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•»«- if HSWiliniL WE VERY LATEST PROM ALL TMfi WORLD OVER. iBtM-MtlnK Ittni Aboat Oar Owa Coontrjr, QrMl BrlUtn, tb* United Bute*, and All Part* ol tn* Qlobc, CoadenMd and AM«rt«d far Buy Reading. CANADA. Mackerel ar« reported very plentiful to the waters off Halifax. Lady Tapper, now in London, Ens- laDfl, IS arranguagf to return to Canada IB July. Mrs. .Smith, of Barton street, Ham- ilton. w«o IiiUed by a Grand Trunk train. P*t«r Black, a wealthy oitizen of Parrskx^ro'.y. S., was on Wednesday rob- bed of 111,800 at that place. The late John Liviu^tone of Liato- wpI left an estate worth (500,000, and 9100,000 of iniiuranoe. Thomas Ft-nnell, a Canadian, form- erly of Klma, near Stratford, has been Biurdcred in Idaho, by a cowboy nam- ed Lonf. The Hamilton Powder Co. is applying to Parliament to chan^ the head o^ (ice of the company to Montreal, and to increastt its capital. Lord and Lady Aberdeen and suite pTe (akon up their residence at the \ ice-Regal quarters in â-  the CiUdel, Quel)eo. Canon DuMoulin will l* consecrated Bishop of Niagara on June 24. The oer- toaony will take place in Si. James' eathelral, Toronto. It io sta'pd that the day prior to the torriMe arcident near Viotoria, B.C., the ttuthoriiies wer^ warned that the bridge was not safe. The British flagship Crescent, with Admir.il Sir John Erskiao on board, bas arrived at Halifax from Bermuda. Lady Erskine Is also on board. The soizure of an American vessel lor fishing wilhiia the thr*-mile limit U reported at Halifax. The offender is the Gloucester schooner Frederic Guer- tag. A dividend of 10 per cent, has been declared by the liquidators of the Commercial Bank of Manitoba, mak- ing an at^gregute of 80 per cent, paid to tho creditors. E. .S(onc Wiggins says that the St. Louis tornado vma caused by the net- work of telegraph wires in tlwt city, and declares that a similar fate will befall Canadian cities unless all wiree are buried. Mr. E. Stone Wiggins, of Ottawa,. rlaim« tliat the tornado which wrought such (lest ruci ion in St. Louis was caused bv ih(i network of telegraph wires in that riy, and he says a similar fate will befall Canadian cities unlew all wires are tiuried. „.T,he four^jear-old son of Mr. Wm. uills, of Merritton, Ont., met with a terrible death on Saturday. He bur- rowed a hole in a pile of straw in a small frame building. Uis older broth- er playfuljy set fire to the straw, and before the fire could be extinguished the younger boy wa-s burned to death. Mrs. Fisher, of St. Catharines, had a n.irrow e.<!ra!ip from drowning in a well on Monday. .Mrs. Fislier ^ays her hus- band pushed her in, but Fisher's story Is that she fell in, but when the wo- man's crie.s were heard, and as.<ii.stance was rendered, l^isiier was found secure- ly lolled ill his hoose, th'iuah he must have h.ard his wife's agonizing appeals •for help. GREAT BRITAIN. The Queen has gone to Balmoral. Mr. Charles Di. kens, the son of the relebriiled novelist, who has lieen seri- ously ill, is now out of danger. The census of London, just taken, •hows a population of -1,411,271, an in- crea.se of^ 2()fl,.')28 since 1891. Beatrice Hnrraden, the author of "."^hiiw that Pass In the Night," is ill, and h;is been comi»IJed to atop work on her new novel. A coD^ignnient of slates from Cana- da ha.s r.-.'cntly been received In Lon- don, and has attracte<l attention be- cause of its excellent quality. .Sir John Millnis Ls suffering from cancer of the thmai, and it is feared thai the recent ojieration was not suo- ce.sj'ful. .â- ^ir J. Buseell Reynolds, M. D., Phy- «.i.n ih 0. Unary to ib' Quceni) house. h-M, is dcnd. He w«b sixty^eight years ot age. 1 he deal b Is announced of Professor Edward Airaiiagc, the Enptlish hislor- Irai anl mural painter. He w.is sev- enly-ninc years of ago. There seems to lie little hopes of a rernnciliation lietween the Itedmon- tfites and the Dillonites, an<l iho Irish pirty is more hopelessly split than ever. I.rird Leighton's bnii.sc in London and ciillcction af art oVijects are for sale. The public subscription to purchase it for the nation Is not meeting with much sucfess. Lurd Wind.sor, a very rich English nililrman, has started a model saloon on OH'- of his estates, where he guarantce.s that only tb' best beer, wine, and spir- its are sold. Oxford University intends conferring thi' degree of honorary U. C. L. upon Inited .''tates Ambassador Bavard, an<t iin'.n Mr. .fohn Morley ami Mr. Joseph Diainberlain. The dress in which the Duchess of Marlborough was presented is said to have cost two thousand pounds, while the Jewels which she wore exceeded ten thousand pounds in value. There Is an enormous strike in the building trade in Ixmdon, and aliout: thirty thousand men ore out of work. The cause of the trouble is a demand for a small increoAO of wages. â- Mr. t'h.imberlain has received a de- •pal.<-h from the Uiitiah Agent al Pre^ loriu auying that all the Joliannesberg •rlsoners have been released except the four leaders. The Queen ha« finally decided that the nnarrlage of Piiw.esa Maud of Wulfs and Prince Ob'arlea ot Denmark tb'U take place in the private chapel of Kuckingbam palace. Prof. Darcy Thompson and Mr. Bar- rett, the naturalist, have left for Am- erica to enquire and report to the Brit- ish (invernment wbether or not the re- strictions on seal fishing in Behring Sea ire sufficient for the preservation of teal life. Mrs. Dyer, tbe London infanticide, who Is under sentence to be hanged on June 10, made a second attempt at suicide in Newgate gaol on Wednesday. While in bed, 8eemin,ily asleep, she twisted a Ibandkercbief around her throat, and al- most succeeded in strangling herself. The annual Co-operative Congress, of which tho Earl of Winchilsta and Not- tingham, is chief promoter, passed a re- solution setting forth that English speaking people .should settle their na- tional differences without resort to the sword, and that a permanent tribunal for the settlement of disputes between America and Great Britain should be established. UNITED STATES. Over S.OOO immigrants arrived at New ' ork from Eiuopo on Monday. Thoinas A. FMi.son and Nikola Tesla are reported ut New York to be work- ing on a new eleotrio lamp. Mrs. M.irk Frost drowned her two children, then suicided, at Cleveland, near Bolton, Mo., on Wednesday. Kate Field, the well-known Americjin journalist, died in Honolulu on May the ISItb of pneumonia. Mark B. ("Brick") Pomeroy, an old- time and well-known Journalist, died on Saturday In Ms home in Brooklyn, N.Y. Rev. Francis Hermann, a Scandi- navian, is charged at Salt Lake "City, Utah, with the murder of seven iieraons. All the rye whiskey distillers in the Eastern Stabw will su.spend operations for one year from the first of Septem- ber. President Cleveland has signed the Acts to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Niagara ' river from Lewisitaii, N.Y., to Queenston, Ont. St. Louis, Mo., is threatened with a reourrence of the flood of four years ago, when property to the value of 925,000.000 was deab^ed. Frank Ev.ins, aged 20, was instantly killed and five men sfiriausly injured by a boiler explosion in .Scudder's s.iwmilll at Clay City, 111., cm Wednesday. Mrs. W. H. Banner, aged 22» was kille<l by a tall from a parachute while making a balloon ascension at Fairy^ Grove, neaj Bjltimore, on ThutBday. By the explosion of a gasolene stove in Chicago on Sunday four members of a family, named Malm were killed, and the fifth so badly burnt that death is almost certain. Lord Russell, the Lord Chief Justice of Englamd, will address ttie annual mn«ting of the American Bar Associa- tion, to be held at Saratoga, N.Y., on Augudt 18tb. As the result of an investigation, it has been ascertained that one-third of the children of one of the principal graaimar scboola of Chicago had nev- er seen a live sheep or hoig. Grai-e Schloenbeck, a Chicago girl of fourteen, twice attempted sulfide in the lajjoon in Jackson's park Iwcause her mother pave her a severe whipping und turned her out of doors. M. Henri De.slandres. astronomer of the Paris Obaervatory, parsed through New York on Sundajr on his way to Japan to observe the eclipse of the sun which occurs in Augusft. Col. Joe Leffel, the smallest perfectly formed man in the world, has announc- ed himself as a Republican candidate for Mayor of Springfield, Ohio. He is 63 years old and 46 inches tall. Prohibitionists opened their seventh national convention at Piitslmrg, Pa., on Weilnesday. H. L. Casltle. in an ad- dress of welcome, said the liquor traffic was "the greatest, foe ot God and human- ity ever Invented in hell or patented on earth." Colonel Joe Leffel, the smallest per- fectly formed man in the world, has an- nounced bimseilf as a Republican candi- date for Mayor of Springfield, O.. next spring. The Colonel is only 46 Inches tall, and is 63 years old. He served one term in Council. Mrs. John M. Clay owns the Henry Clay farm in Kentucky, .^ihe ha.s such a tender feeling for her stock that she has provided for the future of all the superannuated animals on the place bv leaving eaoB $50 in her will, so that they may receive ifood care till death ensues. A novol institutitm which has re- centlv lieen inaugurated in New York is a Dogs' Toilet Club, where fashion- able laiTies who go out to shop may leave their pet dogs to undergo the operation of shampooing, brushing, combing, and clipping whUe their mis- tresses attend to their purchases. Two tronpe ot cavalry have l>e«n or- dered from Fort Custer, Motat.. to gather tho Cree Indians for exporta- tion to Canada. The ('r<"cs say they will not go unless Canada proclaims an am- nesty for their participation in the Manitoba rebellion. If this is not granted they will take to the moun-' tains and l)ecome "bad Indians." According to the reports of the com- mercial agencies there is no change for the better in business across the line. One principal factor in the present dul- nrss is the doubt exifjing as to pos- sible political eventualities. Products all round are weak, wheat has fallen, and with goods mostly in ample supply and a light ^eneriil demand, employment in munv districts is slack. 'The enquiry for both pien's and women's dreais goods appears to be unprecedently low • cottons and woollens are quiet and many mills are either clo.sed or work- ing half-time. Some boot and shoe manufacturers have orders that will lake some time to fill, but again in other Tuarters cutters are being dis- charged, as the makers have over^^aken the requirements of their oustomera. GENERAIi Pre.sirtent Kruger, of the Transvaal Republic, Is 111. Germany has a war footing of 2,700,- 000 men. Matnbeles have again been repulsed by Capt. Plumer'a force near Bulu- wayo. 'I here have been serious cholera riots in Cairo, and tho rioters bad to be dis- piTsed by the police. There are great rejoicings at FriedJ richsruhe over the birth of the first grandson to Prince Bismarok. It is riWKjrted in London that 26,- 000 cyclists of both 8e<xea rode oves Ripley road, .Surrey, on Sunday. The telegraph department of th^ Chilian Government has been defrauded of more than 100.000 pesc«. The increase of mortality from small- pox and yellow fever in the hoE{)ltalB along (he Trooha creates alarm in Cuba. The Alhanians have petitioned the Porto for reforms, and if these are re- fused they intend to revolt to regain their former lilertiep Tho British barque John Baizley,froBi Singapore for Hong Kong, is ashore on Montanha island. and is being plunder- eid by this natives. A report at I^ondon from Madrid con- firms tfte rumour that Gen. VVeyler has ncsolvert to resign the command of the Spanish forces in Oul>a. Barney Barnato has suleeribed f25,- 000 to the fund to pay tho fines of the imprisoned memteis of the Reform Committee at Johannesburg. Dr. Langhold's anti-microbicon has )<c«n introduced into several German hot-pitals, with the best possible Je- suits, in the treatment of consumption. Padejrjvski'e arduous experiences in his recent American tour have com- pletely exbausted him, and he has been compelled to cancel all his engagemente. The Czar has appointed M. Witte, Minister of Finance, Secretary of State* as a reward for his services and a token ot his Majesty's special favour. It is staled that the Marquis de Mores has started for the Soudan to consult with tho Arab" leaders, ajid place obstacles in the path of Eng- land's advance. It ia reported thiat Rus-sIt intends to build a railway along the Oius to Kar- ki, which will greatly improve ber i5.tmlegic position along the line of ad- vance towards CabiU. The new Russian warship, the Roes- ajas, recently launched at Cronstadt, has a displacement of 12,195 tons, 17,- OOO horse-power, and a reputed speed of twenty-four kQote. The impending trouble baa broken out in Crete. The Turkish soldiery in- Canea have broken through all re- .straint, and are massacring and pillag- ing tfhe Christians. British warsbipa are hurrying to the scene. One of the most famous painters of S^rtiden, Marten Eskii Winge, died ^ few days ago in Stockholm. His studiea were mostly historical. Winge was "71 years old, and was a member of manyi Swedish societies. NEW QUESTION IN SOUTH AFRICA. The EaslUk F«ar Ikal tfcr Bocrt Mean t« OrrapT tbt Entire Cauatry. Under the above heading "Alpha," writes from Clip River to the Times of Natal as follows: As you have, through so many correspondents, tried to warn the Government of Natal and the inhabitants of the danger the col- ony is now in, will you allow me also to add one word, to the same effecti I have been about tbirty-five years Among the Dutch, and, believe me, I know them well. You can rely on what I tell. I have it personally and not from he.irsay. During the present month I have been on an extended visit in tbe Free State, and the feel- ing among the Dutch inhabitants and many of tbe Free State half-bred Eng- lish is much more bitter against tbe English than after Majuba. The Bovrs are straining every nerve to get ready as soon as tbey get tbe word from the Transvaal to invade Na- tal. The burghers of the Harri&mitb district have subscribed among them- selves the money to buy two maxims, which have been sent for and are prob- ably now on the w.iter. I ascertained that the reason the burghers had such tiad hor.se8 at the reviews was because their "commandeer horses are kept in the st^tble for immediate service." Every man is more than well sup- plied with ammunivton, ajid among tlienuselves they talk only ot taking Natal, and I am not exaggerating when I Biiy they can bring, at a very few hours' notice, 15.000 men into Natal, and will leave 20,000 to protect the Transvaal and tho Free State, and it will not ho very long before you will see a big war in this country. The Boers are longing for it, and quite be- lieve they will win. But what is more surprising, I saw men calling them- selves English, and many whose par- ents, are living in Natal at the pres- ent luouienr, almost as anxious to light the English as the Boers themselves. The onlv p<'c)ple in the Free Stat? that I found (lerfoctly loyal one and all to the English Government are the Scotch. The talk about Rhodesia is a bounce, and not intended to be done. Natal is what the Uoi-rs want and will try for. 1 have he-ird the opinions of many of the most influential and liest informed Boors, und they are all of the same tune. So 1 only hope that Natal will take a warning in time and not wake up some morning like the Irishman and find hi» throat cut. The editor adds in a footnote; "Al- pha" is a well known and highly r»- sjiected colonist, whi> has special facil- ities for uctiuiring information • with regard to the subject on which be writes. THE RAVAGES OP ABSINTHB. M. Rocheforfa recent advocacy of temperance has directed attention to the consumption of absinthe in France, and some stiirtliug statements in con- nection therewith are lieing made. Men OS a rule take the absinthe diluted In water, aipning it slowly. But the wo- men, to tne consternation ot the doo- toi's, insist as a rule on drinking it "neat, with most terrible results to their constitutions. The number of brilliant men whom France has lost through the abuse of the opalescent, but jioisonous fluid, from the groat poet Alfred de Musset, who used to be picked up drunk and half dead every night in the streets, down to tho celebrated ar- tist and oarloaturLst, Andre Gill, is sim- ply appalling. An idea of the extent of the evil may be gathered from the re- cent return.s of the Ministry of Frajice, which show that at the present mo- ment there la a maruhand de vln, or French absinthe seller, to every three houses in the French metropolis. DOMESTIC REPARTKE. After a man has reached the age ot forty, said Mrs. Dtsbrow, he thinks every good looking woman he sees is in love with him. I am sure my dear, retorted Mr. D., I have never accused you. LEARNED ALL~ABOUT IT. So you went out driving with your new beau, Susie, and 1 exi)eot he read your heart like a book ? Yes, mother ; he read between tbe lines. PRECEDENCl AND SALARY. What tbe T.«a4ta( Wlrm of «rrat BrMntn Beeef#e Hw 1%elr Service*, and How fh« irJslnenii'.v Take Bank. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland gets $30,0UO a year. All titles of nobility originally had a military origin. A clergyman usiully takes precedence of a Barri.ster. The expenses of the Queen's house- hold are £172,500. A Viscount ranks higher than the oldest son of an Earl. The salaries of the Queen's house- hold amount to £131,260. The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain gets 950,000 per annum. The President of the Board of Trade receives a salary of $10,000. A peer of the realm in Great Britain Is not liable to arrest for debt. The Lord President of the Privy Coun- cil receive.^ a salary of 920,000. The First Lord, of the British Admir- alty receives a salary of 922,500. The Lo-d Li'Uten:in.t of Ireland re- ceives a salary of 9100,0(X) per year. The Duke of Edinburgh has an an- nual allowance of £25,000 per annum. The Chancellor of the Exchequer in Great Britain has a salary of 925,000. The Prince of Wales receives from the British people £40,000 every year. The Princess of Wales has an annual allowance of £10,000 for pin money. The eldest sons of Knights of the Garter precede eldeait sons of Banner- ets. The oldest sons of Barons are infer- ior in rank to the younger sons of Earls. Earls take precedence to the younger sons of the Dukes of tha blood royal. Tbe English Secretary of State for the Co'onies receives a salary of 925,000. Barons take rank immediately after the Secretaries of State, if these are Barons. The oldest son of a Marquis takes pre- cedence over the younger sons of a Duke. The annual allo>Tance of the Duke of Connaught from the British people U £25.000. • In all state ceremonials the sovereign takes precedence of all persons whatso- ever. The Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household follows tbe Commissioner of the Great Seal The Archbishop of Canterbury ranks immediately after the members of the royal family. The Princess Louise draws from the British Treasury the modest allowance of £6,000 per year. The oldest sons of the youngest sons of peers take precedence over tbe oldest sons of Baroneis. The eldest sons of Dukes, Marquises and Earls are usually called by the eeo- ond title ot the father. The Duchess of Teck ia expected to get along somehow or other on an an- nual allowance of £5,000. The Princess Christian of Schleswig- Holsteln has on annual allowance from the British people of £6,000. The Secretary tor l<'oreign Affairs and tho l-'irst Lord of the Treasury in England receive each a salary ol 950.000. Tbe Home Secretary, the Secretary for War and the Secreltaiy for India receive each a salary of 9-^,000. The Duchess of Mecldenburg-Strelitz, on the strength of her connection with the royal family, receives £3,000 per year. The Lord High Chancellor, It ot the Order of Barons, takes rank immediate- ly after the Archbishop of Canterbury. Marquises come next after the old- est sons of Dukes, and are succeeded by the oldest sons of Dukes nut of the blood royal. The ex-Empress of Prussia, the £m- firess Frederick, draws from tbe Kng- ish Treasury as a British Princess the sum of £8,000 every year. Officers in the British army and navy, who ore all ot tbe rank of gen- tlemen, take precedence according to rank in their profession. ' The children of Emperors take pre- cedence of kings and Queens. The order is Kmperors, oblldren of Emper- ors, Kings, children ot Kings. The Master of the Rolls follows the Lord Chief Justice of tbe Queen's Bench, ami precedes the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Historians tell us that the first Eng- lish Marquis was created by Richard II., who oestxnved the title upon his favorite, Itobert d« Vere, in 1386. It is said that the first English Duke wus i^dward, the Black Prmue, who, by his father. Edward IXI^ was created Duke of Cornwall in 1337. Esquires follow the younger sons ot the Knights of the various orders, and are theui^elves succeeded by gentlemen entitled to bear arms. Tbe younger sons ot a Marquis take precedence of all Bishops ot \he Church of England, save those ot Saa- terbury, York, Armagh and Dublin. The Bishop of Meath takes prej^edence of all Irish Bi.shop,>i, and is followed by other Bishops according to the senior- ity of their consecration. The Order ot Baronets was established by James I. in 1611. Ibis title is found in no country of the Continent, exist- ing only in the British dominions. the oldest sons ot Viscounts follow those Secretaries ot State who are not ot noble birth, and are themselves fol- lowed by tbe younger sons ot Earls. The Chancellor of the Order of the .Garter follows the Privy Council, and precedes the Chamberlain of the Ex- chequer, if the latter be not of noble degree. The Vice Chamberlain ot Her Ma- jesty's household follows the Master ot the Horse, and Is followed by Secretaries of State, who are not ot the degree ot Buron. The Chancellor ot tbe Duchy of Lancaster follows the Chancellor ot the Exchequer, and Is binaself succeeded by tbe Lord Chief Justice ot the Queen's Bench. The Speaker of the House of Commons, in State ceremonials, stands next to the Barons, and is uomediatdy followed by the Cosiunlasioner ot the Great Seal. The Knights of the Qai-ter rank next to the eldest sons of Barons, and are themselves superior In rank to members of the Privy Council, not being ot noble birth. SOME PAEISM iDODS WHAT FREQUENTERS OF THE OAB- GOTES GET TO EAT. Po^aeasom of llKht Pnram Bave Haar De> cepliona to Contend With Wheia OInlna Ontâ€" Inordlnata listen of Hamâ€" Haaa* ruetneeil Driieaelea. At the gargotes, the lowest class ot Paris restaurants, a species of very ia> genious fraud has now been common for over bait a century and maybe mora. says tbe London Globe, It consists la passing off warm water, coloored and flavoured with burned onions and cara- mel, and into which some little grease bubbles have been injected, as soup. It is true that bones which have been twice stewed, first by the larger restaurants and secondly by the interior class ot traiteurs, and cast away for the third time, in order that it may be impregnat- ed, if possible, with some particle of ani- mal substance, but as this operation fails to Impart to it those little greasy bubbles which the French term "eyes," and for which the shrewd frequenters of these establishments invariably look, in order to satisfy themselves that tbe broth they drink has been actually made from meat, a clever cook got over the difficulty by blo^ving a spoonful of flsbl oil, which falling into the caldron, or soup tureen, formed the eyes so dear te epicures of a certain type. Tbe system was found to answer so perfectly that an employe aux yeux de bouillon, as the individual who performs tltis operatioa is termed, ia now an indispensable neces- sity at all gargotiers in a large way ot business. Parisians ot a certain class are inor- dinate EATERS OF HAM; in fact, almost as many bams are eaten in Paris as cculd be furnished by all the pigs killed throughout tbe whole ot France, even allowing for both sboulde* and leg being cured in accordance with French practice. The demand used-» and may be now â€" to be supplied in tbia wise: Tbe dealers in cooked bams bought up the old bam bones at a couple of sous apiece, and ingeniously inserted them into pieces of pickled pork, which they trimmed into shape and coated with grated bread crusts. In this way many bones did duty hundreds ot times over, lasting in tact for years. They would leave the dealers in the morninf and frequently return to them the same night, to quit them again the follow- ing day. Nevertheless, the supply could hardly keep pace with the demand. Only fancy the incnnvsnience ot having te wait tor yotir nam until your nelgt^ hour's servant took back tbe ham bona which tbe charcutier relied upon re- ceiving yesterday ! It was to obviate such a state of things that an ingeni- ous Individual conceived the Idea of man- ufacturing bam bones wholesale, and ere long he drove a thriving trade at ten sous a dozen ; slnoa which time the stock of hams has augmented, and the delicacy has become luns difficult of at- tainment. Much in the same way, an- other Ingenious individual, knomng the immense consumption of cockscombs ia Paris for ragouts, coqullles and cocks- combs, and vol-au-vents, and seeing the high prices the said cockscombs com- manded owiug to the limited supply, set to work to minister to tbe demand, and duly established himself as the manufacturer ot cockscombs. So ex- tensive was tbe trade done by bina, that he found it necessary to set up a SMALL STEAM ENGINE He was li great enthusiast, and was ao> customed to pride himself upon tbe ar- tifical cockscombs which emanated from his atelier being greatly superior to tha natural article. This is the way our artist went ta work: As tbe same method is largely worked at this day in London,^ as well as in Parisâ€" aye, and in New York and New Orleansâ€" we purposely use the pre- sent tense for a time. He takes the pal- ate of a bullock, cow, calf, sheep or goat â€"either will do, though he prefers the first. After having blanclied it In boil- ing water he macerates it and detaches the flesh of the paltio vault without in the slightest doKree deranging it, and then places it under a stamping ma- chine, which punches- out cockscombs more perfect m shape tban those pro- duced Dy nature, yet sufficiently re- sembling them to deceive tlkn connoiss- eurs. Still, there la a v.'ay ot detecting the artificial productionâ€" the cocks- combs of clumsy nature have parallae un both sides, whereas those of art have them only on one. Counterfeit cocks- combs are sold as low as four sous the dozen in Paris to poulterers, keepers ot restaurants, pastry cooks, etc., and at six sous to cooks in private families. Apropos ot our subject, this man, in his mtercourse with poulterers, got to learn that when they did not sell tbi off at once their tbey were obliged turkeys to LOWER THE PRICE one-fifth every suKsequent day a bird remained on hand, and so frequently had. to submit to a loss, although the turkey might present tbe same appear- ance of freshness that It did when first killed. And yet no cook could be de- ceived, and this solely because the bird's legs, wbicb were black and shiny on the day of its death, assumed a more and more greyish tone as time went on. This was quite sufficient fur our man of gen- ius. The shrewd manufacturer of cocks- combs hastened home and set to work to compoimd a varnish which should d». fy the attacks ot time and render tur< keys' legs ever fresh and youthful, la a couple of days be returned triumph- antly to tho market, and furnished the best proof of his success by deceiving tho dealers thetnselves, TriaU were made up<m the public, and turkeys witk varnished legs were offered to the oun- ningest cooks, who, deceived b^ appear- ances, made their purchases without de- manding the customary abatement, aiid tho conversation of the brilliant lustra of turkeys' logs became from that time forward a rMular- trade ; wljicb cer- tainly says little for tho honesty of ths poulterers, less for the judgment ot the cooks, andy least ot all, for the assumed delicacy ot taste tor the Parisian goiu- mand. i*'