Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-05-12
eAsTRoNoMIc GOSSIP.

Travellers hold that cookery is deteriorat-
ing in France, and in all Europe is best at
Wien
IA Chinese restaurant iii San Francisco
now regularly imports birds nests for na-
tive soup.
The Athenians Of old time are said to
have had meal every four hours. the
heartiest at high noon.
In China they eat honey with ham. This
may be for the reason that buckwheat
cakes are not known there
"a raw apple ~ recommended a. "A relief
at night and morning for internal disorders
due to excessive pipe Or cigar smoking.
It is a very old gastrouomic proyerb, but
forever modern in its application, that all
should profit by the aid Of the cook-ex-
cept the aporhecary.
Unquiet meals make i'll digestion, said
the immortal William, " ana III was Dean
Swift who ignored the bill of fare and
asked for bill Of the company Exchange.
The Earl Of Rosebery, doHDtIcss treat
Britain's most eligible widower, wears his
face smooth and looks more like deco
rous young curate than the political and
social parsonage he undoubtedly ~.
Bernard J Smith, Of Beddington, Me-.
recently captured "A full grown cow caribou,
threw it On its back, tied its feet together
and had it earted to his barn, where he has
put it III box stall and feeds it just as il
it was a prize OK.
Senator Palmer dresses almost invaria-
bly, in black, with a cont that IL II c0mpro-
mise between q swallow tail of antebeIlum
statesmen and The Prince Albert 0f men
more recently in public life, and lie wears
absolutely no jewelry.
Sir Robert Stawell Ball. who has Just
been appointed professor Of astronomy at
Cambridge, England, is every inch an
Irishman-his dark hair and eyes, bis mo-
bile checks, full rich voice and ready talk
He was born in Dublin just Iifty-One years
ago.
Congressman Kilgore ~ said To have sur
prised some Of the staid and easy going
equestrians Of Washington by dashing
along the country roads at reckless speed
on horseback and leaning from his saddle
to pick up pebbles from the ground a. be
flew bF.
Ebcn BIaz0, III Porter. Mel, was appointr
cd postmaster of that town ~ PreaidffA
jackson in 1929. He held the Office u
( Cleveland's administration, and now al
the age Of ninety be sits around and
watches his son Amos sort mail in the
same office.
4 Dr. Herbert Vaughan, who succeeds
Y Cardinal Manning a. archbishop VI West
minister, j. one Of family Of seven broth
ers who all became Catholic priests. DR.
Vaughan was once member of the crack
British Life Guards, and in his bearing he
still preserves some Of the dash and erect
ness Of the soldier
John H. Baker. the new United States
district court judge for Indiana, was A
business rival UT Judge Woods. whom he
4 succeeds, when the two lived ana prarticed
law ia Goshen years ago. They were often
\ employed On opposite sides OF the same
case. All through this experience they
remained warm friends.
The Duke Of Richmond is one of the
shortest men in the peerage. He is great
favorite Of the queen, but seldom finds
\ time to 10 To court. Although The race
H course of GoOdwood l. Oh his land and really
Y belongs to him, he disIihes racing and r.
\ grets, it is said, that he cannot pl0w up
''the prettiest race course in England -