June 22nd the trains will start again, and the service will continue without intermission until 3 o'clock the next morning, the trains being lengthened and ae- celerated, : On June 23rd the ser- vice will be continued until 2 o'clock in the morning, and again on the following Thursday,; when the State Precession takes place. In connection with the elaborate arrangements made for the protec- tion of Westminster Abbey from fire during the `Coronation period, a party of firemen have just made a tour of inspection, The 31 hy- drants in the building—all connect- ed with a huge tank in one of the towers—were tested and found in perfect order. Special telephones, m_neeeted with the nearest fire sta- tions, havebeen installed. While the Coronation ceremony is proceeding special firemen will be placed at fixed ,points in all parts of the building, each being within reach of an electrical fare alarm signal attached to the .egu- lar fire alarm pedestal on the ground floor. '`' A HINT. He—"Doou think that oui7 fa- ther would offer me you ersonal via- knee i ,- lonee if I wore to ask frim f1" 4 ,she—"No, hut I think he will if you don't pretty soon.' >S',t' ,ANtr,11315. Japarlose Institutions .'17tat Clalntu Prc-wtdneneo far Odcliby. Japan• possesses two of the od- dest farms in the world. From one there goes out each year a crop of tens of thousands oI snapping the - ties. This farm has solved the; problem of preserving the supply of what is to the Japanese as great. a delioaoy as diamond back terra- pin is to some Americans: This queer farm consists of a. number of ponds. Certain of them, are sot apart as breeding ponds, Once a day a man goes over the shores and with little wire baskets covers up all new egg deposits. Sometimes thousands of these wire. baskets `are in sight at a time, marking the plass where the eggs. lie and preventing the turtles from scratching the earth from them. Batching requires from 40 to 60' days, according to the weather. The young, as soon as they appear, are put in separate small ponds' and are fed finely chopped fish, They eat this during September and October and late in October- burrow in the mud for the winter, coming on in April or May. Most. of them are sold in the market. when they are from three to five years me, at which time they are• most delicate. The island empire also ea/stains. a pearl oyster farm. In the Bay,of Ago there has been established a. plantationfrom which a rich har- vest is obtained. In May or June stones weighing from six to eight. pounds are sunk in shallow water, and in August the tiny shells be- gin to appear on them. Here the. stones remain for two months; but, since the younger oysters cannot. stand cold, in November all rocks. in less than five feet of water area moved farther out, where the tem- perature is more even. At the end. of three years,, when the shells are. about two inches across, they aree taken from the water, nuclei for pearls aro inserted in them, and theybottom, are put back again, thirty of them to every six 'square feet of They are left there four years. Then, being seven and one-half years old, they are removed and. searched for pearls. The harvest of artificial or "culture pearls is. very large, but, unfortunately, these are only little more than half pearls, for although large,, lus- trous, and of fine quality, they:are fiat on one side. This farm has an additional: source of income in the natural pearls that its oysters pro- duce, for there is not lacking in them the usual proportion of per- fect gems to be found among oys- sters of this variety. - Harper's Weekly. 0 DEATH OF "PELORUS JACK." Famous New Zealand Pilot Dolphin Victim of Sharks. Everybody who has sailed up the sound into the harbor of Welling, ton, New Zealand, will hear with re- gret of the death of "Pelorns Jock," This famous dolphin has for years acted as the .pilot of ships, and his loss will be deplored, not .. only by New Zealanders, but by travellers. "Pelorus Jack" had the distinction of being the only fish pro- tected by special: act of Parliament. But the sharks have no respect for legislation, for the dolphin was their victim, A correspondent writes: "When the Ring, who was then the Duke of York, r, as making his last visit to New Zealand I was one of the com- pany. As we approached Welling- ton we were told by the sailors that our warship would be met in the sound by an extraordinary pilot in the shape of a dolphin. We "treated the story as a sailor's yarn, but, sure enough, when we entered the sound there was the famous fish (which must have been about ten feet long) speeding before us and showingus the way. It is doe to `Polorus Jack' to say that he was nor•, tempted from .has duties' altr pilot by food thrown overboard,' He teak his business seriously,and not until we were at anchor did he give any heed to the hospitality of the crew_." NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION English Papers Advoeato. Use of Ammoniated Gases, Some of the English papers re- cently„announced the accidental discovery of what appeared to be a cure of consumption by means of the ammoniated; gases generated in the production of maggots for fish bait in an establishment near Brad- ford. The United States Consul at Bradford, in a report to Washing-,, ton, says:"While engaged in this ' work, it is said certain persons known to be suffering from tuber- culosis have regained their health, While somelocal' medical men ra- ther ridicule the idea, others do net: One physician is reported to have saidthat the Dire is by no means impossible and should be inveeti- gated, He adds; 'Ammonia has a very beneficial effect upon some of the processes of life. It is just possible that it maiv destroy the tubercle bacilli. Ili is by 00 neaps utterly ridienlous, although I' .will not commit myself to it at pveseut, I think we are Inca toput e o f trio t p ,zi.do remedies discovered by the laity as of no value.'"