HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1902-12-18, Page 2TONS OF PUDDING SENT
British Makers Shipping
Christmas Delicacy,
JEWELLERY FOILED IN THEM,
London deapattIi: 111111 the 0p•
preach of C111•letlnas. the plum pud-
ding Industry of England -which so
far ham not been called upon to re-
pel any American Invasion other
than that mute up of consumers -
is in its glory. From London tone
of festive pudding find their way all
aver the world,
The Oxford street shop of the beet
known makers of plum pudding has
orders for to sending of pudding to
every quarter. Many are ordered as
Christmas presents for friends In the
United States. The puddings are
packet in tine and sent by parcel
pose as a rule. A talk with the man-
ager cabled for some interesting In-
formation.
"We eell about 250 tons of plum
Pudding poli Chrt-lase," he said,
roughly speaking, 82,000 puddings,
averaging seven pounds eaoh, be-
side some half million large cakes.
"The old oustom of putting a
three -penny bit in the family plum
pudding has developed Into a very
expensive fashion. Costly jewelry and
oharme are now sant concealed in
the heart of the pudding. Man) of
our customers send small toys and
ornament.s to be Inserted. \\e have
several times despatched diamond I
rings in this way to different parts
of the country. A year or two ago
a royal poreouage sent us an meta -
Ment worth £500 with Instructions
tot boll 11 in a budding. It lea rather
da:; serous fashion.
"Postage rates for plum pudding
are extraordl:ary. A seven -pound
pudding costing $2 sent to Rhodesia
Is charged the seine nmoutrt for pos-
tage, while the rate for Hong Kong
for the came pudding 14 only fifty
Bents, The duty of nearly 50 per
pout. on plum puddings Imported in-
to the United States las now been
abolished, and wo are sending niany
to America. 'We have, scut some IAN
far owl tut San Francisco."
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NEWS IN BRIEF
e'VWNf�dtAK
CANAIPAN.
Tho Welland Canal will be closed
on December 15.
Parliament lit not expected to open
until February 10.
Mr. George Dawson, formerly of
Toronto, dropped dead In Montreal.
Lord and Lady Minto stave re-
turned to Ottawa from Montreal.
Premier Ilaultaln w'ae banqueted at
Regina an his return from England.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier will probably
remain at Hot Springs, Va., until
tho stew year.
An application has been made for
a recount of the referendum vote
In Scpth Toronto.
Wool and bristles from the New
England States hare been prohibited
from entering Canada.
The next annuli meeting of the
Ontario Division of rho Sons of Tem-
perance will be held In Oshawa.
Tho coal L01111110 bit more marked
In Toronto, by the arrival of the very'
severe cold wase.
Col. Macdonald was injured at Ot-
tawa by the fall of a quantity of
piaster from the ceiling al his of-
fice.
V. S. capitailale have offered to
ppurchaso i1ve thousand shares of
Royal Bank of Canada stock at $250
a share.
William Campbell pleaded guilty
at Sandwich of assaulting J. W.
Hannah, barrister and was re-
manded for sentence.
Herbert C. Johnston has been
sentenced to two years' imprison -
went at Montreal for conspiracy
to defraud the C. 1'. la
Mr. James Ro„ere n•m4 hit son, tvho
were lnjureri at 'a Havelock railway t
ceoesing, diel in Teterboro' Hospi-
tal. I f
E'titorn banks and financial inett-
tuttonn ere planning the establlalt-
e:ent of executive board; at Win-
nip,•g to manage Weutern Itivcst-
Iarnt;.
web -r mania.. of the Toronto
Work.: Commit tee has reeonun"(ded a
temporary railway bridge, waist of
('herr,~ street, over the old Doff
channel.
Mr. .1. 33',',sley Smite, dry goods
111.1'f'101 111, of H,illhtx, who died re-
cently, left about 860,000 to var-
ious. bra(ghee of Methodist Church
work ant about 8:10,000 to educu1•
Lionel and charitable institutions.
About noon a young man named
Christensen, aged about 25 years,
eon of Andrew Christensen, (*gent of
the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation
Company, Tadousrte, slipped over
the St. Catharines Baty, Que., wharf
uud was drowned.
' BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The King of Saxony is confined to
lits (teak by an attack of bronchilie.
itousa is of!matt ellea with the
award In tho Behring Sen cages ar-
bitration,
A opecia1 from Marquette, Mich.,
.nye action 16 mine is burning. The
fire is beyond control.
A party' to support Emperor Wil-
11uu'8 policy wile ba orgenlcal with
the title, the Kamer party,
At Newark, N. ,1., 11 111411 was aen-
Lmicel to six month's' Inrprlsonnnmit
for nttemptlg to commit su.clde.
An increase of one h.tl.penny a lout
in the price of bread intensifies the
distress In tho east 01143 of London
U. 8. Secretary Wilson says It
will coot $700,000 to etamp out the
tout and mouth disease.
Lord itosebery advised noneon-
fornlstN not to tummy submit to the
education bill.
in the House of Lords the Bishop
of Hereford scathingly condemned
the eduoatlon bill.
A Britten Parliamontary commit-
tee reported against the principle of
steamship subsidies.
Signor i'olaa•co, ltitlia1 Minister at
Sofia, committed sutcld,s by throw-
ing himself front the window of as
At 141'1111, D. lillbrlde, former mem-
ber of 1'ardam''nl, Was se11tence I to
igI1 months' imprisonment -!or W-
eenie to murder.
Wei Kuang Tao, 'who was recently
nppoluted Viceroy of Nanking, 1s
generally regarded as a moderate
conservative man, of strict integ-
rity.
At St. Louie a former member of
the Iloa:e 01 Del( grates w418 ee,toi.oed
to tour years' ituprleonment in eon-
neetlon with the "bood.ing" cases.
The Committee on Agriculture of
the 0bibs! states ('uugt'mse :tales
:1.000,000 to light the cattle dirr-
0;,sc u: tho New England states.
The. Archblkltop of Canterbury, who
watt taken RI while making u speech
in the !louse of Lords a few days
ago, end Stasi to be escorted from Ute
Chamber reportwl to bo worse.
The conference at Detroit paseed
revolutions favoring reciprocity with
C.nnda, ane severe. thousand dollars
were eubscrltied to start •t campaign
1n; the United State* to that end.
A start:leg increase in suicides in
the Rungarhm army has aroused the
auteorltiee to an investigation. Kik
recruits belongnig to a tringle regi-
ment have committed euicide In two
months.
The British ateaniship Denbigh-
shire, from Manila and Marseilles, is
nearing New York, breasting a
strong northwester, with some sort
of contagious dleease, presumably
the plague of cholera, aboard.
The following additional Nobel
prizes have been awarded at Stock-
holm: Literature, Prof. Mbmmsen;
chemistry, Prof. Emil Fischer, of Ber-
lin ; peace, Prof. Frederlelt von Mar-
tens, of St. Petersburg. The physics
prize Is divided between Professors
Lorenz and Zeeman, Holland.
In consequence of the dearness of
Helms In South Africa., w•Idell obligee
soldiers to spend practically all
their psi;' on food, the War Office
hes decided to male, it free Issue
of % 11. of potatoes per day to each
maw. These at present can only bo
purchased at extravagant prices.
A despetr'h from T.tnglar, Morocco,
;flys the vomit' in Mr or the Imporlcil
formes hen informal the Sultan that
1s troops are completely hemmed in
by the rebels, thnt they are tumble
o 11111'11 e 01' r; treat, and ti,at hlth-
rto loyal tram;; are.. Jointug line
cams of the pretender.
Winnipeg's fuel supply Is short. Fn:v 3
dealers hate e they woad 01' 0001 ami
the tislblo 8ui.ply itis aloont reticles
tow -water mark. C Bi l PRiCE FOR A STAMP.
Tito )oral agent of the Great North- -
ern Railway ham rtuoivod notice of .1 Nra IL•an•wlek Con tell Issue
tate agreement between that line and leul3;.,'. Splendid Sum.
tho Canadian Northern.
M'ctnberu of the Toronto Fire Mg -
:damp
:a'i• 0 e. 16. -A Nov Brenswivk
gado will form a labor 11(301 under c,rw I:, live cont, brown, un -
charter front the Duminlon Trades u'cd, „dd 1:17.
and Labor Congrces.
A deputation from the Toronto
Board of Trnds asked the Baird of
Control for *1.000 toward~, organ-
ising an old home week.
There le a rumor about London
that Saimaa ('alley, of that city,
pubiisher of the Catholic Record,
0111 emceed the. I ata Senator A. lxtn-
ohbe.
$ir Frederick Borden will Introduce
a hill to amend the militia act next
seasslon, a blah will probably provide
kr au Increase In the permanent
force.
A Buffalo labor representative is
in Kingston trying to Induce the
Germab teachluists in the locomo-
tive works to go to the United
States.
The veer/tors of IleGill have de-
olded to confer the degree cif LL.D.
on I'rpf. Geo. Parkin for hie ser-
vices In Literature and the Rhodes
Scholarehlps.
Iu J.`. tl IN..; 11W cit( -r -Can, ral Connell
1, of & Bi tee •:;,.'k 145110,1 11 tier -cent
(,rnwe e ler, 1 ,.Lump, on wldoh his
1 owe u;u:e term d Ube ,prluelpal
' dream ttnn, 'line stance was 1101 re-
ceived A:3 1'1 100.)1•, and ;if ter two day:
it was withdrawn. It became known
as :l,he "Connell stamp," lo new very
rare, (and t4 highly prized by stump
eci Drtore, being catalogued at abut
$140.'
KING WiNS PRIZES.
1114 Devon Cattle Carry (111' Awards at
( 'hrl-tmas+ show.
London, Dee. 16. -At the Chrletmas
cattle •faow at Agricultural Hall,
ling Edward carried off two first
Niece and n sip for Devnne. He was
also awarded two first prises and a
cup for fiereforde and for Shorthorns,
MAN ROM INTO ATOMS
Jar of Sleigh Exploded Nit?o-
Givctrine.
HAD MANY NARROW ESCAPE:.
Brantford derp:tleh: Joseph Shar-
e ter, a intro-glyeerlue shooter, 13111-
i 3110301 by the Pennsylvana Torpedo
Company of this pace, was blown
to atoms near State Line at 10
o'c.ock this fortmoon.
Shaffer was driving a team. His
sleigh contained 100 quarts of nitro-
, glecerine and he was on his way to
shoot a well in Nichols Valley, in
1
the statistics of (1) areas of five
' acres and over, as farms, and (a)
areas under five acres, as lots, lo-
gether with the total of both
°lttssee. The number of acres In
1 orchard at present total 14 3,190,
or an Increase of 631 acres 81100 the
last census. The yield of apples
and plunis is three times and cher-
rims lour times as great as in 1891.
Nu progress Is shown in the cult'-
, vallen of small fruits, and vine-
, yards have almost disappeared truth
the Island.
Tho crops of hay, oats, wheat,
potatoes -those four crops occu-
pied 04,60 per cent. of the whole
area in 1900, (u the followlug pro-
portion: flay, 40.05, oats 19.74,
wheat 0.45, potatoes 7.46. The fol-
lowing table shows the average
yield per acre of the prinelpal crops
for the harvests of 18I10 and 1000.
1000. 18x0.
Spring wheat, bushels 17.15 13.72
001N27.73 19.00
1'dtuN toes 140.30 162.50
IIay, toe 0.92 0.88
Thorn 14 a decrease In horses and
sheep since last census, and (Lenin
. ho snitch ewe. In products the cen-
euN of 1891 did not enumerate eggs,
but 3his census shows a production
of 2,426,251 dozen, value at nearly
a quarter of a million dollars.
Agricultural valuer; have been
taken for the (trot time In this cet1-
ons. They show for farina and lots
In the LBand, a total for land and
outhuildinge, of 523,118,1141; for im-
plements; anti machinery, 82,628,-
787; for live Mock, $4,878,080; and
for the cropo and animal products
of the cunnus year, 87,467,663. The
total value of fart; property, to 830,-
1 434,080, and of tide sum, laud repro-
; omits 8(9.78 p.c., buildings 25.76 p.c.
i Implemento and machinery, 8.60 p.m
and live ;stook, 15.86 p.c. Tho rent .
value of lenr,ed farms (s 05 cents
per acre, and the rate of waged (or
farm ether la $3.68 per week, tucind-
I ng board. 'Jlh total groes value of
farm proclue 3 for the census year
le 84,761,674 for crops, 64.27 p.c., and
82,618,623 for animal produclo, ,
:35.73 p.c. 'Ma makes the aggre-
gate of 87,413,207 0: $564 In the'
year for an average farm, which In
4.:16 p.c. of the inveattnent.
re Careful With ;Matches*.
"Every match is safo,p said a
denim., "when carefully used, and no
melee le Bahl otherwise." The caro -
homeless of jxoplo In handling
motel:es Is Inconceieabie, or would
be, If It were not a matter of dally
observation. Vnfortunateiy, the
matcltee are none too good to be-
gin with. The process of cheapening
them) has been carried a little too
far. It is not an uncommon thing
far the stick to break and the light-
en() fall to the ground or floor. It
Is rather more eommoo for a part
of the ignited portion to fly off In
lila scra'tching. But the matches
themselves, with all their faults, be-
have notch better than moat of the 1
people who 1140 them, Ft Is an ex-
ceptlunally fussy person who noes
that his match has gone out before
he throws bt down, or takes any
note of the place where lit falls. In
a largo number of 11011 1408 the com-
mon receptacle for burnt matches 1e
the waste paper basket. A kind Pro- t
vidence sees that most of the
matches have ceased burning before 1
they reach the contents of the
baskets -but the marvel is that
more waste paper baskets 1
do not take fire and Start con. 1
flagratlone Doubtless some matches
aro safer than others, but no
matches are so dangerous as most
of the people who use them; -N. Y.
Journal of Commerce.
the vletnity or Jdmestone. '1.eigumg
is trough In the country districts,
tho snow not yet being packed along
the toads, and Shaffer's sleigh rl'oo-
ptsd into a rut. The Jar set oft the
mxptoelvo, and the man, his horses
and sleigh and load of glyoirino were
going skyward In smoke.
I'coplo in tate vicinity, alarmed by
the eaploSon, hurried to the stem',
but found nothing but a deep hole
in the road.
Shaeffer 0118'~6 years old. He leaves
a mother and sister, who are resi-
dents of Buffalo. lie ryas a fearless
glycerine handler, and had exlx'rl-
;mewl many narrow escapes.
SOME CENSUS FACTS.
Bearing 011 the Agricultural Shuntnun
111 Prince Edward Island.
An Ottawa despatch stays: The
Census Department has Issued a
bulletin concerning agriculture in
Prince Edward Island. The bulle-
tin contains eight tables, enumer-
ating farm and Jot lwldhigs, fames
and farm lots, fruits, grains, hay,
roots, live sleek annual products
and values in all the tables. The re-
turns have bean compiled to show
VISIT TOA RUSSIAN PRISON.
Paul du Challlu Describes One of the
Czar's Jails -It Was in Archangel, Was
Large and Clean and Up to Date.
Archangel, Sept. L'6,-S,wne days agti
accompanied by the Adlutant of tie
tio't'orior of the Province of .treli-
angel and a young Hollander, 0111'1
bat, tiavelled from Moscow with
me, I %lotted the prison, of Solonbel
In Archangel. The prison 0'114 a
large two-story building, wlr'.ch
could bold nine hundred to a ohm -
111111.1 prisoners condemned for a
term of one to six years. l'11e super-
intendent received me very courte-
ously and kindly showed mo through
the prison. 1 was struck at onto b,y
its cleanliness. Tho stairs were of
stone the corrl(k)r4 wide, the
rooms of the prisoners large, with
high ceilings and well lighted by
windows. The rooms were already
comfortably heated, though the
thermometer was several degrees
above freezing point.
I saw many empty rooms, there
not being quite three hundred pri-
soner r, These were dressed In
woollen, grayish sults. Tho inmates
In each room varied In number from
eight to ;,bout twenty. A card on
the aat11s gave their narors. •fIm
folding beds with their mattress
and blankets stood upright along
the walls. From the outside the
guards .could look in. livery time
we entered a room the superin-
terelent saluted the prisoners by
uaying, "Good morning, my chlld-
(' 11" They uni.wered, "We wish your
Excellency good health," Icy many
of rho rooms I saw hooka that had
berm given or lent to the prison -
ere. Some were taught to read and
write. Tho prlooners were allowed
W talk.
We t belted the Cells
for a elbiry confinement. 'Phey were
fete. Some received light through
email windows o. from tho eerie -
der. 0tI ere were totally dark. In
the latter a priuoner could not re-
meln more than a week. Mon guilty
of Ineubardinatlon or who had tried
to eoe,tpo were thus punished. I
;;mw only throe prisoners there. One
hart a terribly viclowt face.
The kitchen and the bakery were,
in the basemaut, B.tl.0 were large,
but, on account of incessant rains,
Ia one of the eorner,i of the kitchen
a very small amount 'of water oozed
out through the hard floor. Black
bread had Jnot been baked -it watt
rant Rueelan biaek bread. I ate soma
and found It good. I ant 00ry fond
of this bread because I find It very
healthy.
The infirmary had but tote patients
In its two large raxmns. The beds were
fur apart. The superintendent In-
quired of the sick how they were.
The patients ,who were able to get
trp avorc long cum ortahle woollen
dressing gowns and slippers. This
sight reauluded me that I hid never
worn a dressing gown, and that the
late King Carl XV, of Sweeten and
Nor,•oy had never worn one. The
lnlrnlary had e omelet kitchen on
the ogler silo of the corridor, and
spatial plates, dishes, cups, etc., which
were porcelain lined. I maw several
loaves of white bread for the Nick.
Near the infirmary was the medicine
rocs;, where I saw surgical instru-
ments In perfect order. The eamU.ary
arrangements for washing, etc., were
good. There was a .room for conta-
gious diseases, ,but it had no patient
et that time.
The p'Loners have to work, and
thomo ,who have no trade have to
Earn one. I visited the carpenters,
cabinetmakers, shoemakers, hatters,
capmakere, tailors, makers of relig-
ious images, pasteboard box and
paper bag makers, end the black-
smith slip In the ,easement.
The prierners lav;; a great incen-
tivo to ,work, for
They Are. Pahl liar It.
They receive 80 per cent .81 the
price of alt the goods sold. Fifteen
per pent. Is glven to them Immediately
to improve ,their food, get little luxu-
ries, ete., and the other half Is given
to them when they leave the prison.
Thirty -Ove per cent. goes to the
prison and 35 per cent. to the
Crown.
Regula.tlolm: At 4 o'clock a.m. the
bi91 rings. The prisoners get up, wash
mei arias, then go to prayers. Alter -
ward Lea aid bread are served to
then: in the ;ening-room. At 5 o'clock
work hosting Inside and outside. At
11 o'clock dinner Is served. Five
times a week they haye meat for
dinner, Wednesday's and Fridays fish,
During Lent they have fish, vege-
lahles and kasha. Tho latter le a
pottier Rosin; dish made of buck-
wheat. When ready' to be served, oil
or butter 14 101(04 with It.
The dinner and the exercloe in the
yard Met one hour and a Half. Prl-
eoners have plenty of fresh air, for
the yard to large and there are no
buildinge around the lnciosure. In
care of bad weather, they can go out
or remain Inehle, as they please. Af-
ter tilt they work until 0 o'e'ock
In wintry and 8 o'clock in uummer.
From 6 to 7 o'elock the': have imp -
tor, ten and bread or leanha, and
'x('1 -Ole ;gain in the yard; then
they go to prayer;. After that they
are ecunted, then phut up In their
room.? at 0 o'clock, and go to bed.
Er, -.;'Sunday and on 101108ye the •
prinoners can see their friends. In •
tho centre'of the reception room aro
wo wire screens separated by a
eteenge about three feet wide -on
one nide ere the pi -loners, on the
other their friends. Guards watch
hm priesege so that nothing can be
ruses -an almost Impossible thing
on account of the smallness of the
m0rhes and of the distance.
In tho prison there le an Ortho-
dox Russian Church, a Catholic
Church, a small Protestant chapel
and a re nagogue. The Russian
church has
Servnw Every Sunday,
the othrru twice a month. While
visiting the Relater) church the su-
perintendent nuked 1110 If I desired
to hoar the prisoners belonging to
tho choir sing• Upon my replying In
the affirmative ,they were sent for,
and they ;acne for me.
Tlio day of my virrlt being Satur-
day, was bathing day for tho prt-
sonere. In Russia rich and poor
take a Russian bath on that day.
The bntb-house was in the yard. I
slaw In a largo room a batch of prl-
souere enjoying their steaming bath
they were dripping with pereplra-
tion. Some were rubbing their bod-
ies with soap, others were pouring
cold water over thenteolvee. In an-
other room others were dressing. '
An we crossed the yard I asked the
superintendent if the prisoners some-
tlmco attempted to revolt and if
keepers; were killed. Ile replied that
this hail happened.
L1 the place where the etudenti
had been confined lately, on the up -
four largo rooms that were empty
of prisoners. In one of the rooms
was a long dining table with
benches, in another were a num-
ber of beds, the two other room,
were empty. I inquired naturally
about these four rooms, far removed
from those of the prisoners. The sup-
orintondenl replied: "These were
the rooms) of the students who lead
been sent here for three months as
a punishment for the disturbances
they had created in their univerAl-
ties ams in the streets. They were
all sent house after their punish-
ment," 1 remember well, he sold
there were thirty. They never were
mixed with the other prisoners, and
added,thl) ream was their dormitory,
title one their dining room, and In
that 01141 they had improvised a bil-
liard table. In the fourth one they
exercised. They wrote to their
friends, and received lettere, books
and nowspapers from them.
Having seen every part of the pri-
son, 1 thanked the superintendent,
told him that I wax very touch
pleased with all I had seen, that I
liked much the humane way the pri-
soners were treated, and, above all,
I had been delighted to hear that
the students had nut been put with
criminate.
'Now,' said he, "there is a part
of the prison you have not even, lay
quarters. Please come to my apart-
ment." The rooms were easel, show-
ed refinement, much of the furniture
was pretty and had been made by
the prisoners. A bountiful repast wail
served, and with characteristic Ilus-
slan hospitality we were continually
urged to oat more by our kind host,
whose genial manners and benevo-
lent but firm floe had won my heart.
He accompanied us to the boat that
had taken us to the prison, Atter
warmly shaking bands and a pi -o-
utlay on my part to come and dee
him when 1 should return to Arch-
angel the coming winter, we bade
each other good -by. Paul Du Chaffin.
J'HINGS YOU CAN'T DO.
Seemingly Simple !'hats Thal One
Finds it Impossible to A(avaapllsb.
There are many physical feats ap-
parently exceedingly simple that the
ordlnttry person finds It difficult or
lmposotblo to perform. For instance,
u man cannot rise front a chair with-
out bending forward or putting his
lot under the chair or outside of it.
Many a man will back himself to
give another a etart of flay yard*
m a race of 100, provldod the man
having the start hops all the way..
But no runner, however milt, own
gesso that amount of start to 011 or-
dinary man. For the fleet five yards
they gout practically the same pace.
Tlerelore the muter, to go ninety-
five yards while the "hopper" goes
lor'ty-lire, woad have to run more
theft* twice as fast, and it wows be
a weak men 11010 0011,d not hop forty -
dye yards tit a pace equal to twenty
swords for 100 yards, and that
would 11181111 that rho runner, in or-
der to ((1(1, would have to beet ail
previous records.
1f tt tura bo8sts that Ills penknife
1s particularly sharp ask him to cut
with one stroke of the blade one of
those yellow ribbons, mos.ly silk.
which ore round bund;ee of cigar*.
la 000 esteem out of 1,001) the knife
Is not sharp enough to do this. It will
cut through all the ribbon except the
last strand, and that will pull out
long, and the more he tries to cut It
the longer 1t will pull.
No one except a blind man ran
*tend without support of any kind
for five smotee at a stretch, 1f lie
Le thoroughly hilndfolded, without
moving his feet. If he dons not 111000
his feet he is pretty sure to topple
over in about a minute.
No Plaec for a Lazy Cal.
In time wine oellare at Iemehonsa
in Lomlen aro twenty mlles of lanes,
lined on each side by huge casks of
0130. They (ire a parnrl:lee for rate
and the only way in which the peels
are kept within reasonable limits as
to nowhere is by employing a small
army of 800 oats. Thew cats must
cartel; riots or starve and the result
is that they are probably the most
skilled force bf eat catchers in the
world. Ae soon as a cat becomes old
and lacy she 1s replaced by a young
and native One, so that the morale of
the forces never cutters from bad
examples. i