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Selected Recipee.
Spanish Stew.—Cook together for
one Mier a medium sized onion,
faked, one can of peas, one can of
tornatees. Season with salb, but-
ter, and black pepper and a small
pinch of -cayenne, If any of this
is left. over pub it into the aegis
day's soup.
Chocolate Pudding.—One and a
half cupfuls of fine cracker crumbs,
one ogg, four tablespoonfuls of mo-
lasses, 'three cupfulof milk, a
quarter of a teaspoonful of salt,
one cupful of sultana raisies, two
squares of melted chocolate, and
one teaspoonful of vanilla extract.
Soak the cracker crumbs in the
milk ler 20 minutes, then add the
remaining ingredients, turn into a
well -buttered mold, cover with but-
tered paper and steam steadily for
four hours, Turn out and erye hot
or cold with !mum sauce.
Steamed Potatoes.—Fry three or
four slices of sat pork and when
done pour enough hot water on it
to fill the .frying pan or !skillet (pre-
ferably the latter) two-thirds full;
then slice into it five medium sized
or large potatoes. Season with sale
and pepper and when cooked allow
them to brown before taking them
from the vessel. Either sweet or
white potatoes can be used in this
way.
Danish Sweet Soup.—Into a
quart of fast boiling water. pour a
good handful of barley or sago, the
latter is the more delicate, stir a
few minutes to prevent lumping.
When it has cooked ton minutes
add a cup of large prunes and a
little lemon rind. Boil these until
tender. Flavor with the juice of a
lemon .and any kind of tart jelly.
Currant and raspberry is a good
combination. Sweeten to taste
with white sugar, boil all together
for a few minutes. If too thick or
too rich add a little boiling water.
White Sago Soup.—Cook together
the same quantity of water and sa-
go as in the preceding and flavor
with lemon peel. When the sago is
tender do not boil any more, but
beat until thick the yolks of two or
three eggs with EL tablespoon of cold
water to prevent curdling and a
wineglass or more, if desired, of
sherry or brandy. Stir up .well and
serve at once.
illeffins.—Three eggs, two heaping
cupfuls of flour, half a teaspoonful
of salt, three tablespoonfuls of bak-
ing powder, three tablespoonfuls of
melted butter and one teaspoonful
of lemon extract. Mix and sift the
dry ingredients, then add the beat-
en yolks of eggs, the milk, lemort
extract and the butter. Beat well;
cut and fold in the stiffly beaten
whites of the eggs. Divide into well
butteredaluminum gem pans; bake
in a hot oven for a quarter of an
hour. Two tablespoonfuls of sugar
may be added if desired.
French Toast.—Make a batter of
one egg and one cup of milk, soak
some slices of bread in its, pub some
drippings in the frying pan, fry the
slices of bread until brown.
Sprinkle with. sugar • servo hot.
Water Sponge Caite.—Two eggs,
one cup of sugar, one teaspoon le-
mon juke, six tablespoons of cold
water,, one and one-third cups of
sifted flour, two even teaspoons
baking powder. Beat the yolks of
the eggs stiff, add the sugar • and
beat again, add the lemon juke and
water, then the sifted flour, into
which the baking powder has been
mixed, and, lastly, the whites beat-
en stiff. Bake in a small, shallow
pan, er in small scalloped tins,
Frosting. --One cup powdered
sugar, one teaspoon boiling water,
one tablespoon lemon juice (not ex-
tract). Add a, few drops more of
boiling water until it is thin enough
to settle, when you stop stirring.
Color some of the king pink, or a
Tittle melted chocolate may be
used. For a children's party, these
are most attractive little cakes and
thoroughly wholesome, •
:Raisin • Sandwiches. — Graham
bread, large raisins, unsalted but-
ter, if possible, pinch of cinnetnon.
Cub each raisin in two with scissors
and remove the pits. Lay 'the halves
on thin slices of buttered graham
bread, sprinkle with powdered so -
gar and cinnamon and cover with
another buttered slide of bread. Cut
with a cutter into fancy shapes, if
desired. Date sand-wiches are made
in the same way.
Candy Reeipes.
Molasses Candy.—Stir together
three cups molasses and one cup
brown sugar, add a gill of vinegar
and put all over, the fire in an
agate or porcelain lined sauce-
pan. Bring slowly to a boil, stir-
ring often. After it has boiled half
an hour begin to teat the candy by
dropping a little of it from ct 'spoon
into cold water. As soon as n lit-
tle of the syrep hardens in the
water stir a tableepoen of butter
Into the bilis' tte. When
this =list plettin a teaspoon of bala
Ing 'soda dissolved in a, -tablespoon
of boiling water and take inuacelle
aely bum the fire. Pour into but -
tared pans and then pull to white-
ness, or you may leb it stay in the
pans and as it cools cut it into
equares with a buttered knife. You
may put nut meats with it.
Butterseach.--Moisten a pound
of brown sugar with a cupful of
oak water te 'which you have ad-
ded two tablespoons of vinegar and
put over the fire in en agate settee -
pan. Cook for ten Minutes. After
ib comes to the bell add four table -
elegem of butter. Boil until a little
dropped into cold water hardens at
once and then pour in a thin sheet
into buttered tine, When it begins
to harden cut it into squares with
a buttered knife.
Household Tips.
New stockings should always be
washed before being worn.
Tho raw white of an egg makes a,
very satisfactory paste.
To drive away mice, scatter gum
camphor around their haunts.
Medicine stains can be removed
from linen with strong ammonia.
Ginger cookies are improved if
mixed with coffee instead of water.
The water used to cleanse the
teeth should be tepid, but not quite
cold.
Vinegar and honey mixed in
equal parts is a great relief for a
cough.
Tooth brushes should be dried in
the open air and the sun should
chine on them.
Milk will not boil over if the
saucepan is buttered on the upper
part and edge.
Cane chairs can be cleaned by
sponging them until soaked with
soap and hot water.
The temperature of a child's sick
room should never be under 60 de-
grees nor above 65.
Whito paint is best cleaned with
a cloth squeezed out in hot water
and dipped in a little bran.
If one or two teaspoonfuls of
sugar are added to turnips when
cooking they will be improved.
Carbolic add is a good disinfect-
ant, but useless unless diluted with
et least 20 times it bulk of cold
water.
If a little ammonia is mixed with
the beeswax and turpentine used
for floor polishing, the wax will dis-
solve quickly.
Rancid butter is sweetened by
melting and skimming; then pub in
a piece of light brown toast. The
toast will absorb the unpleasant
taste and smell.
If th.e closet where you hang tins
and 000king utensils is badly light-
ed, try painting the hooks and nails
white.
Screens are an important item in
household comfort—in the' vestibule
in winter; to fold around the bed
and protect it from direct draughts
while windows are open, and to
make a private corner in a busy liv-
ing room.
To mend china make a thick so-
lution of gum ambits and stir into
it plaster of paris until the mixture
becomes creamy. Apply with a
brush to the broken edges of china
and join together. Lay the china
away for three clays.
—a.
Fact and Edney.
There are lots of ups and clowns
in the life of the airman.
All live stock fatten better in
company than alone.
It is only just that women should
receive men's wages, and married
women do,
Street pianos in Vienna may play
only between noon and sunset,
If the world is round, how can it
ever come to a,n encl.?
"I never carried a watch M my
life. I have never wanted to know
whet time it was," says Thomas A.
Edison,
Ib doesn't take a Sandow to break
a dollar.
Flies aro much a pest in Siam that
every soldier must kill a certain
number daily.
Some people get so tired doing
nothing that they have no strength
left to do anything elec.
The excellentahcalth of the Ital-
ian peasant is due to his dieb of
salads, freeh vegetables, _ oil and
macaroni, with a minimum. quantity
of meab.
You caa'b judge your height by
the length of your shadow at sun-
set.
Defined.
"What is the meaning of the
word tembologyl"
"Oh, that is the thing that makes
-the average speaker when called
on at a banquet get up and declare
that he is not prepared to make a
speech and then go on talking till
he prover! it."
Did. Not Make It.
"Up again, eh, for evading the
law I'
"But I didn't evade it, your Hon-
or, Here I ant."
•
Glels.
Stella--"Dici she wear a sops et
pearls I"
33ella-e"I should hall it it, 3 teen,"
THE STIDAY SC -1031. LESSO
• INTERNA.TIONA,L LESSON,
MARCH 9,
Lesson X.—The destruellon of Sod -
so', Oen, 10. 1-3, 12-29. Golden
text, 2 Cor. 6. 17.
The chapter and verses immedi-
ately preceding our lesson passages
for to-dayrecord the incidents cm:i-
nt:Med with the birth of Ishmael
and the promise to Abram of the
birth of lame. They include an
account of the renewal of the cev-
anent. ab Mamre, and an announce-
ment to Abram of the impending
deem of Sodom. Chapter 17 re-
cords the 'change of Abram's name
to Abraham, and of Sare,i's name
to Sara,h. Verses 1 to 11 of our les-
son chapter tell of the entrance of
the two angels into Soclum and of
their reception and entertainment
by Lot.
Verse 12. The men—The angels,
that is, messengers of Jehovah,
They urge Lot to lose no time in
leaving the city, and to 'bake with
him all the members of his immedi-
ate family.
13. We will destroy this place —
Their visit had been for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the facts con-
cerning the city's reputed wicked-
ness. This being established, their
commission includes authority to
visit dire judgment upon the city.
The cry of them is waxed great
before Jehovah — Throughout the
entire narrative Jehovah is spoken
of as possessing the characteristics
and limitations of men. This is
one of the distinguishing marks of
the early prophetic narrative, of
which our lesson passage forms a
pat. Compare Genesis iv., 10,
where a similar expression is used. '
14. Who married—Or, who were
to marry.
Up, get you out of this place—
Lot himself seems to have fully un-
derstood the urgency of the com-
mand to leave the city eA once.
As one that mocked—Better, jest-
ed. The eons -in-law are incredu-
kus. To them the destruction of
their City SeeMS impossible.
15. When the morning arose—At
dawn. All that precedes had trans-
pired while it was still night.
Thy two daughters that are here
—As opposed to the prospeotive.
sons-in-law who had chosen to ig-
nore the warning, and who were
not M Lot's house,
Lest thou be consumed—The im-
plication is that Jehovah had fixed
a time beyond which the destruc-
tion of the city was not to be post-
poned.
Iniquity—Or, punish.ment.
16. But he lingered—Reluctant to
leave his home and the city which
had been so long his place of resi-
dence. The stage's appear sympa-
thetic and determined to rescue him
with his household, even though it
be necessary "to lead him by the
hand. Thus with gentle insistence
they bring him forth until he is
safely beyond the city gate.
17. Escape for thy life—Further
flight is necessary to reach a place
of greater safety.
Look nob behind the.oe-Resist
every temptation to return or to
watch with curious eyes the late of
the city.
All the Plain—The valley region
in the neighborhood of the doomed
cities.
18-22. The omitted verses record
Lot's plea to be spared the neces-
sity of fleeingto the barren moun-
tains, and to be permitted to re-
main in a, little village. some dis-
tance from Sodom.
23. Zoar—Meaning, little.
24. Rained . . , brimstone and fire
—Brimstone is the word used uni-
formly in the Bible for sulphur,
-which is found in ell velcanic
regions both as an uncombine.d de-
posit and es one of. 'elm chemical
ounstituents of gases as sulphur
dioxide and sulphureted hydrogen,
which are not infrequently exhaled
from the earth in such regions or
dissolved 1» the water of hot
springs, It is frequently referred
to in connection with Jehovah's de-
nunciation of the wickedness of
nations and individuals (compare
Deet. 29. 23; Ise. 34. 9; Pea. 13. 6).
The extensive occurrence of sul-
phur in the region of the Dead Sea
corroborates the Bible !statement;
that this substance contributed to-
ward the destruction ef the cities
of the Plain --Sodom and Gomor-
rah. It was the work of Jehovah
through the use of natural moans,
but, of course, was decidedly lam-
cul.ous.
20 -Pillar of salt --Great ledges or
cliffs of crystallized rock salt are
bo found ab the southwestern
shore of the Dead Sea. During the
rainy season, fragments of these
cliffs become isolated and resemble
pillars, which are in constant pro-
oese of formation and destruetien,
The process is, however, in some
eases very skeet owing to a (shaky
limestone covering which protects
the ealie • These pilleglikcs stiletto
not unfroqueribly ammo forms
which !strangely sum:tett, the outlines
of the hamlet figttee, 'especially
when viewed from a distance, Late
Jewish writers, including Jesophus,
believe' they were sail able to
identify the pillar of salt referred
to in our legates passage.
27, Abraham -The longer form of
the name, explained as signifying
father of a multitude, is used from
chapter seventeen forward.
2. Garnorrah—The twin city of
Sedem and equally %delved.
20. Clod remembered Abraham—
His mercy toward Lob is explained
by the writer as partly due to his
regard for his righteous , servant
Abraham.
NOVELTY AT LONDON ZOO.
Poisonous Lizard Now on View in
Reptile House.
There has just arrived at the
Zoological Gardens, London, a
lizard with a poisonous bite. No
other land of lizard is known to
silence that can do serious harm by
a mere bite. Each tooth in the
lower jaw is grooved like the fang
of a snake, and a bite has boon
known to kill a man.
The creature has been deposited
in a glass -fronted cage in one of the
reptile houses along with seven
others of hie species. Although this
house is kept so warm that the
crocodiles •sleep calmly in their
pond, these little beasts seem to
feel the cold, and huddle together
in the sand that has been given
there as the best possible imita-
tion of their own home. They are
all about a, foot long, and gorgeous-
ly marked in the riehest orange,
yellow and blue -black. They look
like slothful giant tadpoles that
have somehow or other covered
themselves from the encu of their
alligator snouts to the tips of their
fanny fat tails with miniature tiger
skins. The fat tails are not merely
funny; they aro valuable. As the
Heloclerm—that is the oorre•ct name
of the lizard—eats its tail fattens
and stores up huge quantities of
fat, just as a camel stored up fat in
its hump. When its tail is n -early
as thick as its body it becomes
happy. Sometimes it goes to sleep,
as these specimens at the Zoo seem
to do, but often enough it carries
its fat tailewith it as a reserve. It
is well known that the tiger -striped
lizard can go many months without
food, but during the time of hun-
ger his tail ehrinks. When he is
really hungry he i,s a very nasty
brute to meet, for the inside of his
usually sleepy mouth is most feeo-
eiously armed. Both on the upper
and lower jaw ho has sharp teeth
curved backwards, so that any-
thing he seizes has little chance of
escaping. Any wriggle given by the
unfortunate beast he has gripped
tends merely to help it backwar&
towards the voracious little throat.
Moreover, the roof of its mouth has
other backward -pointing teeth
which 'help in the general effect.
41
PRINCE'S NEW HOBBY.
English Aversion May Stop Him
From Playing Bagpipes.
Englishmen have little sympathy
with their Scottish brethren in the
matter of the "pipes." It will be
interesting therefore to :see whether
the fact that the Prince of Wales is
learning to play the bagpipes will
lewd to a change in this direction.
The Priam) expressed a wish re-
eently to learn to play properly on
the Scottish national instrument,
and arrangements were. made for
one of Scotland's premier pipers to
give him lessons, The Prince took
his first lesson a-boub a month ago,
and already show.e remarkable pro-
gress in playing whet is admitted to
be the most difficult of all musical
instruments,
Pipe Major Ross goes to Oxford
twinge week eo give the Prince les-
sons, which last about an hour. One
result of the Prince's new hobby is
that several other undergraduates
are attempting to learn •the bag-
pipes.
WONDERFUL DEAD SEA.
The Shoves Are to Be Mopped and
Studied.
Although the. Dead Sea in Pales-
tine is known by name to every one,
its banks are seldom visited, and
many of its picturesque gorges,
wonderful mountains and strange,
fertile oases have remained vir-
tually unexplored territory.
So much se, in face, that the Pal-
estine Explotation Sooloty, of Ber-
lin, in conjunction with the Berlin
Institution for Sea (exploration)
Researehelieve determined to ve-
rdure the basin of eho Dead Sea
thoroughly, as well as that of the
river Jordan. Only twice in mod-
ern times has any one attempted to
make a Spttiritikie Sttlely of this his-
eie
It is probable, 'however, that we
hsill hear 11101.0 of the Dead Sea,/
Age may bring wisdom, but it
doesn't leave its much time to uao
Maeie---"What is the seat of
war 1" Pansy—"That meet be the
Husband—"The first time I saw
you you brought Mari* to my eyes."
Wife --"Why &
, are' He --"You
were peeling oniona."
MUST WALK To iinao WELL,
Nothing 'Nate Will Do as Mush to
Ides/nee Prevalenee of Sieknese.
Nothing will redacts the prevae
knee of :sickness during the winter
more than the formation of the ha-
bit of taking lens walks at least
twice n week. If 1,:ivettes are inter-
ested in keeping their children well,
they ehorld beeenie interested in
their estabrehing this habit.
If it eases Se MIlel to take an
hour's walk as it does to provide
for several &gee of a patent medi-
cine, walking would be Valaki isa
medicine very much more than it is
now. It is because it is so cheap
that se many neglect it.
Speaking from the viewpoint of a
physician alone, it is See to say
that the digestion of the average
man, woman and child would be
improved 100 per emit. by taking
a short, brisk walk every day, and
a walk of at least two hours, twice
a week.
The great trouble from which tesc
public school children !suffer is mal-
nutrition a-nd the resulting anaes-
mica This is due lose to insufficient
feed than it is due to inappropri-
ate, and less to inappropriate feed
and proper mastication than to the
inability of the body to utilize what
is eaten on account of lack of tone
to the stomach and inteatinee.
There is no surer way of toning up
the digestive system into vigorous
health than by following the walk-
ing routine outlined above. Walk-
ing will not fill decayed teeth, but
it will do many more things for the
body than will any one tonic, how-
ever administered.
The prevalence of adenoids and
enlarged tonsils is very largely due
to digestive disturbrance and the
characteristic bodily stagnaion of
those who do not exercise. If one's
nose is partially blocked by over-
grown tissue, a brisk walk will do
much to decrease this condition and
relieve a Congestion which is the
primary casio of this trouble. It is
astonishing how quickly a partial
blocking of the neso-phasynx will
be improved by this simple mea -
euro'
Of course, there .stili remains Ser-
ious eases which ottnnot be correct-
ed by anything save an operation,
but oven after an operation, if the
bodily .stagnation siontinues, the
adenoids are most likely to return.
It is the proper use of the nose and
the esitablishment of geed circula-
tion habits that we must look to for
the prevention of this disorder.
The fresh air habit should be in-
stilled in every .school child. If
there is once inculcated a taste for
fresh air by walking, the .children
are very much more likely •to rebel
against the stagnant air, which le
only too often characteristic of even
the bast dwellings. •
Walking is a most valuable stimu-
lant not only to the physical strue-
tura of the body, but favors the or-
derly arrangement of klea,s. Any-
one of the successful men of the
country will testify that ideas origi-
nate themselves in proper relation
to a long walk. Many of the older
philosophers realized this and de-
livered their best orations while en-
gaged in walking in groups about
the groves of Athens.
THEIR FAVORITE CANDIES.
Some Royal People Are Fend of
Them, Others Are Not.
All the Royal children are great
sweet eaters. The Prints of Wales'
favorite •sw•aet i a. sorb of mixture
of chocolate and sugar candy. This
was the invention of Monsieur Ce -
deed, the ehief-ehef at Buckingham
Palace, to whom only the secret of
its preparation is known.
It is called "koffer" by the
Prime ancl his brothers, allti a big
silver box of koffer found a place
in one of the Princess portnian-
teaux, when going up to Oxford,
and the sweetmeat has cies been
sampled, ancl greatly approved of
by a few undergraduates who have
been honored with an invitationto
lunch at the Prince's, teems.
The King of Spain is the most
inveterate :sweet eater ot reigning
monarchs. Sweets form an impor-
tant Kean in the lunch and dinner
menus at Spanish royal residences.
There arc usually half a dozen dif-
ferent sweetmeats served at each
meal. One of theme le known as
"champagne shells," ancl costs
lama $45 per Ib. to produce.
King George never touches sweet-
meats of any kind and Queen Mazy
perhaps of all Royal ladies the
least partial to sweetmeats. If her
Majesty has a particular liking for
eny, it is for lemon -flavored (treatise,
which are frequently eerved at des -
!serf; at the Royal dinner -table, and
at afternoon tea in the Queen's per-
oonal apartments.
These ereants are made in the
Royal kitchen after a recipe given
to Queen Mary by the (lemma, some
years ago, who, Ike many Bassian
ladies, is a great eater of sweets.
The Overinaie favorite sweets are
ooffee-flavored thoetelates, of which
elm 'consume a great den!
The GerMan Emperor sneer eats
sweetie. Hie Irapotel Majesty once
stated in one of 14.8 Pnlelt.0
speeches thee 'sweets Walk, on y
oaten by woman, babies and foal.
Always be prepared for the woret,
but keep an eye open Inc the best.;
GOOD WORDS FOR TORONTO
wirAT A BRITISHER HAS TO
SAY AII0 ITT QUEEN- CITY.
Says the Citizens Lead Cold, Prac-
tical Lives, and Are Simple
and Prattle:O.
Certainly everybody does not ar-
riyo at Toronto ix/ go through it.
It is si great and template city it-
self, and the most enterprising,
thorough and ep•teadate place in
Canada, ears a writer in Cham-
bers's journal. It is quite different
from any other. las atmosphere is
inevitably tinged with the spirit of
the Canadian West. The people of
Toronto lead, cold, serious lives.
They are .simple and intensely prac-
tical. They know themselves to be
great pieneere, and their ways are
those of pioneers. They are now, in
their increasing prosperity, intro-
ducing some fine and beautiful
things into their toeva-life. Besides
good eonee,ree and a great exhibi-
tion, there are many other evi-
dences of a -certain completion that
is being given to the, life in the On-
tetrian capital. But, for all that,
simplicity and severity are predooni-
mint, Life is sterner here than in
most of the older American cities
where so much more money has
been made. In the American city
family fortunes were e•stablished a,
generation or two back, and there
are signs; of wealth, some luxury
and many means of enjoyment at
every ham'. It is not like that in
Toronto or anywhere else in Can-
ada.
Work and Advancement
are almost the only things that are
thought of. Pleasure has but a
email part in the scheme of things.
Manners are brusque. Notices are
severely plain. "Keep out!" is
what you see in big printed letters
on the dor e where building opera,
tions ars going on inside, instead of
the gentler intimation that there is
"No admission except on business."
Instead of the notice that pedes-
trians along a temporary footway
or underneath some scaffolding
should not loiter, the injunction
"Be quickl" is 'recede. The point is
reached quickly and with force,
The city is made up of square
blocks and straight lines on the
most approved pian, except that it
will not have numbers for its
streets. It calls them by such
names as "King" and "Yonge,"
frequently omitting the word
"Street" from the •signs on the cor-
criers of the buildings. Ite restaur-
ants are for the most part of a sim-
ple kind; of taverns there are
scarcely any, and there is si strong
movement towards their almost
complete extinction. While I was
there I read a long editorial in one
of the leading newspapers against
the evils of alcohol and the misery
and ruin it en nses, and a passionate
a.ppeal for the stamping out of this
curse in Canada, a cry that nobody
should be content
Until Every Tavern is Closed
an.d; alcohol is shut out of the land.
This vehemence occurs constantly,
and is generally based on a, text of
some act of crime committed by e,
drunkard. It is a wonderful, mag-
nificent ideal that this new, clean,
natural land shall he anade a coun-
try without the alcoholic poison,
where men can make their efforts
and lead their lives unhanclicapped
and untrammelled by beer, wine or
spirits. Seine say that it is en im-
possible ideal. With that question
I have nothing to do. The point is
that the ideal exists and is making
some progress. At seven o'clock on
Saturday night every bar is closed
and the lights put out, and. from
then not s drop of alcoholic refreeh-
ment can be bought for money until
Monday morning. The visitor stag-
ing in a hotel cannot have it served
to him in the smoking -room or any-
where oleo about the hotel except
with his mels or in bis own bed
-
mien. However Inc the Cle•nadians
may fall short of their ideal, the
Saturday night carouse is at all
eyents an impossibility now. When
most of the shopping has been done
the streets relapse into a, very quiet
vvay. Therg is
No Shouting or Laughter,
and no hilariona prancing of the
pavements atm -in -arm with noisy
song -singing, because there is not
to be had that which inspires these
exhibitions of peculiar *emotion.
Toronto is altogether tremendous-
ly severe .aacl idealistic in the mat-
ter of morals and eandact, • Ib is all
Inc th,e'simpleet and the purest life,
Inc quickness and hard efficiency
with it. It Sterna es if subeon-
aciously there is theougliceet all lm -
man Claaarla, the ambition of catch-
ing up and naming, of making very
good hi a most, tromendeus enter-
prise, And be sure it is being done.
Nothing is being lefts undone that
might xnerease Ib fEciency and
that of its people. Its educational
systems are gag, anet ,the
eit;y 1> altpar.41ntIsi hire boat WOB-
della Way ao to as outsitirts
any @motion and you seo not just
a Attie building being dons 0q the
fringe, but aorta and titres of it,
in every direction, as if the whole
city had only jtmt boon begun.
ER01 ERIN'S HEM ISLE
NEWS BY „MAIL PROBI IRE-
LAND'S SHORES.
Happenings in the Emerald Isle of
Interest to Irish- .
mea.
The Portadown weavers have ob-
tained an increase in wages*
amounting to from. 5 to 7,14 per
cont.
The oldest woman in East Cork
has died recently in the person, of
Mary Fehitz, at the age of 104.
The death hus oecurred in Cashel
of Themes Walsh, proprietor eact
editor of the Cashel Sentinel.
A well-equipped pipers' band
has been organized in Doohandet
Parielt and has made rapid pro-
gress.
Kells Urban Council has adopted .
plane for the emotion of & new town
hall at a cost of about $5,000.
Two houses known as Mr. Lean's
House, Hillhall, just outside the
town of Lisburn, were destroyed by
fire.
John Connolly, for some year's
past an inmate of Mounts:001Th*
Workhouse, *lied recently at the age
of 116 years.
Judge Wakely remarked at a case
at Boyle Quarter Session that
schoolmasters in Ireland were
wretchedly paid.
There is every prospect of a coal
mine being opened in the mountain
district of the parish known as
Glean, near Druresleambee
Miss Marion Lindsay, Belfast,
has just died at the age of 101. She
belonged to Greenock, but had been
18 years resident in Belfast.
A farm at Lattnadronagh, near
Ballyjameteluff, County Cavan,
comprising just one six acres, was
sold for $1,300, being equal to $340
per Irish acre.
A large numb-er of hemstitchers
employed by Chisholm and Doney,
Belfast, are on strike owing to the
Stints refusal to revert to a higher
rate of wages.
The friends and neighbors of Mr.
Redmond, the harrier, have raised
a fund to enable him to replace the
damage done ±0 his farm by fire a,
few weeks ago.
The municipal debt of Belfast is
mounting up, and now stands at
$20,565,000, while further outlays
are contemplated that would in-
crease it to almosb $25,000,000.
• The old -established drapery ware-
house in Main Street, Longford,
where Mr. R. Legge and his people
have carried, on trade for over half
a century, has been.sold by auction.
Serious damage was done by a
gas explosion in Canal Street, Lis-
burn, ami in the house oocupied by
Mr. Nagle the floor of the parlor
was bkewn up. Fortunately, no one
was injured.
judge Currasi has intimated that
he will hold no further sessions 10
-Athlone until a new courthouse is
built. The existing building has
been condemned a,s insanitary and
unsuitable.
The seve,nty-seventh anniversary
has been celebrated at Mooney,
near Gienties, of the marriage of
Michael Shovelin and his wife An-
nabelle,. The former is m his 104th
year aad the wife is 101.
Smallest Beast of Prey.
The smallest carnivorous animal
in the world is an American weasel
which is numerous in Northwest
Canada and Alaska and is occasion-
ally seen about the Great Lakes.
Although the animal turns white in
the north in winter,. ±5 do -ns not
>how the black tipped tail which
chareasterizee an erinine pelt, and
SO it is nob bought by trappers and
fur traders. This fact, with its
small size and secretive life, has
made its habits very little known.
It feeds 00 ineects, which it finds
alive in summer and tin winter digs
out
if rotten logs, upon small birds,
etc., bot lives mainly on tnice.
These it •can follow into their nor-
rowesb holes and runways, Inc it is
scarcely larger than a field mouse.
itself; or, striking the trail of one,
it will trace all its wanderings and
as soon as it °etches, sight of its
prey ib will spring after it with
amazing and fatal rapidiby,
"Forty Winks" by Tap.
Many and curious have been the
method's employed to indnee sleep
in all ages. Even from the prianie
tive pillow stuffed with the nareetie-
leaf to the more modern one ttdvo-
cated by a well-known Swedish doe-
tor—of getting between bbe Islam
kets dripping from. a cold bath.
But perhaps none le so extraordi-
nary as that recently invented by
an eminent German doctor and
etientise. By his system it is pos-
sible to switch •sleop "off" and
"on," precisely as one manipttletee
tbe elsetrie liglmt. 'llheie it is by
electricity that the doctor is able
pr•edniso loop b tht inost
orgle of insomnia vichms,
nietelf sij i,i, small electrically -
worked maeriang, he.gnplies the !mama
rent to the baso the wirieh
li'015 nerves. This state osn be kept
ikt) for as ;long a period s desired.