The Brussels Post, 1912-1-18, Page 6rIQU5EHOLP
SOME DAINTY DISHES.
Cold Horseradish Salim -334
• two large Apples, take off their
skim, and let them cool, grebe a
•stick •of horseradish; mix it and the
apples to a smooth paste, adding
sugar and vinegar to taste
• Marrow Toast, — Extract the
marrow from the bone and cut it
up, parboiling it M water and salt
for a moment, When drained,
season with salt and pepper, and
add a little chopped parsley and
lemon juice. Mix together, spread
• on hot, erisp toast, made all hot,
• and aerve,
Turnips En Croute.—Peel the
turnips and cook half an hour in
very little water. Then take them
from the fire and cut into kilicos.
Butter a •baking -dish and put in
the turnips, covered with milk, and
a little butter, and sprinkled with
breaderumbs and a pinch of salt.
Cook until well done in the oven.
Potage Rustique.—Cut up fine a
cabbage, three carrots, three onions
and some celery; put them in a pan
with butter. and brown them. Then
pour on some bouillon and cook an
• hour. Add water and cook again
• half an hour, and quarter of an
hour before taking from the fire
add two heads of lettuee, sliced,
and a little sorrel. Serve with
slices of breed.
Apple Roly-Poly.—It is a good
• pudding to have when apples are
getting scarce. Make a light suet
erust, roll it out very thin, and
cover with chopped. apple. Sift
• sugar over, flavor with a little
• grated lemon rind, and, if liked,
• a suspicion of ground cinnamon.
Roil up the paste, moisten the ends
• and pinch together very seenrely.
Boil iri a cloth for two home and
• serve with sweet armee.
Sago Blanc-Mange.—Seak five
ounces of sago in a pint of cold
water for four hours, boil one pint
• and a half of milk with two bay
leaves till nicely flavored, then take
them out, Stir the drained sago
• into the milk, add three ounces of
caster sugar, boil for a quarter of
an hour, then pour into an oiled
mould. When cold, turn out and
serve with stewed prunes.
Scotch Broth.—Have one pound
• and a half of scrag -end of neck of
• mutton, cut it small, and place in a
saucepan with a teacupful of nicely
• washed pearl barley, Add to the
meat two quarts of water and
bring to the boil, skim well, then
add two carrots, two turnips, an
onion, a leek, and a little c,elery,
• all cut into small pieces, suitable
for serving in the soup. Simmer
all for two hours, adding a little
chapped oabbage in the last fifteen
minutes' cooking. Skim from the
soup all fat that you are able to
take up.
'-- Cousin Mary's Molasses Cakes.—
Melt together one cupful of butter
• and lard mixed and one cupful of
• molasses. Add one cupful of brown
sugar, one tablespoonful of ground
einnamon, one-quarter teaspoonful
of cloves, and two teaspoonfuls of
soda mixed with a little warm
water. Add a cupful of sour milk,
• and four cupfuls of flour into which
one-half teaspoonful of Suet has
been worked. Drop the dough by
• tablespoonfins—about three inches
apart—in a well -greased pan, and
bake.
Doughnuts that Keep.—The diffi-
culty witb ordinary doughnuts is
• that they grow dry and stale very
quickly. The following receipt tells
how to make doughnuts which are
moist enough to keep for some
little time, Boil and mash very
• fine five medium-sized potaeoes,
add one and one-half cupfuls of
• eager, two eggs, one scant cupful
• of milk, three teaspoonfuls of melt-
• ed butter, four tetapoonfuls of
bakieg-povvder, and a pinch each of
'salt and of nutmeg. Mix thor-
oughly, and fry in hot lard after
• having rolled and out the dough as
for ordinary doughnuts.
Apple Corn -Meal Pudding. —
• According to a New England grand-
mother's receipt. Put one quart
of yeeterday's sweet milk in a
kettle, and set it over the fire.
Allen it boils, add one quart of
pared, cored and finely sliced sweet
apples, measured after being sliced;
then dd fa turn lour teaspoonfuls
• of ohopped suet, a teaspoonful of
• led% a teacupful of good maple -
veep Or 111411ted mapleningar and a
• teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a
little hot water, mixing all together
• in the kettle on the stove. Boir
little'and put the pudding in a
buttered earthen dish large enough
• to allow it to swell without running
• over. Cover and bake four hours.
Serve hot with butter sauce.
• Japanese Eggs.--13oil six eggs
hard. After removing the shells,
• out the eggs in halves lengthwise;
take out the yolks and mash them.
Add one teaspoonful of melted
butter, three sardinea rubbed to a
paste, a deab of red pepper, and
• half a teaspoonful of salt. Mix
•thoroughly, forte the mixture inth
balls, and fill the space in emelt
• half -egg with it. Have reeelY one ase
Make a mound of it in the middle
of the platter, press the ogee down
into the rice, and stand the platter
over hot water while you rub to-
gether two rounding teaspoonfuls
of butter and two of flour. To the
butter and flour add half a pint of
milk. Put !this sauce over the fire
and stir ib until it boils; add one
level thaspcionful of salt and a dash
of red pepper. Strain this sauce
over the eggs and rice, dust with
chopped parsley, and serve very
hot,
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Bottles for baby's milk should be
thoroughly washed with boracic
acid thoroughly,
Some people prefer thin slices of
brown bread lightly buttered in -
'stead of cake with lee cream.
To prevent olive oil from getting
rancid try dropping into the kettle
a email lump of loaf sugar.
If onions are soaked several
hours in cold water they may thees
be peeled without making the ey
smart.
A bit of charcoal in the vase with
flowers or in rooting slips will
absorb the odor and keep the water
fresh.
To enrich plants water with a
solution of 100 grains of glue in
about two gallons of water; fine for
geraniums.
Try this to settle the stomach:
A raw egg in a.glass, covered with
vinegar, pepper and salt well and
mallow it.
A case of croup in a child may
often be relieved by applying to the
chest a strip of flannel wrung out
in eery hot water.
Water may be softened for com-
plexion use by pouring boiling
water on to oatnaeal, a heaped tea-
spoonful to half a gallon.
A drop or two of sweet oil poured
around the top of a glass stopper
and left to stand awhile will Loosen
it, be it ever so tight.
To get a polish on mahogany
furniture, clean it constantly with
beeswax and turpentine, using nice
clean dusters to polish with.
Discolered cups and dishes used
for baking can be made as new by
rubbing the brown stains with a
flannel dipped into whiting.
Sprinkle salt immediately over
any spot where something has boil-
ed over on the stove, and the place
will be more easily cleaned.
Milk for children insist be prepar-
ed fee& each day. Under no cir-
cumstances should that which has
etood over night be used.
To give a child quinine, put white
of egg in spoon, quinine on the egg,
and with a toothpick,rope the egg
around the quinine.
The woman who does her own
work should make a one piece bib
apron, the kind that slips on over
the head, of any pretty table oil-
cloth.
To remove paint from aprons
soak in a little paraffin, rub it thor-
oughly till the paint is removed,
and then wash in the ordinary
way.
When castors to metal or brass
beds stick in the sockets and refuse
to move remove there from the bed,
grease with machine oil, and re-
turn.
Apple pie can be prepared for the
oven the day before it is baked.
It should be covered and will then
be reedy for the oven in the morn-
ing,
Remove pants of glass by laying
soft soap over the putty, which
fixes them. In a few hours the
putty will be soft and the glass
easily removed.
Make splasher for washstand
and scarf for bureau from the best
parts of old bee and Madras
curtain, lining them with sateen
to match color of wallpaper.
To prevent discoloration from a
"black eye" butter the flesh for;
two or three inches around the eye,
using fresh butter and renewing it
every twenty ininntes for an hour.
To obtain a good ooznplexion, live
as much as possible in the open air,
and sleep with your bedroom
windows open. Take little meat,
and plenty of milk, fresh fruit and
vegetables.
To sweep without dust flying
about, take roller from carpet
sweeper, wash or rinse well, shake
out water, return to sweeper. If
'monist is used in the water it is
rt,M
better for faded carpets or ruga.
To remove rust, add a large
handful of grated horseradish to one
gallon of buttermilk, let remain in
milk from twelve to twenty-four
hours, rubbing occasionally, then
wash out in clean water.
One and a half yards of white oil-'
cloth placed on the table, over cloth
if wishod, will give a good surface
for outting out dresses, etc. A
good place also for the children to
play with their paints,
When making raised bread •
at
tight, after it is kneaded, mould
biscuit and place in a pan tieitly
creel, giving thetn roorrt at the
cov
ton to rise. In the morning they
will be ready to bake for breakfast.
To prevent your kid gloves faom
getting stiff and hard if ran:Sorrell
fl•ons the hands moist and warm,
fold them up as they were when
new in time: papers and lay wider
a heavy book for some hours.
By cutting old potatoes into
imalt bails, allowing them to •Reek
for three hours. in cold whet, then
ling eold salted wattle arid
substitute for new potatoes is ols-
teined.
If soup is to be good it must never
get cold the saucepaza, but shoals/
be trained off directly it is suffici-
ently cooked. Save the bones till
you see if the soup is strong en-
eugh, If not remove the fat and
boil again neat dap.
: To fill small bottle, take tooth-
pick or sharpened match; moisten;
lay across top o£ bottle the fluid is
in; hold in place with forefinger and
pour as esnal. The fluid will ran
down the bit of wood into the small
vial. Will apply to fountain pens.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JAN. 21.
Lesson M.—The birth of Christ,
Luke 2. 1-20, Golden Text,
Luke 2. 11.
Verse I.—In those days—That is.
shortly after the events described
in tho preceding chapter.
Caesar Augustus—The first Ro-
man einperor, who reigned from B.
0, 31 to A. D. 14.
All the world --Greek, the inha
bites]. earth; aotually, the Roman
empire. There is no reference out-
side of Luke's narrative to tho gen-
eral enrollment for the entire em-
pire at this time. Another and lat-
er census mentioned by Luke in
Acts B. 37 is better known and cor-
roborated by historical documents
outside of the Bible.
2. When Quirinius was governor
of Syria—The name should perhaps
be Quinotilius, the actual Romeo
governor of Syria during the years
B, 0. 6-4, Quirinius became gov-
ernor of Syria some twelve years
later. A.D. 6. It is possible, how-
ever, that during the governorship
of Quinctilius, Quirinius may have
been in charge of the military ad-
ministration of Syria, in which case
Luke's reference to him as governor
would perhaps be permissible.
3. Every one to his own oity—It
was the Jewish custom to number
(enroll) the people by family and
tribal groups, and it was the ha-
bit of the Roman administration as
Jar as possible to countenance and
leave undisturbed national peculi-
arities and enstoms.
4. Galilee—The northern province
bearing that name.
Nazareth—A city of Galilee, net
far from the main mai of travel
between Egypt and northern Pales-
tine.
The city of David—His birthplace
and the residence of his family for
many generations.
Bethlehem—A village in Judah
between five and six miles south
of Jerusalem, called also Ephra-
thah. The present-day inhabitants
of Bethlehem are Christians, and
are distinguished from the natives
of the surrounding territory by
their peculiar coetume. The tra-
ditional Church of the Nativity,
built over the cave ha which Christ
is supposed to have been born, still
stands at the east end of the town,
and is visited annually by many
pilgrhns and touriste. In the
Judean hills there aro still to be
fqund many rockecut stables for
eattle, resembling the cave under
this church.
5. Mary—Compare account in
chapter 1, verses 36-56,
7. Swaddling clothes—The Orien-
tal process of thus wrapping a baby
is described as follows: "The child
is' laid across the diagonal of a
square of cloth, of which the cor-
ners are folded ever the body and
feet and under the head. The ban-
dages, which are af plain cotton
among the poor, and of silk and
embroidery work in the case of the
rich, are wrapped round the cloth
which incases the child" (Hastings).
'In a manger—In the low, lock-
howeu cavern, or stell, where the
cattle were housed.
No room . . it the inn—At the
time of such an enrollinent the vil-
age was crowded beyond its ordin-
ary accommodations,
8. Shepherds in the same country
biding in the field—We are to
think of the pastures near Bethle-
man, which were the same in which
avid spent his youth and fought
With the lion and with the bear (1
ism. 17, 24, 35).
Their flock—Apparently the flocks
referred to were those that were
destined for temple eecrifices. In
hat case the shepherds who
etched over them would not he
rdinary shepherds, and therefore
ot under the ban which the strict
abbinical rules pieced upon the
embers of this isolated profession
ec,ause of the impossibility of their
°radar reservance of the custom-
ry religious forms and ordinances.
9. An angel—See comment en
verse 11 in lessen for January
The glory of the Lord—A celes-
al brightness, not unlike that
hich according to Acts 0. 4 buret
pon Saul of Tarns on his way
Damascus, or like that which
lumina Joseph's •tomb when
Ma rose from the deed. It, was
ch a brightness and glory as
mild make soldiers and also/ler&
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em es n riches's, as members of.
the ohosen 'Hebrew nation, arld as
eepresentetives of the entire
Man race, If the meseage of the
angel had been intended for the
Jews especially, it would doubt-
less have been given to more eon-
insous representatives of that na-
tio,A Saviour—A deliverer.
Christ the Loral—Or, Anointed
Lord, "elitist" mailing literally
The Anointed One.
13. A multitude of the heavenly
host—A larger company of angels.
14, Peace among men in whom he
is well pleased—Some ancient au-
thorities reed, "Peace, good plea-
aure among men." The Greek of
which our text is a translation
reads, "Peace among men of good
pleasure," the sense being that
given in our Standard or Revised
Version. It is important to note
that the promise is not that of ab-
solute, universal peace, but of con-
stant peace to those whese lives are
pleasing to God. To such only the
message of Christmas. brings its
fullness of joy.
16, Found—This word in the ori-
ginal has the sense of "discovered,"
and implies a diligent search for
the young Child.
17. Made known concerning the
saying—Told everyone whom they
men about the events which had
transpired, and the wonderful mes-
sage which they had received con-
cerning the child.
• 18. All that heard it—All to whom
the report of the shepherds came,
either directly or through repeti-
tion by others,
19, But Mary—The conjunction
`but" indicates a contrast. Mary
ould have no such astonishment
t what the shepherds said. To
er the promise of future greatness
or her son did not come as a sur -
rise, for in her heart she still
reasured the words or promise
borne to her by the angel who
nienths before had • announced to
er the plans of Jehovah for her
ffspring.
Kept all these sayings—Or things,
t was but natural that the virgin
other should not publish abroad
he deepest impressions which all
hat had transpired had made up -
n her heart. Not fully under -
ending the profound significance
f these events, she waited patient.
for further revelations and de-
eloprnents.
20. Glorifying and praising God -s-
he message of the angel had been
them a message of great joy.
SOME QUEER REPLIES.
Extraordinary Answers to Simple
Questions. '
Routine in a public office is 'not
always dull, It is occasionally
varied by instances of the singular
way in which the human mind may
act, even when employed 'in mat-
ters of serious importance. In the
archives of the British Post -Office
Savings Bank, there are some ex-
traordinary answers to the, simple
questions asked of depositor% A
few follow.
To the quetion whether his ad-
dress were "permanent," one man
replied, "Heaven is our home,"
anti other answers displaying the
same religious favor were, "Here is
no continuing city," "Yes, D.V.,"
and "This is not our rest."
Another frank depositor, who
might have lived in this part of
the world, rerlied, "No, D.V,, for
the place is beastly damp and U11-
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sjAHH OF THE TRAINMEN tihol''Z').7.iiiir.r,Vge.13fetrouut
PICTURESQUE LINGO OTHERS
DON'T UNDERSTAND.
•
If a Ifogger Plugs Her in Vain He
lies to Hit the Grit—An Old
Boxcar is the Doghouse,
The talk of trainmen is about as
rich in picturesque slang as any in
this land of free and fancy speech,
A collection of these expressions is
being made by the Railroad Man's
Magazine and is reaching astonish-
ing proportions. Some of the
lingo can be understood even by the
ontsiner. A "side door Pullman,"
for instance, is a rather common
way of referring to e box car, But
most of the phrases are Greek to
the uninitiated. "Taking her by the
neck," for example, ia used when
an engine, is made to pull e. heavy
"drag" up a steep hill or around
a sharp curve.
Once at the top of the grade the
"hogger" just "lets her drift."
"Plugging her" is an old term,
used when the throttle is closed by
a quick motion of the left hand
while et the same time the reverso
Inver is thrown back with the right
hand. This is not calculated to do
any good to engine frames and
cylinders and is resorted to, only in
great -emergencies. It isn't so coin -
mon since the introduction of auto-
matic air. •
An old boxcar or a small building
occupied as the yardmester's of-
fice is known as -the "doghouse." It
is ,sometimes used to indicate the
small fourwheeled caboose used by
some roads atthe tail end of freight
trains. This is also called the
"hut," "crum,mie," "crues box" or
"cage,"
"HITTING THE GRIT"
is what no trainman likes to de, but
he sometimes has to when a train
is running at full speed and his only
chance of not being caught in a
wreck is to jump. `Getting her
down in the corner" is setting. the
reverse lever down In the lowest
forward notch of the quadrant so
that the engine, has the, full length
of the stroke. - ' •
"Patting her on the, back" iean
expression used when the reverse
lever is down in the earner and is
gradually hooked up notch by notch
on the quadrant as the saturated
steam is worked off. • '1Making her
pop" is to maintain a fire so that
the instant the engine stops work-
ing she blows off.
To "keep her hot" is to maintain
a fire at a •steady heat, thus
furnishing all the dry steam need-
ed, no matter how hard the engine
may be working or regardless of
the condition of the weather, As
every fireman knows, the weather
often tests the ' mettle of a "dia-
mond pusher" on hard runs with a
heavy drag of "rattlers."
A thin plume of dry stake escap-
ing from the pop is "tarrying a
white feather." Thie usually oc-
curs after an engine bas been work-
ing hard and the condition of road-
bed and gradient permits.. of the
engineer easing her off a little,
When an engine has to haul a
particularly heavy load up ssteep
grade it is often necessary to
"round her." The engine.er gets
over the hill with her, but leapt to
strain the engine in so doing.
Working an engine to full capacity
after the hae been reported for
ight repairs which have 'not beeis
given her or working an engine. to
higher limit than her builders de-
igned is also called "pounding
mr."
A "DEAD ENGINE"
is one without fire. Steam
is sometimes known as "feg.i' The
conductor of the' switching crew
is the "drummer," and the brake-
man are "shacks," "car catchers,"
"fielders" or "ground hogs," The
yard master is frequently known as
a "switch hog" ancl sometimes isa
"the big switch hog." The verd-
e:teethes. office is the "knowledge
box," and 'the yard clerk is the
"number grabber." Switching cass
is "shaking 'em out."
A new fireman or brakeman is a
"student." A "boomer" :in the
!strictest sense of tho term it amen
sv,ho stars only about one phy day
on a division. A locomotive ens
gineer is known as a "hoehead,"
"hogger," "eagle eye," "throttle
puller," "runner" or • "engine -
man."
A locomotive ie called is
"kettle," "scrap bean," `iiiink
pie," mei frequently sod familiarly
referred to tho "old eirl." •A
fireman is known au a "Whey pot,"
a ‘adiarnond dealer." "diamond
rusher." and in. this day sometimes
e "stoker,"
Freight brakemen are railed
"hack." "rbrong er,rmiiko",5,:ttwairsta-
"dope manes," "Vernished Nee"
ere paseenger • coaehes. A "gon"
is a eondola or coal 40r. A "I:steel-
ems" is sometimes. celled n "whale -
belly" or a "be-aim:Mr " A. re-
frleerater env ie• aTbo "reefer."
i's`rtyrildiengimbooaieif'll'oetrwr:ent,;;
thren beards 1-,1 1,1 p »VA 1111411ir
lerietlevise tbe "4-1.e,dr" reef
lin" car, The Peer ef oi ere
eine etth en' tesselee also eelled
the "sleek,' "D sei e" "desk.
orating" means that the trainmen
are
RI:MG 40E VIP, 13.00F.
healthy." Still another admitted e
that he "Doant know what perman-
ent is."
A depoeitor, asked on what
grounds he applied for the sum
standing to the credit of his broth-
er, who had been described as "de-
ceased," although no proof was
given of his death, wrote back, "I
have my brother's children, to keep,
wrote to him six weeks ago, but
he has never anewered. He keeps
writing to say that he ie deed, or
getting some one else to do it."
On the, other hand, the depart-
ment had little difficulty in accept-
ing as conclusive evidence of the
death of a depositor the statement
that he had died from "injuries
ca,u,ses1 through accislentally corn-
ing in contact with a passing train,
811Addhlenalryl:ie'Cl woman who claimed the
money der osited by her dead son
was asked whether the boy's father
was dill alive. Her reply was,
"Father living, but insignificant."
A.youeg man who applied for the
motley due under we insurance efs
fee -bed by his father was asked .to
state the cause of the father's
death. He, replied, "I don't know;
eati't remember,. but it wits nothing.
serions,"
Saving bank hooka are always be-
ing lo.st, and the explanations
given aro many and varied. For
easernple "I thank the, children
,has taken it out-of-doore and lost
it, its they are in the habit of playieg shutal cook with the backs of
books," wrote one depositor
"Supposed to have been taken
from the house by our tame mon-
key," was another •answer. A.
third depositor confided to the
de-
parlrneab the fact, that "I was in
the yard feeding my pigs. I took
off my coat arid left, it down on a,
barrel; while etgaged doing to a
West in the yard petted it down.
The book falling out, the goat was
chewing it when taught her,"
the term "hog" is generally epplied
so all engines nowadays, in the
strictest tense of railroad language
it elmold be used only when refer -
rims to locomotives of the consolidas
tion tape.
A car that is disabled or broken
ie "eripfle." track far •re.
pairing "cripples" is a, "cripple
track." Car inspectors are known
as "car tinks" and "knockers." An
overheated journal bearing or
brass itz what constitutes. a "hot
box," and the oiled waste used to
repack it is "dope," The pay car
is commonly called the "pay
wagon" and is. frequently more
familiarly known os the. "family
clisturber," The injector of an
engine. is the "gun," The blower
is the "fireman's fried,"
Out in the Rock' Mountain
country there is heard some of the
most expressive slang in the rail-
road world. For instance, "Hand
me three !" "Saw 'em off 1"
"Scuse three !" "Amputate 'mei
would moan three cars were to b
out off. "Tie 'em clown". or "iti
cher 'em" moans to set the brake
Out in Colorado when they thro
e switch they "bend a rail." 'Who
they cool a hot box they "free
the hub,"
To "pull the pin" is to leave th
eel -vine. "Flying light" is to "flag'
or miss a meal "Brass collars'
means the officials. "License" i
the badge worn by trainmen.
"smoke agent" is a fireman. Th
"main stein" is the main track
"Shah 'tem up" is switching. Ob
servation Pullmans are known a
"rubberneck" cars. Passenger
who ride on them are known as
"CINDER SNAPPERS."
To make ajoint" is to couple
cars, "Give 'em the wind" is the
term when the air is admitted to
the train line. A "bum screw" is
a bad brake, and sand is known as
"seashore." The above expres-
sions are used in other States. be-
sides Colorado. One. of the most
general egressions used ie the
West ie the appellation given to
Care not equipped with airbreaks.
They are known as "jecks,"
There was mice a smart "hash -
a red necktie sport, who was
slinging hash in arse/root/ house
where a certain fireman. got his
"eats" regularly. It happened
that the "hasher" had it in for the
fireman, On one occasion when
the fireman came in from his run
and .sat down. at the counter, the
"hasher" said •
"What yer eoin' to have? Cup of
coffee an' a piece of pie?"
"No," replied the fireboy, "Give
me & ocomotive covered with eind-
ens, a couple of ewitohlights 111, the
fog and a string of fiats. '
This was too much for the "hash-
er," so the "tallow" was obliged to
explain that "loco,motive covered
with cinders" was a porterhouse
steak smothered in •onions; a
"eouple o•f switch lights in the £og"
were, two fried eggs with grease
poured over them, and the "String
of fiats" was a plate of hot cakes,
FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND
NOTES OP INTEREST piton
Inn BANKS AND BRAES,
What is Going On in the Ilighlanda,
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
Two casts of smallpox have oc-
curred in Montrose,
Extensive sheep worrying bae
lately troubled the farmers in the
Leah district of Aderdeenthire.
A gift of 8420,000 has been made by
Mrs. If, 33. Sharp, 51. Fort, for a,
woman's hospital in Dundee.
Kilmarnock Abstainers Union.
held a two days' bazaar, which re-
sulted in raising over $885 for the
fields.
Seals have been frequent visitors
" to the Clyde ree,ently, several hav-
e ing been seen in the Greenock har-
e: bor.
I
a Stonehans Promenade Wee; recent -
w /y entirely washed away by heavy
n scsu, which rolled in from the Cor -
ea, man ocean.
Owing to the failure of the her-
e ring'fisheries in the Firth of Clyde
quite a number of people are pre-
, paring to leave Lochfyneside.
s ! The report that a, "ghost" has
A I been seen seemed times lately in
e the neighaorhood of Girvan Her
.! bur, has createt] a great stir in the
- i town. ,
s Irvine Town Council have voted '
s $60 towards a fund to provide coal.
during th.e winter months to the
deserving poor in the Halfway clis-
trict of the' town,
1.110, Redlands Hotel in the
Great Western road, Glasgow,
for women students under the Glas-
gow Provincial Committee for the
training of teachers, was opened
recently.
1 The Markets Committee of Edin-
burgh Town Council agreed to re -
1 <sem pno:ed the provision of a
shelter for store cattle at the Cat-
' tie Market the estimated cost be-
ing $10,750,
Lothians and Border Yeomanry
are to go into camp at Westbarns,
'near Dunbar, and are well suited
for the training next SOO,SOD, after
being absent from, the district for
two years.
By 8 votes to 4 Hamilton Cowl-
; ail have approved of the erection
of municipal offices for the bur b
at a -cost of $42,500. The site select-
ed is adjoining the Carnegie Lib-
rary in Caelzow street.
Another death is record a
amongst the diminishing band of
Crimean and Indian lfutiny vet-
erans. tosirles Louden, whe re-
sided at 1 West Nicholson street,
Edinburgh, has passed away.
A. silver coin of the reign of
Philip V. of Spain bearing the slate
1745, In a fair state of preservation,
was found recently by workman en-
gaged at the demolition of it
small house at 13 Brymner Street,
Greenock. ,
The new wing added to the Craw
Road Hospital by the Paisley
Paris), Council has been formally
opened. It is two, storeys in height
and comprise.s four wards, provid-
jug 60 beds for infirm end 12 for
other eases.
COMPOSED MUSIC AT SEVEN
French Boy Astonishes Scientists by
His Brilliant Work.
DRY AIR CURE AT HOME.
New Ways to 1711 Bacteria Tried
in Germany.
A new curative apparatus by
which dry air is usedsto kill bacteria
is described in a German medical
paper by its inventor, Prof. R.
Kutner. He ascribes the quick
healing process. of wounds in cer-
tain tropical countries to the dry-
ness of the a•tmosphere, which
now becoming better understood as
a powerful curative factor. This
incidentally explains the increasing
popularity of Winter cures taken
at high altitudes for diseases of
the chest and the• rezeiratory
organs.
Prof, Kati:labs apparatus makes
it possible to undergo such cures
at home. He obtains a current of
completely dry air by passing,
air first over paraffin, then over
pumice Atone saturated with sul-
phuric aeid, and then over castic
eoda. The dried air may be cool-
d artificially or be heated by elec-
tricity.
By this meitne. not only open
wounds, but also seat complamts
as catarrh of the •mucous mean-
brane, it ie declerael, can be most
successfully treated, and at no time
e there any clanger to, the patient.
Even the up-to-date woman may
be behind her age,
THE BETTER PART OF VALOA.
The aged veteran was recounting
set adventures to a not-too-credu-
one audience with the usual vessels.
p
A seven-ybar-old boy of Rennes,
France., has such extraordinary
musical genius that he is said to
compose beautiful and original
music with astonishing facility and
speed, Among the works of the
boy, whose name is Reno Guillou
are ay -alpha -pies, zonates, melodies,
fugues and duos for piano and
violin, all of which have evoked
the admiration of the professors of
the Coneervatoire.
Scientists are eructs interested in
this oase of abnormally precocity,
Young Guillon plays tile piano per-
fectly, but hie chief ability seems
to be that of eomposing. His ability
appears to heves developed eudclen-
17 one day after the child had
hoard a military band play
Chopin's Funeral March,
On returning home, although he
had never eouohed a musieal in-
strainent, fie is said to have gone
to the mane and played the march
unite correctly. Rene Guillon 1.5
the son of a postoffiee employe.
PRINCES IN PRISON.
Among Primes, the one
with the most prison exnerienee 18
Duke Gunther of Schleswig-Hol-
iera the hrothar of the German
repress. Sone his marinate, Duke
enther hes rroved a MONt Pteid
33(1 resesetable member of socicte,
It es a bachelor he was the hero
many (earmarks. For 4.1verol. of
lese lets Imperial bother -in-law
flirted trims of irmeisonmeet, the
eteree rme (eat' eyeendina to
el menthe The Kaiser, hewever,
• r .6"" erman engellant 85
s Vire ateashert of Itelv,
la dee; Pe the Drehres o'R Oat%
far riktYlo 8,10,..1,r10 'hi 0,
laded skirt.---Lonclen Chronicle,
✓ TEST DIS.7NYIN0 WATIM
1'1I 0 eiet bottle three-fensths
tress.•
st
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"one of my tight corners at, the bat- C;
tle of Helena I was alone — the a
last Britisher on the field of battle In
—and the enemy was a -pursuing 1"1
with cries which nid freeze the '
blood in your vei:113, Bullets were 11'
showering by ere llke rain: oannens.
minutes!" ' •1 f4,
Then one of his hoaserS asked z 'di
horo. "Why, I slid a mile in astir f,
the mercy of the Rooshians."
jank r '
there was I, Jack Jinkett. alone at er,
reared like....11u_nderstorro i an14 41,,,
He made an impressive mum, ,e,
"A•nd what did you do them
"Ea?" replied the breve nbd T
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1,006 melee 1irbeo', the egos of re,
and 22, and 856,000 females, es
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