Hints for Busy Housekeepers. : Recipes and Other Valuable Information of Particular Interest to Women Polks. FAVORITE RECIPES. Walnut Cream Dessert.--Put half a cupful of rice in a double boiler @) the back of the stove; alow it to cook slowly, with sufficient milk to swell it. While this is cooking piek out three-fourths of a cupful of black walnut meats, crush them with the reljling pin, make beiled oustard of the yolks of three eggs, one-half oupful of sugar. and one quart of milk. When thick enough begt in the rice (when soft), and the walnut meats. Let it cool and fla- vor with vanilla. Serve as dessert with whipped cream, sprinkling wal- nut meats generously over the top. It also makes a delicious frozen des- wert. In case it is frozen place can- died cherries in a ring around the edge of the cup with nut meats in the center. Fruit Salad.--One-half dozen eranges cut in small pieces, one can ineapple, cut fime, one pound alaga grapes seeded and sliced, one cup nuts, one large bunch cel- ery cut in cubes, one bottle of Maraschino cherries; sweeten the fruits a short time before serving. Pour all the juice off before put- ting the dressing on. For this amount use one pint whipped cream and into that mix the mayonnaise that two eggs would make. Mix all together. erve very cold. This quantity will serve eight or ten. ground, one-fourth pound of salt pork; season with salt, pepper, wage and paprika; boil a calf's ES: tender; put a layer of ground meat in deep oblong pan, then the cocked tongue (whole); then paek in rest of meat, cover top wits cracker crumbs, and bits of butter, and one-half cupful of boil- ing water; set pan with loaf in a roaster in which is enough water to steam; cook two hours; uncover fifteen minutes to brown. This dish is pretty when sliced. Quick Escalloped Oysters. -- For one quart oysters use one quart hot milk, and one pint of cracker crumbs. Put a heaping tablespoon- ful butter in a hot skillet, into which put the oysters until plump. Have three layers of crackers and two of oysters, pour the hot milk and melted butter over each layer of crackers, and season the oysters with salt and pepper. On top lay- e of crumbs put pieces of butter, and brown fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Glace English Walnuts.--Sift two eupfuls of sugar with one-eighth teaspoonful of cream tartar. Add one cupful of boiling water, set sauce pan on the stove, and stir un- til sugar is dissolved. Boil without stirring, carefully wiping away with n swab wet in cold water the cry- stals that form on the sides of the pan, as these will spoil the candy. When the syrup begins to discolor remove and instantly set the pan in a dish ef cold water to stop the boiling. Remove at once and set in pan of hot water during the pro- cess of dipping. Take halves of walnuts on a long pin or steel ske- wer and dip in syrup.to cover, then place on oiled paper or greased plate. These candies are inexpen- give and delicious but seldom seen even at 7 best confectioners. Apple Dumplings.--Two cupfuls cf flour, one large tablespoonful of lard, pinch of salt, one teaspoon- fu! of baking powder. Add milk enough to make a soft dough and roll out flat. Pare five or six tart apples, slica on dough, roll into a ball, and put into a pan. Take one and a half cupfuls of sugar, one and a half cupfuls of water, a lit- tle nutmeg, let it come to a boil, pour over the dough dumplings, bake three-quarters of an hour in hot oven, keep covered the first fifteen minutes. SALADS. New Salad.--Arrange crisp let- tuce on each salad plate, and upon this grate a sufficient quantity of Roquefert cheese. Over this squeeze orange juice. Apple Salad.--Secure large red or green apples, with stems on if possible. Wash and polish them up. Cut off the tops with a sharp knife and scoop out the centres. Jut the apple that has been scooped cut in small cubes add a stalk or two of celery and a handful of large green grapes. Cut all up in small pieces, and, if desired, a few Eng- lish walnuts chopped fine. Mix all well with mayonnaise. Fill the cen- ters of the apples and place the top of each one. Garnish with large grape leaves or lettuce. A bow of ribbon, any desired color, may be tied on each. stem. This is an at- tractive salad, and adds greatly to make up a pretty luncheon. Do not prepare this salad until ready to serve. The ingredients may be kept cold in the icebox until ready to prepare. Fruit Salad.--Five large apples, two bunches of celery, one-half cup- ful of pecan kernels, juice and pulp of one orange, juice of one lemon. Pare and dice apples, cut celery small, mix with pecans, pour over all the juice of orange and lemon mixed. Line a salad bowl with erisp lettuce leaves, heap salad in center, and serve. Lettuce Salad.--First pick over all the leaves and cut out the tough veins and bad spots, then wash well in about three, or four waters, after which place in a granite or earth- ep dish large enough to have plen- room to stir, then eut up a small ine over this and add a tea- of salt, a cupful and a half of vinegar, and to about two bunch- es of lettuce use one-half of a nick- el's worth of fat bacon eut up fine aud tried cuty pour overall. ln of FASG while still hot and stir well and cut up leaves to about one-half their regular size. Best eaten while still warm, and is always well liked by those who do net like lettuce fixed with sugar and vinegar, an old re- cipe like mother used to make. Potato Salad.--Potato salad for four persons: Cook potatoes with ekins on; use the ones that don't burst open; peel and cut up rather fine. Three cupfuls of potatoes, two tablespoonfuls of chopped on- ion, one tablespoonful chopped green pepper, one level teaspoon- ful of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of ground white pepper. Toss this lightly with a fork until well mix- ed. Dressing: One-half cupful of thick sweet cream, one-fourth cup- ful of vinegar. Beat vinegar into the cream a little at a time; pour over potatoes. Toss again lightly with fork. All ready to serve. Salad Help.--If you run short of chicken when making salad take pork chops and cook them in the broth. They will absorb the chick- en flavor and look the same as the chicken. -- eee LITTLE HELPS. range or cook stove add vinegar to the stove polish. When a recipe calls for both fruit and nuts, mix thoroughly before passing through the food chopper. would be if the fruit is chopped alone. Add a few grains of rice to the salt when filling the shakers and there will be no clogged shakers, no matter how damp the salt be- comes. Dampen a square of cheesecloth with a furniture polish made of equal parts of sweet oil, vinegar and kerosene. It will brighten the ficest mahogany and makes floors and furniture look like newly waxed. Use an empty baking powder can to chop cooked potatoes when they are fried or warmed over for sup- per. It is more quickly accomplish- ed than using a knife. A bag of tennis flannel cut loosely to fit the broom and held in place by a discarded round garter can be made in two or three minutes. Cut so the selvedge is at the top and there will be only two seams to sew across bottom and at one side. Such a one costs but two or three cents. To secure a lasting luster to the. There will be no clogging, as there | =LONDON'S BIG PAGEANT] t -- ~ TEVAL OF EMPIRE." box marcas Krank Lascelles, Who Designed the Quebec Pageant, is the _ _ Director. Two hundred persons are being selected from each overseas domin- ion to take part in a great page- ant of London, England, which will form one of the principal features of next Summer's "Festival of Em- pire.' The festival is to be held at the famous Crystal Palace, which has been taken over for three months. : In the palace itself each domin- ion will have a special court set apart for it, wherein an exhibitien may be held. In the great page- ant of London there will be no few- e* than fifteen thousand perform- ers, and the contingents from over- seas will appear in the final scenes, these being symbolical of the chil- dren gathering round the mother. The festival is to be of a distinct- ly social character, and a series of Empire concerts and balls will be held in the main hall of the palace. While in London the contingents from overseas will be entertained by various patriotic societies. PART OF TRE COMING "PES-| BUYING A DAIRY BULL. It is an old saying that the bull is half the herd, and the saying is quite true where the bull in breed- ing and potency just about equals the females with which he is mated ; where he is either better or worse than the herd on which he is used, he is much mere than half the herd --more than half for good in rais- ing the standard, more than half for bad in pulling down the general average. This being the case, the selection of the bull is always a subject of interest, and especially '"s9 to the class of progressive dairymen who have get or are thinking of getting their first pure- bred bull. The man who thinks of placing a Holstein-Friesian bull at the head of his herd has the best chance in selection of getting just what he pays for. So far as the dairy breeds are concerned the Holstein- Friesians are now divided into two classes--the vast bulk of common, pure-bred, registered cows, and the advanced Registry official test cat- tle. The last class is composed of The English committee announces that it is desirable that every man and woman in the various domin- ions overseas should feel that he end she have received a personal invitation. railway and steamship companies very substantial reductions in trav- eling rates. In London and the su- a fixed hotel charge, so that the expenses of visitors will be reduced to a minimum. In each dominion the Governor-General or High Commissioner is at the head of a local committee. CLOUD AS STAGE CURTAIN. For the pageant of London a re- markable "curtain'? device will be adopted by Mr. Frank Lascelles, the pageant master, who designed land rehearsed the Quebec Tercen- tenary pageant. For instance, the first scene depicts Sydenham Hill (on which the palace stands) as it was in the Palaeolithic Age. On the lake are the huts of the ancient and the forests. Of a sudden a herd of real deer dashes into the clear- ing; then from the huts the ancient Britons stream to the hunt. To- wards the end of a thrilling scene the spectators, seated in the vast When boiling tongues add two licious. Glass Water Bottles.--Cut up a large potato fine and put it in the bottle with some warm water and shake it rapidly until it is clean. Some use shot and soda, but pota- to is even more effectual. Flatiron Help.--When ironing try setting the iron on a heated brick instead of a perforated flatiron stand. The iron will keep hot much longer, which will save time. To Clean Rugs.--Lay them out straight and brush with a_ stiff dry scrubbing brush. You will be sur- prised at the amount of dirt to come out in this way, which is much bet- ter than shaking or beating. Celery.--If you find your celery is tough, squeeze the juice of a le- mon over it and let it stand for ten or fifteen minutes. VINEGAR HELPS. How little housekeepers know about the chemical action of acids and the result they may obtain by the intelligent use of the provisions already in the house! Take, for in- stance, vinegar. Surely every one's cupboard conceals a bottle of this useful acid, for the cook always needs it. But even some cooks do not know how useful it is in other ways beside supplying acid for the salad dressing. When cooking cabbage or other vegetables where the odorous steam is likely to permeate the house, a cup of vinegar allowed to simmer on the back of the stove will make an aroma which will neutralize the other. This is a nice bit of infor- mation to remember. When pickling do not expect to use jars in which greasy substances have been kept. If you do all your careful measurements will have been taken in vain, for vinegar can ferret out the slightest indication of grease, and your pickles will not keep. Should you go for the glue pot to mend a broken household treasure and find the glue is hardened, use a little vinegar to soften it; it is far better than water. To remove hardened glue around the finished task, use vinegar, too, otherwise you cannot eall your mending neat. Vinegar will remove paint stains from the window glass, and whea boiled with wormwood it will make a sovereign remedy for sprains, while every child knows that when you make taffy you must add a tea- spoonful of acid if you want your candy to be crisp. So don't let the bottle get empty. pian iveoar esenae re KEEP If TO YOURSELF. "De chance is, son, dat you said Uncle Eben, "but jes de same yoh prospects foh success ain' much if ye ain' got) sense an' politeness enough not to let on about it." MODERN... Customer--Is this an. up-to-date dell? ea Clerk--Yes,-. tordains "Vetes for womens? it may know mo' dan your father,' | cloves for each small or veal tongue, |up between him and the three or four for a larger tongue. | ers. The flavor will be found most de-! t i i } grand stand, sees a white cloud rise perform- For a few moments the cur- tain hangs in the air, and it is wafted away a new scene in the pageant stretches before the astonished visitor. This "cloud" is a development of the old eurtain which Wagner used in the production of his operas. THE FIRST "'DE One of the novelties of the page- ant to be performed by 15,000 ama- teurs in connection with the "Fes- tival of Empire" will be the First Derby Race. Historically, the de- tails will be absolutely correct, even to the old beaver top hats of the jockeys. The race will be real one in every sense, with substanti- al prize money for the winner. The "spectators" \ pageant, and these will wear the dresses of the period. An interesting controversy can be waged round the question: "On what course was the yun?"? Certainly it was not som ! steam DNnYy '? R& ia ih = ph wed faye) Ep- einarncntaiaa tee JEWEL THIEVES IN PARIS. International Laid by the Heels. Gang of Swindlers A gang of international swindlers, operations from London to Paris have been arrested there. Their names ave William Rakow - and fanny Delmagnez, both Russian ; Jos. Franks and Jacob Hyman, Americans, and Simon Fernandez, a Brazilian. Their stock-in-trade was simple in the extreme; it con- sisted of a fine motor car, hired by the day, and an accomplice dressed in a smart uniform with plenty of gold braid, who gave himself out as belonging to a well-known hotel, and whose duty it was to. introduce these "American millionaires' to jewelers and other tradesmen. While the men were selecting jewelry from the trays the woman generally managed to drop into.a pocket in front of her dress some valuable article or other. The jewelry purchased was, of course, supplied on credit. At the rooms of the gang $15,000 worth of jewelry has been recoy- ered. Yee enemies EAGER TO SEE THE SOLDIERS. Berlin Has a Lot of Them, but They Are Always a Novelty. There are about 23,000 soldiers in Potsdam, which isn't a great 'dis- tance from Berlin, and there are always soldiers in the German capital on guard before various places. Besides there is a review almost every morning on the Ex- ercirenplatz and guard mounting every day at the Konigswache, so that it might seem likely that sol- diers wouldn't arouse a great deal of interest in Berlin. Tt is, however, quite the contrary. The sound of a band playing sends every one running in the direction 6f-the music. Even i-fit. issjust a small company" going' along the streets the folks appears ager says, diers apparently are an unchanging novelty in Berlin. ae ai watch it, Whatever the cause, sol- burbs efforts are being made to get} Britons; beyond rise the mountains | when } vill be actors in the} first Derby | who recently moved their field of | | cows tested by the various Experi- j ment Stations, and the buyer does jnot have to take the word of the |seller in any respect. If one wish- les a bull from the top of the class |he must expect to go down deep in- ito head any common dairy herd and jany but the best purebred. In ibulls, as well as in other merchan- |dise, price is governed by quality, land quality includes both breeding 'and individuality. A bull might be !of the best breeding and yet be worthless on account of lack of in- dividuality, or he might be a bull fit to enter any show ring, and yet be badly lacking as to breeding. Breeding is of the most import- ance, but so is the individual excel- lence and strength which will en- able the bull to transmit the good qualities of his ancestry and to show his prepotency in his offspring. But, perhaps someone, who has been writing breeders for prices, says he cannot afford to pay $75 fcr a buli to use on his dairy herd, ithat would not be worth $25 if it were not purebred, and so sink $50. how ean he afford not to buy, ] to go on in the old way. a grade cow sired by a purebred bull, gives but one pound per |milking more than her dam, an | amount small that the milker could not notice he had it without ithé scales, in the 300 days of milk- ing season, or 600 milkings she will so give 600 pounds of milk worth at} Tj 100 | \the very lowest 76 cents per pounds, or $450 for the the season. 3ut a good dairy cow is milked st ' } Sa | 1 eight seasons and that would he $3e for the one cow, and if the earned its owner $360. bull will do so three times a as this, and make three times the money for its owner.--M. H. Gard- ner. But a good Sa cpelt < Weli -IDEAL DATRY COW. of an ideal milch cow: She is not large, weighs about 1,000 px something like a race-horse, for speed in a horse and milk in a cow are allied. Beef in a horse and beef lin a cow mean strength always. It is a question of nerve power, and that is something food will not produce---only maintain. Vor the typical dairy cow you must have uNnds ; You will find and whatever she may be. her with bony head jaw, long between the nose, with broad muz jshould have want t : ! hat on her eyes. Why? Simply on account of her brain power. It means strong nerve force, and that means action later on. I want a thin neck and retreating brisket. The lines above and below must be straight, or she will steal from you. I want her slightly depressed be- hind the shoulders, with sharp chine; I don't want too straight a back bone. She must have large or- gans of production--you don't want a cow with a straight back; I want her wedge shaped; I want two wedges, large in rear, and large heart girth, i.e., wide between for- ward legs, sharp on shoulder. This gives large heart action and the strong arterial circulation wanted. Then, last, but no means least, she must have a good udder, for one- half the value of the cow is in the udder. She should have a long ud- der from front to rear. Then she must have a good handle on each corner of her udder. And why? Because if she gives two pails of milk a day it is a matter of some labor to milk her. and She ruding eves teye--I | | | THE BEEF CALF." The beef calf is often neglected, both in his feed and in his shelter. Being a young animal of the beef breed, it is thought that the beef calf ean stand a great deal of ex- pesure . without suffering any- thing. It is true that such calves do not require the amount of shel- ter that some have advocated, but they do require dry quarters, well sheltered from the cold winds. They also require as good food as at any other time of their existence. Because they are not immediate- Sains we a _ sight of a feeding of the beef calves, an eee ited » make a large share of their living out of the' straw stack, When an animal [filled up oh straw |the various straws *|digest 200 Ibs. of stra -lquired to make a good growth. But it seems to me the question is} and | Suppose | bull got but ten such it would have | Jere is John Gould's description | race-horse type, bony and museu-| lar, whether a Holstein, a Jersey or strong | strong ws to ascerta: their food values assert that a half grown calf would have, to eat and : a day to get out of it the nourishment re- A little straw will serve as a help to other foods, but foods must be given that have in them a larger amount of digestible constituents. There is no reason why the beef calves should not be given the same kind of food as the cattle that are being pushed forward to the time when the final effort shall begin. Good clover hay, good corn stalks and good silage are as profitable to put into a calf as into a maturing beef. : ' WEALTH ON THE AMAZON. Ameniea. Bolivia east of the Andes is one of the richest regions of the world it has some fine agricultural lands. It has no outlet on the Pacific coast. Its only outlet is through he Ama- |zon and Para, and since peace was. |made with Brazil a railr-ad activity in this direction has taken posses- |sion of the whole republic. | East of Bolivia is the great Bra- |ritory nearly three times the size of |Texas. A dozen large navigable lrivers pour north-eastward out of | Ac- | | this State into the Amazon. | cording to the Engineering Maga zine its agricultural, mining and N ttn a ae Se ee : Saar : : ; Areas eShinoar tag eee preee ee te his pocket; but $50 to $100 will grazing possibilities are very great. with the view of obtaining from the | poy an excellent bull, and one fit' It is said that a great deal of this |territory will grow as fine long staple cotton as Mississippi or Ala- jbama. The Brazilian Government ihas matured leanal one of the tributaries of the ' Amazon with one of the tributaries | f the La Plata in this State, thus lopening an all inland water route |from Para to Buenos Ayres, a dis- l tance of nearly 6,000 miles. extensive rou would reach whole interior of the continent. Turning to the west and north Ss te | west the Amazon is navigable in its ! chief tributaries in Peru, Ecuador land Colombia to the very walls of ithe Andes. One may go aboard a isteamer at Para aud remain aboard j until it has plowed its way up to lthe hill city of Iquitos and several |hundred miles beyond. Peru | little Pacific coast trade now ithe development of this {must pour its wealth into Para. Para had none of these Andean republics to draw \trade from the development of the |Brazilian Amazon Valley alone imust in time amount untold | wealth. In the States of Para and the Amazons and the federal terri- tory of Acre there are near the water's edge ten million rubber bearing trees of the Hevea variety. rly tapped will steadily in- State of than will and | But if Brazil ana to hese trees if pro} live indefini crease their Para is Texas and much grow considerably la wer of this State excellent cetton. | DIED OF STARVATION. Sad End of a Soliciter's Clerk Eoudon, England. Pathetic evidence was given re- cently in London at the inquest held jon Charles Richard Harrington, laged 78, who died from sheer vation. "Until last Christmas om | band was a solicitor's cler} | widow stated, "and we were star- hus- \ * the in comfortable The he was discharged from his employ- ment because of his age. "We sold up.our home and went into one My husband ob- tained an old-age pension of ds. a week, and we-have since lived on that. "T denied myse his sake,' 'she we 7, "but no doubt he missed the good living we had been used to. During the last few weeks he had a little extra nourishment owing to the kindness of a friend." "You will be worse off now," the coroner remarked, "as you will not even have the pension money."' "Death was due to sheer starva- tion,'? said Dr. Stubbs, of Brixton fill. "The body was totally devoid of fat.'? The jury handed their fees to the widow, and Dr. Stubbs, who had brought her to the coroner's court in his motor car, added a piece of gold to the sum. circumstances. room. ies ey lf everything for added, i i ee aa eee YAUGHTY. "What part of speech is 'kiss' ?" asked a high-school teacher of. one of her pupils the other day. "A conjunetion,'"' replied one of the smart girls. "Wrong!" said the verely. "Next girl." ° "A noun," answered little maiden. 'What kind of a noun?' continu- ed the preceptress, "Well, it is both common and proper," answered the shy girl, and she was placed to the head of the class. teacher se- a demure Bie voeceatesice piID AS HE LIKED. An amusing incident took place at Brighton, England, during the ex- amination in bankruptcy of a ship owner and coal merchant. To many of the questions put to him by the official he insisted on giving an- swers at great length. The regis- trar told him he must confine him- self to answering questions with- out making speeches. This rebuke did not produce much effect, draw- ing from the registrar the remark: "Tam afraid he will have to be un- muzzled to answer questions, hag he has faked then muzzled immediately. ecg About the Fertile Regions of South | in timber, rubber and minerals, and | ine State of Maito Grosso, a ter--- a plan to connect by | This | the | has | country ! we Reigns Supreme in the Com. mercial World. | A motor-hearse which is\ almost Coventry undertaker. = A great dock extension will re- sult in Newport, Walés, having the largest single dock in the world. -- 'Mr. Ambrose 'mayor of Birmingham, and a large contractor, died recently in thas elty. The oldest woman in the county, at Wheat of 105. Sixteen men were required to -earry the coffin of John Richards, of Merthyr-Tydvil. Richards weigh /ed 336 pounds, | Two men, to whom 5 burglavies 'were traced, were sentenced to 7 year' penal servitude at the Liver- pool assizes, "T have stood and sold bird seed n the New Cut for twenty years,"' isnid an aged woman at a South- ;wark inquest on her husband, Joseph Marsden, a potter, was sentenced at the Staffordshire acre, Norfolk, at the age He | at Hanley. A donation of $2,500 igiven by the Transvaal 'ment to the fund for building a field 'laboratory in the vicinity of Cam- | bridge | The removal of the torpedo fac- 'tory from Woolwich Arsenal to /Greennock is to commence in April $2 has been 'next, and be completed in Septem iber, 1911. Mr. John Cory, of Cardiff, has |presented $5,000 to Milford Haven ; Sailors' Rest, Pembrokeshire, \bringing his total contributions up to $15,000. It is rumored that the Royal | Clothing Department will be remov- 'ed from Pimlico te Woolwich Ar- senal, and take the place of the tor- pedo factory. : A portrait of the great Duke of | Wellington, by Lawrence, which , Was offered for sale by order of the itrustees of the Peel estates, was \sold for $10,500 in London. Suffocation caused by an abcess jwhich resulted from a fish bone sticking in her throat, about the death of Frances Frank: lin, aged forty-eight, of South- wark. More than 1,200 men are unem- ployed and applications are daily increasing, stated the Mayor -- of Bristol in appealing to his fellow- citizens for funds to provide work For selling five fowls which were unfit for food, two of them being | tubersulous, Marks Green, a coster monger of Stepney, was sentenced to three months' hard labor. In 1906 the number of pennies placed into the automatic machines 'of the Sweetmeat Automatic Deliv- jery Company was 32,573,276. The | figure for the present year is 36,- |'713,208 | Rates of wages and hours of duty affecting all departments of the London, Brighton and South-Cost Railways were settled for three ;years at a meeting of the Centrai 'Concillation Board, During the present financial year 7,702,506 free meals will given fy he ant } + to London school children, aceord- , * 'ing to an estimate of the Children's a af Lat e s ;Care Sub-Committee of the Educa- |tion Committee. 6 wiacalanntiea iota sbeccrently eclGeti POISONED SOUP. Righty Comrades, Eighty men of the Eighth Regi- ment of Hussars, in garrison at Verdun, France, have, by the mer- est rident, eseaped death by pois The 80 men had just sat table, and "the soup had the peculiar aroused their refused touch acc oning. down to been served, odor it suspicion. it. The matter was at once reported to the colonel, who ordered an an- alysis to be made, The soup was found to contain eyanide of potas- sium in such quantities that if the Hussars had eaten it the whole 80 would have 'been dead within a quarter of an hour, when gave forth They to Every man of the squadren was jas onee carefully searched, and in | the pocket: of one traces jof eyanide were found, The man was questioned, and declared that he had lent his for four days to a lance-corporal. The lance carporal's belongines were } carefully overhawled, and among 'them was discovered a valuable |cigarette ense which had been sto len from one of the officers. Further nequirv elicited the fact that the lance-corporal in question had some fine previously borrowed 150f. (880) from a young soldier who had been pressing money hack, and rowed money from ol trousers' trousers y him to pay the he bad also bor squadron, I[t is con ithe debter hit upon p surest means of 4 ett creditors. It. has been proved that « the soup wa: the lance corporal was noticed several times in the kitehen looking into the pot in which the food was cooking. Be- ing asked what he was doing, he re- plied, "T am seeing if there are po- tatoes inside." The corporal has been arrested, served out ' ie : Judge--"How old are you?' Wit- ness (a lady)--'Thirty.'? Judge-- "Thirty? I have heard you give the same age in this court for the last three years." Witness--"Yes; noiseless has been introduced by a}, 'assizes to ten years' penal servi- | tude for a savage attack on his wife | Govern- | brought | n the day T am not one of those persons who! 0 say one thing to-day and another|i Oc. arrenees im the Land 'That oe ) tons of coal d This coal is now bei rate of 14,000,000 to coal seams usually ie oo |to eight feet thick Biggs, a former, Soins Mrs. Sarah Hickling, has just died | 'recently started w In the north, in | thirteen seams, of w nest is three feet thick, discovered ; in another pi /same island twenty seams found, five at least being 'while in still another dij 'are three excellent se one is 25 feet thick and itent. In the south, in the 'Kiushin, "the coal measures \least thirty miles long by f 'to sixteen miles wide, and_ 'mated to lontain 600,000,000 TON 'or about half the entire | sight in Japan. -- e |. The Japanese coal mine: ploy nearly 60,000 hands, 'sier's Magazine, the an jcapita output being 240 'largest mine in Japan 'feet by 12 feet, 896 feet di \ Ks -a daily output of 1,100 to: ,all the cutting in Japanese done by hand, but machi 'ing introduced, and it is hoy 'the cost of production ¥ 'duced. So far as coal 1 ed, the industrial futur 'seems well assured. . | The initial outlay on the 'Steel Works at Wakamatsu 'was unnecessarily heavy, 'handicapped the enterpr 'what; but the governme | deteymined to persevere. idoubt they will meet. financially before long, as t] 'already attained success: ally, This plant is now in f eration and emp.oys © 'men. en Rifles, heavy artillery, 'for battleships, ete., are now 'made in these works, and 'tended to so extend and the concern as to render the ,anese Admiralty . PRACTICALLY IND of foreign steel and armam ers. The largest shipbuilding « lishment in Japan is the Nagasaki, founded, as alr tioned, in 1857. th's yard was sold to Baron? Iv its principal owner, and is_ EPENDE Tn 1884, hom n known as the Mitsu Bishi Wor When the undertaking was sold the Imperial authorities, 800 men | ,500 are eee a were employed. To-day 8 employed. It was Yusen Kaisha. The constru this vessel, coupled with the subsidy law, of which she w: a product, marked the beginni wera in Japanese shipbui Improvements and extensions lowed rapidly, and the Mits ;2 establishments in he world. Nearly al] the machine tools, are driven by electricity: the nh latest pattern. we LASSOED EN THE ATR, Soldier Carried 18.000 Feet Balloon Trial Rope Hans Auspitz, a young soldi the German army, went th remarkable experience at gen whither he had been | el by the colonel of his to assist at the ascent o loon Segler. He ant some other the same regiment were tow ropes of the balloon aseent. When sol Auspitz alone among his. fniled to loosen his hole The balloon, liberated group of soldiers, rapidly cerried up holding by twe t» the rope. The three men in the ca balloon were for some mit ently persons who were uni Ausvitz's plight. Finally the ous situation, With great a they succeeded in dragging: the cage by looping rope sooing him in mid-air, The hed reached a height gf 18. before Auspity was hoisted The balloon landed gafe ra later more than_ from the starting | It TT NN Despite the imerivat the child, it-has a deei to seo things in a literal ge is noticeable in the ae language. For instance bert was pleading to go | to: play. = 5 ' "When I see fit : said his mother, d This settled the m little fellow off 'In about half to-morrow.'? -- om B s now one of the best eq! ip not until 1898 that the first 6.000 ton steamer was launche --the Hitachi Maru, for the Nippon -- uction 8 i} fol shops, yard and wharf cranes of ae tention was drawn to his dan