The daily sentinel., 1899-11-17
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The breakfast appetite varies strange
". Some perso "s are content with .
cup OF coffee and a piece of toast; 9TH
ers make it the most determined meal
OF the day. Once it was formidable in
deed. In Sir John Hawkins "History
Of Music" is quoted sixteenth century
manuscript belonging to the house Of
Northumberland which gives the break
fast arrangements of the Percy family
both for Lent and for flesh days, and,
oh, how soma Of us have fallen away in
trencher work. Here is the simple
Nor rthumbrian scheme: breakfast for
my lord and lady during Lent: First, .
loaf of bread in trenchers two Iranchets
Il manchet was a small loaf CT white
bread), a quart of beer. quart of wine.
two pieces Of salt fish, six baoonn' d her
ring, four white herring or a dish Of
sprats. Breakfast for my Lord Percy
and Master Thomas Percy: Item, half
loaf Of household bread, manchet, a
bottle Of beer, dish of butter and a
piece of salt fish, dish of sprats or
three white herring. Breakfast for the
nursery for my Lady Margaret and Mas
ter Ingeram Percy: Item, manchet, q
quart of beer (this for the nursery). q
dish Of butter, q piece Of salt fish,
dish Of sprats or three white herring"
At ordinary times my lord and lady
fared thus: "First, loaf of bread in
trenchers, two nanchets. a quart Of
beer, q quart of wine, half a chine Of
mutton, or else chine of beef boiled.
Lord Percy and Master Thomas Percy
disposed of "half loaf of household
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checking, or else three mutton bones
boiled" while to the thirsty nursery
went "a manchet. one quart of beer
and three mutton bones boiled Corn
hill Magazine.
Frankincepse.
Frankincense is the purest Of all In
cense. 1t is gum resin from an Arabian
Jerebinth To obtain this u deep incision
is made in the trunk and below it u mar
row strip of bark peeled off When the
exudation has hardened, the incision Is
deepened In about three months the
resin has acquired sufficient degree OF
consistency. 1t is gathered in large guam.
titles and packed in gog5skins. 1t was
formerly believed that tho trees which
yielded Irenkincense were infested by
winged serpents, and the only way to be
rid of them and to get mt the treasure was
by burning gum styrnx, an odoriferous
L<lsam of aromatic smell Frankinoense
was forbidden to be used for embalming,
As it VAS sacred to saorificial purposes.
The 1slaelites were strictly prohibited
from compromising IL.
Now it is used largely in Roman Cath
olic and high .burch ceremonies. The
thurible is swung, :he incense burns with
bright white flame, the choir chants its
hymns of petition and penitence, and the
song and the perfume rise together.
In the time of St. Sylvester the En-
peror Constantine made an Offering in the
basilica of St, Marcellinus and St. Peter
at Rome of hundred pounds weight OF
frankincense.
The best quality is exported from Africa
An inferior kind is found on the noun
sains o. India.-London Societv
Indian Irrigating TankA.
Tho system of irrigation is mostly
that known as the ancient Hindoo sys
tenn of tanks. The word "tank. " in an
Indian irrigation sense, means storage
reservoir. tank has no definite size.
Its area of water spread may be two or
three acres or it may extend to as many
square miles; its depth may be three or
four feet or 100 feet or more.
The word "koonta" is used in Hal
darabad to signify very small tank.
such as one of two or three acres only.
The words "sangor" and "oherroo" are
the Hindoostanee and Telugu equiva.
lents, respectively, of the word that has
been copied into English as "tank. F"
Down every valley stream must flow
In the rainy season, it's size depending
upon the area Of the ground that drains
into it. A small stream is feeder, or
one of several feeders, to larger
stream, whose drainage area is the to.
tai of those of its small stream feeders
The larger stream is again, but feeder
to one still larger, and SO on till the
great river is reached that carries the
water from the whole accumulated
drainage areas to the sea. In each little
valley, in each larger valley, in each yet
larger valley again, one or more tanks
san be constructed, and thus the drain
age area supplying tank may vary
from less than one square mile to lOe
square miles.-George Palmer IN Engi'
neering Magazine.
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rhs kioh Chief of the Comanches.
Quanah Parker, the big chief of the
Conanches, who was enormously reported
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