Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4427, 13 March 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

An editor in Ohio lately excited the wrath of his fruit-growing subscribers, when one of them wrote to him for a care for appletree worms, by replying in his paper that he could not suggest a cure until he knew what ailed the worms. A man with a devastated orchard is in no mood for joking. A Mr Bacon writes to the Western Star that a strong solution- of common. ■ washing soda is a perfect cure for burns and scalds. He says: VI hafo tried several experiments with soda; one by, dipping my bare arm in boiling water, and afterwards immersing it in a basin of washing soda in solution. The hot water had no more eiject upon the arm than a blister would upon a wooden leg." A gentleman writes to a Sew Jersey paper ia favour of letting children go barefoot in summer. "I believe most firmly," he says, that their health is. greatly augmented by the practice." Very true, and so are the feet. . The lunatic who wrote a threatening letter to the Prince of Wales was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude by same judge who garea man a week's imprisonment for killing . his sou with a poker. . . ; "Do you know anything about Colonel — ——'s character? " asked a gentleman of a friend. "Yes," was the reply; I believe he was in the legislature one session ; otherwise I think his record is without a stain." . The title of the lesson was "The Rich Young Man," and the golden text Was " One thing thou lackest." A teacher in the primary class asked a little tot to repeat the two,'and looking earnestly into the young "lady's face the child said: "One thing thou lackest—a rich young man."