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iiiiiiii i ii THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. Sir William Van Home has learned to ride the bicycle. Dr. Meniscus speaks in very high terms of the prospects of the Bothwell Oil fields. St. Patrick’s Boys' School at Halifax! was seriously damaged by fire. 1 Cattle shipmean ffwn Manitoba to! the British markets have commenced. l Montmeal retail grocers have organ- ized a boycott on the departmental Stores. An. attempt to hum the steamer Gar- den. City at Port Dalhousie was frusJ stunted by a couple of fishermen near by. Manitoba's total contributions to the Dominion India famine fund amount to $18,390. This Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nicology summer school of architecture will be held at Quebec City this sumâ€" Iner. It is rumoured at XVinnipeg that the object of the visit of Sir Frank Smith ml other officers of the Dominion Bank s to start a branch there and at Van- wuver. It is expected that the lower. floors of this \Vesitertn Department buildings in Ottawa, which were injured by fire, Will be ready for occupation by the first of May. 1 _Mr. J. B. Riley, United States Oonsul. gaves the exports from the consular district of Ottawa to the United States for the quarter ended March 31, as $230,909. of which $467,151 was lum- iA-n intimation has been received from Afllsth'a-lla‘to the effect that several of the t'reunie'i‘s are considering the ad- nsabr‘lity of travelling to Landon byl the way of Canada to participate in the diamond jubilee. l ' ' Chiva Justice, Sir Francis Mchn tel- eign‘aphs from Calcutta to the Goverâ€" nuictzeneral thanking all who have con- tributed to the India famine fund, and reporting the progress of the work of relief. The authorities of McGill University Montreal, have received from his Highâ€" has the Maharajah of Jeypore, India, a. number of worlm on India architwâ€" ture, known as the J eypore portfolios of architectural details. ’ .J‘he-n-egvprt of fine penitentiary inves- tigating commission has been t'rausmitâ€" bed to the. ltfl'luister of Justice. It is Egaéfeg that alga Ht‘iffimlt 'of the irnvestli- iis . w a. enough shaki of the staff. ‘ lig up It is probable tihtat the Dominion Government Wi'l‘l dh‘ol‘tiiy give in’struu trons to its-agents in England to see that the children sent out to this couinâ€" by are not (hie drama: of the crilxniihlail classes or cubenwise undesirable. Mrr. Unhinh_M. P., bias received a. let- tier from Sir Oliver Mioth suiting that his application for the suppression 0T the hectare of the Massachusetts Benefit insuran Association cannot he grabbed under Etihle (law as it exists. lAdmira‘l Markham, rearâ€"admiral of the Mediterranean fleet, has declined the Dominion Government‘s offer to take command of the expedition to test “the ' nangabiliity of the Hudson Bay straits. on the grounds that a sealâ€" ing vessel, Wlth engines of only seventy horsepower. is not a. craft suited for the muse. ' The propot‘hll to organize a special regiment of 600 men to represent Culnada at this {jubilee celebration will, pzrhbnibly fal'l thuoulgfb, as the Gov. tumor-General has received at cablle from Mr. Chnmberlalm exsâ€" pllalinimg that the Imperial authorities canmt accommodatle more than 200 mops from Canada. ' The Red River is still rising at Emer- son. Many have had to leave their homes, and. great destruction of pro- perty is being caused. Some buildings are submerged tho the second floor There is over three feet of water in the stores on Main street, and ad com- I‘Enfmmtmn from the country is out . I It is statled Ulrat the Government has decided to g‘rulnlt this C. P. R. a. boinuls of $10,000 pier. mile for the con- strut-tibia of thin Crow’s Nat Pass Rail- me, in 1‘me for the company's sur- render of the monopoly clauses of its agreement, a. mutilation di’ freight m}e‘>, and rimming filbwett‘s for othg mlways over the «new line. ~ Mr. W. C. McDonald, the Montreal tobacco manufacturer, was condemned 2! Judge Pa'gnueilo to pay the parents the late Alphonsine Thihaudeau $1,999, the amount of their action for mmpensaltioin for the death. of their damghter, (who was working in the Mc- Donald tobacco factory when the fire of April, 1895}, occurred and died from injuries received by jumping from a window of the fourth storey. _ GREAT 1331mm. Berry de Windt, who recently at- tempted to travel by land from New York to Paris is i‘lll in London. Drumm- Forbes, of Culloden, the de- scendant of President Forbes, of Scotch historic fame, died at Guilloden house. agree miles from Inivenness. on Satur- y- ‘ ' The shipbuilding engineers and their employers have a dispute which is jig-owing veiry grave, and a. great strike is imminent in all the yards. Diplomatic notes are passing between London and fiVashingt‘on with i'tfercnce to the Behring sea fisheries, and a dif- ficlult is threatening ’us serious as the eneznielan affair. A despnltch from the American Sec- retary of State, "coliched in decided terms.” has been served on the British Government, urging that the indis- criminate slaughter of seals in Bering Sea. be stopped. Referring to the trouble in Hawaii regarding the landing of Ja )anesc im- migrants, the London St. ames‘ Ga- elbte says that if a. rupture takes place tween Japan and the United States tam latter may find the Japanese navy a hard customer to tackle. EMT. R. NV. Hanb‘ury, replying to a. question in the luitisll House of Com- mons, announced that the Board of Trade would ask ‘lhe Government of the lJUl'llllllltln of Canada to furnish :1. Import on the result of they law prohib- iting gambling in future. . "li'uib saysâ€""ll is doubtful if Lord Salisbury‘s health will pellrmit him to reiam the posts of Premier and Sec»- reiai'y of Stale for Foreign Affairs. [inâ€" del‘ Illusb cii'cunrstaiicus many Union- ists are suggdtmg Lord lwseberry as Secretary of o‘tziie for li'ol‘cign AffaLrs." The Sons of Eligaiiil are making ar- rangements for the bidding of 3. dia- mond juiiinele servuce on Sunday, the 20th oi June, that wll circle the globe at the hour of four o'(l.ooik in the aft- ernoon. Mvei‘ywuere the National An- them will be sung, and prayers offered for her Majesty. ' * Mr. John Hays Hammond, the Ameri- can engineer and former member of the Johaiinesberg lbefo‘l'm tommiitee, arriv- ed in London on li‘riuay Lrom South Af- rica. He says affairs in the Transvaal are Very unsetbed, but 'he does not think an outbreak of war With Great Britain is likely in the immediate fut- . UNITED STATES. It is reported at ’Washing'bon that Spain is Withdrawing her troops from Cuba, claiming that the rebellion is practically suppressed. The Carnegie Company, of Pittsburg, has been invited by the Russian Gov- ernnieartao bid on armour plate for two first/{lass battleships. A gunner was killed and two other men seriously injured by the premar tum explosmn of a charge during tarâ€" get practice on the United States cruisâ€" er Yamiic. Col. John Hay. United States Ambas- sador to the Court of St. James, left New York uui ueuncsuuy for London, to assume the duties of his new post. as soon as possibue. ’ An incident of the floods in the Southern States is the drowning of a. colored family of seven persons through their bull kicking the Sideout of the boat in which they were imi- grating to higher .and. Special agents of the United States Sub-Treasury department at New York are reported to have unearthed a sysâ€" ‘tem oi smuggling of embroideries and other goods from Montreal. Several ar- rests have been made; .Mr. \Vallace ’i‘bayer, of Buffalo, has consented to the extradition of Mrs. Shernaman. charged with poisoning her husband. if her trial is set down for the May Assizes. Mr. Cartwright Deputy Minister of Justice, says that he wi.l endeavor to have the trial talks place at the next assizes; but he thinks that, foilcwing the ruling of Judge Ferguson in the llyams case, a United States counse; Will not be allowed to appear in the Canadian court. The weekly reports from the com- mercial agendas in New York state that the conditions of business are practicâ€" ally unchanged. The stock market of New York has been more or less af- fected by rumours from Europe of a warlike nature. Business in the United States has been seriousiy interfered with by floods, and prospective labour troub.es are causing considerable mis- apprehension. \\‘hile the general conâ€" ditions of business are perhaps normal, the outlook is generally of a. promising nature. GENERAL. i Prince Bismnrck is much improved in health. ' Ten persons were killed by the ex- [iloeiou of fire dbmp in. the Otberhnsen pit near EssemLmIâ€"filulnr. Eight Englishmm and 26 native miners were killed by an explosion in a mine near Johannesburg on Tues- day. C. According to reports from Bombay 2,853,000 persons are. employed in the relief works in the familial districts in India. Specials from Havana say that high- ly respectable “amen are being arrest- ed and imprisoned on the suspicion of aiding the insurgents. The Mexican Senate is debating the treaty fixing the boundary of the country with the British colony of Belize. There to now a feeling in fa- vour of ratifying the treaty. Five American fishing vessels are lying off Sound Island in Placentiia bay, Newfoundland. unable to procure bait owing to the rigid enforcement of the Anti-Bait flaws. A despaitch from Cape Town says the Hot Dagbfad, the Dutch new-spaper.de- clares that leading officers in the Trans- vaal speak openly of war with England being inevitable. The Federal convention in Adelaide by a vote of twentyâ€"three to twelve has rejected an amendment to allow women ’00 vote for members of the South Australian House of Represt tatives. A dospatch from Japan says that the recent convention betwaen Russia and Japan in regard to Cor-ea have seriously injured the standing of the Japanese Ministry, which is not likely to last much longer. The Turkish Government has form- ally informed the Greek Government that any further raids of irregulars into Turkish. territory will be regard- ed by Turkey as a declaration of war upon the part of Greece. It is sem-lofficiallly stated that all coercion of Greece upon the part of the powers will cease so soon as war is declared, because outlier-Wise it would hear the character of pro-Turkish in- tervention. . The choice of the movament to begin war with Turkey does not rest with King George on the Greek Govern- mcnt, but with the Ethniilke Hetairia, a secret organization. which directed the crossing of the frontier by Greek irregulnrs. The British cruiser Raccoon, which left Cape Town on February} 12, under scaled orders, arrived at Durham, Na- tal. unexpectedly during,r Thursday night with six other British! warships. and two more warships were expected. T11» object of the 'nnvalll demonstration is not known at Durban. The Prince of Monaco expresses his willingness to offer a reward for the detection of the steamer which passed one of title boats of the foundered steamer St. Nazaire without giving the sufferers in the boat any assistance. The action of the. steamer is strongly condemned by all seafaring men. WHAT WOULD IT BE L? THE UNFOUGHT BATTLE BETWEEN MODERN SHIPS OF WAR. fl Naval Authorities the World Over Are Anx- ious to know “'hnt llnc l'ondcrous Vessels Could D.» it Actually Fighting 0m- Another. One can conjecture only as to the rise and progress of a contest between two modern battle ships. .A scientist has figured on the result on the crew of one of these ships were it to fire all its guns continuously. He says that in five minutes the auricular apparatus of all hands would be permanently af- fected and in twenty minutes every man would he in a state of unconscious- ness. However, it would be out of the question to have all the guns going simultaneously, and it would be arare event indeed when a ship could be so surrounded by enemies as to require such fire; yet with such firing as might be expected in an ordinary engagement the concussion would be a severe trial to the cnew. Even with the old style 323 and 64s between decks of a live- oak ship was not a pleasant place for one's ears when target or salute fir- ing was in progress, and ordinarily one praised ( ne’s self gently on the ball of the feet as the gunner pulled the lanâ€" yand. The concussion is \felt much more acutely on the water than on the land. The interesting problem that a war in the Mediterranean would solve is whether the modern ships are half tle worthy. They do not seem to be weather worthy, and. taking the INSTANCES ON RECORD. this proof so far is against their bat- tle capacity. They cannot stand ramâ€" ming for one thing: Recall the Camper- dowml and Victoria instance at Algiers, in 1893; also. the English Channel in- cident, about the same time, of two German battle ships steaming four knots, when one ported helm a little when starboard should have been the move, and bumping lubberly into its consort, down went said consort to the bottom of the sea. Now, a general en- gagement between the big fleets of Europe would tell whether the natives are to be reconstructedâ€"and if ur- rangements were made by which one side should bring in midway the com- bat a doubledurreted [monitor great would be the additional knowledge gained. Jack Tar has always had a. decided advantage over his brother warrior of the land tomes in the important mat- ter of facility for making reputations for courage, and doubtless to this adâ€" vantage is largely due the fact that wars have usually given the sailor the high- ecr niche in the temple of fame. One seldom reads of a man~ofâ€"war’s crew. however badly defeated in an engage- ment. having fought other than betro- ically. =A niaLnrOfâ€"war may have avoid- ed on issue with a. palably superior tome, but once compelled to engage the fight is fought as desperately as though the odds Were even; nor in such emer- gency does this persistence in combat lessen because an enemy is on the flank as well as in front. A mamofâ€"war hav- ing cleared for action and begun firing cannot in the nature of the surround- ings retreat other than as a whole. If them be two or more ships opposed, the weaker force must stand up to the work as one Jack Tar, or at; worst maintain a. running fight as one, and finally succumb or escape as cine. There is no such episode as a cry of part of the cmew, " We are flanked," followed by spread or demoralization and panic, throughout the ship and rush to the rear of every man ,for himself and the devil takie the hindermost. There is no room for such demoralization. Then men know they are confined to the cir- cumscribed area within the ship’s lines and have no "rear," except the ship itself shall be worked thereto by the usual methods known to navigators, which cannot be put into effect without the officer of the deck giving the ne- cessary orders to make the manoeuvre. Up until recently warships were sail- ing vessels. A frigate was A THREE-MASTER, wit-h. a. round dozen square sails, span- ker, jibe. and the usual number of stay- sails and studding sails, of which there might: be counted 3. dozen square and mer sails in use in the average sea. fight. If the crew became demoraliz- ed they would not be in condition to Won‘tk these sails, not even were they to get orders from the quarter-deck. They would likely, in case of panic,cease firing. but except the commandin of- ficer should so will it, there coul be no surrender, for his position on the quarterâ€"deck would prevent the haul- ing down of the colors. and without this customary sigma] of surrender the en~ emy would pour in broadsides. This was the oldâ€"fashioned way when theme was romance on the sea. and youngsters sought the navy filled with Marryat's novels and the more or less glorified stories of notable naval en- gagements by historians Olf the type which permits {patriotic ardor full swing over the less important feature of deference to actual facts. The ene- my who had the best of you was not considerate enough to inquire Why you stopped fillifll". 0n the contrary, e was usually ill natured enough to regard such. an indication of weakening on your part and would cheer lustily, regardless of your feelings. and redou- ble his energy of broadside wholly without a thought of the arms, eyes, and hands his round shot and grape migiht knock off your crew nor the splinters from the live oak their bodies might receive. That was the time of romance, tar and bilgie water, the days when senmanship was required in the handling of a man-of-wan‘ ; and this lat- ter so greatly that a fine seaman in command meant a decided advantage â€"the sailing qualities and metal be- ing eoualâ€"oveir the ship which was not so well commanded. \Vlhile "sea legs” are necessary to a sailor, and the menâ€" ofâ€"war's men of thle time referred to generally were well supplied as to snob 1893. yet these were useless for RETREAT P URPOSES. And likely enough, from all accounts. Jack Tar never thought of such a conâ€" tingency #5 running. lie was not bumugli-t up that way; he was brought up to fight to the last gasp where he stood, and win on the spot, surrender on the spot. or go to the. bottom from the spotâ€"the surrender always depend- ing on whether the commander so (leâ€" clded and indicated this decision by the order, " Cease firing,” and himself givâ€" ing the notification to the victor by hauling down the ensign. Place these same gallant Jack Tars as a naval battalion in afield figiht, and suppose them engaged hotly in their front, when along comes a. flankâ€" ing party and pours a volley into flank and Dearâ€"what do you fancy these Jack Tars would do? They would do precise‘ 1y what a battalion of the army would (loâ€"seeing plenty of space out of the fight as compared with that in their immediate vicinity, they would bowl with. one voice, as it were, “ We are flanked." and indulge the pell-mell method of falling back lit is so much easier to fi to the last gasp when you have to than when you don't have to, and this is the difference between fighting at sea and on land, and largeâ€" ly the wherefore of the naval reputar tiom roosting on a. higher rung on the ladder of gory glory than does the land forces' reputation. A naval war in the Mediterranean would decide whether Jack Tar, after all these years of peace. maintained right, in the face of beiw brought up in a Harveyized steel float, to the name he won on live~oalk sailing ships, besides determining the other important points suggested in the foregoingâ€"more especially whether the armored heavy weight of 1897 is not like the armored knight of the middle ages. so extreme as to steel clad that several squires and a. derrick were ne- mary to reseth him once he was un- housed. STRONGER THAN IT LOOKED. The Full Of :1 Mustard Plaster Is Not In. the ’l‘lilskclcns of It. {Wilkins complained of not feeling Very well. Elie landlady asked for the symptoms. I ! "Uh," she returned, “pull: on a mus- tard plaster, and you'll be all right in the morning." He took her advice. He wenlt into a near-by drug store and asked for a. mustard plaster. ' The clerk took one out and began to wrap! it up. “Say, that's sandpaper; I want a mlusta rd plaster!” ? . The clerk explained that it was at mustard plaster; that the old plaster of the minceâ€"pile pattern had gone out of style. . i "This is just: as good?" queried the doubter ; "it’s hot all right, I suppose?“ "Don't worry about that." sanded the clerk, meaningly. . Wilkins was sleepy {when he got home. He was sleepier than: ever when. he had crawled into bed with the ola-mmy plaster on. him and a big towel backing it up close against the cuticle. Hie dazed perceptibily as the plaster warmed. up. . “I‘ll go to sleep," he thought; “if it. gets too hot I'll wakd up." “Yes, Illâ€"wake upâ€"‘f gets too hot â€" I M. Wilkins was snoring, and a clack away down the hall was striking Den. - 1.1: was 4.30 o’clock in the: morning when Wilkins began to feel the re- union of cowiomnem. ‘ ilt was mixed and confused with a dream in which he had seen a. miner standing mar him [with a. pick and {all} that a great hole was being dug through his ribs. Wilkins snorted, turned over and writhed iwuth agrimace. Then he pulled. the clothes far from him, sat (up and said: "Ugh." Art ’1 o'clock he was in the: drug store again. tide was bending over to keep his clothing moan. tumbling him. The night clleuik was still in charge, and he grinned Lroaduy. “Let me see. the place," he Suggested even before \Viilkiins spoke. There was a ll‘l'lllllafllb parallelogram, fClJll‘ by seven inches, just under the third Lirttou of \yillikin's vest, and as the cool air touched. it Wilkins winc- ed. I “You’ll have to be very careful or you'll have a bad blister there," said the clerk. . “Blisterl Say, I can stand it; tell me: the truthâ€"how deep is that hole l’" “Nonsense. Go ctllt and get a big soft linen handkerchief and 111 fix you up." \Vi-lkims paid 35 con-(s for the kandâ€" kerchief and 25 cents for a cool, mossy paste, which the clerk smeared on one side of it. “Now, if you let. your flannel next to that you may pull the hide off with it," warned the clerk in parting. And \V i‘lkinis walks down these morn- ings to keep the (-Illionvs of street car passengers out of his ribs. “Feels as if I was all boarded up out one side," he confides to his friends, lncidently he says that a miustardl p‘lustm' isn’t such a cheap remedy aften all. TONGUE TWISTERS. Six thick thistle sticks. Flesh of freshly fried flying fish. The sea. ceaseth, but it sufficeth usl Give Grimes Jim's great gilt gig Whip. Two toads, totally tired. tried to trot to Tedbury. i Strict, strong. Stephen Stringer.snarâ€" ed six sickly silky snakes. She stood at the door of Mrs. Smith's fishsauce shop, welcoming him in. Swan swam over the sea. ; swim, swan, swim; swan swam back again; well swum swam. A haddock, a haddock. a black-spot- ted haddock, a black spot on the black back of a black-spotted haddock. Susan shineth shoes and soaks; socks and shoes shines Susan. She ceasetli shining slices and socks, for shoes and socks shock Susan. M YSTERIES 0F CHINESE COOKING. What the, (‘liiniinmn Eats Compared Wltll English and American Modes of living. It is habitual with most Englishmen to denounce the Chinese as filthy feeders says the Pall Mall Gazette. But if we take a look at home and compare notes. we may find we have judged them by a. wrong standard. The Chinaman is philosophical in every act, he has a. reason for everything he does. He finds a. far reaching connection between cookery and civilization, and be much disapproves the Englishman’s way of feeding. He will tell you that an English- man makes his dinnerâ€"table a slaughter- house, and that in his country they sit down to table to eat, not to cut up carcasses. One does not see the un- pleasant suggestion of the live animal in the shape of legs, shoulders, loinS. beads. etc., on a Chinese dinner table. as one certainly does on an English dinner table. An Englishman‘s idea of "good. wholesome food." is a. more or less raw jointâ€"in many cases the gravy being omewhat too realistically redâ€" and a. badly prepared vegetable. Wheth- or food so cooked is wholesome or not is a question we are not prepared to go into at the present time; but the fact remains undisputed that in no oth- er country ln the world, not even ex- cepting America does the fiend dyspep- sia. rule so supremely as in England. The Chinaman looks upon the derid- ed chopsticks as a token of his civiliz- ation, and on the knife and fork as ‘a remnant of barbarism. He can produce knives and forks if requested to do so, but never uses them himself; it is a. question of the slaughter house again. In China the natives see and are taught English cookery in its worst pos- sible form. A dinner table in Hong Kong or Shanghai in the summer time is an anything but pleasing spectacle. The animals to be eaten are of neces- sity killed the same day, and the tis- sues are as tough as death stiffened them, This, of course. is the fault of the climate, not of the cook, you will say; b I; give a. Frencnman such meat and s the difference. He will. at all events, produce something eatable. At the same time, though it cannot be said that a. Chinaman is a. born cookhhe Is remarkably apt at picking up ideas. Show John how to make an omelette or a salad; for ever afterward he will mix the ingredients in exactly the same order and quantity. as he has seen you doâ€"-nay, he must have the same basins and utensils, or he cannot be quite happy over his work, so unita- tive a creature is he. Among the laboring classes the sta- ple article of diet is rice, and this un- pretentious dish is both wholesome and nutritious when cooked as perfectly as the Chinaman alone knows how to do it. The very lowest classes of society, eat dogs and rats, but in all proba- bility this taste arises more from no- cessity than choice. To try and dis- cover how dog broth‘ is made would take a considerable amount of daring) and curiosity, but the natives seem to eat it with relish. As a. rule an Engi- lishman is very chary about ventur- ing into a. Chinese cookshop. There are stories of adventurous sailorsâ€"all be- fore the mast, of courseâ€"who have tried. but they are monotonous, because they all end with the diner having somehow discovered the origin of the dish put before him. and having left; percipitately. Forecastle yarns are in- teresting, but oft~times unreproducable. Every street has its complement of cookshops, where- wonderful prepara- tions in the way of soups, vegetables, and flesh can be procured at surpris- ineg low prices. Here great pots con- tain dumplings filled with mince meat. which are not unpleasant to the taste. provided one be sufficiently hung'ryand sufficiently confiding, to tackle them, After all, have we not our sausages at home? . But the oil they fry With, and the smell thereof! Over this department of their cookery it is, perhaps. kinder to draw a veil; suffice it to say that the oil employed is popularly supposed to be of the genus castor, and a Virulent kind at that. At the same time the upper claSses are very particular over their food, and infinite pains is taken over the prepar- 'ation of favorite dishes, Here is the menuâ€"a. typical oneâ€"of a banquet giv- en this year in Ningpo: Birds' nest soup. Stewed sea slugs. Sturgeon skull cap. Stewed shark fins and pork. Crab soup. Stewed plums and preserved fruit. Duck's tongues. .Deer's tendons. This is not quite so impossible as it reads; the sea-slugs are really akind of limpets, and there is no reason why a European should not eat them; and shark fins are a dish much esteemed by sailors on the east. African coast, and said to be very good. Moreover. a. stur- geon is a. royal dish, and only ashort time ago it figured on the menu of a swagger London restaurant. Really. looked at from an ethnographical point of view, there is no reason for horror at a Chinese dinner. Indeed, it is_not half so disgusting as, say. an anoient English funeral feast, at which, for exâ€" ample, the cold meat, etc., was sup- posed to represent bits of the body of the corpseâ€"o. rather curious and dis‘ tinctly primitive form of sacrament. The truth of the matter is that Chin:- ese cookery depends on the meat and the cook. They have literally no pe- culiar implements and no extraordin- ary methods. Despite Charles Lamb, they do not burn down a house, to roast a sucking pig. They have, In fact, too little initiative; they love to imitate, and the housewife who grumbles at her Chinese cook, generally has only her self to blame. She has shown him too much; so much that he is firmly con;- vinced that the example is to be copied on each and every occasion. and if a Chinaman has a fault it is that an idea once in his head is never got out. The true plan is to show him just enough for the particular occasion. and again and again for each variation of food; than he will become an ideal cook, only in such circumstances the question ar~ ises, is it worth while to have a cook at all? .