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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-9-19, Page 3s. 11®1 0 OLP CHOICE RECIPES, Orange Iiarmalaule,--'Soak the skills of six oranges, cut into shreds overnight in three and a half cups of water. Save' the water ancl in the Morning add two and rote -half cups of strained and sweetened ap- ple :sauce, one cup of water, six tablespoonfuls of white vinegar, and four cups of granulated sugar. Bail steadily for two hours. Ib is .good, Uncooked Candy Fondant. — Here is a French fondant which re- quires no cooking : Beat the white of an egg very lightly after mixing it with its own bulk of cold water and adding the least suspicion of Balt. Work into it about a pound of confectioner's sugar ; use a little more if not stiff enough to handle well, but beware of gebting it too stiff. Dip your hands in sugar,,and shape the mixture into balls,'ifter flavoring it to taste. Roll the balls in dry sugar and set on-asugared plate to harden, Nuts or fruit can be put in the middle of the balls, which can be also either rolled in grated chocolate or dipped in that which is incited. Either way these and many other candies, even simp- ler, will prove helps to health. When Cooking Meat.—In broil- ing steak or chops, the fire some- times dies down too quickly. When this happens sprinkle a little granu- lated sugar over the coals, This intensifies the coals and the smoke from the sugar will impart to the meat a delicious flavor. When the roast is small, it is best to start it on top of the stove. Heat the pan very hot, put the roast in, and turn it frequently, as you would if pan- ning a steak. The quick searing holds the juices in. When it is thoroughly brown all over, place it in a hot oven to finish. Bacon will bo much sweeter in flavor if it is covered with boiling water and al' - lowed to stand on the back part of the stove for about five minutes. It should then be taken out of the water and laid an a cloth to dry before broiling. Beef Stew with Dumplings.—Take one and one-half pounds of beef, wipe with pieces of wet cheesecloth; cut into two-inch pieces; put on in three quarts of boiling water, add two tablespoonsful of cut onion and boil slowly ties hours; add one tablespoonful of salt and one-quar- ter teaspoonful of white pepper, then add the dumplings and boil, • with a cover, for 10 minutes, with- out removing the cover. Lift out the dumplings and put around the edge of the platter, which has been heated. Put the meat in the cen- tre of the platter; mix one table- epoonful of flour with a little cold water until smooth and acid to the gravy, pour over meat and sprinkle with one tablespoonful of chopped pastry. To make the dumplings, sift one cup of flour, one toaspoon- fol of baking powder and one-half teaspoonful of salt into bowl. Rub in very lightly one teaspoonful of shortening, add enough cold milk to. hold together,; take a piece the size of an English walnut, roll in floured hands. This amount makes twelve dumplings. Stewed Fish.—Two pounds . of firm fish that will not fall to pieces under long continued boiling. Out into two anda half or three inch Bikes, cover with salt, and leave it thus for one hour. Then wash thoroughly and arrange the slices neatly in a broad 'bottomed pot— so•as not to have them overlap one another. Now cover the fish with two large onions (sliced), two car- rots cut into slices a quarter, of an inch thick, two bay leaves, three whole allspice,: two teaspoonfuls• of salt and one of black pepper. four into the pot carefully, so; es not to disturb the' order of the contents, two quarts of coil water. Let ib tome slowly to the boil and sim- mer gently for nearly four hours or until the at has beiled down to 'ono quart. 'The advantage of the slow boil is that it retains all of the flavor of the fish. Do not stir while the cooking goes on. When the fish is done take up with- out breaking the slices, lifting the vegetables carefully and disposing them between the sliced fish, and lay upon a broad platter. Have a border of minced parsley and pour over all the liquor from the pot. Let4t cool and set in the ice for three or four hours. • If properly cooked the,' fish, vegetables, and soup will be a solid jelly. It tastes better when prepared the day be- fore it is .eaten. WAYS TO MAKE CELERY SOUP. There are any number of varia- tions on the subject, of cream of celery soup, and there are many .soups in which the celery has with It a dingle other vegetable, lilco beans or potato, or it may have with it many other vegetables. In almost any ease where milk instead of a meat stock is added a white dance is the thing that gives the soup body and food value. Cream of Celery and Potato Soup --Peel three small potatoes, out up fine one head of celery, add a slice of onion and cover with a pint of boiling water. ("uuk until the potatoes inc tender. Prepare the white sauce in a double butler. Press the cooked vegetables through a sieve and add thorn to the white sauce, cook a moment, season to taste and serve, 'Celery fioup.—One cup of celery diced, half a cup of lite barley browned, cover with three pints of water and buil slowly two hours. When done add ane tablespoonful of flour dissolved in a little water, stir and cook until smooth. Add a cup of milk, salt to taste, and serve. Cream of Celery Soup No, 1.— Take parts of celery not suitable for the table and boil in water to cover. Make a. quart of white sauce, and add to it the strained water from the celery, buil up once, season to taste, and pour over a well -beaten egg. Cream of Celery Soup No. 2,— Parbcil two cups of celery, cut into one -half-inch pieces, in three cups of water for 10 minutes, drain and then cook until tender in one pint of water and then rub through strainer. Scald 2% cups of milk with a slice of onion, remove on- ion, add milk to the strained celery with one tablespoon each of butter and flour cooked together with pop- per and salt to taste. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A slice of apple rubbed on the hands will remove inlc and fruit stains. To soften water put a tablespoon- ful of borax into the bath, Stains on knife handles may be removed by rubbing with a paste of whiting and turpentine. Corks for home-made wines, sauces, ete., should be soalcecl in boiling water before use. Flat -irons may be made perfectly smooth by rubbing first with bees- wax and then salt. Flour for calces and pastry should be well dried andpassed through a sieve before using, This is hall the secret of light cakes. Mixing Mustard.—Mia with hot water, using three parts of mus- tard to one part of salt; a little cayenne essence is often aciclecl and considered an improvement. Stains from Iodine.—Put some liquid ammonia into' a saucer and place the stained part of your towel in it. Rub well and the stain will vanish. To stone raisins easily, pour boil- ing water over the fruit, let it stand for three minutes, and then pour off. The softening of the skins ren- ders the task an easy one. Reel ink is easily mecle. Into a perfectly clean one -ounce bottle put one teaspoonful of aqua -ammonia, gum arabic the size of two peas, and six grains of No. 40 carmine. Fill the bottle with clear soft water, and after standing for a little while it is ready for use. A curio hunt is a good game for a party. Take a dozen things, such as a bodkin, a postage stamp, wed - cling -ring, bangle, thimble, sheet of paper, and so on. Put them about, the room so that they are not hidden, but are not easily dis- cernable. The brass thimble on the ornamentation of a mirror is hard to'see, the postage stamp stuck on to a paper of its own color, the wed - cling -ring slipped over a handle looks like a brass band. Write on cards the articles hidden, and give a certain time for the hunt. Prizes for the most successful bring it to a elese. GREENWICH TIME MUST RULE All 'London Clocks Must Be under City Control. The craz.q� in London, England, .for regulation has reached the Clocks. Hereafter, according to a ukase of the corporation. of the city, all public timepieces must be syn- chronized. London's clocks generally have never been noted for timekeeping and the new regulation means that Most of then will have to turn over •a new leaf if they expect to syn- chronize with Greenwich time. Only three of the great clocks have proved themselves models of accuracy—these of St. Paul's Ca- thedral, 1±e Law Courts and Big Den in Westminster Palace, A tour of the streets proves that it is the simplest thing to lose or gain time. By walking a block the pedestrian could gain from thirty seconds to two hours, or he might lose as much, Four minutes could be 'gained by crossing Fleet Street from one newspaper office to an- other, while a sporting paper on the same street had evidently started its racing Beason by being five min- utes ahead of Greenwich time, St. Margaret's, which from its ecclesiastical associations would bo expeeted to be truthful, was three minutes ahead of • time, notwith- standing the reproachful looks of accurate Big Ben across the way. Indeed, there seemed to be a con- epiracy of disagreement. among London clacks and on no street could more than two clocks be found to coincide, AUTOS IN BRITISH Motor cars played a very impor of the British Army. In the phot of the car pictured, and Col. Stur operations. ARMY MANOEUVRES. taut part in the recent manoeuvres o are Captain Willoughby, owner ney Cave, CIL, watching the field THE SEA SERPENT. Sir Hiram :flexile Is a Firm Be- liever In It. Sir Hiram Maxim is a, firm, be- liever in the sea serpent, The other day he gave out this interview :— 'I think the time has arrived when we must admit that there aro certain large animals living in the sea that are not described in any works on natural history. Messrs. C, A. Nichols and Cb., Springfield, Mass., published in 1882 a very re- markable work. In this I find that in 1851, and for some years follow- ing, the sea serpent or sea serpents appeared very often off the New England coast, "It appears there were two kinds of these monsters. On one occasion the animal that was seen had a fish -like head, very large eyes, gills, and a continuous fin extend- ing the whole length of its back, supported by numerous pines, after the manner of a stickleback. It was simply a very large fish of an un- known variety. "The monster that was seen a great number of times by numerous people, hacl about the diameter of a large cask, with a head closely resembling that of a snake. "I quote the following from the publication referred to :— "From all this testimony there seemed to be no doubt, reasonable or plausible, of the existence of a sea serpent, of some 80 or 100 feet in length, and of the size of a Large barrel or cask. " `Indeed, so great was the sen- sation created by the movements of the monster, so repeatedly seen for successive years by so many wit- nesses who saw the creature on shore or at sea, some of them from a distance of only 10 yards. " `According to these witnesses the monster was from 80 to 90 feet long, his head usually carried about two feet above the water ; or dark brown color, the body with 30 or more protuberances, compared by some to four -'gallon kegs, by others to a string of buoys, and called by several persons bunches on the back; motion very rapid, faster than that of a whale, swimming a mile in three minutes, and some - then more, leaving a wake behind him; chasing mackerel, herrings and other fish, 'which were seen jumping out of the water fifty at a time, as he approached.' "It has been suggested that this creature is a mammal, If so, it would have warm' blood, and would have to breathe at least as often as a whale, but as it remains below the water for days and weeks ab a time, it is safe to say thab'ib has cold blood, and is probably some kind of a snake." THE OCEAN'S PHANTOMS. Ghost Ships That Appear When a Storm Is at Hand. The number of phantom ships is legion. Several of the vessels which were wrecked in close proximity to the scene of the Titanic climates are even said to reappear in the eame spot on certain occasions, says the London Standard. The Packet Light is ,one of theee, and the story runs that whenever a storm is threatened a ball of fire emerges from the spot where the ship sank, which presently forma itself into the shape of a vessel, and then sinks and disappears. King George V. and his brother, the late Duke of Clarence, when on their eruise in the Bacchante from 1879 to 1882 are stated to have seem the phantom of the Flying Dutch- manand the Duke mentioned the fact in his diary under date of July 11, 1881. A three -masted frigate is said to• haunt the English Channel in the vicinity of the Ower lightship when- ever'a gale or snowstorm is threa- tened, Hundreds of people have declared that they have seen the apparition and heard the eries of. the ,ghostly passengers. It some- times eaicl to be the phantom of the training ship Eurydice, which went down off the Isle of Wight March 24, 1878, involving the loss of about 200 lives. There are a host of vessels which have not been heard of since they sailed, but one of the most marvel- ous ,stories eoncerns the Marie del - este, a French passenger sailing ship, She was sighted by the Bri- tish ship Highlander October 4, 1875, and in reply to the signals gave the answer "All's well." Two days later when sighted she ,chid not reply. She was boarded, but not a living or dead person was found on board. Everything was in perfect order, luncheon was laid in the saloon, the personal belongings of the passen- gers and crew wore intact and a bottle of medicine was found up- right on the captain's locker. The log had been kept down to the pre- vious day, but there was no entry to account for the mysterious disap- pearance of all on board, Nothing was heard afterward of any of the passengers and crew. we GERMANY TO CHECK BETTING Many Defaleaiions Result of Race- track Gambling. With the spread of horseracing, there has come a great increase in racetrack gambling in Germany. So many embezzlements and defal- cations in banks and business houses in the last few months have been traced to poolrooms and bet- ting on horses that the Government is now considering steps to check the evil. Instead of forbidding pools and bookmaking altogether, it is pro- posed first to try the effect of limit- ing the opportunities for betting by reducing the number of bookmakers and by closing poolrooms. The proposal is also made to place a limit on minimum bets taken, the idea being that then only those who can afford it will bet, while now bets as low as 10 cents are taken. Another proposal of the Govern- ment is to• put a stop to the selling and circulating of tips an horse - races. OIL TANKERS IN DEMAND. British Admiralty Increasing Its Fleet of These Ships. The demand for oil carrying ships is so great that about a hundred of the. type are on order, both in Great Britain and abroad, and sev- eral of the firms that specialize in this class of work have announced their inability to consider further contracts until the end of next ,year. Owing to the impossibility of get- ting early delivery of tonnage for the conveyance of petroleum and other liquids in bulk some owners are actually buying ordinary cargo boats for conversion into tankers. Meanwhile the British Admiralty is in the market for oil carriers and has just chartered for twelve months ono of the boats owned by a London company while it has also ordered four tank steamers from private yards and is to have &n- ether two constructed at Devon- port. The Admiralty already owns three oil tankers, so that important developments are evidently contem- plated. WITALING IN THE PACIFIC. rive Hundred have Been Caught 011 British Columbia. Five hundred whales thus far in the season, thirteen of them sperm whales, is the wonderful record macre striae the beginning of the season, according to Capt. Shad - ford of the steamer Grey, tender for for the Canadian Northern Pa- cific Fisheries Company, which maintains a number of whealing sta- tions along the coast of British Columbia. In addition to the 500 whales caught at the three stations there are many hendrecls which have been caught along the coast by other companies and by American and Norwegian concerns in Alaska waters. It is believed that before the season is over at least 2,000 whales will have been caught on the north Pacific coast, The huge number of mammals caught in such a short .period is a direct contrast to the old methede of whaling, when it would have taken years for a big fleet of sailing vessels to have caught, a similar number of whales by the old. har- poon. THE SVIOAY SC11331.311,101 IN7'ERINAI'IONAL. LESSON, SEPT. 22, Lesson NII. --The feeding of the five thousand, :dark 6. 30.44. Golden text, John (1. 35. Verse 30, The apostles ---The lit- eral meaning of the word "apostle" is "one sent with orders," The name is applied to the twelve whore Jesus selected from among his numerous disciples. It is de- scriptive of their official work ra- ther than of their discipleship. The names of the twelve are resented by Luke (0. 12-10) and Matthew (10, 9-4). Gather 'themselves together unto Jesus—After they returned from their missionary tour described in Mark 0. 7-13, 31. Come ye . . and rest a while —The necessity for rest is partially shown in the next clause, This is hardly the full reason, however, as Jesus sought intervals uf quiet fel- lowship with the twelve in which he might more carefully prepare them for their future work. Mat- thew gives an additional reason, namely, the profound grief which overcame Jesus when he heard of the death of John the Baptist (14. 13). 32. A desert place—Not a sandy waste, but simply an uninhabited region. The place mentioned was probably back from the northeast- ern shore of the Lake of Galilee, not far from Bethsaicla (Luke 9. 10). Their point of departure was probably Capernaum. 33. On foot—Or by land. Outwent them—The multitude ar- rived before Jesus and the twelve. The distance around the northwest- ern shore was little farther than the course across, and perhaps even shorter than that followed by the small sailing boat, 34. He came forth—Out of the boat. John's account differs, how- ever, stating that Jesus had spent some time in the mountain before emerging into the presence of the waiting multitude (John 6. 3-5). As sheep not having a shepherd —This unusually strong figure malces clear the hapless condition of the people. Like sheep, they were dependent upon the guidance of shepherds. The scribes and Pharisees, who were the religious leaders, were themselves blind to spiritual truth, so that the people were left to wander aimlessly with- out spiritual guidance. 35. The day was now far spent— It was late in the afternoon of the same day on which they had arriv- ed at the desert place. We need not, therefore, think of his lis - course to the multitude on this oc- easion as having been an unusually long one. 36. Somewhat to eat—In their haste to follow Jesus they gave lit- tle thought as to where their quest would lead them, so that they had neglected to provide food. 37. Two hundred shillings' worth The reference is to the silver de - Darius, a. Roman coin, which was .more nearly equivalent to the Eng- lish shilling than any coin with which we are familiar. Its actual value was between sixteen and sev- enteen cents. It represented a day's wages in the time of Christ, so that its purchasing power was much greater. The question repre- sents the impoesibility of provid- ing for such a multitude, as so large an amount was beyond the meager purse of the twelve. 38.. Five, and two fishes—An amount sufficient for about one person. 39. Sit down by companies—Or recline "in parterres," a term used for flower beds of many colors, per- haps suggested to the writer by the colored clothing of the different groups, Green grass—This realistic touch of Mark's story indicates his habit of close observation and love of the pictorial. It also makes known to us the seaeon of the year, which was spring, about the time of the passover (John 6, 4), since in Pales- tine the grass is green for only a short period following the winter rains, 40. In ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties—Herein is suggested the or- derly arrangement of the people to render convenient the distribution of the food. Gereach describes the formation as follows: "Two long, rows of one hundred, and a shorter one of fifty persona. The fourth side remained—after the manner o.f the table of the ancients --empty and open." 43. Twelve basketfuls—Ordinary Oriental traveling bags. Inasmuch as we are led to believe that Jesus and the twelve ea,rriod a,s title "luggage" as possible on their tours (Matt. 10. 9, 10), we may sup- pose that these bags were secured from among the people, many of whom were on their way to Jerusa- lem to attend he feast of the Pass- over (John 0. 4), There was ono "basket" for each apostle, 44, Five thousand men -Kot in- cluding women and children (Matt, 14, 21). FORTUNE'S IN SE WF,ED. ISO iE ESf ERA 9 E CRM ALS It Is Used in Many bines of Mani. 1actui'e. Seaweed is rapidly.esbabli.hiug a claim as the greatest friend' 1 man, incl rnuy new uses are being ,lna- c,n Bredafor it. 1f the experience of the Japanese and the dwellers on the western shores of Norway Sest.land, _an<.t Ireland is to be accepted, theseacro huge betimes to bm made from sea- weed. Thu Japanese employ tsnluo 000,000 persons in the industry. They are mainly engaged in prepar- ing edible products. Cltina alone consumes thousands uf pounds' worth of the gelatinous article every year, The edible seawecds of Great, Bri- tain and Ireland are advancing in popularity, even among epicures. Served with roast meats, they are extremely palatable. The London industry, which esnploys Devon- shire and Japanese seaweed in the manufacture of such diverse ob- jects as cloth, stout •shoes, golf - balls, policemen's boots, picture - frames. marble floors, and electric switchboards, by no means mono- polizes the industry. In most coast districts seaweed is used as a fer- tilizer for the land; in France it finds utility as a stiffener for mat- tresses and a size for straw hats; while the native fishermen of South Australia make rope and fishing - nets from local varieties. PERILS OF GERMAN TRAVEL. Attacks on Passengers Lead to Call for American Car's. The stabbing of three women on a train in the immediate vicinity of Berlin last week by a madman has been quickly followed by another robbery of a woman on a train near Zazzen. The German press has become greatly excited over these repeated attacks on travel- lers. Attention is called to the sepa- rate coupe arrangement that pre- vails on German ears as compared with American cars which insure greater personal safety. Addition- al officials and employees have been placed on all passenger trains running into and out of Berlin. They have to walk back and forth in the corridors, as owing to the separate compartment system in use there it is impossible for them to survey the entire ear from end to end. The recent attacks on passengers are giving impetus to a movement in favor of Americanizing the pre- sent German passenger coaches, a step to which existing social class prejudioes have hitherto been an insurmountable barrier. '1 GERMAN "MEAT W:1R." 1,0011 'Tomes i{ailed Por Food Last Month in Berlin. As a consequence of the rapidly - rising prices of neat, the consump- tion of horseflesh in Germany is in- creasing to an extraordinary ex- tent. In Berlin, 5,924 horses were slaughtered for human food in the first six months of this year, against 4,461 in the corresponding period of 1911. Last month 1,000 horses were killed for food in Berlin, and in the workmen's quarters of the city be- tween 20 and 30 more shops were opened for the sale of horseflesh and horse sausages. From all parts of the empire come reports of what is called the "meat war" --protest meetings against the closing of frontiers. boycotts of butchers, and similar measures. South Germany and Hesse. Darm- stadt appear to be the districts where the indignation of the popu- lace has assumed the most acute forms. In view, however, of the ever-increasing financial wants of the Government, and the extra ex- penditure on the Army and Navy, it is not at all likely that the Chan- cellor will take any steps to meet popular demands. TIOT JCB NOW. l[arvel From Unique Apparatus and Tremendous Pressure. De, Percy W. Bridgman of the department of physics, Harvard University, has eucceeded in mak- "hot ice." He has manufactur- ed some having a temperature of 173 degrees Fahrenheit, ande he is confident he cion make it even hot- ter. The hot ice was produced by put- ting water under extraordinary heavy pressure and at the same time regulating the temperature of the water. The apparatuses inchtde a'hyclrau- lie press for producing the pressure and a very thick tube of steel to held the water. There is 'else pro- vision, by moans, of jackets on the tube, for keeping the contents con- stantly at any desired temperature, th studying the five forms of ice, De, Bridgeman kept hie steel bottle filled with water and ice -until he had gotten a preseure of more than 2,000 atmospheres (more than 300,- 000 pounds a square inch) and a temperature of 173 degrees Fahrett- lteit. In appearance hot ice is similar to the brand in general use. LIVELY EXPI,OITS OF VNTAM+ ABLE CON V1CI'IS. Flogging Is 'J'bo Only Thing That 'VW'ill 'fame the Wild Beasts. "No, it is net the old, lags who give the most trouble," said an Offi- cer in .tine of our great convict pri- suus to a London Answers' repre- sentative. "Meu who have served several terms invariably learn .sense. One of the boat-conclucted men here: has served over thirty years in all. They say he was like e wild beast when he first came in and that he was `bashed' (flogged) three times during bis first lagging. Now you could trust him to do his job without an officer being in sight of him. "You believe in flogging, then?"' "Certainly I do. It's the only hold we have over the desperate type of criminal, Now and then we get a kind of wild beast in the shape of a. man that is every bit as dan- gerous as a tiger fresh out of the jungle. Nothing but ahashing does one of that sort any good. They had one of that kind in Portland lately. On May 11th of last year he was being brought in from the quarry, when the 'offices in charge of the gang told him to walk quick- er. He upped his pickaxe and caught the warder over the head, and very nearly killed him. The visiting justices ordered him thirty lashes with the cat, which is the severest punishment that has been given in Portland for more than twenty years past. "You don't often hear of a man being taken out of prison, tried afresh, and given A FRESH SENTENCE for something he did in prison. But that is what happened at Parkhurst a few years age. A chap who was just one of these mad beasts I'm telling you about went for another lag and precious nearly killed him. The had him up at Winchester As- sizes. The judge gave him another ten years, and said that he wished - he could have made it fifteen." "The •suffragettes give a deal of trouble?" ventured the contribu- tor "I believe they do; but they're not the only ones that have to be forcibly fed. They had a man in Carmarthen Prison—a German, ac- cused of murdering three people all at once—who would sit quite still all day, without speaking or mov- ing; he wouldn't eat, and would have died of starvation, if they hadn't used the tube. Everyone tried their hand with him—gover- nor, chaplain, doctor—but no one could do anything with him. He even had to be (Dr ssed and un- dressed like a dell. Anyone might have thought he was crazy; but the doctors didn't believe so. They reckoned he was the finest malin- gerer that ever was seen in a pri- son. "Some of the young prisoners aro worse than the elder men. What do ' you think of this ease, now? "A middle-aged man named Cul- ly was arrested at Darlington about two years ago, enol put in the same cell with a lad, whose name I won't mention AS HE IS STILL ALIVE. In the middle of the night Cully took out a piece of eord which he had hidden in the lining of his coat. "'Who's going first?' he said to the lad. " `Well, I'm not going,' said the boy. "Cully then hanged himself, while the boy lay and watched him, and never made a sound. " 'Why didn't you shout?' asked the coroner, at the inquest next day. "'I forgot,' said the boy, "The worst prisoner on record was a big Italian named Mayoni, who was lying in a Northern prison charged with murder. One morn- ing early he began smashing every- thing in his cell, and before the offi- cers could gather he bed managed to burst the door. How be did it was a wonder, for three ordinary man couldn't make any impression on it, "Then he came rushing out, arm- ed with is piece of lead pipe, which he had wrenched from the wall, and it looked as if someone was •going to he killed. One of the officers ran upstairs, goton the gallery above, and chucked a.bucket of cold water down on Mayoni's head, Then the others tnacle a rush. You'll hardly beliclo.it, but it tools fifteen men to get hate clown and•handepff him 1" . 75,000 GATTLE DIE. French agriculturists, • sorely tried by the drought el last year, are visited now by another plague, a severe epidemic of foot-and- mouth disease, which is assuming alarming proportions. About 75,000 cattle of a total of 400,000 are re- ported infected. The strictest pro - cautious are being talcen to prevent further spread of the disease, which affects the districts of Charolais,, • Louhans, Autun, Muton and Cha- lons, Markets have boon closed in many places and the transport of animals from the infected zonas prohibited.