Glasgow News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 256, 4 May 1897, Page 2

Glasgow News.

Under the heading of Clyded&le Echoes the Glasgow Evening News of March 2nd publishes the foUowiag paragraphs: — Another butcher weighs in with bis views on frozen beef. Butcher No. 1 Baid it was curious that Hillhead people did not consider froien beef good enough for them. Batcher No. 3 says ha laughs at that, supplying them with any quantity from a shop ia another quarter of the town. A 28-lb " kelt " waa taken from iba Deveron yesterday. On the belt's back fin waa a silver plate with the inscription "1733 A." Later on, the Glasgow Police, having regard to the dog precedent, may follow op the Deveron wrinkle and register the salmonidra of the Broomielaw. An ancient custom called " Whippity Scoorie " was observed in Lanark last night. It seems that the bells in the Parish Church stop ringing at six o'clock on the evening of the last day of Ootober and do not begin six o'clock business till Ist March. " Whippity Scoorie " consists of a big crowd assembling at the Cross to hear the first chimes of thesesEon and of many subsequent refreshments. The Evening Times of March 2nd said :— Mr Alex. Bell now wallops Mr James Steele on the subject of Antipodean frozen meat, and the strife threatens to be as bitter as that on the subject of the missel thrash. An Edinburgh man contributes to the < general paralysis of the non-scientific reader to-day by the statement that "cartain of the papilianaceae— a saborder of the legamenosss— have the property of absorbing nitrogen, which sets np a disease on the rootlets in the shape of small nodules." A respected minister of a certain chnrch had a happy thought recently as to a means of raising money in a dignified way, and in a way that would probably appeal to the hearts of the congregation. It struck him that it would be a good plan to have thanksgiving boxes placed in various quiet corners of the cbnrck, where people who conceived they had some special reason for gratitude in course of the week could drop in a financial testimony of a grateful spirit. Twenty beautiful boxes of a design to harmonise with the interior of the sacred edifice were obtained, and stuck up in inconspicuous places, so that the congregation might have opportunity of being unostentatiously grateful. It now appears, however, that the congregation has had little to be thankful for recently, for though the boxes have been up several months the contribntions at a recent " clean up " had not panned out enough to pay for the cost of the boxes.