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The Brussels Post, 1913-10-30, Page 6Household { Favorite Reeipe5. Steam Pudding, — Throe eggs, well beaten, one cupful of auger, one-half eupfu1 of butter, three- quarters of a cupful of sweet milk, one cupful chopped raisins, two cupfuls of fleer, two t easpo on£uls baking powder, Steam one and one-quarter hours, For same: One cupful sugar, three-quarters cupful butter, one cupful boiling water, one tablespoonful flour. Boil all ' together, then flavor with vanilla and nutmeg. Memo Cake Filling. -One cupful powdered sugar, one tablespoonful hot coffee, one tablespoonful but- ter. . This requires no cooking, as the hot coffee melts butter and en- ooa. Beat till smooth and put on Dake, Normandy Salad.—Stew gently ;In their own liquor a small can of lievo the srolrble. Angell is small of stature, French peas. When the peas have absorbed all their own liquor re- Cutting a heel -shaped piece out + colossal in intellect, hove from the fire and allow to of an old overshoe and pasting it, Quite apart from his relation to cool. Chop hall a pound of Eng- in the heel of new overshoes pre- !his illustrious chief, however, Lang- lish walnuts min. with the peas, vents the heel wearing out while • don -Davies is an attractive person - ',salt to taste, and pour over them the rest of the overshoe is compare- I ality in himself, and by his own half a mina mayonnaise dressing. tively new. This will solve five people, Novel sandwiches for afternoon of Cambridge University, and is a Cabbage Salad.—Shred fine a tea are made by mixing cream Imam of active, effective energy, of small, firm, white head of cabbage. cheese and shredded salmon steak. !charming disposition, and of pol- Sliee thin some cold boiled pota- The mixture is spread on salt wa-fished, persuasive eloquence. He is toes. Place in your salad dish a fers, hot toast, or thin buttered equity at home in discussing the layer of the shredded cabbage, slices of rye bread. ;prublems of peace and international then a layer of the potatoes; now Cotton gloves to wear in doing, •relations at gatherings of students, housework are cooler and better in ; labor men, or n Clubs. every way than old kid gloves. If I Before joinin Norman Angell bought especially for this purpose, I and the Garton Peace Foundation, get a size larger than usually worn. Mr. Langdon -Davies was a tutor in To keep white gloves clean in a�London. His pupils wore not all muff have an adjustable lining of the ordinary, every day English white silk or satin that they may people who usually make a tutor's be fastened in over the dark lining life rather uneventful Within a of the muff with invisible hooks and `. loops. If you rinse a plate with cold wa- ter befure breaking the eggs on it, add to them a pinch of salt and then stand where there is a current of air, you will have no difficulty in beating them to a froth. To keep curtains from blowing out the windows conceal thin iron washers in the hems and corners. It will make the curtains hang evenly and without constant stir- ring in a breeze. While kerosene is excellenb for removing stains -from woodwork, it must he sparingly used, for kero- sene in time will soften paint. When cleaning lamp chimneys hold them over the steam until wet, instead of washing them with wa- ter. This will prevent cracking after the lamp has been lighted. To wash or clean silk ribbons with good results, take a nail brush and rub gently lengthwise of the material. Tomato stains may be removed from table linen by a sprinkling of salt left on the spots for a few hours. The gloss may be entirely remov- ed from clothing by saturating a cotton cloth in ordinary laundry bluing water. Place it over the garment and press with a good hot iron—do not press too hard or too long—merely until the press cloth is scarcely dry. The result will be satisfactory. If you are mixing a pudding or cake with a wooden spoon, beat the mixture with the baok of the spoon. It is far easier and becomes beauti- fully light in half the time. When a recipe calla fora cupful of anything it means a half -ping an ordinary yuupp 911ed level, Pecans and almonds may be chop- ped coarsely and sprinkled over dressed lettuce for a dinner salad. Old hot-water bags, split open and cut into oiroular pieces, are good- to make mats for house plants. To freshen stale cake dip it for a moment in cold milk and then re - bake it in an oven at low tempera- ture, Put pockets on the underside of aprons near the right-hand edge and they will be found just as con- venient venient far use, yet will not e en doorknobs and get torn. Cut off the bottom of an old water bottle' and then out the rubber into strips up to the ourve at' the top to make a. whip or beater for couches, mattresses, pillows, eta. If egg shells are to be used for clearing coffee the eggs should be well washed before they are brok- en and the shells should be kept in A PEACE CI', APOSTLE. Langdon-1laviee Visits Canada In Interests of Peace. Mr. Langdon -Davies, who has just coneladod a ten days' visit to Caue,da, with the record of an ex- ceptionally large number of ad- dresses delivered one after the other to various audiences •and societies in Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton, is a young man, thirty- six years of age, and one who has left behind him a favorable impres- sion on 411 those with whom he has come into eontaet, 'n man for isinteresting He an ter g more than one reason. For exam- ple, he is a disciple and colleague of the famous Norman Angell, the author of "The Great Illusion," embodying the thesis that war, even from an economic and material as- pect, does not benefit the victor, and that armed aggression is there- fore futile. Mr, Langdon -Davies is on a three months' tour of A.mer- a covered receptacle until needed, 100,, preaching the doctrines of anti - If; collar -stays scratch the nook, militarism advanced by the Little a little white sealing wax malted Man•" This is the term of pride and applied to the ends of the and oudeftrmont with which the stays where they have broken friends of Norman Angell refer to through the casings will easily re- the world-famous peace advcoabte, • right, He is a brilliant graduate add jest a little minced onion, and then cover thickly with mayon- naise dressing. Now add, as be- fore, cabbage, potatoes, etc., until dish is filled, and then garnish with thin slices of hard boiled eggs and parsley. This is better if prepar- ed an hour or two before serving, and makes an attractive as well as appetizing dish. With Rice and Meat. —One cupful "uncooked rice, one solid cupful of beef cooked, one teaspoonful salt, one of pepper, one of chopped onion, one of parsley, one-half of summer savory, three of bread- crumbs,. and one egg. To the rice add one• teaspoonful salt and four quarts boiling water; cook thirty minutes, then strain. Chop meat very fine, add seasoning, bread - crumbs, and beaten egg, then one hall cupful of milk. Sprinkle but- tered tin with crumbs, line with rice one-fourth inch thick, fill with meat mixture. Put a layer of riee on top, cover, and bake forty-five minutes. Sauce for serving with this is made from two cupfuls chopped tomatoes, strain out the seeds, one cupful water, one •tea- spoonful butter, a little chopped parsley, salt, and pepper. Thicken with one teaspoonful flour. Scalloped Salmon.—Shred one can of salmon, plane in a. baking dish in layers; first a layer of roll- ed cracker crumbs, then one of salmon, butter, salt, and pepper. Repeat until dish is nearly filled. Then take a tablespoon each of but- ter and flour and mix well to- gether, and stir it into a cup of boiling milk; when thoroughly cooked stir in a beaten egg, pour this ever dish and :bake. When nicely "browned it is done. Whole Wheat Nut Bread.—One egg, one-half cup sugar, one-half teaspoon salt, one and one -hall cups sweet milk, one cup chopped walnut meats, two cops whole wheat flour, one and one-half cups white flour, and three teaspoons baking powder. Mix and allow to rise for twenty minutes, then bake in moderate oven for forty minutes. Steak a la Creole. -One pound of round steak browned well with tablespoon of butter, then add one cup strained or unstrained toma- toes, one large or two small onions minced fine, and two medium sized green sweet peppers chopped fine. Simmer two hours or until thick, dish and garnish with parsley. Graham Cracker Cake. --Cream one -halt oup butter, work in one cup sugar. Then add the well beat- en,"yolks of three eggs, three-quar- ters cup of milk; and one teaspoon of vanilla extract. Mix one tea- spoon baking powder well with the twenty-six graham • crackers that have been rolled fine. Than add the whiten - of three eggs, which have been beaten until stiff and dry, Bake in two layers in a mod- erate oven. Filling for on top and between layers : Two cups con- fectionery sugar, one-half cup but- ter melted a little, six teaspoons Dream, ono teaspoon vanilla. Beat until'ereamy, spread between lay- ers and, on to. aop of cake, Set aside ih Cool place, otherwise the filling will get soft. Jtolisellold Hints. Old hats make ineolee for slippers and hubber booea Toquickly prepare horseradish or cocoanut pare it and put it through:. the chopping machine. Jn .sleeping, keep• the head as low as possible, so that :the blood may have unittipeded"circulation, A ;mia:ttire of cream cheese and dates 1n kee a delicious filling for abrotya bread swndvvieh, _tF THE SUKS AND THEIR OXEN. Twist Their Horns Into All Man- ner of Shapes. A tribe of East Africa, called the Silks, hammer and twist the horns of their cattle into all kinds of shapes. , An oxen with one horn that points forward and the other backward, writes M. W. H. Beech in "The Suk," is an object of envy and admiration to all; it is called keener. They believe that such an ox has exceptional properties. Every fight- ing man should • have his kwmar; those who do not possess one are objects of derision. When they pre- pare to start on a raiding expedi- tion, the men gather the kamars to- gether, bedeck them with ostrieh- feathers, and lead them .to the river, There the warriors are as- sembled; they dance round the sa- cred oxen, flap their hands at them, and kneel on one knee; they hold up their shields in attitudes of de- fense and brandish their spears,. while they utter weird war cries, which are supposed to excite in the faint-hearted the desire for battle. A captured keener is a coveted prize, and the Suks-slaughter and eat it with much ceremony, The Silks were originally an agri- cultural people. In every planta tion theybuild little .shelters on piles, Whereon sit the women and children whose duty it is to give warning of the epproaeh of oleo phante, and to eoare away birds, Of the members of ilia tribe who do other than agricultural work there is a; saying, "God gave them " no sheep,II:a aMein aleverne so g ve t ss instead." Mr. B. N. Langdon -Davies. couple of years ho had under his charge several Parsees, a number of sons of Indian rajahs, and quite a generous installment of Chinese, in addition to the heirs of Prussian nobles, and Parisian aristrocrats. This incident illustrates in rather a fresh outlook the oosmopolitan na- tura of English education and learning. Langdon -Davies remarks on the deep responsibility involved in tutoring and supervising these foreigners, especially those from India and the Orient. Strangers in a strange land, and amid a civiliza- tion quite different from their own, they pass through quite a moral and intellectual crisis, Mr. Langdon -Davies tells a story which shows the traditional habit of the Chinaman, in his "laekadais- "cal" manner, ancl his refusal to be- come excited or alert. While sit- ting in his study one day, this tutor hoard the door open and someone come in quietly. After a moment's delay, he looked up and saw three young Chinamen standing in a row before the desk. One of them was a pupil Langdon -Davies had tutor- ed a year before, who had returned to China. Without writing a line or letting the' tutor know in any way, ho had returned to England, and had brought with him two of his companions, who also had a thirst for Western education and Western pleasures. The tutor's time might have been oompletely taken up, and their coming might have been embarrassing to him.and untimely for themselves, but they had evidently not thought it worth while to make any preliminary ar raogements, and had left China and -Como oto England, entirely unher- alded. Mrs, Serappington—Oh, let the young people flirt if they want to, I don't believe flirtingg ever brought harm to anybody. Scrappin,g'ton— You forget. That's how you and I began, by flirting. In peeking away silks- or velvet garments do not fall to put slightly crumpled tissue paper between the OUR LONDON LETTER The King and Military Aviation, I learn on excellent authority that, no the result of varlone enggaitions and we perlenoee during the .rodent Army cxor. (Seen, there is to be a oorieidorwblo mod!- lleation and development of the military aeroplane department. It would seem that certain of these suggestions arose personally front the ging in the eouree of eouvereation with the deoretary of State for War and some of the officers in corn. mand, aid hie Majesty hay expreestel the desire that bo may be made acquainted with the manner in which these can be oarrlcd outwith advantage to the ser• vice and a larger meaeure of safety to. the Dilate of flying maobinee. cape to Cairo, • From information which is leaking out in difrereut quarters one may lnfor theo. an arrangement has been or leabout to be concluded between this country and Germany for the oonstruotiou of the minutes liult" in the Cape to Cairo 21411 - way. %Ida link would run along Lake Tauyanylke and the valley. of the Busisi, whish foam the frontier between Garman East Africa and the Belgian 0o110. hitherto Germanybasbeen-unwilling to permit Great Britain to acquire in the Congo a strip of land for the railway, as it would cut off German East Africa from the Congo, and so - would not only true. trate the and colonial dreams of @x• pension westwards at the expense of t11o. Congo, but would, 1t line feared, also in•. Jure the legitimate comn,eralal interests which the Borman colony has .there, AO German East Atrial, le ootanwhteue with the Congo and thus bass the way totthe. portionsn offth otraneooutivanttaal lino, the oomplotion of the railway was eFtwttmllly prevented. It now appaara that Germany Lae agreed to walvo her oppenition to the Britielr acquisition of a strip of Congo territory in return for compensation. That compensation le said to q ntitet n the right to join .her own railways n East Africa to the Tanganyika junction, It ie also said that Walfish Bay is 10 be transferred to .the German nag, z 40 not pretend to know what precise amount of truth there is in these rumors, but eec- tainrly they oupply still another proof that our relatione with Germany have iFeatly improved of late, and than the mprovement is taking concrete shape on a variety of hitherto disputed questions. Tactical Value of Speed. red4ine from the case ofthe battleship Lorraine, which wail launched at St. Na,. zaire recently, the French naval author!• ties do not put'so high a tactical value Upon speed ail our .Admiralty do, The Queen Elizabeth, which to to be floated wt Po}'tsmouth on October 16. wilt entre-nae an outrun -to put it in that way --the mot powerful and the speediest battle- ship afloat. And she will be able to main- tain her highest possible speed for much longer than u coal -burning battleship be- cause oil fuel w111 be exolueively employ- ed in her case to generate the steam for her turbipes. The deli nod speeds of the French battleships Paris and France is a knot less than that of our ooalkuiming Dreadnoughts. That was done largely in order to make the main armament one of this calibre, Ib t in than more battle ships have. Now in order to aceommo• date ten 13,4 -inch guns arranged as in our Orions a further knot has been knocked off designed speed,. for in the case of the Provence, the Bretagne, and the Lorraine, it is only 19 knots. This difforertoe of opinion between French and Britleh strategical experts regarding the value of speed will uo doubt be dilly made much of by naval critics. The Soa Training Conference. Arrangements are now well advanced. for the fourth National Conference on Sea Training, which Is to be held in Lon- don on Trafalgar Day, October 2.1, end a large number of public bodies in all parte of the country have already noti- fied their iateution of sending represent- atives. The report which is to be present- ed by the National Committee on Sea Training will deal I underetand, among other things, wits, the pro rase which sae been made in eon training in Ger- many. ermany. The chairman and hon, secretary Savo prepared a joint report on the sub- jeot of a syllabus of elementary educa• tion for training aide boys, and this will also be discussed by the conference. Among those wise will attend are Lord Pirrie, Lord Charles Beresford,1'Ir, Con. cannon (White Star Line), Mr, Boyden (Cunard Line), Mr, Torrey (Atlantic Transport Company), Mr. Outhbert Laws (Shipping Pederatlon), representatives of the Board of'Eduoation and many educe,• tion authorities, chairmen of various comity councils, and a large number of mayors of provincial towns, The Tango Tea. The tango tea has come to London. Bub people will be disappointed if they ggoo to the Queen's Theatre expectingthe MUM - owl delight of rising from your first cup and dancing the tango with your neigh- bor, as the way is in . New York and Paris. This be tango tea watered to the. British palates, but a pleasant enough afternoon drink all the same. You take your ryoursticket the bright nehe w decorate ed theatre where armchairs and natty tea. tables ftave taken the place of stalls. The attendants. wearing a nice shade of puce to harmonize with the drop curtain bring you bread and butter and tea-pote instead of pProgrammes. The curtain goes up, re sealing a small orchestra embowered in a corner playing tweetmusic enough to anger your cup, and noon the tango don. ooze Como on. The little band tries in its polite way to render the fierce.. rhythms et ragtime. The lint coupledoes tate tan.. go with a sort of eooentrio langur and mysterious steppinge and olaspinge. The next couple the Solti Duo, I think, ehown us a bit of the real frenzy in their per. formance of gymnastic jealousy. A -girl in black comes in alone, looking puny, Soon a forbidding young man bleaches on and pouncesupon her, seizing her by the neck and throwing her about a rod deal, rapping heron the floor at terval¢,and turning her upside down, She retaliates with a dagger, he retorts With a pistol, and it ende with a fierce tangle of reconciliation. We applaud with. teaspoons, There ie a parade of manne- quins, also to ragtime melody—tall god. desacs from Bond Street, floating round the stage to the music of such exh.flarit- ing lyries'ne "waiting for the Robert E,. Leo," It le +worbh the .half-crown to study the mannequin walk -a kind of glide .over thin ice, with rhythmic swaying of the. long, supple body and a waving of the tapering hands. The.. maunequms them w oar the latest things from Pur1e, Some of h m as wildas the true tango, others quite charming and simple. The bread and bet- ter is excellent foo. Altogetherthe tango toLondon,good O at. 110 e1913n' • SPORT IN NOVA. SCOTIA. it Is an Ideal Country for the Run - tor and Angler. The Province of Nova Scotia should be a paradise to all the lov- ers of sport, for here are all the ad- vantages Such as an abundance of game nod ash, unrivalled facilities or camping andcanoeing, accessi- bility and cheapness. In regard to game the greatestof the deer family ,and moose was kill- ed in all but one of the fourteen counties of tie mainland last year, and the species is steadily increas- ing in numbers. A full-grown bull moose stands eight feet in :height at the shoulder, weigh, about three- quarters of a ton, and has broad garments band whenevov a oreaptt or antlers wel'ghtng about seventy lbs., fold comes this will prevent, many with, a. spread of nearly five feet,. an unsightly wrinkle: when .the gar- He -seems; very clumsy<and iasis- meet is unpacked, gant when in motion, but when he rears his stately hoed in an atti- tude of attention it would' be im. possible, to imagine anything grand• air or more impressive. When he is in the act of charging or in one of those terrible lits of fury whioh take possession of him from time to time his eyes flash forth a green blaze and his short and stiff make stands erect like the quills of a porcupine, For the angler,. toe, there is lots of sport, both salt and fresh water fishing. Stamen and speokled trout abound, Canoeing trips can be taken at reasonable rates with fish- ing all the way. A great many Nova i Scalene baro1 ittlo huks built by the side of the river and go to them for week ends for fish- ing, whilst others live under can- vas during July and August. A number of Halifax citizens have de- lightful elightful bungalows built by the side of the famous North-West Arm, where they spend their summer. When they want to come into tlio city they cross either by the ferry or in their own boats and canoes, Camping le very much favored in Nova Scotia. Winter sports, too, are indulged in there to a large ex- tent, Sleighing, skating, toboggan- ing and roe hockey are all favorikoa. I scarcely know yet (writes an Eng- lish woman resident in Nova Sco- tia, which I prefer, the winter or the summer. Both aro ideal for people who like to live amongst natural beauty and indulge in good healthy pastime and amusements, READY TO CARRY AN ARMY. Wonderful Reaan ees of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway, The immense equipment of the Canadian Paeifle Railway may bo illustrated from the fact that this company could transport an army of 30,000 persons from Vancouver to Halifax, giving each a berth to sleep in and supplying 90,000 meals pea diem, or practically half :a mil- lion on the five and a half days' journey torose ,the continent. There are 4,000 men employed by the com- pany between the sleeping and din- ing oar department. If the dining and sleeping ears were made up in a single train with a, locomotive be- tween each ten cars the train would be fourteen miles long. To man such a train there would have to be 8,000 sleeping and dining car atten- dants with several hundred addi- tional men at the terminals to look after the supplies. In order to look after the welfare of the sleeping and dining oar employes the Cana- dian Pacific has provided a chain of homes for them across the con - anent at all the great eentrea, such as Toronto, Winnipeg, Moose Jaw, Calgary and Vancouver, The seen are housed by the company. The quarters are homelike and the men are provided with baths, clean olothes, medical attention and se forth, so that when they take their ,trains they are fresh and clean and ready for work. The O.P.R. is the only company on the American con- tinent which has gone tothis trou- ble and expense with respect to this class of employe. There is good business in it, of course, for the service is recommended by the cleanliness of the attendants. But there is also human interest and kindness—though the C.P.R. would scout the idea of playing the role of philanthropist. It is the simple truth, however, that the company does go out of its way to conserve the interests of all its employes in every possible way, making at once for the highest efficiency and con- tentment, LUCKY NUMBERS. The Old ROHM'S Pinned Their ' Faith to the Figure 8. From time immemorial superstition has attached luck or 11l•luck to certain numbers, and there are but few men who are entirely free from this hallu- cination, For a long time even numbers were considered unlucky, it being argued that their divisibility was symbolically an omen of death. On the other hand,. odd numbers were considered lucky because they are not divisible. The old Romans were especially at• tacked to the number 3, as it was the smallest divisible number. Their faith in number 8 manifested itself even in their religion.' Jupiter wielded a triple' thunderbolt, and Neptune carried a three -pronged trident. Pluto had a three -headed dog, and there were three fates, three furies, and three graces. They also held that any num• ber that could be divided by 3 was lucky, The most prevalent numerical su• perstition, without doubt, concerns the number 18. Many people will not sit at a table where there are 18 guests. It has been arguedthat this supersti• tion has come down to us from the Last Supper of our Lord, when, it will be remembered, Christ, with life twelve Disciples, Was,. seated at the table, and the death of Himself and Judas followed shortly after. The numbers 3 and 7 appear with surprising frequency in the Bible, and for that reason many people attach peculiar attributes to them. *--•••• Row happy the average married man would be if he were only half as well satisfied with his wife as he id with himself, The Halifax Board of 'Trade has made representations to the Gov- ernment whioh have restated in an inspector of apples, with an assist- ant,.being stationed on the Ilalifax market all the year round, SHE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOVEMBER 2, Lesson V. Balak and Bataan!, Num. 22. 1 to 24. 25. Golden Text, James 1. S. Verse 2, The defeat of the Amor- iter 'by the children of Israel re- corded in the preceding ehivpter so alarms Balak, kingof Moab,t flat dB he sent for a foreign magician, of whom he requests' that lie place upon the Hebrews the restraining influence of a powerful ban or curse. The story is entirely in accord with the early belief regarding the ef- ficacy of a magical spell. 4, And Moab said -Either the king or the elders of Moab take counsel with the elders of ,Midian. 5. Pethor, which is by the River —Commonly identified with Pitru on the Euphrates, mentioned in early Assyrian tablets, Bantam, therefore, was summoned from As- syria, noted for its magicians. 6, For I know—Balaarm'a fame had preceded him. - 24. 10-19 The passage intervening between the printed portions of our lesson tells of Balaam's response to the summons of Balak, of his vision by the way, and the instruction of the angel to bless, and not to curse, Israel It records further the suc- cessive attempts of Balak to get the famous magician to pronunce a curse; but oaoh time he pronouncea a blessing instead, 10. Smote his hands together In despair at the outcome of his effort to bring .magical powers to bear against Israel, 11. I thought to promote thee unto great honor—The usual meth- od of rewarding magicians and prophets for forecasting. a future favorable to the king. 14, 1 will advertise thee what this pkople shall do to thy people Bal is quite willing to depart, but before leaving, informs Balak, unasked, concerning what the Is- raelites will in the future do to Moab. In so doing Balaam goes more into detail than in his former brief pronouncements of blessing, making it very plain that eventual- ly the people of Moab will go down before Israel. - 15. His parable—His poetic pro- phecy. His, eye was closed — Or, is opened. • 16. Knoweth knowledge — Pos- eesseth the secret of the Moat High. 17. I see him—The future king, David. .A star out of Jacob—The star has always been a favorite figure for a king in Eastern imagery. A scepter—+A more "familiar sym- bol' of royalty, !Smite through the corners—The corners of the head, that is, the temples. Sons of tumult —_ An uncertain phrase the meeting of which in the original is not understood. The margin of the Revised Version substitutes the sons of Sheth, sup- posed to have been one of the lead- ing tribes of Moab. 18. Edom shall be a possession— Of the coming king. Edom was direcbly south of Moab. Its hill country was known as Mount,5eir. - --,k CALCUTTA'S GROWTH. India's Big City Has a Population of 1,048,807. • The census returns of Calcutta, the "second city of the empire," as the inhabitants call it, show a total population in city and suburbs (forty-two square miles) of 1,043,- 307, which is 62,882 more than Bom- bay. Calcm�,ts,...has grown enormously in the lasei hirty years, despite the fact that the death rate still stands at 34.9 a thousand, which is twice that of London. Although the wes- tern -community is steadily increas- ing it numbers in all only 19,808, and of these 7,630 were born it Eu- rope, 1,034 being natives of Scot- land, Calcutta is a remarkably polyglot city, No fewer than fifty-one sepa- rate languages are in use among its inhabitants, twenty-eight of them being' Indian dialects. Ben- gali is the mother tongue of almost exactly half of the population. India le one of the countries where a census of religions presents little difficulty. The Hindus of Cal- cutta number 604,858, the Moliem- 'medans 241,687, and the Christians 39)551 (or 4 per cent), The remark- ably largo number of 34,680 persons., (practically all, of course, males) are employed in the public service. There is an extraordinary dispar- ity in the saxes, the proportion of females in the city being only 475 to every 1,000 males. Color Changes, '"Why•ekes Jinka look .so bleak?' "I think it is because his pro- epects have made him blue," Many a man eta to be ooneeited+ by thining he pee DOWN BY THE UNBIND SEA BITS OP NEWS P11031 TJIII MARITIMI PROVINCES. Items of Interest From Places Lapped by Waves of the Atlantic. Timothy Hogan, of Mahone Bay, N,S,, dropped dead as ha was0go- ing Home from oliurch, At Shelburne, N.S., the munioip- al almshouse a rine throe -storey building, was totally destroyed by fire. •• Several doctors in Sussex, N.B,, were fined $20 and costs each for violation of the Canada Temper- ance Aot, The Halifax exhibition had an at- tendance of 57,728 this year, which was 2,685 more than last year and 1.2 470. more than 1911. Plio Maritime Oil and Gas Com- pany has struck another well in Moncton County, N.B., with a ca- pacity of over a million barrels. It ' is 1,600 fent deep. One of the best-known and old- est citizens of Halifax died in the person of Ezra Davidson, In his day he made stoves which were used all over the Maritime pro- vinces, The Canada Cement company will construct a million dollar plant in the vicinity of Bb. -John, N.B. It is understood that plans for a mo- del village in connection with the scheme are in course of prepara- tion. A Fredericton, N.B., doetos woke up in the night andfound that one of his fingers had become •infected with blood poisoning. He got up, froze the finger, split it open and then went to the hospital to have it treated. Illustrating how wages for un- skilled labor have increased at the Nova Scotia collieries in the last 15 years, it is stated that laborers are now paid from $2 'a day up- wards who were formerly consider- ed well paid at $1.10 a day. At Yarmouth, N.S., the falling tide left 5,000 mackerel stranded on Sand Beach. People gathered them up in barrels, baskets, boats and anything they could get, Old fishermen never •heard of such a thing happening before. , Harold 0, E. Spence, a mining expert in the employ` of the British Government, says there are 200,000 acres of shale deposits in New- foundland, capable of producing enough oil to supply the" British Government with fuel for its war- ships for 600 years. The Department of Railways and Canals has called for tenders for the construction of the first unit of the Halifax ocean terminals. These include 6,500 feet of quay tvall, foundations for buildings, servers, dredging harbor to 54 feet depth at low water, filling reclaimed areas, etc. How the fox industry is prosper- ing in Prince Edward Island may be judged by these facts printed in the Charlottetown Guardian : Otte man, who invested :$500 three years ago, has received $25,000 in divi- dends; seven clerks and managers in Summersidc pooled $500 each in 1910. The seven have received $38,000 in cash dividends• alike, and now have foxes which could be sold for $85,000; one company is paying this year a 40 per cent. dividend on $028,000 capital. The Moncton Transcript ,says the lid is on so tight in that town that citizens who want a drink are com- pelled to imbibe extract of lemon, commonly used for cooking pur- poses. A number of drunken men were arrested, and each one said he had taken nothingstronger than extract of lemon. Other bibulous personages take Jamaica ginger. 'Mlle police authorities of Moncton say that if grocers continue to fill large orders for lemon extract or Jamaica ginger, Scott Aet proceed- ings will be taken against them. WHEN SNUFF WAS USEFUL. Value of Presence of Mind in an Emergency.. "Sortie people have the knack of doing and saying the right thing at the right time," comments Lord Rossmore in '".things I Can Tell." And as an instance of the value of presence of mind in an emergonoy, he tells of a dog-flgbt in Bond Street; London, Two terriers that. belonged to two eocially eminent ladies had engaged. in a business- like tussle. The distracted ladies alternately made tearful. but •vain appeals to their favorites and to the bystand- ers. Just AS the fight ,seemed about to terminate fatally for one of the animals, at blase -.looking "eheppio"' elbowed bis way through the crowd with a polite "permit me." He'mainly surveyed ftho two struggling dogs; then he produced a hanclsame • gold snuff-box, and taking a pinch from it, he dropped a little. on the . ehd. of oaoh dog's nolo. •A fit of sneezing ensued, Which : compelled them to release their grip, and'the combat oame to an end, • With a polite bow to the ladies, striiteg'ist 'walked' leisurely, 4tway.