Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — LONDON’S NEW LORD MAYOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LONDON’S NEW LORD MAYOR.

Mr. Stewart KnUl Has Been Formally Received In the House of Lords. In accordance with custom Baron Hershell, the Lord Chancellor, received Stewart Knill, the Lord Mayor-elect, in the House of Lords. The Lord Mayor was accompanied by other city officials. The Lord Chancellor commented on the opposition made to the Lord Mayor’s election on account of his creed and said that the time was past when a Catholic was debarred from holding office. The creed in which a man believed was now no barrier to privileges, rights and honors. The new Lord Mayor-elect of London belongs to a branch of the old Catholic family of the Knills, for centuries rooted in Herefordshire. His father was the architect of his own fortunes, and in time became a wealthy wharfinger. His. distinguished son was born in 1820, was educated at Blackheath school add the University of Bonn. He joined his father in his business of wharfinger, which is now his own, but in the description of his style he is named as “citizen and goldsmith.” He is in the commission of peace" for the city of London, and is a magistrate of Kent. He is a stanch conservative. His election created a nd-popery storm, in consequence of his refusal to promise that he will be present at the services at city churches and at St. Paul’s Cathedral, which it is customary for the Lord Mayor to attend. It has been felt in unprejudiced circles that the newly elect has behaved in a straightforward and manly manner, and that, while preserving

to himself his freedom of action in the matter of religious observance he will also observe the traditional liberties of the great city over which he will hold civic sway. A Fea-tato. “I’ll tell you a queer experiment a neighbor of mine made with a pea and a potato,” said James A. Hegler, of Sunny South, Ala. “Simpson isn’t a farmer, nor a horticulturist, nor yet a ‘grafter.’ He works in a small foundry in our town and is a core-maker by trade. That fellow is always scheming around with one thing and another, trying to invent something. I was looking over his garden fence one day last spring, while Simpson was planting potatoes, and he came up to where I was standing, holding a potato in his hand. “ ‘See this potato?’ he said. *1 said ‘Yes.’ “ ‘Well, said he, ‘l’m going to get a pea and force it into the heart of this potato. Then we will watch it and see how it comes up.’ “He took a pea out of his pocket, pushed a hole into the potato with his lead pencil and then pushed the pea into the center. Then he took the potato to the center of the garden and planted it. For months I visited that garden daily and watched the growth of that ‘pea-tato.’ It came up a most remarkable plant. I can hardly describe it to you. It was a commingling of the two, with the potato dominating the pea. Tho potato plant looked like a sweetpotato vine and ran aloqg the ground, throwing out shoots that took root. The flower of the plant was not the ordinary cream yellow one of the potato. It was a mixture of the same shape as the daisy, with white, yellow, and pink petals of a very pale hue. The fruit of the plant was much like the ordinary potato, onlj’ it was much smaller, with a skin of a cream color. It did not taste much different from the ordinary potato, although there was just a smack of pea soup about it The plant flourished well enough and did not require much care. Simpson says that ftext year he will plant several rows in that manner, as he seems to prefer the new kind to the old. I rather think that the new plant is a good one, although some other vegetable might do better.”

Curiosity ot instinct. The owner of a large poultry farm in Western Newt York lost several dozen bens in the course of a single week, under circumstances indicating the presence of rats, bub.was unable to catch more than two or three specimens of the wily rodents. The depredations continued, and at last he procured a ferret, but was warned to watch it well, as an uncaged pet of that sort would clean out his entire establishment in a couple of nights. Not wishing to run that risk, he did not slip the ferret at all, but kept it in a wire box, which he placed in a corner of the brood-house. The mere scent of their dreadful foe sufficed to drive away every rat of the neighborhood. The ferret panic seemed to spread to adjoining .buildings, and the rodents emigrated en masse. Yet not one of the fugitives could possibly have known the significance of the impending danger from personal experience; their alarm must have been the result of an instinct derived entirely from hereditary transmission. Paper Teeth. Among the many remarkable inventions at the late paper exhibit at Berlin was a set of paper teeth, which were made in 1878 by a Lubeck dentist. They have been in use for 14 years and are in first class condition. Diamonds from Meteorr. A German scientist claims that all diamonds come from meteors. Soldiers in Europe, More than 18,000.000 men stand ready for war in Europe.

LORD MAYOR KRILL.