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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-7-16, Page 3Hints for the Home j With Currants. Currants, in spite of their rather. insignificant place. en 'our hills sof fare—'save in the form of jelly -.are decidedly beneficial to humanity, For their chief constituents, pot- ash, tartaric: acid --which give them their eharpnoss—and grape sugar, an ea'"i1y digested substance, all have value. English dieticians, es- pecially, harp on the health -pre- serving qualities of 'this small fruit. Perhaps the reason for the limit- ed use of currants is that most cooks have a limited way of pre- senting them. Currant jelly, of course, that is known in every household. It is one of the main- stays of life. You remember the fastidious echeol teacher who de- clared that a real lady would know by i,lstinet that the proper accom- paniment of roast lamb was currant 3e !Lt. 1 When .any 'article of Food has reached the stage where it is considered a 'test of ladyhood ib must be widely aece.pted. And some cooks know the deli- oaey- of currants, chilled through, removed from their 'sterns and serv- ed with an ice-cold syrup of sugar and water poured over them, in the French fashion. Occasionally other methods .of serving currants are rife. Bub on bhe whole, they are usually served in a monotonous natural state when they are in sea- son and in an incessant jelly state after their season has gone by. Currant Jelly.—Currant jelly is not to be decried, in spite of the fact that it is ever present. • Here is a reliable recipe for making 3t: Mash nicely washed currants and put them in cheesecloth bags. Hang the bags so that the juice will strain through and leave them hanging for eight or ten hours. Then measure the juice, and for every cupful allow a cupful of granulated sugar. Heat the •sugar in a flak pan in the oven, bat do not brown it or melt it. Boil the clear juice fur five minutes, then add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Just before it reaches the boiling point after the sugar is added, remove from the fire and pour into glasses that have been scalded. When the jelly is eoarl cover it well with par- afCine. Currant Catsup.—Currant catsup suggests another way of preserving 'currants. Wash and stem the cur- rants, and to four pounds of the fruit, after it is prepared, add two pounds of brown sugar and a pint of gaud eider or wine vinegar. Sim- mer gently in a porcelain pan until thick. Then add a teaspoonful of cloves, a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon and :the same amount of ground pepper. Boil five minutes, strain and bottle. Currant Wine.—This delicacy of the day of our grandmothers is not dificulb to prepare, and it is, in- deed, a delicacy. Te make it wash four pounds of currants, stems and all, and put them in a large kettle. Add a 'gallon of water and ,put it in a geed cellar for three days. Stir front time to time. Then press the currants through a cheeaeclobh and strain the la.quid. Add three pounds of granulated sugar and stir. Pour into a cask and stand away until ib ceases to ferment. Then bottle.. Currant Desserts. — There are many deliciouts -currant desserts, and one of them is sharteake. This can 'be made •eiibher with cake( or biscuit trust. The currants, care- fully washed, stemmed and dried, should be crushed and sweetened and spread between the layers, meringue or whipped cream cam be added to the'currants piled on top. Centine Pie.—Wash and stem enough currants to measure three cupfuls .and pub them in a deep pudding dish, Cover them with enough sugar to sweeten these. If they are very sour they will needa good cupful, Then pour over them half a cupful of boiling water and put the dish in a slow oven to sim- mer gently for half an hour. Re- move from ,the oven, cool and cover with• pie crest, Bake untie brown, and sprinkle with powdered sugar, Currant lee Cream. — To make 'currant ice cream partly freeze any ' good lee eream mixture or frozen cu,eitee'd and then add a cupful of washed and stemmed cur ranee to a pint of cream, Finish .'.freezing, pack and .bat stand for two hours, Red Currant Fool.—Thia is a very dainty dessert if it as served very cold, Crush raw or stewed cur - !ants .through a sieve, to remove Skins tnd� emcee Mix them with a think' auatard and,then add a little gelatine, 'dissolved in hob •milk.: Chill thoroughly and serve in .gla'ss. es with a little whipped dream on wrong side when ib is partly dry,. To slake wall paper snick over calabeined er whitewashed walls gat a large brush and some ochre and paint the walls firab, Jelly bags, pudding cloths, and strainer cloths should be thrown into clear warm water immediately after using, All rubbing and wringing by twie'ting is harmful when washing woollehs; be sure to rinse out all the soapsuds. A chicken for broiling .should be Wrapped: in a bothered paper bag. This will ljeep the meat moist and retain the flavor, Try the plan o8 allowing a day to intervene between the washing and ironing, and see if ib does not prove a strength -saver, Hair brushes can be cleaned by putting ammonia in cold water and dipping the brush in, being careful not to allow the wood to go in ,the water; then rinse in clear cold wa- ter. Nothing is better than a large pair of bellows for blowing dust out of the piano. The front must of course be taken off to get to the strings. To drive a nail into plaster first bore a hole about twice the diame- ter of the nail or screw and fill it up with soft plaster of Paris. In- sert the nail, and when the plaster hardens ib will hold like iron. To iron a natural colored pon- gee so as to preserve its be{tuty, iron ib only when i,t is perfectly dry and with an iron only moderately hot, as nothipg scorches quite so easily as silk. Do not sprinkle pongee, as the water spots never iron out. To clean canabot1omed chairs sponge both sides of the cane thor- oughly with hot soapsuds in which a handful of Balt has' been dissolv- ed. Then stand the chairs in the open air to dry. This cleans them beautifully, the cane is kept agood color, and if the seats have relaxed with wear they become quite firm again. A good soup for invalids is made by adding a half-pint of beef tea to e half -ounce of tapioca; stir over the fire until it comes to a, boil, then simmer until tapioca is thor- oughly cooked. Flavor with salt and pepper. When cool stir in the yoke of an egg well beaten; sim- mer slowly until the egg is cooked. To clean .a dirty matting: First shake it well to remove all dust, then wast. it with salt and water. It must not be made very wet, and should be well dried after being rubbed with a coarse cloth, then hung over a rail in the' sun. If there are any stains, spirits, such as gin, 'will remove them. —a Iltuts for the Moria. Grape juice 10 a fine fierorin•g for ouetetrds, Tho stove wit.... red toll will have a cool oven. To clean ::brase and copper dip hall a leniob in 'salt, Caramel euwtard is an agreeable change freinetlteesrd nary 'sort, Sponge blacltailk w,itil eloar oef- SORE QUEER TASTES. Monkeys and Bears Nave a Liking. for Alcohol. Some animals and ale° birds have very extraordinary tastes for dif- ferent foods and drinks quite apart from those which Nature has pro- vided thein, and it is in the know- ledge of these peculiarities that the skill of the trapper lies. So marked is a monkey's taste for an intoxicating liquor made from the fermented juice of Tice that this drink is invariably used for trap- ping these creatures. Bears are verypartial to alcohol, and many of the performiing variety find their highest reward in honey and beer, or rum -and -water mixed with su- gar. Canaries delight in eating let - 'Wee, which is well known for its narcotic properties, and they will eat it to sueh an extent as to leave thennselves etupefied for a long time afterwards. Foxes, ordinarily the most cun- ning and, consequently, the moat dificulte to capture of animals, readily submit to a trap baited with the body of a dead cab. Stoats; weasels, etc., are seldom proof against a trap 'sprinkled with oil from fish. • All LONDON'S HOCKS.. Enormous Amount of Shipping Which Is Done. As London is bhe world's larges'. market,, .so, also is it -the, world's leading port. Yet few people seem to realize what marvellous hives of industry are dile docks of the metro- polis. - In the course of a year more than thirty-nine million tons of shipping uaa, the quays and wharves that con-. seitute'the Port of London ;,and the value of bbs foreign •brado' alone is something like 390 millions sterling -about a quarter; time is to say, of the annual exports and imports of the 'Vetted Kingdom, ;It t!oltld' take a million a mena year. to .produce tllo'•auiotint of tee that .passes .anelually,..tlrough the port. The figures rebuffing to other imports, 'aitch as grain, timber, wool, Tema, _ sugar, 'wlnee and ;tobac- co, aro on the scene enormous scalp. In the wine and spirit vaults at the London :Docks the gangways where the wine is 'stored are 281/4 elites in length. Por the wool trade the Port of London Authority pro- vides a space of thirty-two Litres, and ib can More sib one time more than a million fronen carcases of mutton and the 1,20,000 tatia of beef that Australia, New Zealand, and South America send eo London =eh fee to freshen it, .and lecin on the year. Suffragettes at Laurence Irving's Funeral. Two Suffragettes from the Actresses' Franchise League outside St. Margaret's Church, London, when a memorial service was held in remembrance of the late Laurence Irving and his wife, Mabel Hack- ett, who were drowned when the Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Laurence River. Weil PANAMA CANAL PAY? IS IT WORTH WHILE AS A BUSI- NESS PROPOSITION? The Maintenance Expense Mil ' Be Twenty-two Million a Year. Now that the Panama Canal is near- ly finished, a review of the prospects for returns on the investment may be interesting. Charles Frederick Carter, in the New York Sun, makes this estimate: Up to the end of 1913 the outlay on the undertaking footed up $314,- 726,717, By the time the Job is fin- ished it will have cost, according to present estimates, $375,000,000, or say $3.75 for each man, woman, and child in the country, This is more than tho nine other principal -,aterways of the world, including the Suez Canal and the two canals at Sault Ste. 'Marie, have cost. The fortification scheme will absorb other millions, to which must be added the cost of maintenance and operation. ' Possible Traffic. Estimates submitted to the New York Chamber of Commerce by its committee on foreign commerce in February, 1912, fix interest on bonds issued to build the canal at $11,000,000 a year; upkeep, operations, and oon- tingenctes, $6,500;000; total, $14,500,- 000 a year. This does not include provision Inc amortization of bonds, which would require an additional $7,- 500,000 a year for fifty years, making a grand total of $22,000,000 a year to be derived from the revenues of the canal in order to place it on the basis of a commercial enterprise paying its own way. This includes •nothing for profit; but the benefits popularly ex- pected to . be derived from the oper- ation'of the canal may be assumed to be acceptable in lieu of cash revenue. So far as published records -disclose, no one seems to have thought of: the expediency of investigating the com- mercial prospects of the canal while the undertaking was under consider- ation. Search through several ponder- ous volumes of reports of canal hear- ings before Congressional committees reveal Just two pages of vague gen- eralizations on the commercial out- look, including 'a summary of thirty- three estimates of possible traffic, These ranged from 400,000 tons a year, the estimate of Joseph Nimmo, ,Jr., then chief of the Bureau of Statistics,. of the Treasury 'Department, to 15,- 750,000 tone, The high estimates were all from .French sources, the highest being that of Bonau-Varilla. The Frencll, it will be remembered, bad a canal concession, to sell, and Bunau- Varitla; was: trying to sell it for them. Old Routes Shorter, Panama is not on the line of any great commercial 'movement, bnt is far distant from any such movement, While the parallel of Suez rune through the most densely populated areas of the world, no less than 94 per cent, of the earth's mulatto"' lives north of Panama. The Suez route through the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, Indian Octan, by way of In ilia, Ceylon, Straits Settlements,' and The rlelt net Indies 1 thickly dotted With ports having a large and luck'- tivo traffic. The Panama Canal• will connect two ocean solitudes. To sum up, the older routes , are shorter,' or for other reasons, are more attractive for the greater part of the world's shipping than the Panama' route. For the small portion for which Panama is in a position to compete, Suet' has the advantage, for it can nut its present rate nt $1,55, and still pay good dividends, Tete only war for us to secure even the small part of traffic which le competitive would Ile to matte the canal free, in that - case we should be In the posit oa of having spent $875,000,000 ter the bene, fit of foreign ehipownere. Loss than 9 per cent, of our foreign trade is Carried in American vessels, So long as a British ship of 2,500 tons can be operated. for $18,289 less per year, and a German ship for $15,315 less a year than an American ship of the same size, so long will the world's carrying trade be performed by foreign ships, no matter how many canals we dig at Panama. •1•— ALFONSO SHAVES IN YARD. King's Wish to Remain Tncognito Respected in Castile. King Alfonso of Spain is fond of taking motor trips incognito. He motored recently through a wild region of Castile and put up at a modest inn. "I am sure," he said, "that they won't know me 'here." Well, they did know him there. They treated him like an ordinary traveller, so much so that when he went to shave the next morning he found there was no mirror in his room. So he went into the inn in his -shirt sleeves and there a chaan- berniaid brought him a broken piece -of Mirror which he set up be- side the well. Finally she said "You aro not just an ordinary traveller, are you?" "Why do you ask •mo that l" "I don't know," said the maid, "but there's something about you— perhaps you belong to the royal court at Madrid?" "Yes, I do," he answered. "Perhaps you work for bis Ma- jesty Himself?" "Yes, I do." "And what do you do for him?" asked the chambermaid. "Oh, kite of things," the Icing re- plied. "I'm I m shaving him just now . 18 YEARS IN COLD STORAGE. • Quarter of Beef Appeared Perfectly Sound. A quarter of beef kept for eigh- teen years in cold storage was ex- posed to :the public view for an hour and a half at the Smithfield (Lon- don) markets recently. No test woe, made of its eating quelibies, bub the meat appeared perfectly sound, al- though slightly faded. It was put back into sstOrage to remain an ob- ject of curiosity, the owners hoping it may be allowed to complete a eentiuy, ae least. The quarter was shipped from Brisbane, Australia,in February, 1896, to a firm of military contrac- tors at Malta, who used it for ex- perimental purposes. When the Government recently took over the storage at Malta, :the firm shipped the piece to London. The system of refrigeration ems pboyed during this period;was brine eireuletion produced by an ainmo- nlacompression machine.. Little 'Known Wireless Facts. Wireless messages aro tient 11suoli more easily at night.. than in the day tionm and in welter , than ie sunimet',' and the autunge tinder fav- orableconditions et midnight due: ,lig midwinter is said to be ieeveral bandied per cent, better than at Moon in midanmater, 'l Miss Flirt—Jack told me last nigieb that .T was his very 'life, %Tor Brother -3s j$ lvill-eoon find out flow uncertain life is. If you recommend :a . man 'for a position and he. acts 'badly it is doughnuts to ,fltdge 'blhat you will bo blamed for it all the rest ,of your days, Pur English Letter Financiera Tenn Sig Plana. Arthur Murton Grenfell, whose offal's have afforded the city NO to leh Moen - Mon lately, had tlw weaknose that Is e lnmut, to .must 111n1u9brs tot' groat 11411.1P304.' RUM, time ago he beeatno_ the owner c1' Itoehamptuft house which us- td to belong' Cy the Earls of Levert and Malt Ahs 1t would be Busy to moralize on the cumber of financiers who have planned lordly 'Mouser a{rd enjoyed them col' a very short white, The great house 40 Park Lane, where Bir 1'huiu 5ussoun now lives, was hardly finished when Barney Burnett), its creator, co{omitted suicide.. Whitaker 1Yrlght never saw half the echeples he bud planned carried out at Witi'SY Park,• Gadalrnh,g; where Lot•d ,k'li'rle now keeps hes herd of deer. Bu- ren Grant'e immense mansion in Sten- sington-was s1111 In the builder's hands When the cruel, came. Whole 'World Iielpe to Feea Jolts Bull. The provisioning of the British le105 is en0 of, the marvels of the world, Tho foreign produce imported is by far the Largest iter in the national rood 1,111. it ds imported from praeteally every country on the globe and totals $1,- 376,000,000 a year, rather less than a third of which Is credited to British oversee possessions. ' The largest individual contribution, 9176,000,005 worth of feed,come from Argentina. Or other countries outside o1' Europe. the United States cOm55 1051, With about $1t1,0o00,000 less, fol- lowed by India, with U25,000,005; Can- aria with $105,000.000; Australia with $70,040,OUO; New 'Zealand with -$50,000,- 000, and so on throngh a list of eighty t or ninety separate countries down to at the ]louse of Gacehaeus a chief Arghanista . 1a0 0 N E SUNDAY SCHOOLMR INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JrLY 19. Lesiton.111, Blind JlnrtiSllaoiks. Mark 10. 46-5'2, (Widen Text lea. 35, 5,6. Verse 46. Jericho—At the time' of Chrr.st, a walled city, 'through which ran a Roman military' react, and the city in .which Herod re- sided, It was situabecl .about eigh- teen miles from Jerusalem .and se- ven miles, from the •Jordan River. He went out frees.; Jericho This is the only time of which we have FROM MERRY QLD [NOLAN.J NEFYS 13Y MAIL ABOUT 401I1 SULL AND 1118 PEOPLE. OccurrenOcs In The Lend Iha$ Reigns Snprenle In the Coin• energise World. During last weep 14 eases of error,.. fever .were reported' in Yorkshire.' Tobacco is 'being grown, on, ar average 'of 1411 acres in Grc,at B110 tain. Thirty -boys are to be. tried es assistan t• conductors of L.O.C. ,tram- way care on the Greenwich route, Albert Bridge, Windsor, is to be any record that Jesus tarried in rebuilt. It is to have two opens in Jericho, though he must have pass- sbeed of -a single span, gas at pro - ed throe h it man times in cent, g y ' going Cripplegate Mill, a, former 1a•nd- from Galilee to ,Jthe es this, mark three and n hal£ miles fl'oan moreer ast journey, th•e stages are Horsham, has been destroyed by -' definitely marked and the fire' cities through which ,he passed men- London is perhaps as hard bit Honed. in Preceding , offnhi tell gf financially by the sinking of the Eon - bis entering Jericho his dining press ref Ireland as by the loss of n's r,i, contributions of publican,. of his passing through thHe erbein't •Bennett., a Lowestoft th of dried raisins. fisherman, has died as the result of a scratch from the fins of a dog fish a few clays ago. Kent Education Committee have decided to increase the salaries of; the county teachers ab a cost of about; $25,000 a year. The Isle of Wight county educm, tion authorities have decided to dis- tribute free 8,000 teeth brushes to the school children. Three boy scouts were struck by lightning while sheltering under a tree at Limpsfield, Surrey, and one. was rendered unconscious. Harrowgate Corporation have ap- plied to the local Government Board for sanction to borrow $31,000 for the enlargement of the ICursaal,' A man named Shepherd placed his head on the line in front of a train at Portsmouth and was de- capitated in the presence of several people. Several eases of typhoid fever, caused through drinking water frena the.River Trent, have been reported to the Gainsborough Rural: Council. For driving a motor car at Receip- t= Court at a rate of thirty four miles an hour, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, was fined $15 at Felt- ham Police Court. The death has occurred et Mar- lingllam, Surrey, of Sir Joseph Wil- son Swan, ;the inventor of the in - for the Messiah, whom the people candescent electric lamp. He was decided not to lnterferthat the ondt- expected, as the prophets had fore- eighty-seven years of age. The committee nerd Horns and bones of a wild ox and tions of business and two nature- of the told, _ would bea descendant of Dat -id . This title is here used for the first time in Mark's Gospel. 48. Many rebuked him -They did not wish to have Jesus troubled by the shouts of a blind beggar. He cried out the more a great deal—Not being able to see Jesus, or to tell where he was in the crowd, the blind man felt that his opportunity was passing, and his cry was one of desperation. 49. Jesus stood still—He could nob let the piteous appeal pass un- heeded. 50. Casting away his garment -- Hie outer robe„ which was long and loose• and would impede his motions, in running or rapid walking, This act shows how earnest and eager Bartimsails was. 51, What wilt thou that I should In these bills—ate figures given are for 1912—the largest amounts paid to the, respective countries were for meat from Argentina, wheat and tea from In- dia, wheat from Canada, wheat anti meat from Australia, mutton from NOW Zealand and Wheat and bacon from the United States. There is still one egere to be added which surpasses all the rest In interest, not on account of its magnitude but for precisely the oPPo- site reason. Eight years ago the itripor'ts of chilled and frozen meat from the United States were valued at more than $125,000,000. In 1012 they had sunk to $.76,000,000. In Europethere are three countries —Denmark, the Netherlands and Ger- many—each of which exportsto us food to the value of 950,000,000 or. more. The. Danish and Dutch exports total $105,- 000,000 and $70,000,000 respectively. 11 seems almost incredible that Denmark, one of the smallest countries of the world, should be able to supply us with food, chiefly butter and eggs, worth more than a quarter of tete value of our fooessdions importsabroadfroth,even all tt hohe ugh 13rittssohme poial- s- lowances must be made for the fact that Denmark draws front Russia part Of the supplies which she 'exports to, this country. 6 The case of Ireland is evenmore. striking. Not many Persons realize that she is Great Britain's largest provision- er, with a total of 9150,000,000 worth of food a year. In 1912 she supplied the slater Island with $10,000,000 worth more meat than Argentina; with more butter than any other country but Den- mark; more eggs than any but Bessie and four tlmbes as much poultry as her nearest competitor. Beef Trust Probe in Y,ondon. The City Corporation' of London has considered the case of the big American meet trust firms and their alleged con- trol over the English meat supply. The prop.tsal was made that the develop- ment of such a trust should be clipped by ,lacing a limit on the number of stalls it may hold • in the Smithfield Market, but the corporation, accepting the report of the special 'committee, has the city, sweeting the rich young man, giving the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, and re- plying to theinconsideratedemand of James and John for 'the first places in his kingdom, with his tesching of greatness through eer- vice. ` Now, on his way out of the city, he saes a despised blind beg- gar by the 'wayside, and discontin- ues his discourse .to teach by exam- ple a lesson of brotherliness and helpfulness. A great multitude — Better, "a considerable crowd." • The son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus— ft would seem from the mention of the father's name first that he was known to the Christians 'for whom Mark wrote. Sitting by the way side—A blind beggar would expect to receive alms from the pilgrims going to Jerusa- lem for the Passover. 47. When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene — Bartimaeus, though blind, knew that an unusual number of people were passing, and he may have inquired the cause. 13e had no doubt heard of Jesus be- fore as the prophet of Nazareth, and the hope of receiving help for himself, as he had heard of others having received it, arouses him to put forth the greatest effort to bring his request to Jesus. Son of David—A. popular name trade have very materially changed dur- ing the last ten years and that the ten- dency to eliminate the middleman, er commission agent, and to concentrate the trade into fewer hands is affecting; tho meat trade as well as other activi- ties: The corporation decided, however, by 90 votes to 70, to have a private in- quiry to ascertain which sections o: the market, if any, are under American control. '• Talks Again After Ten nears. A strange story of a deaf and dumb diver recovering his speech and hearing after ten years comes. front Ashford (Rent). 'while performing conjuring feats in the cattle market the man, named Egan, had a fit, which Is believed to have re- moved'a clot of blood, and, when he re- covered he surprised his 'friends by speaking quite clearly. Egan says that ten years ago while diving near a wreck in American wa- ters he was attacked by a shark, which bit him on the leg. The shock caused him to become a deaf mute, and he had since eked out a living by travelling about performing conjuring tricks. Be intends to return to the united States, where his relatives 11v -e, Bnglieb. Opposed to rarkin. The more conservative ,nen among the English trade unionist, who recall their trouble with Jim Larkin, the Irish strike agitator, when he tried to "raise the fiery cross" in England during the Dublin strike of lastyear, are greatly the antler of a red deer, both pre- historic animals, have been found while dredging in the River Thames at Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Losing control of her bicycle while descending a hill, Dora E. Dyer, :aged 19, daughter of a North- ampton architect, was thrown • through the window of a shop and badly hurt. Several letter boxes in Bath were recently found to contain a black fluid of a varnish nature. Many envelopes wereundeciphera- ble and were returned to the Dead Letter Office. At all Saints Church, Gcodmeyor,, Mrs. Joan Bush, aged seventy-nine, was married to Mr. John Mayez,, of - , Belvedere, aged eighty. The best man was an octogenarian, and the do un'tce thee?—That is, "\What do bride was given away by another yen wish me to do for you ?" All octogenarian. three evangelists record this In a collision between a motor friendly question of Jesus. ear and a motorcycle at a eharp Rabboni—An Aramaic word for bend between Shields and Morpeth. Master er Lord, apparently a more alarmed over his latest announce ment• ,d+ 'dignified title than rabbi. It was Larkin resigned the leadership of the g Irish Transport Workers the other used by Mary Magdalene when she night, but it was hinted that he had recognized Her risen Lord (John been asked to get out. He has nos announced that he 10 coming to England to start a syndicalist union of transport workers here similar to the one he or- ganized in Ireland. The English workmen foresee that It Lwill arkin andshisymethods, andhtheyaiare talking of making a combination of all English trade unions with that end in view. "Stockings" for "Fire Hone," Some amusing ,Mistakes will be avoided when the International Fire Dictionary" in French, German' and English comes out, Edwin O,. -Sachs, a vice-president of the international' fire service council, has given eeveral in- stances of recent mistalcea in are tran- slation;" for example: and Hose should be thirty foot long half afoot in diameter" becomes 'Are - men should wear stockings thirty feet long,etc." "Ietead of hose carssome take their manuals" becomes "Instead of. Stocktnga some take their handbooks," manuale really being 0 ]rind of fire vehicle. "A fireman should be on watch" be- comes a fireman should have his watch on," ' "Some cities always have an attend - a1100 of Steamers" boeolnes "steamboats are always to be found in port towns" —though steamer Is only another .kind. of aro. vehicle, • "Jumping sheet" .:has appeared ae "skipping sheet; on the analogy of seeming rope,." English. Village to be Sold. Oacil Sobag Montefiore intends selling 00 whole of his Essex estate, com- prising the village of Meted and about 3,000 acres of land in that parish, "as trio result of repent legislation," 001'. Montefiore bought the estate about throe, years sego. ... London, Juno 23, 1914, 0 Silence Is golden—except tv'llon we have a citanoe 'to say something about somebody we dole= particu- larly like, "Thomas," said rho mobl'isr, se- verely, "someone Lias taken • a big 'Tlmas `iece of •ginger cake out of •ilio pen- t;r fip Tommy blushed guiltily, ":Ojiv," sol" she exclaimed, :"I , didn't Heinle he Weis in yon I" "It 20, 16). 52. Hath made thee whole -0r,, "saved thee." And straightway be received his. sight, and Followed him in the way Jesus had said, "Go thy way," He had not suggested Bertimaeus's fol- lowing him, but B'artimeaus no doubt wanted' to remain near the Master, and he joined the .company of pilgrims who wore going to Jerusalem, and Luke adds, "glori- fying God." PLOVi'ING WITH DOGS. Prospector Farmer In Yukon found Little Success itt Plan. A correapcudant, while waiting foe a steamer at Eagle, en bbs Yu- kon, was attracted by lend howl ings in 'several different keys, ac- companiect by a string of Iiuent maths and curses, writes the editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal, On investigating the .source of the uproar lite discovered an indignantrospectcr-farmer at- tempting it• t a small field w 1 tem>,pting ,to plow au team of five big, shaggy "hush- les," It Was duly 5, and the tern- peratttrs was 85 degrees in 111e shade. The poor dogs, with swollen tongues hanging from, thefr nlottthe, were struggling 'gamely ill the hob snn, but wore moving the plow by droll, irregular jerks, Every few minutes they would throw ;theta. selves exhausted on the ground and thele their exeitied ittastel' woulcd assail them with whip, hoots and verbal pgystoteclhnies eimullbaneously. Altogether, it eras pioturescque, but ilieff, ktivb plowing. tTluckily, ain't all," ''replied Tommy. "Parti 'there was no local ;society for the of it's in T'1sie.'t l prevenbion of crnolty to ani,tnttls, Colonel Hudson of North Shields, who was driving the motorcycle, and Miss. Iiudean, evllo was in the side -car, were both seriously in- jured. PREHISTORIC FLIES. Found Preserved in Amber From Ages Before Man. Certain careless flies, ants, and other insects that existed on the earth before there was man, an tangled their feet in deposits of re- in falling from the trees, The aroma stupefied them and they died. Meanwhile subtropical vegetation disappeared from the Aretic circle, contanente separated themselves from one another, lifeascended in the scale, and man male and took to wearing elotllee and looking af- ter things. Now, about the same lime when mall had learned tto fly, those vara lass insecth appear again, quite un- changed, but set in amber. They are on, view in London, where the royal"Russian amber mines ai'e now showing alt exhibition of ;all the curioeities of the kind tricot have been discovered in their . amber mines in the last hall century. The' chief depastt of amber is at a place called' Konigsberg, •nem' the. coastline of Fast Peuesia, With the new freedom in colons and' decoration in rotnem's dress, amber, with its variety of hues end shapes, alas found e, um impor. tante. But ib is 'letter without the flies. A(kpeaHng, Mita, Mugghrs•--"Does your leis band a'p �ee to you as a veal:aide tt' . tr ire-- �To' exactly.` rs, � t'Tet Mee, gg thee, it's the other ivv'ay, 'VV'lloai hs', beginseing I appeal to hint.".:::i