whom induged to dish agreed with him in voventeen-yoar locusts visited ogg states, a few years ago N » In a paste of flour, milk and eggs the worms wee fried to a rich gol color and served piping hot to ab fifty guests. Most of the diners were | Humor Touched by Adventures With Parishioners. Ne When I took my first little parish, down in Maine," said one of them, *1 was a trifle anxious about my first sermon. The pastor who preceded me had been a very popular man and 1 wanted to make a good i on at the start. Now, as you know, there is in every i of every denomination one woman who sort of bosses things, and after my first service I naturally made my first pa- rochial call upon her. She received me cordially wid pidised fy sermon until quite 'chesty.' "hen she launched out into a ean of praise for my predecessor. e was everything that wis good and great. He had but one fault, she said, and that was he was apt to preach over the heads of his con ation--a trifle too scholarly for them. "But" she added in a burst of confidence, 'I am sure we shall never find that fault with you." Now that woman meant to be complimentary, Was she? 1 don't know." "Well," said another, "when I got my first charge 1 was the nicecst curate going, and extremely diffident in the presence of women. Ome of my first calls 'was made upon a sharp- tongued woman who was suffering from some real and many imaginary ills. She at once began upon her physical woes, and before I knew it I was deep in a discussion of roots and herbs and various medicaments bene ficial to the liver. I was too diffident to cliange the conversation and direct it into spiritual paths, and a neigh- | bor--a--woman--*"*dropping ing] made my departure in something of the nature of a retreat. y | 'As the little maid of all work was showing me out, 1 heard the visitor say : 'That's the new minister, What did he want?" "Well," replied the sharp-tongued invalid, "I suppose he came to inquire after my soul, but he had only got as far as my liver when you came in." + "It was months before 1 sammoned | up resolution enough to go to that house again." | "L" said a third clergyman, "never stood so much in awe of the female parishioners as you fellows. I remem. { bered once, when I was in the theo- logical seminary, I used sometimes to | anit down at old St. Paul's. One day at some church doings up town, ' a | Woman came rustling and bustling up to me d : you are doing some work at St. Paul's. How nice. I am com- ing down to see you some day," she | added in a patronizing tone, "You { know we have a family vault in St, Paul's." " 'Madam,' 1 replied, "I hope you will not wait so long as that before visiting us." Rather clever--for me-- ; though I do not think she saw the West Indies, and an allied species of ; PAB the Island of Java form a consider able part of the regular diet of na- tives. Whin roasted upon small spits and richly spiced, it is said by those who i have mustered sufficient courage to try them that these worms surpass all animal food in flavor. "At first," said the traveller, Le- blond, "I thought them disgusting; but after a while 1 grew accustomed we : to them and considered them excel- a attractive, as a food morsel, as the |Jent." b of the May bug, Another woods Aniong the lower classes in China ring beetls, Known as prionas, is | the chrysalides of silkworms are re- -------- The Language Of Umbrellas. + From Spare Moments. | There is"a language of umbrellas as i of flowers. For instance, place your umbrella in a rack, and it will often indicate that it will change owners. To open it quickly in the street means "that somebody's eye is going £2 be in danger, To shut it quickly signifies that' a hat or two will probably be knocked oil. 'i An umbrella carried over a woman, the man getting wothing but the drip- MOTOR Gago THAT'S THE TIME YOU CAN EAT YOUR BOOTS. Stewed Rope ~~ Yarn, Paraffin Wax, Baw Seaweed and Bar- nacles Are Some of the De- licacies Indulged in By Cast- away Mariners, Shipwrecked have been kept t and un- a boy of fifteen ever the daily menu of the Windover's sur- vivors, who were cast up on the Irish coast near Kilsegg not long ago. They lived &i on stewed rope yarn. When they took the ship's small boat they had = water enough for a month, but only a small amount of i These lasted four days. After havine nothing at all to eat for the following two days they tried boil- ng lengths of tarred hemp rope into Pulp and swallowing it. They had a keg of paraffin wax, which they boiled to add to the nour ishment. The sickness they experienced as a result of the diet, says What-to- Eat, was only temporary and they landed in co atively good health. Capt. Maboly of the foundered steamer Gwalior and his second offic- er, created a record less than two years ago by living for seventeen days on boot' leather and a pint of water a day each. Of course no teeth can tear cowhide boots they have to be cut and shred- ded with a knife and the shreds chew- éd and swallowed. Boiling, even when possible, it is said, does no wood, but takes from the nourishment of the ts. A few ounces of leather being very hard to digest, stav in the stom- ach for fifteen or twenty hours. + A: diet of boots and shoes is one of the commonest of last resource foods, and though it is hard for a well-fed person to imasine that anv one could masticate and digest leather, n pair of long sea boots will keep a man alive for a fortnight if he has a little water. Two men who went fo a small is- land off the Trish coast not long ago képt themselves going for ten days on a diet probably worse than this. They landed in a hoat which was smashed by 4 wave on their tryin~ to relaunch her, and they were kept on the bare, rocky island without food. Fortunately there was a spring on the island, but nothin~ in the wav of sea ~ulls which they could catch, and nothing with which they could make a fire as a distress signal. There were not even any shell fish. as there was no beach, and the pair had to sub- sist for ten days on cold. raw, sea- weed washed up by the tide. The best known and most useful starvation diets for wrecked or casta- wav peoble, however, is that of barn- acles, Three Enclishmen and a crew of Lascars who had been forced to aban- don the sailing vessel North Star a few months. aco, kept themselves o- ing for more than a week on barnacles and only two of the erew died. The worst of this diet is that the barnacles oive one interns! cramps and cause an insufferable thirst. but they do nourish the frame. You have to reach under the vessel's side and pull them off taking care not to leave the best half of them sticking to the planks. Bishop Lets Her Talk. Woman's inborn right to preach has been recognized by Bishop Talbot, of Pennsylvania. A skirted itinerant ex- pounder of the gospel used to gather a crowd every Sunday within sight of the bishop's cathedral and many of his flock were lingering under her spell. One of the vestrymen, a pom- pous and prosy banker went to the bishop to remonstrate. He wanted sotwthing done to stop the preach- ing so near the cathedral. He thought the mayor would. help them out if the bishop were to appeal to him. "This thing of unmarried women preaching around in a erowd of men is scanda- lous and should be stopped" said the banker. "Oh, never mind," said the bishop, cesily, "she cannot hurt me, Let her preach. She must exhort somebody, © and, you see, she has no husband. I warrant your wife gives you many a good sermon in the re tirement of your home. 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Wed Auo ture, hill), 3 DRAW nut Tables, Plate M Fancy § DININ Table a ad BE Tea Set Crocker, Wave, LIBR, Desks, Office and Wa Couches Novels, Marble Lamps, erator, Freazer, and G Lawn articles. (4 ~~elg of sale, Sale Reside Telepho C Bo Lowe & PP. tween roing 15th, An smith, p.m. Fine Ladies' 'Dressmaking and Tailoring] Now establishment now opened at 330 University Avenue. THE FRONTENAC; LOAN & IRVESTMENT SOCIETY. ESTABLISAED 1363. President--Sir Richard Cartwright found all over Europe, and this may as a luxury, When the cocoons | PINE" Of the rain, signifies courtship, so pleased that they called for a sec | iv Provided fossts "Ton banqueters of yellow silk have Been removed, the mn a man has the umbrella, and 2 long the Tiber, ,oré hawked about the streets, and sell © woman the drippings, it indicates Natives of Australia eat a large but. 'readily at a price equal to about 10c. martinge terfly which they call bubong, fram |® pound, Yan o 8 your umbrella over your ithe fact that it is found every year in The fact. that the chrysalides are re- io der Siguifive 1 am making a immense warms on. the rocky. slopes | lished 'by the Uhinese, however, is no moaanCe myself. in flour and Bread of tho Bubon mountains, "proof of their palatable qualities. One In Space umbrella by the crumbs, 'With a little salt and. popper, | These aro also captured hy building | fan expect little vise from the taste of a Jone signifies "Exchange and ouch ini 6 Mont piece of pas | 1A0R® Gres under the trees in which the |B People who wise for consumption To lend ag | brellp. indi 5 or, buttered inside, useots ave settled iy the night, the Jntvae of bluebottle flies and con a look timbrella indicates "I am « Suffoca y the smoke they tumble m a delioacy. . Race Shem, he Nos dmigers oa to the ground until the surface is deep. To return an umbrella means--well, isitors may find this grab offered ia] for their dolectation in many parts of olay. The popular method ---------- ty finites or so, nocording * tn Iy eurpotid with their bodies. of appetiing odor have acquired a taste for declare N : -- Ra ient quantity is. thus a Entents With } Pe looted, is clea i sects are spread upon the heated aan, fe grryiomn, : - Festina surface "and raked about, and their the oxchan; A ait for charred wings, legs and fofors drop ! hatween hat country a United off. The partially roasted hodies are Staten on Ga ' then gromnd into 'a coarse meal in a | woolen vessel and are made into 3 fenkes, y These insedts" give oul an extremely pungent. smell, and it is . seldom hat: ' Ameri- one but a native can eat the will ~0 to Italian col- hf i for the study of Even in the case of natives fhe first language in Italy attempts at eating bubony cakes often Italian lanvuage in result in vichent sickness, which con: | be established tes several days. 3 When the dist is persevered in, hows ever, am. acquired taste results, ahd those who live tpn the butterflies fat and: indolent. . . Jai BEGET, or pain grub, of the fr RE andy; the , Sept. 8.--Joseph S. Ken | never mind Pir it means; nobody Money loamed Farm Pros erties. Municipal Se am: Debes Netepied San¥uites_Rurditded, ' Deport S.C. McGill, Managing NewYork Chinese Restaurant 83 Princess Street Open from 10.80 a.m. to 8.00 am. Ths best plats to wet an all rowsd Lsnch in the city. 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