A Novel Suit

A novel question at law, and which will be of widespread interest, is involved in a case now pending in Otsego county, N. Y. At the autumn meeting of the Otsego County Agricultural Society last year, the bar on the ground was let by the society to one Shumway, as is customary on such occasions. One Simeón Ames, a comparative youth, iinbibed too much lager at Shumway's stand, became grossly intoxicated, and on his way home wandered on the railroad track, was too confused to heed the warning whistle of an approaching train, and when struck by the locomotive was instan ti y killed. Under the civil damage act, Ames' father lias brought suit against the agricultural society f or $5,000 damages for the loss of his son's lif e, claiming that in the letting of the liquor stand to Shumway the association became a common landlord and assumed the responsibility of a landlord under the statute bearing on civil damage cases. The question involyed is anew one, and the result of the issue will be closely watched. - Utica Herald. -a The Parisian hotel and restaurant keepers preserve their supply of potatoes for Winter and early Summer use by destroying the buds or eyes and thus prevent germination. Tliis is eft'ected by flrst washing the potatoes and then placing them in baskets or nets and plunging them in boiling water, where they are allowed to remain about four seconds. Previous to each immersion, it is important that the water sliould rise to the boiling pomt. The potatoes are afterward spread out to dry, then stored in a dark room f ree f rom damp.