DAINTIES WHICH PREJUDICE DZ
NIES TO THE MANY.
Strange That One Should Favor Oy
sters and Dislike Snails—In Ger
many Bear's Flesh is Very Popular
~-Goats and Horses Eaten in Paris.
The popular prejudice against
sanails is incomprehensible when the
favor of oysters, periwinkles, mus
sels and cockles is considered. In
many London restaurants, particular
iy in Soho, snails now on
daily menu. This is imported
taste from France, the West
Country snails are esteemed
by the lower classes.
A year or two ago a clergyman cit
ed as an {llustration of poverty in
Bristol that he had seen work!
pick snails off a wall and eat
As a matter of fact, the snail is ex
tensively eaten in Somerset and Glou
cestershire, both as a dainty and sa
medicine. There are men who make
a living by collecting snails and sell
ing them under the name of “wau
fish.” Boiled in thelr shells they are
picked cut and eaten bread and
butter, being accounted a great luxury
and very nourishing. In pulmonary
diseases they popularly rank as a spe-
cific.
Frogs are another dainty which
prejudice denies Englishmen,
though in the United States and Can
ada they are esteemed as highly as
in France. Spasmodically, a sturgeon
is offered for sale in Londen,
accident of its capture affords a novel
dish which should not by
for it generally sold
cents a pound. Cut
cutlet it tastes rather like
out a suspicion of fish about it.
In Germany bear's flash is greatly
favored, and tongues,
hams and sausages are both appetiz
ing and expensive Paris
in the siege of 1870-71, was driven to
eating up the animals at the Zoo
camel's flesh has been demanded by
French gourmets Remarkably
beef in appearance, it {8 as tender as
veal, and there are Parisians who im
port it regularly from Algeria. On
the same testimony lion steaks are re
ported to only moderate eating,
while tiger is both tough and sinewy
Jaguar flesh, however, delightfully
white and toothsome, ligators
and crocodiles provide {f the
anost delicate flavor mi
that of veal and pork
Beef and mutton, with
tirely make up the menu that
tually regard lamb and veal :
tinet Why should goat
flesh be introduced into bill of
fare? It is good eating, as Robinson
Crusoe and Don Juan testify.
France it is largely eaten, Par ]
requiring 100,000 goats annua
the table. Our neighbors also
Joy the donkey, whose flesh,
killed resembles that
turkey, much finer flavor
Though a hippophagic banquet ar
ranged by the late Sir Her Thomp-
son was held in London some years
ago, it is still dangerous
suggest horse
as food. In
lent
figure the
an
in
highly
hut
ng girls
them
with
the
to
and the
be passed
at sixteen
and couvked
is
as
veal,
bear
smoked
or x frye
Ever since
titra
IKE
be
is
and 1
a meal
iway between
80 en
we ac
as
ned
MUR
pork,
dishes,
the
young,
although of
=
almost to
flesh to an Englishman
reality it is excel
eating, and ¥ prejudice can
gainsay fact. Old and worn-out
horses cannot afford either nourishing
or palatable meat, that of a
horse rearad lke an ox, for the table,
has a finer fibre and flavor than beef,
though darker in color. It is served
in French restaurants, as
well as being largely eaten by the
people,
“It was in Paris” Mr. Van-
«dam, the author of “An Englishman
in Paris,” “that I learned how the cat
had been misjudged. Call the dog
the friend of man {f you like, but
don’t eat him. Fry him, stew, boll
or bake him, do what you. will, his
flesh is and remains oily and flabby,
with a strong flavor of castor ofl. But
I declare that stewed puss is far finer
than stewed rabbit”
Another neglected article of food is
the guinea pig. Were the edible vip
tues of the hedgehog known it would
rival ortolans in epicurean flavor. As
cooked in rural England, it is dell
cious. The correct way is to encase
the hedgehog, bristles and all, with a
thick coat of soft clay, and place it
in the glowing embers cf a fire §p
bake. The bristles and skin come off
with the hardened clay, leaving the
tendersst and most delicate meat im-
aginakle London Globe.
An Ancient Egg. “
The University of California has in
its possession temporarily, a speci
men Wiich is said to be an ogg with
a prigree 2,700,000 years long. The
department of geology of the univer.
sity has just issued a lengthy pam.
phlet concerning this ogg, its history,
construction, contents, measurements
-and age, and announces that instcad
«of being a mere relic of prehistoric
«days, the egg has already enabled sci
ence to determine the origin of bitu-
men, a thing that has puzzled more
investigators and aroused more an
tagonizms than almost any other
“problem of interest in the world of
science,
The aged egg, now carefully guard.
=ad and treasured at the University of
“California, was recently shown to
Professor John C. Merriam by the
wowner, Mr. G. A, Helmore, of San
Francisco. It has been in Mr. Hel
more’'s possession for over two years,
and was obtained by him from a pros.
pector, who bad found it in a large
pebble imbedded in placer gravel on
“the Gila River, in Arizona. On behalf
of the university, many tempting of.
fers have beon made already for the
®gg, cach one considerably highot
very
only
the
Birt
wut
the best
wrote
than all the previous offers added tes
gether, but he has refused them al
thus far,
SORA SHOOTING.
A Sport Which the Beginners Wil
Find Easy.
hand for the open
ing the sora shocting-—the firs!
shooting of the fail. This little bird
known also as Carolina rail, ortolan
rice bird various
ties, Is now about to begin its migra
tory flight all over the country. It is
ne
The season {3 at
or
and soree in locall
anc
its
{freshwate:
of the earliest birds to move,
frost s«
yvings. In
marsh along the coast
from Virginia north
son Bay the breeds in
and when
the b
ems to ctart it on
every
inland
Hud
num
flights
and
almost to
SOTA SOM
itumnal
differs
the at
DES
begin, irds stop at
ir
its where
:
3
other
h plants whose
and rest and feed.
. § not a large
only about nine
Above he
black
The sora i
uring
length,
ied
op
aer
is olive
with and
parts are ligh
flanks being som
white,
flight, the
lingly,
the g
thr
ITASS
and fee
from above
still
run
tation or
had
them the
same way they
These
AraAnces
RUPArs
Peonle have «
short wings,
them to fly
thon
Lio
mud until!
ple have believed
frogs n the cold
and some the
think that
AEA N
the
the
Western
they perform thei
on backs of
cranes, which carry the
from South to North and
Frem New England
sora shooting is a favorite
I -Oonly two
iast long
f five
does not
hours a day
year
ful season,
entails litt:
ur or
each
tha
bow
close
streight and si
3
It is the busines
watch the
the spot,
when rails
they are now,
were m
than bags
200
plentiful
100
New England
certain marshes
are favorite res
birds during mig
are still made.
The sora is recognized as one of the
most of game birds, 1d
in the estimation of many ranks with
the wocdeock and the English snipe
During the early autumn, when they
are feeding on the wild rice, they be
come very fat and are most delicious
eating. —Forest and Stream.
or were sometimes mad
that
whi
and it is said
Virginia,
rine mi
tocthsome
Telephone Girls Abroad.
A London correspondent. who haa
2 London-Paris-Milan wire in his
room, writes to The Secolo, Rome,
that in his opinion the telephone girl
is quite an angel. He finds the
London telephone girls slow and in
different, the French intractable and
impertinent. When the Whitaker
Wright trial was procesding he found
himself late with some news and rush
ed to the telephone. Absolute silence
followed his frantic ringing, until he
almost pulled the telephone from the
wall. After twenty minutes or 80 a
sweet voice sald: “Number, please?”
“But,” he protested, “I have been
ringing for half an hour!” “Oh, real
ly! 1 am sorry; I was drinking my
tea!”
In Paris the girls are absent-mind
ed and usually make the connections
badly, but have invariably an excuse
and will not hear remonstrances,
The itallan telephone girl by the
side of her London and Paris sisters
shines indeed. She is obliged to re
peat the number wanted and so gel
dom makes a wrong connection: she
is prompt and not exceptionally pert
but she is lazy and will often tell you
that the person you want does not
reply when she has made no effort to
ring him up.
The question is, Would men do any
better?
not
A Critic's Anniversary.
A civie celebration for a Hterary
eritie’s anniversary will be a novelty
even in France. Boulogne sur Mer
is to hold one in memory of Sainte
Beuve, who was born there a hundr
yearw ago.
he learning and playing of foo:
ball are compulsery In the Argentina
army.
——
er .
A Night Attack on
A Ship at Anchor
By W. J. Henderson.
MAGINE a hostile ship lying at
position
sacure
ia an
night There ia
tha Around
away from the anchored vessel steal
mufficrd oars filled with armed
men. They approach noiselessly, Perhaps not discov-
ered and thus reach the sides of the ship instant the
armed men are pouring over her bulwarks and a desperate fight takes place
on her decks. Perhaps they are discovered before they reach the vessel's
side. The alarm is given. The men in the hear 4t, and lash thelr oars
through the wat in a determined effort to reach the ship before the rapid
fire guns can opea upon them. Flashes fire {llumine the night The
searchlights send out shafts of blinding The peals of Bix
and three pounders, the rapid hoarse barking of Hotchil evolving cannon,
the vicious sputter of Gatlings, break upon the frightened alr way with
a ‘'willt" the offi as the and the
light guns "bows hurl thelr deflant answers
As the ep up to the vessel's aslde gongs clang an
ing away riflemen to om
can board the ship and hatche
theirs is the victory: but if he econdary
men stationed before alongside
pedition there '= nothin re pitiless than Gatlings and
Russia at Close Range.
Function of Canonization of Saint Seraphim Calied
Together Over One Hundred Thousand
By David Bell MacGowan.
of
apparently
Juat
Hatinet
on a dark and cloudy enough
water
breeze and sea to make sounds on in
a low headland half a mile
four or five boats pulled with and
they are
The next
boats
Of
the
white sharp
Give
shouts ¢érs of the boats men ben the oars
in th
boats swe
back af
boats’ cre
gets on ad
and her
the b
the repel boarders fr the boats
before
clap down her
i battery
at ex
anon
boats are then
for ng
canonization of Bt. Beraphim on August
by
Diplomatic
treated the Russian authorities as a pur
representatives were
of
elgners kaew the matter beforehand,
for permission to att
dations ] onastery
of
f
end
assigned
ing Detween
ishman
and so
ne this
g thls
hundred th
witenagemot
tradesmen
able number
iergymen
cratic, bureau«
i Tact
grades. The complicated
and hierarchic
bare to an unusual extent The Emperor and the
the hermit. and drank and laved themselves with from the miracu
ring beside which his hut was built His un mains were
in a beneath a massive silver canopy of monumental prog
both Majosty, monasiery was pro i
aimed a
miracles, a Russian Lourdes —The Cent
“Why They Are Poor.”
By Orison Sweet
of
machinery
ourt vi
walter Mn
orrupted r a |
rtions
seal of
pla
‘ oatly CRIRat
gifts of
hs
16 and the
hia
Iry.
Niarden.
T have
ommodat
They r
Ax
“ § ow
or a
They think
rainy day
The head of the house is a go but bw haa not
in t if
The only thin 1e daughters ymplish | develop f
smart clo , OX & Jv i"
They
whole famil
They 10
lawyer puts pe
On a six-hundred
learned to do busi
ness
Aree £4
MGNess 101
them to a
extravagant
know ths of
not alt
their
power ney 0 an agent
pr 3 i
dollar income “they try to compete In appearance with
lara
for
a8 twothousasad.da
aubmerih
subscription books,
instaliment plan .
They have not been able to make much in the business they understand
bast, but have thought that they could make a fortune by investing in some
oo
thing they know nothing about —8
§ W oo thas
ney ing 1a
c.a-Brae
comes along «~OrEAans
anything they can
lightning rods
pictures, pay for on the
3. &
The Reign of the Dinosaur.
Cutting Off of These Giant Reptiles Was
Simulianecous the World Over.
By Henry Fairfield Osborn,
Almont
EVER in the whole history of the world as we now know it. have
there been such remarkable land scenes as were presented when
the reign reptiles was at its climax. It
also the of England. Germany. South
America imagine of thes»
of these titantle
lite
We
picture
can
prevailing
and India herds
to those of gigantic elephants, but with bodies extending through
back into the equally long and still more tapering tails
some living more exclusively on land, others for longer periods in the water.
The competition for existence was not only with the great carnivorous
dinosaurs, but with other kinds of herivorous diposzaurs
which tad much smaller bodies to sustain and a much superior tooth mechan
ism for the taking of food »
The cutting off of this giant dinosaur’dynasty was nearly, if not quite sim:
ultaneous the world over. The explanation which is deducible from similat
eetastrophes to other large types of animals is that a very large frame, with
a limited and specialized set of teeth fitted only to certain special food. fe
a dangerous combination of otaracters. Such a monster organiem is ne
longer adaptable; any serious change of conditions which would tend #&
eliminate the special food would also eliminate these great animals as a nee
CMLATY consequence.
There Is an entirely different class of esplanations, however, to be eon
gidered, which are consistent both with the continued fitness of structure of
the giant dinosaurs themselves and with the survival of thelr especial food;
such, for example. as the introduction of a new enemy more deadly even
shen the groat carnivorous dinosaurs. Among such theories the most in.
genious is that of the late Prof. Cope, who suggested that som» of the small,
inoffensive and inconspicuous forms of Jurkesic mammals, of the size of the
ghrew and the hedgehog, contracted the babit of seeking out the nests of
these dinosaurs, gnawing through the shells of their eggs and thus destroying
the young. The appearance, or «volution, of any eggdestroying animals,
whether reptiles or mammals, which could attack this great race at such & de-
fensiess point would be rapidly followed by its extinction. ~The Cpatury.
PENNSYLVANIA R. R,
and Northern Central Ry,
Time Table in Effect May 99, 1904.
TARA. M.-Train 64 Week days for Bund iry
Harrisburg, arriving st Philedelphia, 11.45 8, m,
New York 2.08 p.m, Baltimore 12.15 p. m., Wash
ington 1.20 p m. Parlor car and puamseniger ooucl
to Philadelphia,
922 A, M.~Train 30
Wilkesbarre, Beranton
modinte stations, Week
ton, and Pottsville
sitimore, Washington
coaches to Philadelphia
12 P.M ~Traln 12
Daily for Bunbury
Harrisburg and inter
days for Scranton, Ha
Philndelphia, New York
Through Passe tiger
Week days for Bunbury
ton, Hazelton, Pots Har
iI intermodiate stations, arr i i
paia at 6.22 p,m, New York,
600 p. m., Washington at
through Fhiludelphia, and
couches 10 Philadelphia, eitimore and
Ningwon,
P.M ~~Train 32
sCranlon
an
Te
b 3 3
r Car 10 praswen
¢ g cars from Hare
iNew York Philade
iis pemsser
a sleepers undisturbed 7.8
d until 7.9
WESTWARD
533 A, M.~Tmaind
noaigus, Rochisster, 2uftalo Niagara Fa
crmoediate stations, with passenger oosch
and Rochester Week days
liefonte and Pitsburg, On
iiman sleeper to Philadelphia
LO0 A. M. ~ Train 51
and intermediate stations, and
I'yrone, Clearfield Philipetay
Went, with through cars to Tyr
LLP. M. ~Train 61
Clearfield, Ph
Dally) For Erie
Daily
Week days for Kane, Ty
ilipsburg, Pltstarg, Onna:
laigus and intermediate stations Byracus
q
Rochestes, Buffaio spd Niggara Fails, with
through passenger eoaches 10 Kane and Rock
enier, and Parlor car 0 Philadelphia
i Week dars
termediste stetions
M. Train 67. Week days for Williams
{1 wilate stats
Conch for
Poy e
rons
for Renoy
Bunda)
nmaport and intermediate stations
HR ELLEYF
INTE CENTRAL RAILR(
Week Days
EASTWARD
12 5 i STATIONS
AM Ar
La
UB
»
*
"
»
5
& i8 Bootia Crossing 7 0
50% Krumr
x
»
8
BERD AE BD BE RO AS 83 BG 8D BG ee pa
30 2008 00. Bate lege
Morning trains fro
Lock Haven apd Tyrone
7 lor State Colleg Afters
x yd Lewhburg and
Train N il for Bate
‘ale College counect with
*
B bs Sa
niandon Wi
onnect with tmis No
oon trains from Mos
Tyrone connect with
Coliege Trains from
Feun'sa RR trains a!
F. H. THOMAS
Buperintendent
EXTRAL RAILROAD OF
Condensed Time Table
’ Ron
June 15, 1604
PENNSYLVANIA
Week Dars
'e
¥
=
4
$ Nod Nob
i nx
oi
FERRER E BPR ROR CEO | bp
AM. FM PM Ly As
BELLEFONTE
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»
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megs
Eo 5
Hecla Park
Dunkiles
HUBLERSBURG
Rt eriown
Nittany
Hous
LAMAR
CNN GOD
AEE
Wwe
=
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{ inle .
vie He *
Krider's Spring
Mackevville
ERE BR RTE
BBB
! Hudson River §
shore
Via Tamaqua
J. Ww SEPHART
Uoners] Superintendent
‘BG AND TYRONE RAILEOAD
Week Dara
WESTWARD
P.M
EASTWARD
AN
vo
2d
o> a
ERE
sit ATON
Paddy Mountain |
| Coburn
| Zerby
| Rising Springs
Penn Cave
{ Centre Hall
Gregr
Linden Hall
{ Oak Hall
i Lemont
{ Dale Summit
Pleasant Gap
AXemann
| Bellefoute
Additions] trains leave Lewishy
donstsWe m. 7.2%a. m. 9458 wm. 11
and 756 p m, returning leave Montandon
Lewisby
Ppo.and 8.12 p.m,
5
wo
04
is
ie
20 i
CHE AR Al SRR CE AE AER AO Ee
hata be rl Te.
a a
BeEhEnNEr~s
BRE nem eee
pring Mills Hotel
BPRING MILLE, PA.
PHILIP DRUMM, Prop,
Firm clas socommodetions at all Yipes far bot
man and beat. Free bus 0 and from olf
trains. Excellent Livery attached.
board first-class, The best Hig oory
wices at the bar,
CENTRE HALL, PA.
JAMES W. RUNKLE, Prop,
Newly equipped. Ber snd table supplied
with the best. Bummer bosrders given apecial
Healthy iocality, Beautiful scenery
10.01 a. m. and 4.46 p.m, returning leave Lewis
burg 8.25 a. m., 10.07 a. m. and dpm
W. W. ATTERBURY, J. R. WOOD
Genera! Managet Pass. Traffic Mgr
GEO. W, BOYD, General Pass'ger Agt
The Pyramid Limp.
The pyramid limp is a disease that
usually attacks the tourist the second
or third day after his arrival in
Cairo.
To many visitors the pyramids are
all there is to see in Egypt, and once
arrived there they proceed to make
the ascent.
It is not an easy climb, as these
steps are so high that to one can
reach the top without help from be
strained und lamed muscles.
the sufferer is greeted with jeors
whenever he makes reference to his
sufferings.
————
~ new Coin Trick,
Here is a vory simple little trick,
which looks not at all easy and quite
as if the performer must be very skill
ful indeed,
Take a silver coin, a quarter or a
half dollar, and pick it up by placing
the points of two pins one on either
side of the coin'’s edge. You may hold
the coin securely in this position if
you press firmly with both pins.
Now, blow amartly against the up
per edge of the coin and it will fiy
around and around, revolving with
great rapidity between the pins.
ful subterranean cavern: entrance by & bond
Well located for bunting and fishing
Heated throughout. Free carriage wall tralng
Od Fort Hotel hs
—————————
IBAAC BHAWVER, Proprietor.
Location : One mile South of Centre
Accommodations first-class. Good bas,
wishing 10 enjoy sn evening given
stiention. Meals for such conmsions
pared on short notice, Always
for the transient trade.
BATES: $1.60 PER DAY.
Penn's Valley Banking Company
——————
CENTRE HALL, PA.
W. B. MINGLE, Cashief
Recelves Deposits .
Yereusts None tg
Aotel HK
BELLEPONTE, PA.
F. A. XEWOCOMER, Prop.
Heated throughout. Fine
EATES, 1.00 PER DAY.
Bpecial preparations for Juross,
sud any persons coming to town om L—
cestons. Regular bosrdess well cared for.
ATTORNEYS.
—~—
J. H. ORVTS C. M. BOWER EL oxvy
QEvis, BOWER & ORV1S
ATTORNEYR-AT-LAW
BELLEFONTE, PA,
Ottios in Crider's Exchange bulding en mond
DAVID ¥. FORTNEY Ww.
ForTNEY &WALKRR
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
BELLEFONTE, P.
Ofoe North of Court House. pi
CLEMENT DALE
HARRISON WALX ER
ATTORNEY AT-LAW }
EFONTR, PA.
wo does frome
rm
Ofice N. W. corner Diamond,
First National Bank.
W . G BUNKLE
ATTORNEY AT-LAW
BELLEFONTR. 2
Al kinds of legal! business tltended wo promptly
Fpecial attention given to collections. Office, M8
Boor Crider's Exchange res
ATTORNEY ATLAW
BELLEFONTE, PA
Collections and all legal business stiended we
promptly. Consultations Germen and Eogiish,
Ofice in Exchange Building. ree
H B. EPANGLER
ATTORKEY-AT-LAW !
BELLEYONT BPA
Practioss in all the courts Conmulistion iw
English and German. Office, Crider's Exchange
Bailding ros
Special Effort made to
Accommodate Com-
mercial Travelers.....
D. A. BOOZER
Centre Hall, Pa. Penna R. R,
80 YEARS®
EXPERIENCE
Ane seed Sy
thom tric Corb aerdal.. Fandvook on Fetes
apechal motion na, ie" Tye
Scientific American,
Th eg rer mS
INN £ Co, 25s Net York
BARGAINS!
a
The readers of this pa.
per are eonstantly upoms
the alert to ascertain
where goods can be pun
chased at the lowest
prices, and if a merchant
does not advertise and
keep the buyer conven
sant with his line of
goods, how can he expecr
to sell them?
CA