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The Brussels Post, 1914-2-5, Page 3ii, i i'' ,..w --,---ah". u$eho d i1'iuter Mttrnrallades. Carrot Alaa•utalade. --- One dozen a•aw carr„ts, grated; one cupful sugar to each cupful of grated car- rot, juice of three it int, strain - act: one teasp„unful et:h of pow- d ered einnamim, c 1,i\e', and all- spice, ]fix carrots and sugar and let staid o'er night. Add the lem- on Ja,.'e and spices in Ott morning. and etiek slowly fur one heir, By onto ting spices you have :t good im- ilat,•in of c range ntarm:al•rde, C'arr'ot Preserves. -- \1.z,h wen anci serape the roots of carrots. and remove all black spots "r braised, cleansed pieces. If you want it to ire firer -Mass, cut only the red part o ttt .1e into pieces, f1ii' winfr away the tn`ddle, lig'rt colored and hard loci.,,. Put the cut up reel Pieces mte the preserving pan with water to voter, and boil till it is soft enough to, rub through a hair sieve. To four pounds of this pulp allow four pound's of loaf sugar, a quar- ter of a pound of bitter almonds, blanched and cut up very fine, 'the rind grated, and the juice strain- ed of four leptons. The almonds and lemons are not to be adclecl till the carrot pulp and sugar have bod- ed up thoroughly and simmered far fifteen ter twenty minutes; then re- move from the fire, and when eokd Stir in the fruit. Allow the sugar and pulp to boil cunt{iuunrsly or the tun will burn. Just before put- ting the jam into jars add to the above quantity six tablespoonfuls of brandy to make the jam kelp. Stir thoroughly. Cover the jars carefully and tie over well to ex- clude air. Gras 'fruit Marmalade. -- Six grapefruit, sugar and water. Wash fruit. remove skin and cut it into short thin strips or run it thruugh the chopper. Cut. the fruit into small pieces, disearding seeds. Weigh the skin ,and pulp and to each 1ennd add two pints of water. Let stand over night, and buil the fruit in the same water until the slain is tender. Remove from the stove. measure carefully and to each pini• of fruit and juice add one and one-fuurth pounds of sugar. Return to the stove and boil until the fruit is transparent and the juice is a rich syrup. Ain her harmaline. •- No. 1. — ▪ 1Fasit, wipe and cut lobo quarters one orange, tete lemon and one grapefruit. Slice each quarter through peel and pulp, rejecting seeds. Adel seven pints of cold wa- ter, let stand overnight•, and in the morning cook until the peel is ten- der, w hieh will take several hours, ,'et aside overnight. Add ten cups (five pounds) of sugar and cook, stirriug once in a while, until the syrup thickens slightly un a cold plate. Pineapple -Orange Marmalade. — Three well -ripened pineapples, and six oranges. Remove the cores from the pineapple, and the white membrane of 'tire• oranges. Put through chopper, and .fur every eup of pulp take one of sugar. Cook very slowly until like jam. Poor in glitsses. Amber Jlarmalade — 10. 2. — Sliee. one orange, one lepton and Otte grapefruit thin with a sharp knife, reproving seeds and „core. Measure and let stand over night with the sante quantity of water as ftTtit. 1'n the morning put on the fire and let boil for two minutes. Remove and let stand another twenty-four hours. Then measure gain and to each pint of juice add one pint of sugar. Boil until it jellies; stirring oily as necessary. -Put into jelly glasses and seal when cold, Candied CIrape fruit Peel. — l3e sure fruit is; perfect and fresh. Wash, removeskin in quarters and cut it into strips about an inch wide. Weigh the peel. Measure out an equal weight of sugar. Let the peel stand over, night in fresh cold water. Put it on to boil In this water in the mernintr ulsi:lg a fiat,-sballove pan so as not to crowd the peel and let simmer until the strips can be pierced easily with a, .straw, Take front fire and let stand until next morning. Train Off the water. adding more if there is not enough to cover the peel. Cook the liquid to a svriip wit•h,fhe sugar. The sugar should weigh twice as much as •the warier. When a rather luck, but not 'too thick, syrup flag formed, add the peel, and. let ,the ,ntass sinenee slowly .until the e•rtip is nearly absorbed end the peel, looks clear. Let the peel coo], renrni•e it and roll ingrenulat- ed sugar. Lay it on waxed paper to dry. Tt can he kept in a gide- mouthed j ter, Witt gets tog hard, cook again in a little syrup and re- peat the process of rolling in sugar, The sgr'tin melees an excellent fiav- string and sweetener. Ever Tried 'These Sanii 'Klee? Any irit of left -over veal, steak, thicken os iamb may he ntilieed for ea,ndwicht e, especially' if ewers terap of gtsvv- left, in the conking is saved sed the .meat -pint into it• This keeps the imeta rr'o151 drying np, Sttat before rising , mince the awe alt aeel. rbrre will by a rood przl- sage added to the minced meat will change the flavor delig'htfuaty. Minced mint added to the lamb m it happy eurabitta;tiun, tiuo, A few drops of lemon juice added to the minced hard-boiled egg,gives a piquancy to the egg sandwiches. Dates and uutai run through the meat chopper and moistened with cream halve a filling that is hearty and tasty, A dash of salt improves the mixture, The chopped dates and nut mix- ture is quite changed, ill flavor if it is moistened wit]' lemon or orange juice, A mixture of cottage ell sse and comet -tut is as good as it is unusual, Moisten it with rich• cream and acrd a pinch of salt, Bard -belled eggs, chopped fine or pressed through a ricer, anti flaror- c'd with minced smoked It:reine', ounce a tasty sauclwieh frllnlg, either WW1 or without a sated dressing. ('told stewed mushrooms, split, are 'delicious with entire wheat bread if baked beans are season- ed with horseradish or catsup, minced parsley, mustard and onion juice they will be an excellent fill- ing for bread sandwiches. A tangy cheese, grated .and mix- ed to a paste with chili Sallee or tomato catsup, will be found excel- lent for sandwich filling. Another good cheese filling is the grated cheese mixed with chopped celery or watercress, olives and a little melted butter. Minced crisped ham or bacon and minced chicken, with a little let- tuce leaf or shredded lettuce, will be found good with whole wheat or white bread. Chopped anchovies or sardines, mixed with hard-boiled eggs and made the consistency of paste- by us- ing mayonnaise or cream, are good with any kind of bread,' Shredded or minced sweet green peppers, cream cheese and mayon- naise are delicious with nut bread. A toasted sandwich, having for a filling scraped raw beef, will often tempt the appetite when other fill- ings fail. Twice as much chopped chicken as minced ham, seasoned with curry powder, makes an unusual sand- wich filling. I1 these sandwiches are nerved with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese, or with balls of the cheese mixed with butter, they will find Favor. Any kind of baked, cold cooked fish, mixed with a sweet or soar minced pickle and mayonnaise or boiled dressing, will make a good sandwich filling. Minced celery, and olives, mixed to a geed consistency with mixed pickle and catsup, will make e tasty filling, with or without the addition of minced nuts, TConsehold hints. Grape jam with whipped cream on it is a novel and pretty dessert: Very sour fruits can be partly sweetened by a pinch of salt wide cooking, The living -room table e'ould never be crowded with books. A :few are enough. When woolen blankets are past their best, cover with silkoline and tack like e quilt. Individual tarts are always at- tractive and make an agreeable change for the Luncheon table. The woman who means to econo- mize on labor in her home will have as little bright metal as pox- Bible. If -a rug curls, moisten it and wrap it around e broom stick in the opposite way from its desires, then tie and let it dry. • • Meat patties for luncheon dishes are economical because they., can be macre of almost every sort of cold meat. Anybody who has a hunter in the family cart make a very nice little rug of rabbit skins sewn together on a piece of carpet, -• Keep in the cellar a. few onions which you allow to send up shoots. They are delicious in winter sal- ads or to rtib the salad bowl with. Bread sauce should never be served stiff ,and sticky, but smodbh and free from ]utnps. The sauce should not boil after adding the bread, If lime in the water forms a coat- ing inside the teakettle it may be removed with vinegar oe sulphuric arid. Be careful to wash the kdbble afterward, Cortese Justice. The Careen judge dispenses jus- tice in the open, and by etiquette only the judge eau alt; everyone else must stand, excepting the pri- soner and his friends, vvhe are forced to remain in a humble kneel- ing position with bowed, heads."Un- 1 ] quite recently these-ttiale were always very once -sided and ahook- ingli' unjust. -When a man 'vas brought to a judge, it was taken for granted 110 was guilty, and if he. did not confess he was tortured and made to do so. Witnesses, too,. were openly bribed. Tn •fact,'givin evidence for or age inst'an accuse person: meant a living to a portion cif theeonnnunit), and these wit; news naturally favored those who parer ]lest, Punishments varied, if the prisons were too full, end the condemned could not pay a fine, they were 'often given a ehauioe to escape, or' disappeared by acme 111108s, Though these are things of the n11mtl ('or'ean judges, lilac those of China, possess a poor idea of the senseof justice. --Wide World Mag- .etallyde 11' ii'tg, Sometimes a llieel1 of t azfne; 1Oc U O Y SE 1 LESSON INTERN ,AT10NA1, 1,t;N;HON, F.EIIRCAR 1' 1. Lesson VI. Darkness and Light-- Luke ight—Luke 11. 14.26, 33.363. Golden Text, Luke 11. 35. Verses 14-10 are i,ttroductury, ex- plaining the occ.c.ie,lt fur the wires which &illness A miracle wrought by Jesus is by •some attri- buted to the prince of evil spirits. Verso 14. Denton that was dumb called because it made the man dumb. 15. Some of them said--ltxtlhew says it was the Phar'isems vvhu made this remark (Matt. 9, 31). Beolzt'bub•--This wild 00001.5 only about a half dazes tittles in the New Testament and lather . in the (1111 'Testament. The form of iih., wird ]tare used Is taken from the' Val - gate, cr early Latin tl aslation of the Bible. The Greek 1111 iuscripts have instead the word "Beelze- bub" which may mean either "lord of the mansion” or "turd of tite pit.” It is uncertain whether the Jews identified Beelzebub with Sa- tan or believed frim to he a subor- dinate evil power. le. Sought of him a sign from heaven -•-A renewal of the third temptation (Luke 4. 0.19), in that Jesus is requested to perform e miracle, for the mere purpose of showing his power to unbelievers. 17, 18. Jest's shot's the people the unreasonableness of believing that through the assistance of 'in •evil power he could east out evil. If the power of Satan were used to cast out one of his own subjectll, then his kingdom would be divided and would surely fall, A house divided against a house --Better, "house after house fall- eth," Here Luke apparently meant to enlarge upon the desola- tion brought about by a divided kingdom, and clic] not refer, as did Matthew and Mark, to a divided house (see Matt. 12. 25; Mark 3, 25). 19, 20. Your sons—Jewish exor- cists, who used charms and incanta- tions to drive away the• spirit's of disease and other spirits of evil. By the finger of God—Matthew (12. 28) says "the spirit of God," 21, 22. This parable contains a suggestion of Isaiah 49. 24-26, The strong manwould then refer to Satan guarding the entrance of his own court or mansion, and the stronger would refer to Jesus, who would overcame. him and take from him his armor in which he trusted, 23. He that is not with me is against mo—The contest between Christ and Saban is such that no one can remain neutral. Indiffer- ence here is ,equivalent, to. opposi- tion, 24-20. In reproving the Pharisees for their baseless criticism of him and for their desire for a miracle to test his power, Jesus depicts their spiritual condition by using the parable of expelled demons, a subject foreign to our thought to- day, but moving in the region of popular opinion of his d•ay. The point of the parable for us is the fact of common experience which it emphasizes, that he who has once expea'ieneed the goodness and mercy of God in the forgiveness of sin and thereafter permits the old habits to again hake possession of his life is sure to sink, steadily to lower and lower levels. The lan- guage throughout is figurative and the' debails•of the -parable mast not be forced.in their a, plication, Waterless places Deserts, oemte- teries, .and places uninhabited by men were 'thought to be the haunts of demons. Seeking rest and finding none— The demon is seeking for a place of abode, Illy liottsa—No one .else has taken possession of it, so he still calls it "my house," He findeth it swept and garnish- ed, but empty. Evil can be per- manently overcome only by posi- tive good, a bac] habit by a good one, wrongdoing by right conduct, selfishness by service. 33-36. In these verses Jesus car- ries the argument of his discourse one step farther. Not' only must individual allegiance to the king- dom of heaven result in positive goodness, but that goodness must be helpful to others. It cannot re- main as a secreted personal pos- session. The two illustrations used, by Jesus make, this point perfectly clear, The lte lighte(1 lamp {s not intended to'be hidden in the cellar, or crypt, under the house, nor yet to .be covered ever with a bushed, the household basket, used for nteaser- ing grain and vegetables, It ra- ther inbearded to give light, and thus to serve all who enter bbs house. In like manner the eye serves riot it- self alone, but the entire body, and upon its health will depend cleat' nose of vision and safely. Stogie, in this parable; means sound of normal, as evil itreazlr5 0, o so, Whether the light , 'be not darkness ---hexamine thyself and see if, elle eye of thy soul is so diseased that it cannot reooivo`the light, ' Never lnefore hi England have to er themselves natty women offered flarselves a candidates for town, and nnebropol{- r tan 'borough councils, ENGLISH GlR1, TEACHES A1rEI31('AN GIRLS 'J'O ROW. WOMAN TO EXPLORE DESERT, The Washington l'ndversity Women's Comb. Miss Lucy Pocock, holder of the woman's single scull championship of England, is now teaching the women students of the University of WVasltington at Seattle howto row the Eton stroke, and is making groat progress, Miss Pocock is 24 years old, and was born at Ted- dington on the -Thames, where she was taught to row by her bro- thers, Dick and George, both champion single scullers. e. 3i:1.N'S YEARS OF GROW'C11. Organs and Bones Grow Until He Is Forty Years Old. It is claimed by scientists who have macre a study of the subject that tt man's organa and the bones that are not subjected to pressuee grow continuously until he is forty years old; that is to say that the heart should grow stronger, the capacity of the lungs increaso and the brain should develop steadily until the end of the fourth decade of life, A mon ceases to grow tall, how- ever, at the beginning of the third is instinctive, and so also are her neatness, her coquetry and her her modesty. In all weathers and rpt all company she eteans her fur and her face, A trained cat pre- fers to make her toilet before a mirror. Man's love for his cat is free from snobbery, The Persian cat, the cat of China, or the tail- less Manx, may be the object of our admiration or our astonish- ment; the common sat of our uw'u household is the object of our lune. Camoens was tui pour to buy a candle; he had no light but the luminous eyes of his cat on the Might when he wrote his chant of decade beeauso after that timo the Lusted. Idleness -and agility dwell together under the velvet pelt pressure exerted by the weight of of the cat; and her savage atavism the body while in the erect position is linked with gracious and grate - compresses the vertebrae of small ful civility. Her ways are strange bones in the spine, the disks of and eontradictory. She creeps cartilage between them, the ;salvia through the night like a shadow, and the thigh -bones, and this springs from the darkness as if elec-- pressuro overcomes the natural trifled, and lies in the torrid heat elasticity of the disks and the like a worshipper of the sun. growth of the tools: A i3vihish scientist• canuhat were a man a quadrutepedds t, and CONTROL OF THE WEATHER. therefore freed from the downward Sir Oliver Su pests New Usepressure produced by his weightLodge—g! upon the spinal column, he would for Electricity. continue to 'grow in height fur: ten Sir Oliver Ledge, the cEstin- years longer than he does at Pres- guis'hed physicist and principal of ent, since it has been found that Birmingham (England), University, bones not subjected to compression in an address before the Institute increase up to the Fourth decade. of Electrical Engineers recently, suggested the possibility of obtain- ing saute measure of control over the weather, Heligoland Has Been Strongly For - def ale e�ing weather he he said, was u to ectnetty, zt nnght• be rm- tilled in Recent 'Years. agined -t•bat man could acquire some Wonderful changes have been control over the electrification of made by Germany in Heligoland the a t-mosphere, during the past few years. From If It was desired to produce rain, be{n mere] a fishing village the why nob send up a kite to reach the plaen has liven transformed into a clouds? He believed that if enough veritable Gibraltar, with a home elects•{city were discharged into including the clouds the drops would behave for all small wee -era t, ne g thet's as they did 10 the laboratory; dirigibles and walerplanes, they would coalesce, .and, once that The German Gibraltar protects had happened, the process might the mouths of four rivers, including be repeated and cause a shower, the Elbe and the Weser, A -protect- When rain was wanted, the lac- ing sea wall has been built half tuner said, negative electricity round the island, and from the high should be sent up, and if fine wea- Oberland, the biggest and best tier was wanted, poaitive electri- Krupp guns, on disappearing plat- city, 1'orpts, oonintand all appriiaches g_ from the sea; EXPENSIVE TO RCN LONDON. A tunnel pierces the island from �� weal to north, through which son: Immense Suets Are Required For munition and ,other material may be -safely taken, Huge searchlights Various Purposes. discover every distant vessel at It costs $130,000,000 a year to ruts night, and there is a wireless eta- Landon, England, This cost is re - tion. vealed 10 a return wlticlt the bon - To the south of the lower part of don Connty Council has issued, The the island a new island has arisen County Council spends 355,000,000 from the waters. Ib is half as big •a year, but as it gets grants from as Helogoland itself and has been the Government for various pun-. bui.lt.of material brought from Ger- poses, stich as education; ib only Hurn This new island provides asks the ratepayers for $35,000,000, Y There are other authorities which shelter for torpedo boats, destroy- ers submarines ane cruisers. met, have port: to rile for money, and ere trsalo-of nitagaginell and sheds So chaotic ins the system of loaral goverttment that it is not e'en pos- ahips sasot•tss , Two years a,go the garrison • was 100 strong, 11095 its :men number 1,600, Ije FAITII,IftIT', PUSSY. Almost livery Literary .Minn The Tris Familiar C'at. Apart from rare anxee tlolrs, duep Z to natural antipathy, the predilec- bion of ,writer'sfor tats is general. Every real ]iter'ary marl - has his familiar eat' rolled in 'a ball, pur- suing hie flying pen with wary eye err, following it with light and die - erect side pats. - 'The cat isnot atee cr In some eases she is even morn faithful than tate dog, Affection' fos her friends Bible to say to a million or so the exact amount which the people have to pay. All that can be said is that it is somewhere in the neighborhood, of $130,000,000. Since the London Cannty Omitted was created 23 years ago it has on a(tpitatl raised no less than $2,256,- 000,000. Of this as much as $120,- 00%000 lines been spent en street improvements. Fedneabic.n has tek- en $00,000,000, and $60,000,000 has, been spent on main drainage, Lon- don is an expensive place to men- age, and despite the economies practised dur'in'g recn1 scan's it .is gtting very amens that keel 'got' ernment will cost the people notch more in .futnro,• Still, t.h:sr'e is a population of 4,) 11511110nis to hear the burden, Will Verona" Region No European Has Ever Entered. t'o1lnlm,hs Molftur, of Russia, has drawu her plans fur the trussing of Arabia from west to east, includi,ig the exploration of the Rube, el Khali Desert, a region of 003,000 square miles which . no •buropea has e>er entered, and which is probably the most mysteriuuit and inir4'(re$l0 bre region in the world. Whether it rontatns. as crone be- lieve, remains of buried cities, or whether the whole is nothing but avid sand, none can say, for it is very doubtful whether eve -n a na- tive has ran t,se(1 more titan tin '11n1.. skir•te of lite desert. 1'',nnt5s„ Moli- tor has a.ir.•ady done considerable travelling alone in Southwest Af- rica. i'1 int, ti ' elle said, "tt, travel alone, >0 fell its European are con- cerned, 1,./r 1 believe this to b•+ the safest course. 1 shall dress and live as an Arab. My plans have been dt c ussed•w'lth the Geographi- cal Society. which admits the im- mense interest attached to the des- ert, but makes no secret tf the dan- gerous character of the journey. "From 1)aira 1. shall travel to Teims, the point from which several unsuccessful attempts have been made to get into the heart of the country. This part of the journey will involve a couple of weeks' tra- vel over mountains, My next objec- tive will be Tamreh, three weeks' journey to the southward over diffi- cult luuuntaiu country. "Tamreh is the last point in the desert marked on the snap, and the 1.200 miles of desert between that place and Muscat. is absolutely un- known. One of the greatest perils will be the absence of water, but I am arranging to travel in the spring, when my she -camels will have a plentiful supply of milk, Bas- ing my rate of progress by camel at thirty miles a day, I should, with luck, emerge at Muscat in May." I'NIQL1'. BRIDGE. One el the Most Interesting in the World In Indo-China. What is claimed to be one of the most interesting- railway structures in the world is the bridge over the Faux Namti gorge in Indo-China, where, owing to the peculiar diffi- culties in the way of building a bridge of any type, it was necessary to adopt a special design suited to the only method of erection that seemed possible. The sides of the gorge, according to a writer in Popular Mechanics, are practically vertical and have no chance of the approach to the bridge from either side except through tunnels. The track grade is 335 feet above the river, so that no system of falsework could be used in build- ing the bridge, while cantilevers were out of the question owing to the lack of "elbow room," The design finally adopted consist- ed of two steel trusses, each hinged at the cliff side, which were erected in a vertical position and then lowered so that the ends met, forming a structure of inverted V-shape, The ends of the two trusses were firmly connected, steel towers were erected on the humps of the trusses and on this support, the steel deck truss, oa.rrying the tract's, was placed. At the beginning of the work it was neeessary to let the Workmen down by ropes from the tunnel mouth to prepare the foun- dations of the supporting musses, The track trusses, were built in the tunnels and were then moved into position on rollers. From end to end this bridge measutea 220 feat 4 iuclres, while the distance between the heels of the supporting trusses is 180'., foot, ANOTHER SOUDAN SCHEME. To .Build Dam on While and 131ui> Nine. South of "Khartoum. Work has been commenced on an- other great scheme to reclaim by irrigation vast. tracts of desert in the Soudan. It is believed it can be niacle to acid enormously to the cotton output of the British Em- pire, The tract which is to be w'a'tered is known as the Gizra territory. 11 lies between the Blue and White Niles, below Khartoum, and con- sists of 1,500,000 acres, The force and fiow• of the two rivers is suf- ficient to water the entire district When properly harnessed. The'r•e- pp osal is do build tau dams south of , Ii'.hatrtorau one over .cs h f the 1 \ C U t rivers, Thus the tract, between the' streams will be irrigate'], while at the same 't -rite the force of the Wa- ter flowing into Egypt will be son - trolled, At present the Blue Nile' comes down 111 a raging clow, and the 'White Nile, flowing In steadier fashimn, combines with it to make a huge overtluw', The bnildhrg of the two clams will ens:bre the flow to be properly regulated and will practically mean the final harness- ing l the Nile. After -several year's of experi- ments French inventors claim they have perfected .ant al•tiflcial wood. :ser of oa - made of orifi .the si . )gth I. atrawe I NOTES OF SCIENCE The height of buildings in Runge. rias cities is limited by lay to 82;,/n feet, Small wedges of appropriate size have been invented for straights - ening crooked toes,: Germany now leads the world in the use of machinery directly driv- en by electric metore. ' Southern Italy will have a$'13,-- 001)0,030 hydro -electric plant genet- acing 150,000 horsepower. Twu more European capitals, Vi- enna and Bucharest, have been eon- nected by a direct telephone Line. A new electric churn for house- hold use is operated. by a motor of only sine thirtieth of a horsepower. The largest hen's eggs are pro- duced in Manchuria, those 'weighing one-sixth of a pound being common, The Moscow :museum of agricul- ture, the oldest in Europe, will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year. The first English plant „devoted exclusively to making,steel by elec- trical processes is being erected by a Sheffield company. Pennsylvania again broke all re- cords for eoal production lab year with an output estimated, at 267,- 000,000 short tons. Slabs of natural cork, expanded to more than twice their original size, have been invented in England for cold storage insulation. The theory has been advanced by a European scientist that some met- als suffer from contagious disease's, which cause .hem to crumble into dust: • One of the German trans-Atlan- lic liners carries diving suits equip- ped with speaking tubes for the use of membersofits crew in 'fighting fires below decks. Although he lost his left arm and leg .and his right hand several years ago, s, California automobil- ist drives hie ear daily with an in- genious .attachment for his right wrist and right foot. A time -saving can -opener that an Arkansas man has invented has a large blade so shaped that a single turn of the handle will remove the top from a can, • As a life-saving precaution a French inventor would lava all sea- going vessels furnished- with beds equipped with a non -sinkable mat- tress he has patented. For sandpapering large surfaces there has been invented a motor - driven machine, the sandpaper be- ing carried on cones revolved at the end of 'a flexible shaft. Brazil owes her wealth in coffee to a monk who planted two seeds in a monastery garden in Rio de Janeiro in 1764, whence the plants spread throughoatt• the country. A new hand -operated pump for the use of glaziers applied putty, to both sides of a sash partition at once, thereby saving nearly one- half the labor in mounting glass. By examining fairly accurate re corals, scientists have found that there has been no appreciable change in the climate of northern and northwestern Europe in 1,800 years. A French scientist is experiment- ing to prevent fogs by floating small quantities of oil on the surface of rivers to check evaporation, to whieh he eontends fogs are due, ;1 German has invented shoes containing a pad in such a position that the thrust in walking is taken - up by the base of the tees, prevent- ing the toes jamming and deform- ing themselves. - Ninety per sent, efficiency is claimed for a neve English steam boiler under which a •mixture of coal gas and air is burned through 'a fine mantle of some extremely heat resisting substance. ' PROGRESSIVE 1VINNT1'IIG. OpIlutist i,o Exp cession by 'ilio I3rtiltl- Ing Inspector. That theme will be a revival of business in the near future in Win- nipeg that will equal in proportion, if not far surpass, that et the big 1012 season, and this will be estab- lished on a much more solid basis, is the opinion expressed by Winni- peg'•s Building Inspeclor, - Almost immediately the public will realize that more progressive :" times than ever before in the history of the city are about to appear. Hundreds more. of small dwelliu s have been censtrtreted . by the gpeople this season than - last, and the owners have been able to scours the neves- sary funds with which to do this work, The results show a remark- able condition and one that is brighter :than is generally enpp'as- ed. In view of the many adverse things than have influenced the money nrarket, duriug'the past 12 menthe, to fund that over $18;000e, 000 have been expended intaetual building 'iperetions and without any big eight or ten -storey build- lugs benig erected,' is a situation of which 'Winnnippeeg may well be proud. One must also keep in view 'bltat the indiscriminate deals that :were in evidence in many quarters at that time have been e.liminittedt and the business basis of Western Can- ada is, as a result:, on a remarkably solid foundation, and much' malr'ii, solid than if the temporary Slack operations lr.ttd not developed,