The Brussels Post, 1913-1-30, Page 3Dainty Dishes.
Prune Pudding. --Pince prunes in
cold water, split .and remove pita;
lay the fruit in alternate layer with
stale graham bread crumbs, crumb-
led very fine. Dot each layer o£
bread with bits of butter and add
sufficient milk to moisten. Have
tbp layer of bread clotted with but-
ter only ; cover and bake For twin
ty minutes, then uncover and
brown,
e Nutu)eg hard Snuet'.—Mix one-
half cupful of sugar, one-fourth
oupful o£ bettor, and one-fourth
teaspoonful of grated nutmeg to a
cream, then beat into thie the
stiffly beaten white of one egg; heap
on a dish and set in mold place until
wanted.
Stuffed. Bass—Any fish may be
served this way. Clean the fish.
pip soda crackers into boiling
water a second; then mix in one
tablespoonful of butter, and salt
and popper to suit; .add as many
email raw oysters as desired and
stuff the fish,• drawing the loose
flesh over the opening, together
with clean twine. Lay the fish on
thin slices of pork and place a few
Fore on top. Bake from twenty to
ray minutes, according to size of
h.
Creamed Celery on Toast.—Cook
the outside stalks in just enough
water to make tender ; then press
all through sieve. To one cupful of
pulp allow two cupfuls of milk, and
when heated thicken with flour to
make Net creamy. Season with
salt and pepper, adding one tea-
spoonful of butter. Pour over toast
anti serve.
Eggs Poached in Tomato Sauce—
Cook the hard parts of the toma-
toes and one chopped green pepper,
after discarding the seeds and all
white membrane. Add three sprigs
of parsley. When the tomatoes are
tender, press through a sieve and
add one-half cupful of milk to each
two cupfuls of sauce. Place in a
shallow pan and bring to the sim-
mering point ; then slip in the eggs
and poach. Place the cocked eggs
on toast, season the sauce with but-
ter, and pour over all.
Potato Salad—Boil the vege-
tables, and when cold pare and cut,
adding one-fourth as much carrot
and one-half a green pepper cut in-
to slivers, and tine tablespoonful of
minced chives.; mix thoroughly.
Heat one-fourth cupful of melted
bacon fat, one-fourth cupful of vine-
gar, one-fourth teaspoonful each of
dry mustard and popper, and one- chop a potato into small pieces.
half teaspoonful of salt; pour this Put those into the decanter with
over the vegetables, cover and set warm water and shako vigorously
away until cold. up and down. When the glass be-
gins to shine empty out the pota-
to and rinse several times with cold
water, es
An excellent way to clean a car-
pet is to put into a pail a small
quantity of soft soap and two or
three teaspoonfuls of ammonia.
Pour in enough hot water to make
.a good lather, stirring with a stick,
When the soap has dissolved fill up
with more hot water. Dip a scrub-
bing brush in the solution and
brush lightly over the carpet, af-
terward rubbing with a dry cloth.
Sealing -wax is usefully employed
to mend household articles which
leak—anything, indeed, except pots
and pans, or things which' are ex-
posed to fire heat. An enamel ba-
sin, for instance, may have a Bole
filled with sealing -wax and be in
daily -use for long afterwards,
Chinaware and zinc articles may be
successfully treated in the same
way.
1tight.ly. Cook for forty-five min-d:`01.1NI'E:4S OF ABERDEEN.
Mae until ,neat is neuter. Spreaai The work o£IIIcCountessof.iter•
with butter, salt and ;gamer and dean, the first lwdv •in lrclrind, Iry
serve heaped with onions sliced virtue of lice husband's position as
very thin and fried until slightly viceroy, slit,tcs what a woman of
brown in better. The liquid left. in influence ran do when her heart is
pan Omelet be thickened and poured- vitally occupied with the people's
aver the whole dieli, welfare.
hints to housekeepers."Her Excellency" has long been
devoted to philanthropic worn, but
Bread will keep better in a wood- her great service to !reboil has
en box than in tin: been through the Woman's National
Salt of alum sprinkled on the Health Association, organized by
carpet will keep insects away. her about live years ago. This soci-
Save old felt hats to make felt ety hoe its headquarters in one of
insoles fur slippers and rubber the most venerable buildings in
boots. Dublin, a sixteenth century resi-
Olives, celery and cold macaroni donee which belonged to the Mar -
on lettuce leaves make p good salad. (pie of Rhys, until 11110 Countess
A few shreds of candied lemon purchased it, Tne officers of her
peel will give a delicious flavor to organization occupy the lower floor,
bread pudding. On the second storey, reached by
A good .idea is to wash stookings a wonderfully wrought staircase
by themselves in a. small tub. This with largo golden ]ions, spreading
aloes away with lint. eagles, and raging boars carved in
Piano keys may be cleaned by a its panelings, are her apartments.
soft rag dipped in lemon juice and Here she works with untiring en -
then in silver whiting.
Some people think the flavor of
pumpkin pie much improved by a
little quince preserve.
Wiping the shelves with oil of cc-
dar is said to be a geogl way to
keep the mold from books.
Boiled rice covered with grated
cheese and baked, brown in the
oven makes a good luncheon dish.
A good Iotion for burns and scalds
is lime water and olive oil, applied
with a soft muslin rag.
In house decoration the pieces of
brass and copperware should be
used to light up dark rooms or
halls.
If you have no curtain frames,
stretch your curtains on a clean
carpet to dry and pin them in place.
If a lamb chimney does not clean
easily with soap arid water, try
wiping it off with a cloth wet in
vinegar.
Crackers eoverecl with grated
cheese and toasted in the oven are
good served with salad for lunch-
eon,
Dip tooth brushes in boiling
water occasionally to disinfect them
and always rinse thoroughly after
using.
Dried hay berries and leaves
thrown on the fire will fill a room
with a pleasant and lasting frag-
rance.
If soft-boiled eggs remain from
breakfast, boil them hard at once;
then they can be used in salads or
fish entices.
A little turpentine sprinkled
among the clothes or put about the
closets will make moths flee and
exterminate cockroaches. It will
take spots out of muslin, and if a
tablespoonful be added to a boiler-
ful of clothes it will whiten them
much. It is good for a cut or burn.
An easy way to clean decanters
or bottles with small necks is to
Meat Recipes.
..Beef Curry with Rice—Take two
pounds of beef from the round,
rump, or chuck and cut into pieces
about three inches square. Place
in a stewpan three tablespoonfuls
of finely chopped onion and a good
sized apple cut into small pieces;
fry in two tablespoonfuls of fat or
butter until slightly brown. . Stir
in two or three cloves, a pinch of
cinnamon and ginger, one `table-
spoonful of curry powder, half a
tablespoonful of flour, and two
oupe of boiling water. Then add
the beef and stew slowly for an
hour and a half. When the meat
is tender put in salt, pepper, and
japrika, also a squeeze of lemon
uice, and it is ready 'to serve.
teamed or boiled riee should be
eaped about the platter, the curry
bbeing in the center.
Braised Beef—Select 3 pounds of
beef rump, rinse in cold water, wipe
dry, sprinkle with pepper and salt,
and dredge thoroughly with flour
end brown in hot fat, which may
be taken' fr9m the beef itself, un-
til the entire surface of beef is
browned over. Place on trivet in
a deep granite pan, surround with
vegetables cut into dice, one-fourth
cup of carrots, onions, turnips, and
celery, together with ono -half tea-
• spoonful of peppercorn; Pour over
this three cups of boiling water,
cover closely and bake iii., oven for
four hotirs. Baste every thirty
minutes. After two hours turn
roast on other side. Serve with a
brown settee made from liquid in
the pan.
Beef a La Woieestershu'e--Either
fresh or cold leftovers from Toasts
or steaks may be utilized far this
dash. If fresh beef is used a longer
Ptime, is required for the cooking.
lace some fat or butter in a sauce -
tan to heat. Cut the beef into
hin slices about one-fourth of an.
Moll thick; fry in the fat until
brown, then add salt, popper, and
two. tablespoonfuls of Woree.ster-
,shire sauce, and enough bailing
water to almost cover beef, When
the meat is ready thicken the gravy
end ppoqur over some thin slices of
hot buttered toast and serve, This
le an excellent savory (fish for
lunch, Sunday night tea, or even
.dinner,.
Panned Steak—Heat some fat in
.a skillet until it smokes, Then put
do a thiek round or flank steak and
. ear until brown on either side.
our about one pint of boiling.
'Water over steak and cover skillet
11.
1lIADE MILLIONS TINKERING.
llloseow Character Enjoyed howls
leg Like a Dog at Passersby.
• There has recently died one of
the best known characters in Mos-
cow, the very wealthy Balasheff,
who worked his way up in the world
from a mere tinker who mended the
samovars (tea -urns) to afull
fledged man of millions, That he
was more than a bit "cracked" is
undersirable. At. times he would
crawl into one or other of the two
dog kennels at his door and would
howl .and bark es much like a dog
as his talents would allow at all the
passersby.
Another idiosyncrasy was to go
round to a theatre just before the
end of the performance and hire
every one of the sledge drivers and
get them. to drive away., while he
remained to enjoy the sight of the
people shivering in the cold and
trying hard not to believe that they
were abandoned to "Shanks's
mare," Most of the begging let-
ters he received he had printed and
distributed the books free to all
centers.
Ono of his last freaks of fantasy
was the burial of his two feet that
he ]tact to have amputated. He had
them buried with all ceremony and
erected a monument inscribed,
"Here rest the feet of Balashoff."
About half a million foot-passen-
gees pass the Mansion House, Lon-
don, daily.
NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST WJIEN xEilai S WENT IN POMP THE SU, DI Y SCIHOO. LESS
1'fagn1lleenee of Persian Soldiers in ��"
BETSS'I?k:N ONTARIO AND BRI-
TISH COLUMBIA..
Heine From PI'eyille0S Where Many
Ontario Boys and Girls Are
"Making Good."
Edmonton will spend $12,000,000
upon civic improvements,
A farmer's elevator has just been
completed et Gerald, Sask.
A company has built a pipe line
170 miles long to supply natural gas
to Calgary.
Many farmers in the Edmonton
district are selling out and moving
into ,that city.
Saskatoon is to have a, new -steel
or conereto bridge, costing about
a quarter of a million.
ergy, managing the work of the There arc no cases of infections
large organization grown now to a diseases at Souris and the health of
membership of 19,000 with 150 out-
side branches, amt connecting with
the most remote corners of the is-
land, Every work that can benefit
public health or conduce to the wel-
fare of the people is undertaken.
Housing, town planning, the mak-
ing of empty town spaces into gar-
den playgrounds, supervising the
milk supply, campaigning against
consumption, instructing mothers
and older girls on the care of in-
fants, maintaining a system of dis-
trict nurses to visit the schools and
Countess of Aberdeen.
the hones of the poor throughout
the country, are some of its activi-
ties.
Recently a rather unique , work
has been started—a system of
health(' lectures. The association
sends lady health lecturers out to
various districts and they give talks
illustrated by lantern elides on such
subjects as "The Breath of Life,"
"The Health of the Child," "Town
Planning," "Making Gardens of
Waste 'Places," etc. 'The lecturers
;Gravel in .a huge van, the "bluebird
caravan," drawn by a pair of splen-
did horses, end create pinch excite-
ment as they go through the coun-
try.
In some of the poorest districts
branch societies supply meals for the
school children. In others, the work
of the school is supplemented by
classes in gardening, poultry and
bee keeping, orin musical and dnas
'natio societies.
Indeed, every phase of life, physi-
cal, trental tend social is minister-
ed to through its relation to the
health of the eoninunity. The
janglings and wranglings of parties
and policies are shlenee,d before the
straightforward, practical, common-
sense basis of such methods of ser-
vice. The plan, its system and logia
and its effective operation are due
to the wisdom and clear vision of
the leader. Tlie Co;,intess of Abor-
cleen, in this great sane work, is
preparing the ground for the new
era, when men and women may
unite politics and humanitarianism,
Put No Limit.
Never put the limit on your own
growth or achievements. Never
let yourself think that yeti cannot
get beyond a eertain point or do
more -Chan, mediocre work. Every
human being has undeveloped ,pow-
ers. The man who makes the most
of himself is a rarity. The major-
ity let themselves become satisfied
with doing a small portion of what,
they are able to do. Look ahead
and go forward, and you will find
that which •once seemed' the very
best of which . sett were capable was
.only a breathing plaoe fora fresh
start.
The chronic picker is the first to
set upa howl if he gets kicked,
the city is excellent.
Simon Hartness, a Redvers,
Sask., thresher, was fined $10 and
costs for working on Sunday.
If the G.T.P. is to be completed
by 1914, fifteen thousand laborers
must be secured for the work.
Fort William and Port Arthur
require eight additional street ears
to handle the rapidly increasing
traffic.
From Reston, Man., 250,000 bush-
els of wheat have been shipped and
150,000 bushels are awaiting cars.
In Alberta there are 2,019 organ-
ized school districts. Tho demand
for teachers is greater than the sup-
ply
Cleveland capitalists propose to
start a glass factory at Mirror,
Alta. The name of the town suits
the business.
There are 2.798 miles of railway
in Alberta. For the first ten
months of 1915, 698 miles of new
railway were built.
Turnips ranging in weight from
17 to 35 pounds were grown last
year in the Roland and Darlingford
districts of Manitoba,
There are orders for sixty-five
cars on the book at Castor, Attn.,
nearly as many as have been ship-
ped since the season opened, the
number sent out being sixty-eight.
The sash and door factory at Veg-
reville, Alta., is running day and
night in an effort to fill the great
rush of orclees resulting from build-
ing actively in the town and dis-
trict.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson Ridley,
two of' the best known residents of
Estevan, Saslc., left this week for
their old home at Newcastle -on -
Tyne, England, where they will
make their :home.
Fred Holobo, of Cancra, Sask.,
is hauling 'grain to market with his
20-40 Case gas .tractor. The haul-
ing of four wagon loads at a time
a distance of nine miles, he claims,
costs only two dollars a trip, •
. C. McKinnon, of Kincardine,
Ont., has been appointed classical
master in Saskatoon Collegiateat
a salary of $1,900 it year. Miss Jean
Dickson, of Portage la Prairie, has
been appointed teacher of drawing.
Traffic) was , so congested in the
C.P.R. yard at Minnedosa one day
recently that there were twenty-
nine locomotives there at one. time.
Quite a change from the day that
the M. & N. • W. only had two old,
leaky locomotives altogether, says
the Minuedosa Tribune. •
The Umbrella.
According to recent investiga-
tion the umbrella is undoubtedly
of high antiquity, appearing in var-
ious forms on the sculptured monu-
ments of Egypt, Assyria, Greece,
and Rome, and in hot. countries it
has been used since the dawn of
history as a sunshade—a use signi-
fied .from its name—derived fume
the Latin "umbra," a shade. In
the East the umbrella has ever
been a symbol of power and ,Roy-
alty, and in many countries ithas
become part of religious as well as
Royal symbolism.- ' The Chinese
elate the first umbrella back to
4,000 or 5,000 years anterior to the
Mosaic data of creation, which
would make it about 10,000 or 11,-
000 years old, The largest umbrel-
la in the world was made in Glass
gow for a king of East Africa,' It
can be opened and closed in the
usual way, and waren open is 21 ft.
in diameter. The staff also is 21 ft.
long.
g
Mistakes Girls Make.
"So many' girls who would make
excellent wives and mothers go the
wrong way of setting about getting.
ineariedat said a matron of exper-
ience, "They dress themselves up
in smell grand clothes that possibly
stiitors are far too frightened at the
prospect of having to pay for such
luxuries to come to the point of a
proposal, - Again, many girls affect
to be smart and cynical, and to
leek down upon everyone beneath
them.; ignoring the fact that there
is nothing so attractive in a women
es sweetness, sympathy and goad .
humor,"
• Q.
Tourist (at Irish hotel) You
seem tired, Pat?" Waiter—"Ytss, i'aungly—"bid you ever notiee
sorr. Up very early this morning that the matrimonial process is like
—half -past six," Tourist—"I don't making a call! You go to adore,
call half -past six early." Waiter yen ring the belle, and you give
(quickly)—"Well, half -past Ave, your Dante to the maid Z" Cvnirus
thin 1 —"Yes, and then you're taken in."
Ila ttle Array.
Plain khaki and simple, business-
like aecotatrc.mants would never
have suited the aucieul Persian sol-
diers, whose magnificeee Irl battle
array is thus dscriti: d by Lucie
Gulliver in "The Friendship of
.Nat tons" ;
fill ver altars, surrounded by
priests chanting sacred hymns,
were first' in line of march. They
were followed by three hundred
and sixty-five youths dressed` in
purple garments. A ohariot dedi-
cated to the sun was drawn by
snow-white horses, led by gromu s
wearing white garments and carry-
ing golden wands.
Ton chariots embossed with gold
and .silver preceded the cavalry of
twelve nations,, dressed in their
various costumes and carrying their
peculiar arms,
Then came the Persian Immor-
tals, ten thousand in number,
wearing 'golden cihains and rabra
embroidered with gold .ad glitter-
ing with preoious stones. Follow-
ing at a short distance came fifteen
thousand nobles., relatives of the
king, dressed in garments, wonder-
fully wrought.
A company of spcarmen preceded
the king. He rode in an imposing
chariot, :high above the eurround-
ing multitude, and wore robes of
surpassing magnificence, and a
costly mitre upon his head. By his
gide walked two hundred of his
most noble kinsmen. Ton thou-
sand warriors, bearing spears with
staffs of silver tipped by heads of
gold, followed the royal chariot.
The king's horses, forty in number,
with thirty thousand footmen, end-
ed the procession.
At some distance followed the
mother and wife of the king in
chariots, accompanied by their
ladies on horseback. Fifteen cars
oersted the king's children, their
tutors and nurses, and -six hundred
Fanlel.s, guarded by archers, bore
the royal treasury. The friends
and relatives of the ladies followed,
with the cooks and servants. Light -
armed troops brought up the rear.
When a king of those days looked
upon his troops and saw their
strength and splendor, it is ne won-
der he felt proud, and wished to
lead them to battle. Such an army
was not meant to stay at home,
where only their countrymen could
see them. Other nations must
know how powerful a king he was.
So he and his followers marched
away, and wars for conquest be-
gan.
Peoples were forced to give them-
selves up to a life of war, either for
conquest or defense, and the great
highways. which peace would have
dedicated to commerce and pros-
perity, became military roads over
which war took its cruel way.
—3i
A PROUD PASSENGER.
White Cockatoo Tyrannized Over
Everybody.
Sailing from Sydney, Australia,
for New Guinea, an the steamship
Stettin, Mr. C. D. Maclellan an -
countered an indubitable "person-
age" ; namely, a large, white cock-
atoo with a yellow crest, the be-
loved property of the first °fater.
In"Scented Islands and Coral
Gardens," Mr. Maekellan says that
the bird tyrannized cruelly over all
the pasengers.
He is tied with chains fir ropes to
an iron stanchion, but no bonds
can keep him. He gnaws throtigh
ropes, demolishes iron chains, digs
holes in the deck, and is a perfeot
fiend of mischief. Once free, you
see hire stalking along the deck
chattering and clucking to himself,
sayingthunderous things in differ-
ent languages, and looking exactly
like one of those-etout, important,
white -waistcoated old men who are
"something in the city,"
This bird makes straight for Some
ane,—generally for me,—neve'.( gods
'round anything in' the Way, climbs
up one side of a:chair, over it, and
down the other side, even if a cloz-
en chairs are on 'the. route, Once it
teaches you, it climbs up and in-
sists on your scratching it on the
poll- and under 45' wings for hours
ata time, An attempt to leave off,
or a hasty movement of your hand,
and it turns instantly and rends
you. It has the most powerful
bealc. We are all afraid of it, T
am so tattered and torn that I shall
have to go into hospital to he
mended.
The cr'eatu.re does not really like
me. I feel sure that it despises me,
but it is well aware that I have a
terrified respect far it, It is a
usual thing to see every one
stretched out in silence, overcome
by heat and inertia; then there is
a sudden yell—some one frits for-
gotten to go en scratching, If you
lean over the side of the ship,
"Pretty Cocky," as we sarcastical-
ly call it, .attacks the ealvcs of your
legs. For all his pretense of au-
thority, I have aeon the captain -
trying obsequiously to curry favor
with it.
3k
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
FEB1iLIA.lt4 2.
Lesson V.—The Ilood, Gen. 6. 9-22
7. 11.24. Golden text,
llottt. 6. 23.
6, 9-12.
The story of the flood begins with
Gen. 6. 5 and extends through 9.
18. In the form of the narrative as
it has come down to us there are
a number of repetition, together
with several striking differences
that seem to indicate two earlier
narratives which have been pre-
served to us in the account as it
was finally incorporated in our
canonical book of Gc•aesis. The
student interested in tracing the
parallel accounts, each of which is
measurably complete in itself, can
do so by reading in order first one
and then the other of the following
groups of passages : A. Gen. 6. 5-8;
7. 1-5, 10, 12, 17, 22, 23; 8. 8-12, 13
(beginning with the words, "Noah
removed the covering of the ark"),
20'22; 9. 18, B. 6. 9-22; 7. 0-9, 11,
1 1:3-16 (omitting the words, "And
Jesus shut him in"), 18-21, 24; 8.
1-5, 13 (first half), 14-19; 9, 1-17.
1'ei'se 9. Righseous . . perfect
walked with God—A threefold
description of Noah's goodness.
The voird "righteous" emphasizes
his 11, '1 integrity; the word "per-
fect" bis blamelessness in conduct;
while the third characteristic sets
forth his life of common with Je-
hovah,
12. All flesh—Here denoting man-
kind alone, though sometimes (as
' in 6. 17; 7. 21; and 9. 11), including
both men and animals, or even ani-
mals alune, as in 6, 19; 7. 15, 16;
8. 17.
7. 11-24,
11. The second month—According
to the Jewish calendar this would
correspond to our month of May.
Fountains of the great sleep —
Springs and other channels through
which the floods from the great
subterranean waters broke forth
and covered the surface of the
earth.
Windows of Heaven --Openings in
the firmament.
12. The rain --Literally, the
heavy rain.
Forty days—The parallel account
mentions a hundred and fifty days
(verse 24.)
14. Every bird of every sort —
Every winged creature, including
insects. Birds are mentioned sep-
arately in the pi eceding phrase.
13. The selfsame day—The day
specially mentioned in verse 11,
15. Two and two—According to
the parallel account (verses 2 and
3) there were seven pair of each of
those animals regarded as clean,
and also seven pair of every kind
of bird.
18. The ark—For a description of
the ark, including the manner of
i14ts-16. construction, compare Gen. 6.,
The face of the waters—The up-
per surface.
19. The waters prevailed exceed-
ingly—This and the following verses
(19-24) gives a more detailed de-
scription. of the great depth and
universal prevalence of the flood.
20, Fifteen cubits upward—That
much above the tops of the high-
est mountains. The exact length
of the cubit varied greatly at differ-
ent periods. The cubit referred to
here was probably a little less than
two feet, being determined by the
length of the fareeartn from the el-
bow to the point of the middle
finger.
21. Creeping, thing that creepeth
—Or, swarming thing that swarm-
eth,
22 Of all that was on the dry
land—Not, therefore, including
fishes and other aquatic animals,
which were thus exempt from the
general destruction caused by the
flood,
23. Destroyed—Heb., blotted out.
24. A hundred and fifty days --In
verso 19, above, forty days aro men-
tioned am, the time duration of the
flood. The divergence is best ex-
plained on the theory of two 'separ-
ate original accounts` es suggested
in the first paragraph.
1r
Umbrella (halting hazardous.
The manufacture of umbrellas is
not generally regarded as among
the hazardens industries, but the
statement is made by one fully ac-
quainted with the conditions that
if an examination be made of the
physical oonditvon of the employes
of a largo umbrella factory half of
them will be found to be afflicted
with tuberculosis, bronchitis, fib-
roid tissue and similar diseases,
This is dee to the dust of the place
and the fumes of paints and var-
nishes used in the various opara-
tiolt$ of making an umbrella,at-
teriea of eirealer sows are used in
bhaping the handles, and the dust
rem the wood is disastrous when
ntraduced into the lunge. The ver- (c
Moltin solution consists of
iia htha s iritis and r shwlite
p p ed or tvhtte
lend, end the fumes from combine-
tion breathed repeatedly are dan-
gerous to the health of the opera- 0
fives.
FDS MEM PLO E LAND
NEWS 11V MAIL ABOUT J'OUN
HULL AND IIls • p20PLI1.
Occurrences In The Land That
Itelgus Supreme In the Cotn..
reerclal World.
More than 1,000,000 pereo s at'4
employed in the textile trolls of
-
Great Britain.
Nottingham lace mannfaotuy]�ere
report that Americans and °theta
are stealing their patterns.
Admiral Sir William hlorttnagp
Dowell, G.C.B., died at his resi-
dence, Ford House, Bideford, on
the 27th ult., aged 87.
An unofficial return ehowe hg�t
1,049,897 persons are employe fit
and ::bout the coal mines of the
United Kingdom.
Archibald Brown, brother of
John Brown, the famous Highland
attendant to Queen Victoria, has
just died at Windsor at the age of
71.
There are just 8,000 boats en-
gaged in sea fishing and the regu-
lar• crows number in all close on
34,000 men and boys, with another
10,000 casually employed.
Birmingham people entertain no
animosity towards Glasgow fo
robbing them of their short -dive
possession of the title'of the Second
City of the Empire.
There now are 4,600,000 enfran-
chised women in the world, accord-
ing to figures compiled by London
Suffragettee, of which number 2,-
700,000 are Americans.
A further portion of the Huth
library will shortly be sold in Lon-
don—the third portion of which
som eestimate will realize an ag-
gregate sum of over £300,000.
The famous Thames Ironworks,
at which some notable ships have
been built, including the British
super - Dreadnought Thunderer,
have been closed by order of the
receiver.
Mr. Rowland Ward, widely
known for his work in stuffing ani-
mals, died on the 28th ult. at his
home in Boscombe, Hampshire.
Mr. Ward belonged to a family of
naturalists.
The death has just taken plane
of Rabbi Werner, who was regard,,
eel as the most learned man in Lon-
don in Talmudic and Rabbinic lit-
erature. He was born at Tels,
Kovno, in • 1837.
Queen Mary has accepted from
the trustees of the British Museum
a copy of the facsimile of the fam-
ous illuminated manuscript known
as Queen Mary's Psalter, recently
published by them.
Mr. W. G. C. Kirkwood, Princi-
pal Clerk in the Secretary's Office
of the London Post Office, has been
appointed Secretary of the Post
Office in. Scotland, vice Sir Edward
Bedford, C.D., resigned.
The late Mr. James Griffith
Dearden, Lord of the Manor of
Rochdale, left estate of the gross
value of £531,810. He directed
that his remain should be cre-
mated and then interred neo:
where his dog Pompey was hurried,
Early on' the 3lst ult. the Park-
inson Shop Fitting Warks in Ken -
sal Road, London, belonging to
Parkinson & Son, Limited, were
destroyed by fire. The premises
comprised timber yards, saw mills,
show rooms, stores and offices.
The Royal Geographical Society
of London—which has been honed
for more than 40 years in Savile-
Row—has found new and luxurious
lodgings in Lowther Lodge, Ken-
sington Gore—the former -home of
William Lowther, father of the
Speaker of the House of Commons.
"A Birminglram man recently
married the granddaughter of a
woman who once. refused him."
"Gracious 1 what a vengeance he
will be able to wreak!" "I don't
see where the vengeance is to conte
in." "Why, he will be able to ad-
dress the woman who had once re-
fused him as `grandma.' "
31.
Grains of Gold.
In prayer it is better to have a
Mart without wards than words
without a heart.—Bunyan.
Hope always strengthens to the.
por£ormanec of duty, gives cour-
age, and clears the judgment.—G,
Macdonald,
Every man - who inherits wealth
has a long start of those who be-
gin life with •only their muscles and
brains.—Professor Smart,
I tan certain tltat one of the most
important things necessary for a
child is to develop its natural love
of the beautiful.—Miss Clarice
Mayne.
This is a time in which passim
and prejudice on woman suffrage
have been stirred up to an extent
without preeedont,.--Lord Haldane:
The most gladsome thing in the
world is that few of us fall very
low; the seddeet + tl vit�lt Saab
a 0111111108 we seldom rise hl r.--
l , g
3, M. Barrie,
,It is easy to join in the lib talk
t -once ming great ones that s not to
their honor, Rather let Its have
yes for their virtues and extol
beim—Rev. 'bomas Spurgeon.`,