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� taut the New English Dictionaxy con-�
FORWEAKPEOPLE E�-tains more than. tea times as many
NGL!S WORDS pages awn his, and there area great!
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Act On,
the Blood .and Nerves,
Food is as important to the sick per-
sen
erson as medicine. more so in niany-
cases. A badly chosen diet may re-
tard recovery. In health the natural
appetite is the best guide to follow;
in sickness the appetite is oaten fickle
-and depraved.
Proper food and a good Undo will
keep most people in good health, Dr,
Williams' Palk Pills are a fine tonic
medicine, harmless and certain in
their action, which is to build up the
blood and restore vitality to the run-
down system. For growing girls who
are thin and pale, for pale, tired wo-
men, and for old -people who fail in
strength, Dr, Williams' Pink Pills are
an ideal tonic. Thousands have testi-
fled to the benefit derived from the
nad of this medicine. Among them is
Mrs. William Gallie, Hantspei t, N.S,,
who says; "Before I began the use
of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I was so
weak and run down that I could hardly
do arty own work. I often suffered
from, headaches and was very Derv -
ons. I then began the nae of Dr, Win
Hams' Pink Pills and I can :truthfully
say I have found them the best ntedi-
cine I have ever taken. You may de-
pend upon it I will advise other suf-
ferers to take these pins."
You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pith
through any dealer in medicine or by
mail at 50 .cents a bol: or six boxe:i far
$2.50 frozn The Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
Trophies of 1870 Returned
to France.
As a balm to French patriotism Ger-
many has tiredly decided to turn over
a train load of military trophies calx
tured from Iernnce In the war of 1870,
says a Paris despatch. Included
among them are numerous cannou and
rifles amid even the drat machine gun
=dale. The train bearing the; a
phles has arrived at'Mayenee, They.
will be displayed for the troops of oc-
cupation there and then brought to
Purls for an exposition at the Invite
ides.
The French Ministry of War has
not yet been informed whether the
French campaign banners which the
Germans � ns are compelled under the
terms of the Treaty of Versailles to
surrender,
but
some of wlntelt. were ree
66 YEARS TO COMPILE
A DICTIONARY.
Monumental Work of Philo-
logical Society Contained in
Ten Huge Volumes.
As long ago as 1857 the Philological
Society (philology is the scieuce o
anguage) decided to begin the work
of compiling a great dictionary which
hould contain every word in any
anguage, says an English newspaper,
A week or two ago the last word of
he New English Dictionary was writ -
en. Nine huge 'volumes have already
been published; the tenth and last
will be on sale In 1923.
Sixty-six years will have passed be -
ween eon th
a .first approval of the giant
theme and its completion. And what
as been done in this time? Mere
lzan twelve thousand pages, each of
W?lich timeline about twelve inches
by nine, densely covered with shall
print --these are the results ot the la-
bors of those who worked upon the
dictionary.
Half a million words are catalogued
and explained iu it; and the ways in
y
{inane' more words en each of its pages,
Talce words beginning with A and
B. Dr. Johnson -disposed, of them in
127 pages; the late Sir James Mute
ray, the first editor of the New Eng-
lislz Dictionary, required 1,240 pages
to deal with thein ---not an excessive
allowance, considering that he collect- I
ed 31,254 of them!
The Last Word—zyxt.
Sir James Murray gave up his whole
life to the work; for thirty-seven
years he lahcred on his task. Unhap-
pily he did not live to see It completed
f$1or he died six years ago,
And what a task it was! Think of `.
the problems that had to be decided.
There were several spellings of this
word, Which was the correct one?
There were two or even three ways
of pronouncing the next; the right'
way must be decided upon. Was the
next one slang, or could it Tie carted
god Hngltelt-
Every
slt-Every word had to be examined
carefully; its derivation must be
found, and if it had changed its mean -
lug, a history o'f it must be written
white they are used are shown b
means of two pardon quotations fro
English writers of all ages.
A Murderer's Valuable Help.
The idea originated with Archbishop
Trench, a writer of popular books o
the fascinating study ot words. .A
soon as the Philological Society ha
decided to adopt it, a committee wa
formed to begin the gigantic cello
tion,
Voluntary helpers in all parts of th
world were asked to assist; and irons
thelnn came in a ceaseless streastreamof
word's and illustrative quotations. One
s
explained. When the supplement is
s finished another must be begun.
e
SPEAKS HIGHLY OF
BABY'S
t..OWN
TABLETS
illustrated by quotati,,,,.. •..,.-.- many
writers.
The story of the compiling et the
New English Dictionary Is one of the
most romantic in tbe history ot writ-
ing. The last word---"z,yet," old li ent-
islz for "thou eeest -•iras just been
added to its v a t
, s CC 011, but the
compilers cannot Jay down their pens.
They must begin at once upon the;
supplement, In the years that have t
elapsed since the first volume appearel t
ed, hundreds of new worms beginning
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Not a Hoot,
- . "No, your honor, he didn't g
Beating the Paltato Bug. g. loot whether 1 saw hint omni
The Potato Magazine, pub she:l
in the tTnited States, calls attention "11oiv do you know he ;didn't g
to the fact that certain regions of the hoot.
upper peninsula of efiehigan have "Weil,. be didn't blow his horn.
been virtually freed of .:that notorious
pest, the potato bug, by the operations n Saying Grace,
of a tiny parasitic fly which lays its The minister had said glace,
eggs upon teen striped beetle. Grog
hatched from the eggs bore into the
potato bugs body and eat out his in- That's not the kind of grace
side works, papa Sys:'"
If it were not for parasites that prey "N0�",a8ked the minister, sw
upon the potato bug. it would scarce "And what kind at grace does
be ,possible to grow any potatoes in paha say?"
this country, despite all the fernier "Why," said the chirp, "he came
could do to poison the insect with home last uight, and when be sat
Paris green,
Th
at
destructivebeetIe vasorr origin- bdoevw
enast
r th1eYbtaatblae
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pj
su
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.
sa
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`Good
ally native to mountain districts of
Colorado, where it fed on a wild varie-
tY at potato plant called the "sand
bur." It is supposed to have been car-
ried lute Missouri by the cattle traffic,.
and in 164 it crossed the elessissippI
River. In the early seventies it had
cro„ sed the Detroit River and Lake
Erie was literally alivewith potato
bugs, passengers on chips or whatever to play cards, sonny."
else would heep them afloat. They Tensauy—"0h, yes, you are; f
reached the Atlantic yeast in 1823, ane heard mare Saying to Ethel that ev
Lie beaches were soau swarming with Chinn depcitted en the way in w
n
hemS,tich Versl;urnseisberswerethat boardehatchesd by
itad tthemo slte played her cards to-nlght."
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the four-year-old daughter of the
teas look up and said:
ive a !
Typewriters for the Blind.
An. ingenious typewriter for the use
of the band has beeza inventedb lea
y
tale Rovedo, a young :Milanese artisan.
and. Its method is modelled on the or.
hos- Binary but obsolete German portable
printer ltlignon, only a zinc plate ms
'MY introduced coutn$ning forty-two spaces
within each of which is set in relief
eetly, one of the characters of the Braille
your alphabet.
The operator places the index finger
of the left hand in the finger guide,
which h moves s
over h^
l n
i
z c plate, and,,
having found the .required sign, strikes
the stamping lever wi'ih bis right
hand. The chief merits claimed ler
the machine are Rs economy and ease.
hire After two days" practice the inventor's
sightless comrades learned to write
stay sixty-five letters a minute-
_
Mr, MONEY ORDERS.
Mien ordering goods by mail send
eing a Dominion Exprese Honey Order:
Spilling the Beans.
T.omme— "Iday I stay tap a 1
longer?,"
Ethel—"What do YOU want to
rip for?"
Tommy—el want to see you and
eon playing cards."
Mr. Greene—"1But we are not g
oe I Prince Henry to Enter Army,
eYn'e Prince Henry. the third :son at the
bleb Mang and Queen, who attained his ma-
fority an March 31. is destined for a
military career. Although thrust
soanewbet le the back round bin
g by
s on ; older brothers, the Prince at Wales
i acrd tbe .Duke of York, Prince Henry
his Is inemeasely popular with the public.
tie-;' In stature be excels Dais brothers and
Y is fond of sports and outdoor lith. 1n
ing• lmrauance of his irelk:glen to be a
a soldier he weul trough the 4tru1y
hen ` cls. s et Eton and afterward studied
e a " at Sandhurst. the English West Point.
Lest August the Prince was gazetted
the a second lieuteeaut of the ls:,ig's
ddy Royal Rifler and at present is anttaelaeti;
to the "1'h rteenth Hussars at : le er-
Shot,
with A and IIB have came into the lap.-
&nage, and all must be recorded and
the most valuable of these volun-
• helpers was Dr. lunar, the mur
derer, who for twenty -live years was
as inmate of Broadmoor Criminal
Lunatic Asylum:
In 1878 the compilers possessed, no
fewer than three and a half million
slips of paper, each 'containing a pass-
age to show now one particular word
was used.
Think kfa
far a moment of the labor in-
volved is sorting these slips. and in
selecting the quotations. If one man
ad been employed upon the work his
nil: would have occupied hila. for
more than twenty years, working
eight monis a. day. It took tea years
to get the first volume ready for the
press.
When Di Johnson's Dictionary,
which is still in use, appeared in 1773,
ported to have been destroyed at the t
outbreak of the war and the remain-
der In the anti -French demonstrations
in Berlin last year, are in the ship
meet.
Mlnard'e Liniment tar Dandruff.
Surnames and Their Origin
HAWKINS
Variations—Hawkes, Hawkinson,
Hawes, Rawson,
Racial Origin—English.
Source --A given name.
They don't look much like Henry,
those family names; but that Is the
given mune from which they have
grown.
The only variation of the given
name of Henry which is frequently
found today is "Harry" In the Mid-
dle Ages there were many, prominent
among which were "Hal" and "Haw."
This last seems to have been due to a
peculiar twist of the Norman tongue,
which tended -to substitute a "u" or a
"W" for au ""I." It was the same ten-
dency which changed the word
"healme" into "heaume" and gave us
the family name of "Homer," though
later the English speech reverted to
• the "I" and brought the word bank to
'helm" again. It is. the same ten-
dency which changed the whole char-
acter of the French language a few
centuries ago.
From this variation "Haw," of
'Henry, there developed in turn a di-
minutive form of the name "Hawkin."
This "kin" ending is an Anglo-Saxon
element, which has its counterpart In
the' modern German diminutive end-
ing "then."
Then. `came "Hawkinson," at first a
purely descriptive addition to the
names of many sons whose fathers
were named "Hawkin,"but later to
become hereditary and a true• family
name. Hawkins and Hawkes are fur-
ther shortened forms, and Hawes
Domes. from Howson.
NIXON
Variations—Nichols, Nicholas, Nicolas.
Racial Orig I n—Anglo-Norman.
Source—A given name.
As is indicated in the foregoing list
of variations, the family names in this
group are all derived from, the given
name of Nicholas.
This name did not appear in Eng-
land before the period of Norman-
French occupation and amalgamation.
The Normans brought it with them
from the continent, and due to its re-
ligious association with St. Nicholas,
who lived several centuries before and
had become widely known as a patron
saint of children, the name becamie
quite popular throughout. England
about the time family names were be-
ing
formed. That was in the period
centering around the twelfth, thir-
teenth centuries.
The medieval English did not al-
ways pick the same nicknames and
diminutive variations for given names
that we use to -day, but one of their
variations was "Nick," though some-
times it was spelled "Nix" and some-
times
"Nyk" er "Nykk." In one old
document the swine individual is re-
ferred to in one place as "John Nykks"
and in another as "John 111, Nyck"
(that is John "fiilus" Nick, or "the
son of" Nyck).
For the most part "Nyck" was the
variation of the name most popular
with the Anglo-Saxon part of the
population, and hence those who hear
the family names derived from it may
assume an original Angio -Saxon an-
cestry as more likely than Norman-
French.
here's _a .Reason Why
-Nuts
makes a helpfuli breakfast and a
profitable lunch For the `worker who
must be. awake ,and alert during the day,:
Grape=Nuts is the perfected
goodness ofwheat and malted barley,
and -is exceptionally rich in nourishment.
It Feeds bo,.. L
(�y t271�, brain without
=".ax upon the digestion Lg
�� �i. hese a A9
Once a mother has used Baby's Own
Tartlets for Iter little ones she is al-
ways pleased to speak highly of them
to other' mothers. She knows the
goad they have clone her children and
realizes that her experience should be
of benefit to others, Concerning the
Tablets Mn. Fred Murpby, Charlotte-
town, P.E.I., writes: "I have used
Baby's s Own Tablets for the past eight
months for my baby, 1 cannot speak
too k^
i m1
1 ot
�
athern
for they have been
of great assistance to nue in my first,
experience of motherhood," Baby's
Own Tablets are a mild but thorough
laxative which are absolutely harm-
less and may bo given to even the
newborn babe with perfect safety,
They are sold by medicine dealers or
direct at 25 cts. a box from The Dr.
Williams' eIedicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
Wonderful Timekeepers.
As far back as 300 B.C. the Egyp.
tians rased a clock which was worked
by water. The passing of water
through various pipes moved a cog-
wheel with a hand attached, and this
hand indicated the different hours of
the day wells the wheel performed its
revolutions.
Hour glasses, or sand glasses, were
invented about, 330 A.D. They were
made of two bulbs of glass with an
intervening neck. Dry sand placed in
the upper bulb ran through the neck
into the lower bulb in exactly one
hour.
Clocks worked by weights were in
use in 1125, but watches were not in-
vented until 1500.
Skins of uncommon animals, includ-
ing four kinds of pythons, lizards,
walruses, apes, and many ,kinds of
alligators and crocodiles are now be-
ing used for making ladies' footwear.' Min
be battened down, From Pereonet Experience,
afterward much alarm was feltKittle Freddy was using bis fist
lest little Helen.
the potato would become an extinct 'Freddy, stop'" commanded
vegetable in Canada and trio Ithited metier. "Deal you know that gen
States. But nature has a way of deal- roan never strikes'a lady?"
lug with sueh mischiefs, and before Instantly Helen stepped ery
long paras;tie enemies of tbe beetle "They do. too." she contradieted,
multiplied in siteit numbers as to "Why, Helen," said mother, "w
make poi sible its central. did you ever see a gentleman strik
The above.uleutloneil fly. which has lady?"
done such goodwork in Michigan, will With an air of eoevinein,g proot
be colonized in other parts of the little maid quickly relined: ''Da
country, and may solve the potato bug Spanks tie."
problem for good and all.
Unemployment in Great
At that period and for some time
Britain.
Unemployment in the British Isles
is rapidly reaching the 2,000,000 mark,
A
cc
OnY
lin
to
gr Goven
men figurest
pub-
Belied
for the woelt ending April 22.
The report shows a total of 1,774,000
on the wnernploynnent registers, which
Is an increase of 750,000 since tbe pre-
sent industrial crisis began. During
the coal strike the figures have been
rising weekly to an alarming extent.
London and the southeastern dis-
trict lead with a total of 316,000, which
is an increase of 14,000 in two weeks.
The northwestern district conies next
with 266,000, while in the West Mid-
lands there are 239,000 unemployed.
In Scotland there are 179,000, Ireland
117,000 and Wales 100,000.
In the Loudon County Council area
there are 192,000 unemployed regis-
terad, exclusive of short time workers.
The figures include 53,000 women.
Changed H1s Mind.
Jack—"Then you didn't ask for her
hand?"
Tom—"No, when I went to inter-
view her father he was busy with the
furnace. He called out to me to come
down, and after watching his struggles
for half an hour and hearing what he
said about coal, I decided not to get
married."
St, Thomas, Ont., Horticultural So-
ciety, in its annual report says: "War
is being waged epomn the billboard
nuisance and the tacking of cards and
signs upon fences and other places
without permission of the -owner."
ard's Liniment Relieves Distemper
Inventors of Trifles Have Won Fortunes
There may be more money in a
trifling invention than in a big one.
All; about us are new ideas just wait-
ing
aiting to be grabbed, if we could only see
them.
Consider the familiar mousetrap. It
is a simple yet ingenious device, fa-
miliar to every household. Mr. Mouse
pokes his head through a round hole
to get at a scrap of cheese that smells
inviting; his iirs,t nibble releases, a
Antrigger,eand he is garroted. That
little contrivance was the, invention of
a New England Yankee, Anthony G
Davis, of Watertown, Conn., who pat
ented it in 1869. He made a large for-
tune by it.
Grandall, of "building block" fame,
was engaged in the manufacture of
croquet sets. It was half a century
agcy, when croquet was a popular out-
door sport. He hit upon the notion of
economizingcost by putting the boxes
together with wooden teeth that would
fit into corresponding openings along
each opposite edge. Thus their parts
could be assembled ' easily, without
nails or glue.
It so chanced that at this very time
CraudaIl's small daughter was sick
with measles. To amuse her he show-
edher some pieces of lits croquet
boxes, and she found such delight in
puting then together that he was per-
suaded to''adopt the idea for a new
kind of building blocks.
Crandall was a born inventor. It
was he who originated the "pigs in
clover" puzzle, which became so great
a rage. Unfortunately, hetwas so far
Shut Him Up.
Scottish hunrtor-nrece'ntly rerna
Sir Harry Laudereeis generally
and crisp, but 1 as *Old a story over
the
United States. which I think
beat many Scottish ones. A strati
arrived
at a Par
West i.lage, and d
Ing has first walk up the ane street
encountered a young man leans
against the door of a saloon, Iaz
chewing gram.
"Pretty quiet place this," saki
stranger.
"There's a quieter over there," re-
plied the villager, still busy with his
guru and jerking his thumb In the ,
direction of the ralnetezy.
"'Have you lived here all your life
asked the visitor, hoping to carry
the conversation.
"Not yet," came the dry reply.
After that the stranger gave up,
rked A broken heart is at physiological
dry possibilitvy; excess of emotion, especi-
1art ally joy, may rapture that organ.
will
ger KEEP YOUR HEALTH
ur USE
ate
ng,
fly'
the
His Hearing Restored.
The invisible ear drum invented by;
A. 0. Leonard, which Is a miniature
megaphone, fitting inside the ear en-'
tirely out of sight, is restoring the '
hearing of hundreds of people in New
York City. Mr. Leonard invented this
drum to relieve himself of deafness
and head noises, and it does this so i
successfully that no one could tell he!
is a deaf man. It is effective when
deafness is caused by catarrh or by!
perforated, or wholly destroyed natur- i
al drums. A request for information
to A. O. Leonard, Suite 437, 70 Fifth
Avenue, -New York City, will be given
a prompt reply. advt
Storms of the Film.
Maybe when you have seen on the
screen the deck, of a ship during a
storm at sea you have wondered just
how it is done.
Anyone who stops to think has real-
ized, of course, that it is not possible
to take such a scene on a real .ship
from realizing its commercial value during a genuine storm, for reasons of
that he failed to patent it. light amongst other things.
Nobody really knows who invented Concluding, therefore, that it is all
the 'famous "fifteen puzzle." There done in the studio, you probably
have been many clainmants. All that imagine a ship's deck: built on huge
can be said is that it was never pat- rockers with the players staggering
ented and that fortunes were made all over the place while the whole set
out of it. Pitches and tosses.
Rather exasperating is the obvious- But it doens't. Only as much as
ness of many patented ideasthat have necessary is built, It is kept wet with
brought fortunes to their originators. a hosepipe" The waves dashing over
Take, for instance, the Dennison ship- the sides comae out of buckets, and the
ping tag. The trouble with such tags rocking takes place, only in the cam-
used to be that; they would tear out at
era.
the tie -hole. How easy to surround With an attachment between the
the tie -hole with a oaraooara re -en -
camera and the tripod, the motion of
morcement! Just that was the whole a ship at sea can be imparted to a sta-
of Dennison's invention, and it netted -eme y "set" merely by the camera -
him a tidy fortune, moans assistant turning a handle.
The metal ball-and-socket clasp forNevrshrink' from doing .anything
street gloves, handbags and lmacliet wehich your business calls you to do.
books is so faniiiiar nowadays that we
never think of it as an ingenious fn- The man wile is above his busdnesis
ventoh. Nevertheless, it would both ! may once day find his business above,
us himDrew.
THE OLD RELIABLE. TRY' IT.
on Minard's Liniment Co,, Ltd.
Yarmouth, N.S,
very much if we were obliged to go
back to the oltefashioned buttonsand
n,n,n,rv,re,renwlnuv,w+w+H.yrgn W grKr,w,q,r+..a.n
button -holes for our gloves. "
This ball-and-socket' device is the
idea of a clever Frenchman. An im-
portant point about it is, one that no
ordinary person would ever think of, '
viz., the "click." To -be popular, a e
clasp of any kind inust make a sharp
FREEZONE
Corns Lift Off
with- Fingers
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noise whelm elOsed; 1,-,,,,..............,...,",..e.,, ,,,., -
TVlrat could be more obvious than..I Ing cin erns t,•recrclie on an soh
the wooden shoepeg? Yet, quite pos instantly
shortly that corn stops
sibly, it might never have bee:u 1 you lift a right
thought of but for the .go --„sof a'Bos- l offfw llidrugeist It,doesn't hurt'a bit,
tonien named B. 1?'. Sturtevant. Ii druggist sells a tiny bottle of
brought. -him a ,fortune; but he wen reezane” for a few cents, sufficient
crazy, and so` for him the achievement ' `eo remove every n thehat cora, andoth corn,
was fruitlesm� cin corn between the tees, the cal
ai 1.luses, without a particle of pain.
Amerleate Venter Doi Remedies
DISEASES on
DOC DISEASES
s". and How. to reed
Walled BYee to any Ad,-
dress by the Author.
ESC1sy Wooer Co., Sue,
IIS West 51st Street
New York, U.S.A.
ASPIRIN
"Bayer" is only Genuine
Warning! Unless you see the name
"Bayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin at all,
fn every. Bayer package are directions
for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheu-
matism, Earache, Toothache, Lumbago
and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of
twelve tablets cost few cents. Drug-
gists also sell larger packages. Made
in Canada. Aspirin is the trade mark
(registered in Canada), of Bayer
Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester
of Salicylicacid.
Beauty of Skin
Enhanced by Cuticura
When used for every -day toiletpur-
poses Cuticura keeps the complex-
ion fresh and clear, hands soft and
white and hair live and glossy.,: The
Soap to cleanse'and purify, the0int-
ment to soothe and heal and the
Talcum to powder and perfume. t
Soap 25e. Olstment 25 aid sot. Tateee 25c Sold
thtoughouttheDominion.,'CanadianDepot:
11.mAg.Lioitad, 144 St. Pawl St.; W., Montreal,
i Cuticura Soap abavbs without mug,
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