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Show time was scarcely more than 1129. which very probably represents little more thai bis life insurance. Many flowers are eaten as vegetables In Asia. In Japan the common chrysanthemum chrysan-themum is eaten with reltah as a salad. For this purpose orly the petals are used. These are plucked while the blossom blos-som is fresh and are boiled until they assume as-sume something of the consistency of a Jelly. 8alt, vinegar and sugar are then added, and .the salad Is served with any dressing which may be preferred. Sometimes Some-times at a large dinner party the room Is decorated with growing chrysanthemums, petals from plants chosen by the guests are then and there dropped into boiling water, and a salad Is soon ready, tinted with the color of the flowers. Odds and Ends. J An optical convention will be held in London the latter part of May, under the S residency of Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, F. R. The object of the convention is to bring into co-operation men interested In optical matters A sub-committee has been appointed to consider the subjects of papers on optical questions, which should be brought before the convention, and suggestions as to subjects for discussion will be welcomed, it has been decided to organise an exhibition of a scientific Character, of instruments manufactured In this country. England, with a view to show the progress recently made, and to stimulate further efforts. The sarcophagi of ancient Egypt seem to have at length given up their great secret, hitherto supposed to have been unfathomable un-fathomable as the sphinx itself that of embalming. Mr. Berthelot, permanent secretary of the Louvre museum, as the result of long analytical examination of the oils snd unguents which have resisted resist-ed the action of time in tombs of the fifth and sixth dynasties, dating back. 8o00 years, demonstrated that the oil was simply sim-ply castor oil as Is still used In Egypt today. to-day. While oxidisation has produced effects ef-fects analogous to those resulting from the action of nitrlo acid on fatty matters such ss have been observed In oils of the ancient monuments of Rhelms. London Globe. "A clubman who had served on the house committee of a yacht club tells of an odd complaint made by a millionaire member. It reads as follows: "I have the honor to Inform you that I lunched at the club this afternoon and had as my guests three gentlemen, all well-known gourmets. Among the dishes that I ordered or-dered an omelet was served which con- t talned only three flies. As an old member of the club, jealous of Its reputation -as to .generosity of portions, this naturally touched my pride; It was, moreover, embarrassing, em-barrassing, because. In order to make an equitable division of the omelet, it was necessary either to divide a fly a nice bit of carving, as you must concede or to forego a fly myself. I beg to suggest that In future when an omelet is ordered for four persons it should be served with either (a) four flies, or (b) no flies at all." That many oranges were uninjured by the cold of two weeks ago there is no question. The writer has seen oranges and grapefruit that were not artificially protected during the freese, and many of them are untouched by the cold. In the past we have always believed that a temperature tem-perature of 26 degrees, four hours at a time, would freeze oranges on the tree and It has done so. But two weeks agd the temperature fell to 20 or 22. three nights gunning, and Ice did not thaw out In the shade for sixty hours. This was unprecedented cold. The orange trees are alive to the very tips the last growth 1 was aot hurt and oranges Inside the foliage fol-iage were not frozen. Can any one account ac-count for this? Are the trees and fruit growing hardier? Is nature making the trees more able to withstand the increasing increas-ing severity of the winters De Land (Fla.) News. If proof were needed of the accuracy of the Bishop of London's statement that the members of the Episcopal bench, notwithstanding not-withstanding their large salaries, often And It difficult to make both ends meet, it Is furnished by the will of the late Bishop of Worcester, which has Just been proved. Dr. Perowne, who died at the advanced age of 81,.-' was - Bishop of Worcester for. ten years, and during that time he drew 50, WO by way of stipend, and. yet -the most the bishop seems to have been able to do was to live up to Mlcawber's Ideal of keeping his expenditure expendi-ture Just within his Income, for the gross value of his estate he returned at one |