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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-9-18, Page 3Household 1 a spoonful of duvet.; in a cloth; add to rest, and simmer for an hour. Then add half of the sugar, and boil ] fur half an helix., Now etar in rest of sugar, and, when it begins to thicken, test on saucer, if dear and etiff, remove epice bag and put in glasses and seal as other jam. /- Early Fail Preserving. Canning: To can any fruit sue - Right Use of Flavors. Vanilla ehuuld nut be used with any very sweet dish ae it is apt to cesefnlly try the .following method, make the flavor rather eluying; but which, although incl -fashioned, is in a cake or pudding which contains sure to give good results and is only a little sugar it is often very convenient for Mrs. Newlywed, if nice, she has limited conveniences and intends to put up shall quantities at a time. Method--•-:I-Iavo all uten- sils sterilized, by belling in clear water for ab least ten minutes, put- ting thean on in warm water and theft boiling. Jars also must be boiled and the covers, after wash- ing, should be placed in can of boil- ing water to simmer until ready to screw on. Use new rubbers and slip diem on neck of jar before fill- ing, To handle jars during felling, have them in a flat pan of hot water. Set a wide funnel made for fruit jars, in neck of jar, then, with a cup or ladle, fill with the boiling hot fruit to overflowing, Screw or clamp an the top, then lift can on- to a folded cloth to cool. Wipe jar off and see that each top is on firm= ly before setting away. Proportions for Canning Syrup. —Use half as much sugar as water and boil long enough to make a clear sirup. Boil this slowly, say about five to ten minutes (less for the hard fruits). Skim off any scum that arises, then drop in the fruit and cook until tender, but nob broken, Fill and seal as dir- ected. Canned peaches.—Method — Se- lect fine flavored freestone peaches ; scald with enough boiling water to cover; drain and plunge into cold water to make fruit firm, then slip off the skin and halve or slice the peaches. A few stones can be ad- ded to the sirup and one left in each can. Then make sirup, and can as directed in foregoing re- marks. Pears. --Para and cora, then halve or sliced good but not too soft peons. Then can like other fruit. Plums.—Green or red plums are best for canning. Prick each plum several times with a wooden tooth- pick, or 'skin as directed for peaches. Then can as other fruit. If plums are skinned, add some of the skins to the water and boil a few minutes, then take them out, add the sugar, and can as other fruit. Some leave the skins on, and with a fork remove them before serving, as skins impart good col- or and flavor. (If more than a few Dans are put up et a time have some sirup re- served and add a little as each can is filled. This will make the sirup of uniform richness.) Wild or Dnmsen Pliant iiIarma- Iade.--Method Ttcmove stems and any blemishes from the plums. Cover well with water in preserv- ing kettle and simmer until soft and juice is well extracted, Rub through a collander, then measure the pulp. Use equal proportions of sugar, add half of sugar to plums, and boil slowly for half an hour; then stir in rest of sugar and boil until a little cooled on saucer is stiff. Pub in glasses like jam. Plum Jam.—(Blue freestone or the red Lombard plums are nice for jam; cook slowly and stir often.) Method -Wash, then stone the plums. 'Measure and use equal 'portion of engine or, if fruit is very sweot and dry, a little loss sugar can be used. Place enough water in bottom of preserving kettle to •keep plums from settling before juice is extracted. Boil slowly fur half an hour, then add half of the sugar, and boil until quite thick, about one hour,, then stir in rest of sugar and boil until a little tak- en on eaucer looks clear and begins to form a jellied consistency. Be sure it is thick enough to stiffen like jelly or jam will not keep well. Have scalded jars or glasses ready. When fruit is slightly cooled, fill glasses almost to top; set aside and cover with a paper until quite cold and surface has glazed over, (about one or two clays). Then pour on a thin layer of melted parafin, pub on covers or tie a glazed paper over. (Wash and wipe glasses be- fore setting away and paste neat labels on glass.) Peach Marmalade. — Method -- Skin and stone the peaches and place in kettle with enough water to just cover. Boil until tender, then rub through collander. Take four cupful's of sugar to six of pulp, iidd half of the sugar and boil half an hour, then acid boat of sugar and boil toa clear consistency. Cook until a little taken on saucer is clear and stiff. A few red plums or a little cinnamon can be added toward the last, (Put in glossas and Boal dike jam.) Termite Preserve. — Ingredients ---Tight cupfuls of tomato pulp, three lemons, six cupfulsof sugar, a small spice bag, Method— Select small red or 'yellow ttnnaioes. Scald, then plunge in cold water and strip off the skin; remove blem- fishes and out into preserving ket- tle. Club four slicks from centre of each loran, remove the seeds, watt juicer ands cleat' ,pulp from ends of lemons, and add to tomatoes, Tio a few sticky of whole einnamoli and Unless your hand is exception- ally steady you had better nut pout out the vanilla from the bottle, or instead of a drop or two you will got a little stream. It is better to pour the vanilla on to a lump of sugar. Then, if too much comes out, you can break off part Of the lump, and so get only the exact quantity which you require. Use fresh lemons instead of lem- on essence whenever you can get them. You can put a. squeeze of lemon juice into pastry, or a cake or pudding of the solid kind, but you must not put it into a milk pudding or sauce, for it would curdle the milk and make the whole thing lumpy... Instead you must cut a bit of thin lemon rind, and let it simmer gently in the .mills for a few niin- utes; then take out the rind, and go en making your pudding. Or you may rub a couple of lumps of sugar on the outside of your lem- on, till they turn yellow, and then add them to the pudding. If you want to make a soup or stew taste of onion, without actu- ally having a piece of onion in i1•, you may cut open your vegetable and rub it on each little bit of meat. Or you may fry a few slices of onion with a little dripping, at the bottom of the pan which is to contain the stew and then take out the slices before putting in the Model other materials. A little onion, chopped and ad- ded to the greens, improves their flavor in a wonderful way. It is also very nice with dried peas, len-1 tils or beans. I Just a touch of mustard is very good with any dish that contains cheese—macaroni cheese, or any- 1 Prince Arthur's House. thing of that kind. Many people Priuee Arthur or Connaught has taken Lord 'Plymouth's )louse in Mount Street tor a number of years. It is a particular- ly flue Mayfair mansion, Lord Plymouth A couple of cloves, put into an ]saving spout a great deal of money ti im• apple tart, bring out the flavor of ;,it His art treasuresi'It has .i lneletiir the fruit and make it taste warm euro ane boli. The veighborhood of and fresh. Many people, too, who (Trovonor }bone taaraese ossa the Park offers ane views and more airiness than do not care for spice in a pudding, la cnloyed by the other houses in ttse will welcome a tiny stick of pinna- street• mon, which has been simmered in •the milk with which the pudding is made. A very delicious meat flavoring may be made by putting a table- spoonful of chopped parsley and a few peppercorns into a small bot- tle of vinegar. Stand this in a do not mean to entente it. liven Murcia gentle oven till it as thoroughly Is agnlust the method of the 'strong Is iu the lung run Turkey will firm warmed through. Set it aside and it worth w'llile to gieii ‘1,1,;.,L yet bel' Ow[l am• leave it for a week. Then pour off vord. The Great Powers have many o..ior ways of ontonin ^ thele ells a Ilion ro• the vinegar and use it as a flavor- sorting to brute force. At all events teat in for stews and minces. in, 1 beflove, the op411on of the Chancel- glorlee. It is also the universal opinion to A mustard entice is very nice with quarters woolly sympathetic- towards an kind of fish that tenth to be a, Turkey. The retention or Thrace and YAdl'tauoplw it is argued, Wiotrgh lueti- little greasy, such as fried herrings" liable„ x.l'hitps by rlgltt of Contlileat, and or mackerel, Mix a small piece, of .:ertatnly by racial rignt, would eventual• lY rest '1'nrhoy vera• door. IL would mean mustard powder int.) the flora' with rhe melotenance or u poww'£ul army in which the sauce is made. ;\dil a i;urope, a perpe1tsat menace, pernetual Ln - squeeze of lemon on juice, smooth ri'igucs, nod iL uselnse and weakening drain on Tuilisli re ur ee. Bettor for the $our with a little water, and her, it fe urged, to oonteut her -loll wilts. mix it ne for a plain white sauce_ rho positron accorded to lief by the nn• dens el Mistress of 041:Ilutinoplo and Perhaps you do not know how i Cltiardian of the Straits, with the gonrau• very delicious fried apples are with tco—onty imvI int, but none tate lees real --that her L9nspire in Asia will not be mo• sausages. Peel incl core them m scented. 'turkey in Europe has no future, the usual way, cutting them into no doubt because she )las not had a fall' chance. There ie, at least, some hope of Vary thin slices. Then, after the fair play for her in Asia. The difference sausages are cooked, fry up the ap- in continents may make all the dilteronoe. pies quickly in the dripping in, which The three Western Powers—Oron.t Britain, 1 p 4 1'ra.tmo curd t'lerntany—will do alt they ono is left in the pan. When they aro to eustaan and nsstst her in Asia; but they quite brown arrange them round will not wove a finger on lite behalf if g she nolo disputes their authority. the eaoaagea, and serve the wholeA Public) inquiry Into the Haitian very hot, - Atrocities. •• •. There is just one more thing to x tindorsi.and • that•, in response to ap- remember 1 Dont overdo your fia- tense rime several Bulgarian quarters for VOranga. If you are doubtful, it is a public inquiry into tiro extent of and responsibility far the atrocities commited better' to Pitt In leo little 'than too by the belligerents during the second Bal- mueh, kan war, Dr. Butler, president of Colum- bia Tlnivereite. and one of the trustees of the Carnegie 1onudatron has undertaken to organise an International Commission wilts a view to carrying out this object. So for the .following persons have been dociguated.es members or the comets• .ton,—Professor Pun10, of Columbia. 17111- vereity (America); Francis W. Hirst, edi• 101' of the tseonenist (Bngland); Baron d'Itstournclles de Constant (Prance); Pro. fessor Born (tam'mavy); Professor Mtliu• Icoff (Russia); and Professor Lamm+uroh (Austria). Not all these gentlen:en have given their consent got mleml„ltfonally, but the commission is about to meet in Parse to dismiss the necessary prelimin- aries. Canadian Parliamentary Candidates. I hear that the riiberale of Sir Jolm Stinon'e coitetituoncy, '1Valthametow, Len - don, have found a oanaldato to take hie place when he goes to North-West Man. cheater. A, M. do Beck, the proprietor and tenter or the Canadian Bowe, has lawn approaebed, and it is probable that he will to site Liberal candidate. Tho Conserve: sive candidate will be harry Symonds, R.C., who no also known in Canada. IID was at one time president of the National Agency. It is el,rlo115 that both the Lei- shouldstbe prominent Canadianscandiddtes Discontent in the Polios Not only is it becoming increasingly di& liouit to and recruits for the Metropolitan police force, but those wlso are already In arc very discontented with their position and rates of pay, The beet rcoruils com5. trent tee country dintricts, and contrary to ilio general supposition, very few aro enlisted from among the Army iiespry 1,.1c, Down reer11115 are rooked at askance, and always have been so. The reason for 1 latter to well founded, The townsman 'I'PRAC'1'1Yli FALL GOWN BY P,!tA I'IN. A. Paris Gown of Grey Corduroy. of grey corduroy, with upper part of tunic made of green silk voile, trimmed with silk cord and lace. EUROPEAN GOSSIP prefer it to pepper, which is rather too heating for all palates. Turkey's Polley, Tho Turks now confess that the mi'OBeiilg of the Maritza, is merely it diplomutidiplomatic)manoeuvre. The obleet of it is to extort recognition of the new position in Thrace, but the nsanoeuvro is not likely to suc- ceed. The Powers have decreed that Turkey shall not retainthe reoccupied Province, and do not intend to go btutk on their decision. On the other hand. they FRENCH CELIBATES PROTEST.. State Their Objection to it Tax on Bachelors. In the department of Oantal, France, thele ae an association of celebates whose members are great- ly upset at the projected bachelor tax. In haste a meeting has been which ]e mem- bersat Anrillaa, 1+1 al the bers attended to a man. A mani- festo was, of Course, launched into the world, "We .protest emphatically," ' it says, "against the projected tax by which we are threatened, It would be a veritable outl'oge on the liberty of the individual, "In case our legitimate protest should nob be heard by the Gov- ernment in eearch of fresh re- sources,and this arbitrary tax ware to be levied, the CaLalian As- sociation of Oe.lbbatee demands that the proceeds of the 'tax be de- voted exclusively to swell the cre- dit allotted Lo the new law for the sustenance of large families, ' .-.......art•..-,-,-. �.. :'Don't you think it absnril to speak of 'mull' its being made of dust, <le,ctor 1 1 "I th.i ek Lim teem more appropriate to girls.'' And why i'' ''They van t. such n lot %f troe blrr" wbru they vel lute a fol low's -eye." exoeseive. Sunday after Sunday, owing to the meetings iu the Park and in Trafal- gar Square, London, held priepoLpally by the Suffragettes, it has not been poeslble to give them the leave OT one day in sev- en which they were promised. Men are palled out for extra duty at these gather - lege, and receive no extra pay, while their scanty leisure is eaten up. There is no active movement among the men, but nevertheless the authorities are greatly concerned about the position, for never before have they had to take into the ranks recruits who were not up to a high standard. The oontinning good trade has, of course, something to do with 1t. The Admiralty's contracts. . It is stated in 'quarters which are, as a rule, well informed, that instead of com- pleting the programme of 16 destroyers by ordering three, the Admiralty may pur- chase three of the Chilton destroyere which are being built at Cowes by J. S. White and Company, These vessels are coal burners. But they are ane sea -going ships, and were designed by Sir Philip Means. Watts. Wlitte•s order was for six, and even if the three indicated are sold to the Admiralty they will eti11 be able to deliver six within the contract time. The Admiralty are taking prices for propel- ling machinery for dookyard.built light cruisers. London, Aug. 30, 1913. NE NS OF THE NOODLE !NEST DIT! ) FROM STARVATION. Terrible Story of Sufferings of Rus- sian Fislrernran. A terrible narrative of the death by starvation of over 100 fishermen and their families ill Nova Zembla, Russian Islands in the Arabic Ocean, is told in a St. Petersburg telegram to the Petit Parisian. Last winter was very severo, and the fishermen were unable to secure fresh supplies of food at the usual period, ,and the sea being frozen, it was impossible to obtain fish,. A scientific expedition visiting the is- lands found the skeletons of the fishermen and their' wives and chil- dren lying in the open, their huts having been wracked by the wind. Not a scrap of food was lest. Three of the dead women still carried their infants in their areas. In one slut was found a diary written by 'one of the fishermen. The lash entries read: "We have no more provisions and we cannot secure any fish. A ves- sel seen approaching' to -day, but it was only an illusion. It is terrible to sea owr children dying of hum - . ger. They come and cry to ins for food. We are reduced to eating our woollen garments. We are still keeping on hoping for help. "All the children are dead. We are now four fishermen living and two wotnen, Our sufferings are in- desoribable, Two of the men have just died. They tried to stave off their hunger by eating the flesh of their dead 'comrades.' The diary ends: "I, Gonoff, aal1 the last em vivor. S ,can very feeble. 1 ,a.m -trembling, acid my eyes are failing. "' Education Pays. It is well enough for a boy to know the advantages of an educa- tion. The man in, the future with- out an education is handicapped. The average man with an education unci Pot only knows too mach, in o batoilo is gets $ ,000 a year', the average is lase aissot,nbb' to discipline, 'us. Ira man itltout an education can'get tl o .ionutrvr . $1,50 per ,day. In 9:0 years the for- mer will earn $90,000, while the latter ]las 'earned $18,000, The man with an eclucation is $22,000 better off than the other man. It pays to 'think and to ]snow how to do eer- tain things. Every day in school is wprth a good deal to the average boy. not so observant WI is familiar with the streets and London wage. and Is not so intereele1 ie what goes on around 11ini as the nen front the enimtn1, tow1101n everythingis noyOl. The intelligent eonntrgmau, however, is naw nlm'o sinclined to emigrate and mail number or reelgnatione of young e st.thles from the force (itis roar `001Ut1,a0, rust' the pubito. if they lutv,e In moot rave, wenn t nrnolieinii i1,. cion that thein op rtnt tele tern they weri�d do boner abroad, To addition lb tate the went of teemelier 10 IiET'IYEIiN ONTARIO ANI) BM. 1'ISII C0LGb1DIA. Itcnte From Provineee Where Many Ontario Boys and Giris Aro "Making Good." In the province of Saskatchewan a movement is on foot to make the admission fee to moving picture shows 25 cents. Winnipeg faces the likelihood of baths, feasts, the furnishings and owing a big overdraft of about a appointments of the tabernacle and THE SUNDAY SCRIM. LESSON INTE1tNAT1ONAL LESSON, • ISEPTTtl:BEld 21. Ledswt XII, The Golden Calf (Temperance Lesson) --1;. Clulp. 82. Golden Text, 1 John 5.21. The chapters interveeing betwet ti our lest lesson and this ,,ue cein- tain sundry laws covering ku •de- tail the legislation relating to sah- milifon and a half to the banks at the end of December. Three Doukhobors were forcibly fed in the Regina jail. Since then they have been taking nourishment in the ordinary way, Civic employes at Winnipeg may have to punch time clucks soon, if a plan proposed by the Board of Con- trol is carried out, While trying to ride a horse for the first time, Miss Rubena Blanche Swinburn, a Regina, girl, was thrown and had her neck broken. Land agents in Lethbridge dis- trict say that more U.S. land buy- ers are coming this year than have come in the last four years put to- gether, A site for the big Dominion Gov- ernment elevator at Saskatoon has been chosen. It is a mile west of the city limits and covers 47 acres. Winnipeg's expenditure 011 schools this year, together with the amount clue the banks at the begin- ning of the year, exceeded the re- ceipts by $1.084,112.54. Miss Mabel Reid, a young woman of Moose Jaw, poured coal oil on the kitchen fire. A male boarder and her mother saved her from be- ing burned to death. Alleging that his wife contracted scarlet fever during her confinement at the oity hospital, Saskatoon, A. R. Hunt demands $400 from the hospital authorities. The Manitoba Government has secured an option on two parcels of land near Virden for the purpose of instituting a Provincial Government demonstration station. Over 3,000 head of Mexican and Texas long horn cattle were seized at Lethbridge, Alta., for underpaid duty. They belonged to a United States cattleman named Wallace. Moosejaw landladies have reduc- ed their furnished room rents by 25 per cent. over this time last year. House rents, however, are said to be maintaining their old standard. Fred. Hydenan, a three-year-old of Veregin, Sask., had his arm cut off by the knives of his father's binder, He was playing about the machine *hen the horses started up. Mrs. James Innis, who lives about 7 miles from Regina, has a favorite horse. She went into the stall of the pet horse to caress him, and the horse reared, trampled her, and broke three of her ribs. Sceptre, Sask., a flourishing town only nine months old, has four elevators, four general stores, one hardware, store, three machinery firms, two barber shops, two pool- rooms, two restaurants, and a forty -room, hotel, A grey timber wolf, believed to have escaped from River Park, Winnipeg, chased a dog along Flor- ence Avenue. A man saw the wolf and shouted at it,- whereupon it turned off towards the park. At last acounts the dog was still run- ning. A Viennese capitalisb is in Win- nipeg to study the famous Las do Bonnet power plant. He is one of a syndicate which intends, .if prac- ticable, to establisha liquid air plant in the Alps, with a capital of $3,000,000. With that end in view he is studying Canadian water pow- ers and the way they are operated. A. party of linemen in Winnipeg had their attention attracted by a slight noise at the top of a pole, and looking up saw one of their comrades hanging from a cross - arm, "just like a pair of old pants, as one of them said. Bert Carlyle had leaned against a live wire. He was taken down and artificial re- spiration saved his life. Joseph .Scwartz, a wealthy farmer of Rochester, Alta., advertised for a wife, and now gets his mail in a wheelbarrow. He has received let- ters from every state in the Union, and from all 'parts of Canada and Europe. Just at present he is too busy harvesting to attend to the letters, but sage he will attend to the matter after his grain is thresh- ed, $t Plan to Feed Airman. A sorb of "nursing bottle" has been devised for the use of airmen. 'The purpose of the bottle is to provide the pilot or his passenger 'with hot coffee, milk, soup or other liquids, during a cold winter's day flight. The galvanized tank, which may be attached to any convenient part of the (seraph -010'e .frame., has double walls. A glass bottle is carried inside and from the cork extends a long tube with a nipple on tiro end, through which the air - nom can drink to his heart's eon - tent while operating his nutchino. the regulations governing its ser- vices. All these, according to the narrative, were revealed to Moses in the recesses of the mountain where he met with Jehovah face to face. Joshua had accompanied him part of the way, and fur a still shorter distance Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel alsu (compare Food. 24. 1-15). While Moses tarried the people at the foot of the mountain became impatient of his return. The story of their impatience and apostasy and the consequent dis- pleasure of Jehovah is related in the opening verses of our lesson chapter. Verse 15. Went down from the mount—Returned unto the camp of Israel. Two tables—Or tablets of stone, already mentioned in 31. 18. 18. The tables were the work of God—Not so, however, the "two tables of stone like unto the first," which subsequently were substitut- ed for these and which Moses him- self, at the command of Jehovah, hewed out of the stone on the mountainside (compare Exod. 34 1-4). The writing was the writing of. God—So also in the subsequent table (Exod. 34. 1). 17. Joshua—Who had now rejoin- ed Moses un his way down the, mountain. The noise of the people—Great demonstrations of religious for- vor, including especially singing and dancing, were characteristic •of religious ceremonies in ancient times. 18. The noise of them that sing It was not the sound of con- flict, but of festive singing, which eame from the camp. 19. Moses' anger waxed hot— Once before in his early life had Moses grown exceedingly angry to the point of losing control of him- self. On this occasion his anger caused him to cast the tables of the sacred testimony out of his hands and break them. 20. The calf—A symbol of strength, borrowed from the re- ligion of the Egyptians. Burnt it with fire—The image would be east over a wooden core. Made the children of Israel drink of it—Implying that this drinking would .cause disease in those guilty of atry. a cal Verses 21-29 record thepp which Aaron made in behalf of the people and the relentless punish- ment inflicted by the loyal sons of Levi at the command of Moses. 30. Sinned a great sin -They hacl not only broken a definite pro- mise, but in doing so had been guilty of gross ingratitude toward Jehovah, Peradventure I shall make atone- ment for your sin—Appease in some way the wrath of Jehovah, apparently by offering himself in their stead to be blotted out of the roll of .God's people, 32. Forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy boolc—We are to supply in thought the ellipsis indicated by the dash, inserting some such words as "well and good," or "I am content," or "I have no more to say." The broken phrases indi- cate the deep feeling of Moses. 34, 35. I will visit their sin upon them It is not clear whether the threatened visitation' of punish- ment is to be thought of as follow- ing immediately, or at some later time, From the expression, "And Jehovah smote the people," some have inferred the Winer, while others think that the punishment referred to was the ultimate per, ishing of the entire generation in the wilderness, specifically men- tioned in Num. 14, 35 : ''In this wil- derness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die," BON BONS NOT POPULAR. Girls in London Now' Prefer Cigar. cites as Presents, FND I MERRY, OLD ENDLAN) NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOI114 BULL AND HIS PEOPLE, Occurrences in The Land Thal Reigns Supreme . in the Com- mercial World. The Lund Mayor of Marichester, wire has been knighted,' was ones a railway clerk, There is a dearth of cooks in Iron - den hotels owing to the enormous Canadian demand. A gang of men at Hull ]ticked a man to deal, while a crowd Stood by and idly looked an. The Ring has conferred the honor of knighthood (K.C.1.E.) on Major- General George 3. Younghusband. tSidmoutll's medical officer of health has repelled that there has been 110 death in the district during the month. Thirty thousand men have been rendered idle through a lock -out of Liverpool bricxmakers and their la- borers. Bromley (Kent) Town 'Council are to subscribe $5,000 towards the ac- quisition of the Crystal Palace for the nation. During shunting operations in the depot at Wormwood Serubbs a light engine was derailed and turn- ed completely over. Mrs. Margaret Hayes has been • presented with a gold watch by the Liverpool police for saving a con- stable from being stabbed. Dover inhabitants are petitioning for the discontinuance of the Ad- ' miralty dredging operations at night, owing to the hideous noises made. A hoopoe, a bird 'which has a cur- ious "top -knot" of feathers, and which'is rarely seen in Great Brit- ain, has been captured at Herten, Middlesex. Mrs. Todd, of Lazenby Hall, Northallerton, was attacked and tossed by a bullock, and was seri- ously injured before the animal was driven off. At the Blackburn Rural Council an inspector reported a case in which a pig was kept in the living room of a house as a pet for the children. An old London 'bus driver who -lost his occupation owing to the passing of his vehicle committed suicide by hanging to a peg at his tenement in Lambeth. While riding a motor -cycle be- tween Stibband, Norfolk, and Wood Norton, Philip Case, aged twenty-four, collided with a motor- car and was instantly killed. Mr. Henry Frederick Dodgson, fifty-one, a well-known London stockbroker, committed suicide at his residence, Green Lodge, Bov- ingden, near Hemel Hempstead. A swarm of bees settled round their queen on the top of a signal lamp on the London and North Western Railway at Shap Fells, and the light could not be seen. The Duke of Connaught presided at the annual prize distribution at the Royal Albert Orphanage. at 'Camberley, Princess Patricia hand- ing the awards to the winners. Private Charles Collins Togiiili, of the Arniy Medical Corps, has died at Cambridge Hospital as the result of a mosquito bits while on ambulance duty at Aldershot. When a postman eleared the pil- lar -box at the Houses of Parlia- ment he found that a considerable quantity of corrosive fluid had been poured in, and spoiled several let- ters. Three miners were rescued from Wallsend -on -Tyne pit after being entombed there for 18 hours by a fall of stone. The men were none the worse for their enforced im- prisonment. A petition signed by 97 farmers in the Hunmanby district has been forwarded to Lord Middleton, ask- ing for permission to invite neigh- boring packs to assist in the exter- mination of foxes. Mr, J. Frances, of Little Halling - bury (Essex), who has just entered his 90th year, worked for 71 years on one farm in the village. Both he and his wife, who is 88, are old- age pensioners. The. death is announced of Mr. Richard Furness at the University Hospital.' Ho was a well-knoWn all -rot -aid athlete, and was a sue- cessful contender in various brandies of sport under the name of Di* White. At one of London's (England) largest and most important candy stores it was said recently that the sale of bon -bons and chocolates in fancy boxes has greatly decreased of late years. "Of course we know wiry it is," said the proprietor'Woolen don't. eat bun -bons as they slid, They don't caro for them, now that they smoke so' universally. We used to have these ' boxes as dainty and pretty 11s possible because so many, rncn byought them as presents, but wess'elr one BOW where we once sold twenty. Girls want hoses of cigarettes, se''t de young men gra- tify this new taste, and now it is cigarettes which are being packets' in neat attractive little cries, while. ben -hone are sold by the pound to put in di-hc'v un the tables. lard Bottles For ii1ilk. Milk spoils quickly uickl when kept 1n a strong light, tend investigators have found that the rays of light near the violet end of the spectrum seem to have the must detrimental effect. Strong light acts in the same manner upon sterilized milk and upon pasteurized mills as upon pure, fresh mills; after being ex- posed in plain glass battles to full sunlight for a day, all three kinds of milk ware found to be complete- ly spoiled and unfit for use. On t.he' other hand, says the Scicntifie \meripan, red rays are beneficial, and Milk that is put ill bottles of red glass, or in bottles wrapped wide red wiper, will keep in good condition much longer than Milk bottled inkx lass thab permits the passage of all the lightewaves,