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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-12-28, Page 66 TEE BRUSSELS POST. rt, .-tl- p -m-t .4 Young Folks. 4—e-4-4-4.-4 _4e -e®-.0-•45 GRANDMA DE'1'EI1tONED. I don't know what sonic fellers mean By Makin' such a spread, Abouttheir grau'lue's Christmas . A been' way ahead, Of anything their ma's van make - Am I a goln' to gran'ma's This Christmas -time? Noi Much. Fur graneua says plum puddin' Isn't good fur boys like me; That pumpkin pie, an' wince pie, Are thiugs that don't agree. An' If 1 touch an apple or . a nut elm 10073 I will Be laid up with the collo An' have to take a pi11. An' gran'pa says, "Now, sonny, Here's a back for you to pick; It's the nicest piece amongst 'em. When I'se a little chick Not bigger much than you be My ole dad said, sass 'e, A turkey back was made fur A little kid like me." So while I gnawed an' picked away At meatless bones a score; A gettin' grease upon my face, An' gravy on the floor. A doubin' up the table -cloth, An' hopin' eo one stew, 'They gobbled all tbe turkey up As fast as tbey could chew. But, Diok, We weu'e all in the dark Um light till the Christ mine. O l o. 130 of the world. And ever slum his own - Ing the Christmas lights have been burning-tbe lights of tatLh, love, joy and hone,,' This, and more the lassie said, while Diok listened as an exile might eag- erly give ear to tidings tram a distant shore and either°. And then Dtek's visitor, handing him a toy bank, said "The money in this is for you, dear boy, to get yourself something Mee for Ohristmas. It's a little present from the Christ. I hope you will en- joy itt" Dick awkwardly murmured his thanks, half -dazed by such kindness. He had never been called ' dear" ex- cept by the deaf aunt who took care of him, who hail several timet/ intim ated that he was a charge rather dear to keep. Tho money La the bank, happened to Amount to $1,80, the =a- le= of a sum that the lassie had been saving toward a new bonnet, since the one she had was decidedly weather worn. But she did not tell Dick that. Dick made a mental note of all the things he would like to got. But then -he thought of that great gen Strange dreams of the Judean hills and of the nut -reaching in blessing of Christ:ly hand afterwards pierced on the cross came to him. The result was that Dick formed some very definite liana. Ile commissioned Bat Jenkins to make some purchases for him. Christmas eve came. A. little cora- Pliny assembled 011 invitation in Dick's 11111nble lodgings. Mrs. O'Grady was there, and Bill and little Townie -ad from the floor below, and a day la b - who sometimes waved his hand to Dick from the sidewalk, and Dick's deaf aunt. A wee tree which had cost nine cents at the grocer's stood in the window, with a number of can- dles attached thereto. Near by were mysterious packages. There was amop Mr Mrs. O'Grady, Dirk meant it for it hint, and a cap for the day labor- er, and a rocker for the old aunt, and a pair of gloves 'Dick had made Bill get for himself, and some toys for " Tow - else' But where is your Christmas?" they all exclaimed to Dick. " Mine is the Christmas lights I" oiled Dick, gleefully, feasting bis eyes HIMS DE R BANDITS An' eo I'll be content, 1 guess, To stay at home this year. An' eat along 'ith uta and pa, 14Iy share, o' Christmas cheer. Fur ma says puddin's good fur boys, An' pie won't make 'em sick; An' �� as madedon't furteve hoye totpickkey heel o DICKS CHRISTMAS LIGIIT,. Christmas was at hand. The stores In the fashionable shopping quarters of the big city, with their gorgeous show windows, furnished abundant evidence of, the fact. In the poorer EXTRAORDINARY CASE BEFORE THE NIGH COURT AT MADRAS, Deem:, Not tufa taw Fourteen Velme- nt/1y a Lauer Dalli,aeta at luta with Getab siege. The story ot an extraordinary daco- Ity was unfolded in appeal before the High Court at Madras recently. Four persona had been sentenced at Mora- dabad to tau years' rigorous imprison - anent for daeoity at the house of one Golab Singh, a money -lender. The ap- pellants were: elajidullab, Lance -Def - fader in the Eighth Bengal Cavalry; lfamirud-din, deseethed as a trader of Bareilly, but known only as a dueoet; Zemin Shah, soldier in the Rampur State Cavalry; Mahe -rued Batik, Ram - mer State Artillery. The principal evil- ness was Aziz Mahomed 11ban, Lanoe- Duffadar, and Orderly to the Colonel of the Eighth Bengal Cavalry, who look part in the daeoty, and gave his evidence as an approver, after re- ceiving a pardon. The residence of Golub Singh is at Sarni Turin, two and one-half miles from Sambhal, Moradabad District, and it was here the daeoity took place. Golab Singh has a money -lending business, and had a bond against the mother and sister of 11Tajidullab. About fourteen years ago he sued on tills bond, and obtained a decree, and about four years ago he managed to get the property of those ladies sold up; it being purchased by his, Golab Singh's wife. They never obtained pos- session of the property, because when- ever Cotab Singh mentioned the mat- ter .,I;tjidullah threatened to kill him, Golab Singh also obtained decrees against two male relations of Maji- dullah. In execution of these decrees he caused their property to be put up for sale on September 20, 1868. On that day, however, rupees 1,175 was paid to him on account of ,he debtors, and the sale was put off. The same day, Golab Singh being then at the place where the sale was to have been held, received a telegram saying hie house had been robbed. RESTED ON CONFESSION. At this point the story is taken up by the approver, Aziz Mahomed Shan, upon whose confession the case mainly rested. He was first approached by elajidullab about six weeks before the occurrence. Majidullah told him that Golab Seigh had ruined him, and =kid him to assist in killing Gulab. After some demur he consented, and sums de- tails having been arranged he obtain- ed several days' leave and went to his hums. However, for some reason or other the daeoity dldnot come off then, and at the end of his leave Ariz returned to his regiment. Then fresh arrangement a were made, and Ma ji dui - lab told Aziz that a few! clays before the dimity' took place he would ar- range to have a telegram sent to Aziz purporting to Dome from his brother, Ghausi: Mahomed Khan,a thanadar to the effect that his Aziz's house had been robbed. This he could show to the, Colonel and so get leave. This arrangement was carried out. Aziz got n telegram from Rampur i.o the effect that thieves had broken into his sixty amperes, a new outlet if ie finds 1 hat the tree and,k' h' to come at once Whit concentrating the rays it le districts of the city Christmas did not on the tallow tips. seem quite so much a prospeot, as, for' mare one to long ngive tago staid, "It 1s example, in Pius Alley, which wast l g Flay Dick heard this? At any rate, not very distant from the bazaars, yet i he felt the truth of it in his heart few of the gay crowds ever troubled: that night. In the height of the fes - themselves to visit its diugy confines.)tilitywanted itto buy sed quietly ie EoroDlek. At Indeed, the calling list of the alley the door below he ran across some Sal - might be said to be confined to the 1 vationists who were passing. One of rent et>llectur, the sanitary inspector,i them was the lassie. She recognized the city missionary, a Salvation Army, Bill, and looking up to the third story lassie, the fire engine, Po11ca van, and 1 window, asked: What are those candles in the ambulance. Policemen were frequent! window f" sights in that congested miniature! e 011, those are Dick's Christmas B then Ile world, which seemed to lie in an un- lights." s,„anarnare DIBtk lhadndspent his usual amount of wickedness. Now, as Cripple .Dick, who lived, or a!t least existed, in the tilled story front room of the dilapidated build- ing wheal formed one side of the al- ley, was unable to feast his eyes, on the displays in the shop windows, he to account for the possession of money, The man, however, had only 120 rupees, •n another • r from a and borrowed 61npPcs man, and the man who lent the five rupees was brought as a witness u0 to a bona -fide transaction having taken place. The sessit>na judge, however, brushed all these alibis aside, convict- ed all four men, and sentenced them to ten years' rigorous linprlsonment, a sentence 00W confirmed by the high Court, , money. " said the lassie. "I wish I could get him something for his gen- erous little self. Perhaps I clan in the morning. Good -night 1” " Good -night," answered Bill, as he ran off. By the neat morning the lassie had took it out In welching the =molten- t Dm de Asuthe ivCn derful s packagchimee rung eons sighs just inferred to, we" out on the frosty air, she went to missioners passed, or hoodlums were plug Alley, full of the pleasurenble ex - arrested. Dick had never seen any citemmnt of surprisinn G in aha night such specimen of gorgeous tophamper Dicksometthingas hadtha a He lad gone al a full-rigged hat of the fashionable be- yond the patch of sky which lightened style but he respectfully admired the over the housetop yonder, Only his bonnets of the Salvationists. Dick of- ten wondered wily the Salvationists still and crippled form was left. He lead smiled as he went, so the heaven - d at looked so happy when they worked so in welcome. beacons uDon't st verg" e b1azeexclaim d lard and had so little. Dick was a the lassie to tbe old aunt. But as she good judge of hard things,temfor ho, had said this,'the tears ran down her own been painful to them all his life cheeks. Yet it wrien't time for tears, of eight Painful gears, Like iYlepheard but for hallelujahs! Dick had gone beth, of whom he had never heard from a dark world where the Christ - he had been dropped when n child and mas lights are sometimes lit to one so (rippled for life; but unlike Meptia where the Christmas lights are always bosheth, his fall was nut due to the burning. fright of a nurse, but to the brutal- ity of his drunken father, who in a THE LARGEST HEAD. fit of raga had knocked him from his lir. Juma)s Menut, of Now York, who weak mother's arms on the hard floor. Orphaned Dick's world ever since had to 38 years of age, has the largest head ,1, o been Plug Alley. He knew t was a bigger world about, him, but judging from the representatives of iC he had seen, that world had no con- about 112 inches in circumference. cern with the denizens of Plug Alley hlenut's head measures 511-8 inebes, ease to lecture, arrest or fumigate 1 t and a half times as them. One day, however, Dick had learn- 4 1 eel the secret of the hu,ppy-hearted- Pees of the Salvationists. One of them, a sweet-faced young lassie, who Dick was 81110 must be a lady, found the maimed boy out, and tuld him some things he had never heard before, speaking to him of the Lord Christ. as though he were some one who was very lovely and very near, who once was bruised and maimed in a more cruel way than .Dick bad been, yet through no fault of his own, but for Women are beginning to succeed. as the cin of men. Dick had Dried that designers, and it is gratifying to day, trona thought of that Other's Ivan that the chief prize given by WOO. playing card makers have been this The lassie visited Dick again, just year won by women. One, would. im m - before Christmas. " Do you know what agine designing, \vtiLla its ebarially roof Christnxas means?" she asked. "Sort delicacy and fancy, of 1" said Dick. " It means that the genial employment for women, and yet grocer down at the corner tries to hitherto they have been left far he - sell greene that ain't no good for hind by the male designers, both in cookie' and that the eaves down at originality and accuracy of expression, 1.1m five Pints hats a bang-up dinner It is to he emp011! that, thanks to the " art training and the care heslowe.d on the decoration of houses and furniture at the present day, a new generation of skillful artif;rers and designers may spring up among women. of any human being. He \was recently admitted into Bellevue Hospital. The bead of the normal man measures a NEW CURE FOR BALDNESS, 11r, rumen. or eopenhngen leen the Rens eteye-lth'elrle Light la .Rine utilized, Light rays have been used to cure baldness and various other skin dis- eases by Dr. Finsen, of Copenhagen, who describes his discovery in the British Medical Journal. The article be an evangel of good cheer to the seanty-thatched. Certain bacteria are blamed for the early fall of the ,hair. Dr. Finsen uses for their destruction the actinic rays of blue and violet light, which he Calle " bactericidal rays." Beginning bis experiments wills the baoterius prodigiusus, Dr, Pineau spread a sterilized preparation of glue in which they were growing between two plates of glass, making "a plate culture," and exposed it to sunlight, In an hour and a hale all were dead, Dr. Finsen might have coneludd that the way to cure baldness -0r to Prevent it -is to go Dare -headed in the sunshine, and this is true enough. But it is too slow. Going bare -healed all one's life from childhood isn't Leas- ib1e, Having found that the blue and vku- let rays were the ones thus do the work, Dr. Finsen found means not only of sorting out the blue and violet rays, but of making them powerful enough to penetrate beneath the surface uf the skin. This matter was determin- ed by experiments with dogs and cats beneath whose skins were in- serted sealed glass tubes filled with muriate of silver. Some of the animals were then placed in darkness, while others were exposed to sunlight, When the tubes were removed the solution wee found to have turned black in the latter cedes end to have remain- ed unaltered in the former. 11 was thus proved that the chemical rays made their way through THE HIDE'S Ol' TILL BLASTS, It has also been demonstrated by to Dr. Finsen that these rays Panetta more easily' through the bloodless tes- sueS than through those that have blood in them. Iles was shown by placing sensitized griper behind a man's ear ane projecting blue and vie - let rays against the flap from the out- side. Alter five minutes the paper was not affected: but when the ear was Pressed between tee e�.:.ss plates Lo drive the blood out of it, the paper was affected in twenty seconds. A few seconds of exposure to this sifted sunshine suffices to kill the hardiest disease germs. It is not. ne- cessary to use sun's rays, however, for Dr. Finsen bus found that electrio light is efficient. Indeed, it is peeler - able to winter sunlight: During that season or on cloudy days it is cLesir- able to employ aro temps of fifty to MINTS Frt�R '6 3 I II3F�R a�G2. T� MULTIPLYING POTATOES. If all but a very few of the mita- ems in the world were destroyed, (Ins valuable vegetable could be made as abundant as ever hi two years, or three al furthest, says a writer. It le possible to ware from a single po- tato wevernl hundred sots during the season, if the sprouts are broken off as fast as they put out roots and the tubers are again planted iu the Buil, It. is necessary to begin early In the season, and with a hotbed to make tbo most from a single potato. When the Early Rote poisLo was first intro- duced, each tuber was worth a dol- lar. Most farmers cut them to single eyes, and by giving the crop the beet of care they eacuredt half a bushel or more from a single tuber having 10 or 12 eyes. .But ileum who need hot- houses secured several crops of sprouts from each eye, for when the first and second sprouts are removed a third set, starta from the same Iul>er, All of these were planted and as the pota- to was not crowded by many sprouts In the same hill there were no small potatoes. This growing of the sed Pram the single eyes may have been one reason wily the Early Roso when first brought out was much more peo- duotave than it has ever been since. Most new potatoes are grown from sinlgle eyes 1011011 first introduced. Tete makes most from the seed. and it also gives each plant the best chance, Mr. Terry of Ohio. a noted potato grower, always cuts his potatoes t0 single eyes. IIe gets large crops by planting in drills, giving about fifteen inches space between the plants m the rows. As he does this every year he gets then best quality potato seed and maim single eye planting prutitable. We tried r,ingle eye planting one year' on a part of the crop, but the yield was not nearly so Largo as where the potato was cut to two or three eyes. It was a bad year for potatoes any way, as a long d ry spell mane. 0n just when the crop was forming, The pota- toes planted whole gam that yens the largest yield, Including the small ones, but of marketable size those cut to ttwu or three oyes yiolcled most, believe that if we had continued planting single ryes Dom the plat which were thus grown, That plan might have proven as suocossful as it did ie 2,1r. Terry's practice. But a better plan -'111 would be to plant enough potatoes cut to single eyes to grow what are wanted for seed, and them for main crop plant sets with two, three or more eyes, as is generally done. As potatoes are usually grown, many of the eyes have nut 011111it3• enough to grow, even when the pota- to es planted whole. A few of the shoots start, and these take so much of the subslanee of the potato that all the other buds renlam dormant, There are some dormant ends under what appear on the surface and these will grow, if all the eyes are dug out, as has oaten beau proved, It is na- ture's protest against exterminating any vegetable product, mueh like the sprouting from the truuk of a tree that is chopped down In winter, when spring warms the soib and starts the roots te. sending up sap, which makes the slle.k strikes the ground and pre - verde R. ie' (1 Ulan P water, t 3 ) e soil f l 1 ewtt N Lu n t 4 finest 11 u re- ! An) c raising '1 11 lH l+aH+,Lei-.11 (] 1• 6 SS, the race) 0:morlally, '+ncl all kinds of prize stud,: are brought to the very highest perl'ec3luti ui, limestone anile, 11 maw or, not eh re tee bree1lr;gi at' ed, But it 117 ere eo mueh Ilse lime in the soil us in the water which 1 boy drink, MOST COSTLY THIMBLE, Think of it, a thimble which costs. eixly-five thousand dollars in our money I And think of tt husband who presents his wife with eueh an anniveratlry present This is what the King of .ahem diff upon the lust anni- versary of his marriage. Tho thimble Is of gold, enriched with diamonds and preoious states. It is shaped like a par- tially opened iotas flower, each petal bearing the interlaced initials of the sovereign nud his wife in amethysts, rubies, emeralds or topazes. Around the tiro of the thimble can be read the date of 'he marriage, according to the Siamese and European calcine flare, each number and each letter be- ing of alternate diamonds and pearls, The thimble was designed by the queen hereolf, and was made by a pro- minent Parisian jeweller, IDEC, t28, 1$9 DAN1NB FROM PLATE, E, MODERN SANIIAiIY PRECAUTIONS PRECLUDE ITS SPREAD.. A ltebde•,r of 14', IUltaae,--.Rppra1auc0 of Two 7tanrn of th7 Plague ei New Fork 7A,rtrer eaters Anxiety tat Atncrlel. Tho apeetu'anee of two 0aa80 of bubonic plague upon the steamahlp T. 11. Tccylot', now quarantined in New! York harbor, hes caused grave appro.. benslon. The merest shadow of ad dread mid terrible avisitant is auffiol- ent to cause a shudder of dismay, for, Mere le no doubt that the ""bluold death" i• , , ekiug its appearance in spul5 where it has beau unknown for many years, or whore 11 has never been known before. 1La recent lip, poarenoes in Portugal have put all 010111ed! nations on the alert, nodi any ship coming from any port where (be' shadow of the "black death" Ilea le subjectei to the must rigid inepece lion. In this country, indeed, we have less ' reason to fear the plague Ulan have the Eutopcan countries, for, beside.e at' e.1ceilout quarantine system, we have the advoltage of e. dlstanoe so great that the maximum period of incuba- tion for the microbe -seven 0r eight days - would be passed before the en., feared ship re:gibed here. t HISTORY OF TUE PLAGUE, The question bas uevor been definite- ly settled as to the date at which 'the first outbreak of the plague ocotrrredl but tho first auLhentiu description of the bubonio plague is to be found in the writings of Rufus of Jfpheeus, who deaoribod the disease as having existed ENGLISH TEA. we look to' England for the perfec- tion of tea. The tett kettle is us much an English institution as aristooracy or the prayer book, and when one wants to ]snow exactly how ten should be merle one bas only to' ask how a fire old English housekeeper mattes it. Tha first article of. her faith is that the water meet not merely be hot, not merely have boiled a few momenta sauce, but be actually boiling at the moment it touches the ten. Tea mak- ing belongs to the drawing -room, and high-born ladies presidel aat "the nd she bub- bling and loud. hissing," all due rites. and solemnities are pro- s ere hot,yandrth;tiniothelat the infus d telt waits the exao1 time before the libations 00mnte008. house, asking him 1 0 ooncen rat i it fact has clieappeared. It purported to be sent by His bro- necessary to cool the light to avoid Not nearly enough care is taken in ther, (Amuse Ma�omed ]than. He tookburning the patient. This object es at- the selaetica of potato seed. No me it tc, the Colonel, and so got three days leave. A band of eight men eventually reached Sambhal, three of thein have not yet been caught. They were all tailed, where sun rays are employed, tatoes from hills whose renege has by passing them through a hollow been injured by potato larva or by glass lens a foot in diameter filled blight should be used. 13ul where po- w3th a bright blue solution of 0013per tatoes grow crowded in, bilis it is not possi131e to develop each sober so tbat all ifs eyes will certainly grow. Since the advent of the potato beetle, where - ever potatoes are grown there are =my missed hills if. the seed is cut smell. It the potato Is planted whole loo many shoats will grow and the hill will be filled with potatnev, all small, armed to the teeth, and four were sulphate. The liquid shuts off the hot red and yellow rays, and lets the blue dressed in uniform-Majidullah and and violet go tbrougb. At the same Eighth in the uniform of the time, the lens being con 'ex, these Eighth B. C. They went to Goleta chemical rays are brought to a fo- Singh's house, and to some extent ill- cos treated the women, though none of When electricity is utilized, a brass them were seriously hurt. Finding Golab Singh absent, they looted t:he place and took away large quantities tube containing two lances 0f quartz crystal is merle to 'serve. Between the and likely it planted whole to grow or nearly so ' n lenses is distilled water, which keeps s,nall potatoes again. 1f the potato mueh as the average mas(uline head. of cash and valuables. Golab Singh out most of the heat rays, wide/quartz is eaoh year cut for seed to single eyes, Menut is a dwarf, feetincl in stated his loss at nearly rupees 14,060, orystal is m01'0 permeable by the the small potes atoif well ripened and height. The circumference of his I Crackers and arms were let off to chemical rays of light than glass is. from hills with good foliage, make as lend is more than 2 inches granter frighten people, but the arms were notgond seed as do the large. It is the than lis extrema height. From his used against any one. .1. polternlnn At the same time cold. water is par -milted to flow round the end of the waist tip he. is proportioned on gigantic',sent from the municipal outpost about characteristic of the p0•tnt to grow ha: g a breadth of shoulder and )aces away to see what was the instrument which is applied to' the, large tubers. 11 one individual tubae linos, h € 160 I Y patient's skin to keep it tram being bn that hill is small it is ,getter than a depth of chest greater than ;Jeffries, matter was threatened: and event burned. planting from a large potato that was the champion pugilist ; but his legs am away. Ho went elf to the thane Thus it mhy be seen that the Len - grotesquely short and very thin. at Sambhal and laid information of the only :marketable tuber ❑x the hill. —.y_- what: watt going on, and an officer was deny of bald men to get down en the seat from the thnna, but when: he ar- front seats at the theatre, where 1'AR&1 TOPICS. DESIGNING, rived the dltceits had decamped, They strong electric, lights beat down up- went. across country to Chanduusi, on their heretic, is dictated by a correct On the Pacifies coast i; has been 1 they put up at a room la the instinct, 'rho light from ab�umonds slows that onions min he keel from HOW TO eLeKE 000D BUTTER, I have read mucic about miktng but- ter for both the home and foreign trade, writes II. C. Experiment Ma- tinee have been trying to teach cream- eries how to snake sweet butter, but they had bettor go bank to the farm- ers and teach them haw to produce sweet, clean milk free from foreign odors. As soon as the' in - IS drawn it should be removed from the stable, strained through canton Gannet, tine given a good Hiring. Coot it TO near- ly freezeng point, if possible. This will fireman! all impurities so that the mnkrug of meet butler ispossible, For my port I prefer Jersey cows, as they give richer ni5'k and more highly color- ed cream. My wife makes gilt-edged butter without any coloring whatever, and can gel 30e a 1b. for 1t, while the creamery in receiving only 15o. She makes exactly what the tease calls for. for 01171 in awhile. And I've heard he added refeatively, " from Bill Jen- kins toot hat/ a news-stand " Dick spoke the words with great respeot, "that ether coves wot lives on the avenues has big game that day in the way of presents 1" Dick looked wistfully out of thewin- daw as he spoke at the bit of smoke - blurred sky that lightened dimly above the: cl0the8••11ne on the roof of the house opposite. Dick always sup- posed that if he ever went to heav- en his soul would somehow have to pane by those clothes -lines, and run the gauntlet of the shirts and socks of the day laborers whose washing 11frs. O'Grady did "for a cnnsidera- tion," but probably, if the truth were known, without mach consideration. " Oh, DIA," replied the Is,seio, "Christinae Is mare than that. The first Christmas was when 1 he dear Lord came to earth and lay as a little child in a rough stable yard in teeth- lehem, as the great Gif wthich cannot. be told, out in all ate preciousness. And ever sine people have been giving their little gifts one to another ea tiny copies of hie great sa0rifi08, ale carne t0 tiring light to those who sit in darkneete--" "Like nae 1" interpolated Diek. " Yes," •pard the lattel4. " llko 3011. SOCIAL GRAVITA'r1oN. Returned Tourist -What became of that fool, Saphead, who uad more money that he knew what to do with? Buenie55 Man -I don't rememb•r him, Was he murk of a woe Perfectly idiot le. 1 presume he has 'ieepeecl in" 7100iety, EGYPTIAN PERIODICALS, Egypt is not so poorly supplied with periodical literature es is commonly assumed. There are about 100 period!.-, oats altogether. I!'ifty-two are political of whirit( 3e ere printed, in Arable and 22 in ]•]uropean languages. n t}pals aro fatal to lave and bring diecord 10 giver and receiver. ,In 1877 England annexed the Trans - 0001 and evacuated it in 1881. The potato disease threatens to be serious in Ireland this s°asou. where the iwinkleng o the scars i serai, 031,1 there divided 118 Speeds, sprouting if placed in ,,old storage. Curiously enough, m the next room to them at the semi were a ibanader and a bey. but the police officer knew no- thing of what was going on next door. S1/RAI KEEPERS" ACT. After tbo men had left the serai the sera' keeper went anti gave informn- to the police., They were too htto toratch the deceits atChandausi hfa- jiduilah was tracked to Allgath, and there arrested, with money and valu- ables subsequently identified in his possession, l4nmruddin and Azle part- ed, and the latter having hidden his share of the spoil, returned to his regi- ment and lay low. Then t{amruddin was arrested, and money and valuables were found in his possession. From what these, two men said the house of Zemin Shah was searched, and this search. was the undoing of Aziz. For he; had lent his have,rsaclt to Zemin, Shah to emery home his share of the Maty' and among thepropeoty found in Zamtn's hetes 071(5 the haversack, which contained the telegram 1n Aziz on the strength of which he had obtained leave.. Ile had not hitherto been suspected, but, being arrested, he elected to become approver, and took the puttee. to the pLu•e where his share of the booty was hidden. All the men attempted Lo prove ali- bis, me of the Itempnn men by means of palpably forged ev1dnnee in the re- gimhetal calendar showing him on pa- rade at certain time. Mnjidnllah's alibi was meat elaborate and Ret,1stie, Hnhad been in quite another dirt/Mimi to try ami arrange for his transfer to another regi'menl. On his way back he mot a man who gave him 125 rupees to buy a caster 220171 the regiment• -this are alike good for them. Dr. Finsen has also sucnessfully treated many aeries of lupus, u fright- ful diemam, which eats away the fete of its victim, THE BUSY BEE. worm, leer !light !lour. 17 nay and 3inl,es &nnowor,lble .tourneys Darwin, after °lose observation, found that a bee would often visit as many as '27 flowers in the course of a minute, though with other plants in which the honey was diffioull to ex- tract, the average would be as low as seven. Striking e. ween between these two figaree, one may say that an ordinary working bee visits 15 flow- ers a minute, or 003 an hour„ Consid- ering the late hours to wbiolr a bee works, 1L is probably no exaggeration to say that it is busy for Bight hours a day, allowing for Intervale of rest, This would make it visit 7,200 flowers a day, or 018,000 in a period of slx tnon3he, Mr, A, S. Wilson, Int a recent paper, =owed the enormous amount of labor goal through by bees in making even a small quantity of honey. Ole found that approximately 125 headed red clover yield 16 grains of sugar, or 126,000 heads about two pounds. As easb head contains 80me 00 florets, 11 follows that 7,600,000 di8t1not flower - tubes roust be ducked In order to ob. Lain two poands of sugar. Now, honey contains, roughly speaki»gg, 76 per eent of =gar, therefore the bees must make, in round numbers, 2,500,- 000 visits for one, pound at.. houey. The bulbs are kept for rimiest any length of time in fine condition. 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