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&n a ry of Canada s F t ncia9 Position
A short review of Canada's position
before the tear and its progress dur-
ing the war Will be found Interesting,
Oneida before the lime imported much
hat's thanelle exported, Or as ono.
financial writer hap expressed it:
'Tho salient feataree of the oceno-
rule position of Canada shortly before
the war were the ettorntoes predoanht-
finee Of imports over exports, the fail -
Are 'of the experts of the country tri
expand in proportion to the immense•
amount of external capital which runs
being borrowed Lind upon which
torest had to be paid`tand the oonee-
.quent shortage of cash asci liquid as,
:Sets in the trodsuries.of corporations,'
in the vaults of banks and the Purace
of the public,"
" This tendency • the batiks had, sot
out with somne success to combat
soma time prior to the war, Canadian
imparts for the lineal year 1913.14
amounted to $818,457,174• and exports
mime to $455,437,224, A similar pro•
portion had existed some years be-
fore. Canada was borrowing heavily
from Great Britain for federal, provin-
cial, municipal and railway purposes,
end immense sums of British money
•were beteg invested in Canadian ent
• terpriees. British financial experts
had called a halt in that reaped, little
dreaming that Canada was soon not
duly to 'send her sorts to help the
Motherland, but to lend her credit as
we11,
Canada a Credit Nation.
In eo far as the ilalance of trade is
concerned, at the end of the fiscal
year 1917-15 imports amounted to
$962;543.46 and exports $1,540,027,788.
Of course, the war is responsible very
largely for this remarkable reversal.
Per the calendar year 1919 Canada's
favorable balance of trade was over
$800,000,000. Moreover, Canada as a
nation has ceased to borrow money
from abroad, or practically so.
Canada has successfully Boated her
sixth loan of $300,000,000, which was
ever-subscribedby about $400,000,000,
as were all the preceding loans: s
Although a difficult thing to arrive
at' even approximately a careful our -
Tay of Canada's wealth—what might.
be termed productive value of realiz-
able assets, independent of undevelop-
ed natural resources—gives a total -of
$18,000,000,000. Placing the prospec-
tive debt at $2,000,000,000, Canada
has assets nine times greater. Figur-
ing the population at 9,000,000, the
average wealth per citizen is about
$3,000, or quite equal to the estimated
average wealth psi• head in the United
States.
Ono of the hest indications of pros-
.' parity -and substantiality in Canada is
• the savings deposits of the : country.
Notwithstanding the large suers raised
in war loans, the savings deposits- in
chartered banks on May 31 were $1,-
107,993,070, as compared wii1 8663,-
945,750 on the same.dato in 1914. As
a large number of depositors are of
the class who subscribed to the loans,
this result is really remarkable. There
was no advance made in the deposits
In the Dominion government savings
"'banks.; Nevertheless, in 1917, more
than $14,0.00,000 was deposited, a
sunt greater than in 1913,
Now taking conditions as they at -
toot industry the labor situation can -
"'not be described except as disquieting
everywhere, but it is remarkable at
the present time that Canada is prac-
tically free of strikes, The Winnipeg
strike in May, 1919, threatened to be
a trial of strength in Canada of cer-
tain labor elements. .It was a triumph
,for the better elements in trade union-
ism and good citizenship. Since then,
as the result of industrial copferences
and wise leadership .-in-the unions,
there is much better feeling 'and cer-
.tainly much more friendly relations.
As regards wages, they are closely
allied to comniodity prices and there
does not appear to be any valid rea-
3011 for anticipating an immediate
downward movement of any import-
ance in Oanlida oil elsewhere. At the
Vine the war broke out and for some
time before—also for a time after—
unemployment was manifest in all
parts of Canada. The war itself dis-
located industry and business general-
ly at first, but conditions soon read-
justed themselves. The manufacture,
of munitions, together',with enlist=
melts, brought into requisition every
available -person, including many wo-
men, and from almost the very outset
wages began to ascend -and have
steadily advanced ever,sinoer Prac-.
tieally every readjustment of wages
has Been upward, The remarkable
fact that the increase ill the savings
deposits of the banks has been about
$500,000,000 in four years is proof, too,
that a very considerable percentageof
wages saved was put out at interest.
Canada has not figured in the past
as a country exporting manufactures
to a large extent. The War has ma-
terlally,altered that and the Dominion
Ilan reasonable prospects oe getting
foreign trade in other than natural
products, Canadian agripu]tural im-
plements. will, flnd; a market not only
in Australia and Great Britain, but
throughout Europe. A leading cotton
company, a9 an example; has booked
$6,000,000 of orders raor Roumania.
Other large firms have also booked
Very considerable orders in various
Mies required in the devastated areas.
The immense investment of capital
In mining and smelting in Canada in
Itself insures a large export, while,
(luebeta .ls the sole producer .of ashes•
toe, A British Celunllxia s£neltor tats
discovered that there will he a liege
market for eine, .�
Perhaps the Most attractive pros -
poet In'tbo way of export is in Will
and paper,'In which Canada now lteiiis'
an exceedingly strong -position, Title
industry~ pail had 'a remarkable ,expan-
sion in Canada, In 1890 the exports
amounted to $120. At the end of
Merck, 1919, they amounted t0 $00,
959,165, and this Industry, it may be
statecl, Is riot one wlticlt has been
unduly stimulated by the abncientit
conditions or war, Tho demand, es -
nodally in the United States, will cod
tinuo to increase rapidly and sub-
stantially,. % Well on to $175,000,000,
have been invested -ib the pulp and
paper industry of Canada.,, the pro-
duction et which in 1917 was valued
at approximately $100,000,000.
Revival 6f Business •Activity.
,:(i'liers is another .question which
mast be 0 large factor in the situa-
tion, Will the la industries be able
to carry on with undiminished force,.
now that -war, -demands, have ceased?:
The following opinion given by a
financial expert is 'probably as good
as could be offered on that point:—
L "Holders of securities of Canadian
industrial corporations which produce
steel, cement, lumber, bricks and
other building 'material, and holders
of real estate scurities should ?realize
that dut?:tg the next few years, the
housing problem in Canada will be a
very difficult one and will necessitate
construction of much new building ac-
commodation, thereby , creating a
staking demand .for building materials.
In common with those of -other man -
tries, Canadian railway and transpor-
tation companies, which normally are'
heavy buyers of steel rails and rail-
way equipment, will find it necessary
to purchase largely in order to re-es-
tablish plteft efficiency,. which has
suffered materially during four years
of war. Many Canadian industrial
and public utility enterprises have
postponed large construction work
and extension during the war, first on
patriotic grounds, and second because
the costs of material and labor have
been so high. In addition to Cana-
dian demands, there are the recon-
struction. and food necessities of
;Europe to be taken into account as
well as the substantial world demand
for agricultural and animal products„
for nickel, asbestos, lumber, pulp and
paper and other products for the pro•
duction of which Canada possesses
facilities second to none in the world.
When the conviction once becomes
firmly grounded that present pried
levels are -likely to be maintained tor
some time to come, we look for a
strong revival of Canadian business
activity, -
CAUCASUS ARMY
HALTS RED RUSH
Advance of Bolsheviki on
Odessa Stopped.
A despatch from- London, says:—
The British Military Mission with
Gen. Denikine at the latter's head-
quarters in- Eicaterinodar reports
that the Caucasus army, in the
.1fne behind the Aksai River, repulsed,
in 'heavy fighting, five frontal, at-
tacks, in an attempt, to turn ire left
flank.
The report of the British Mission
says- the advance of the Bolsheviki
on Odessa has been stopped. It also
states that the report that Gen. Den-
ikine has been superseded by Gen.
Wrangle or any other commander'is
untrue.
The statement says the Don army
holds the line of the Don River from
its junction with the Alcsa `to its
mouth, and that the Reds tailed to
force. the passage of the river at any
of the five points where this was at-, A despatch from •dalgaey says:—
tempted. Crossing the river, Would Fox ranchers of- Prince Edward Is -
be difficult, it is stated, except for land want to purchase some of Al -
small parties of cavalry,' because the' berta's oltl and worn-out horses to
roads aro deep in mud. feed the foxes.
•
RE -OPENING OF LOUVAIN UNIVERSITY
' Belgian workmen fixing up new/copper tram lines outside of ruined
library, The Germans tpok away the copper wires when in occupation of
the town,
Facts About
Canadian Agriculture
There are in"Canada about 667,000
farms, with an average area of
seventy-five :acres growing crops.
Much additional area is devoted to
CO'.V SAVES BE'LL.E
ISLE. COLONY
Milk and Bread -Only Rations
For Month and Half.
A 'despatch from Quebec says:—
pasture and ranching, The value of The lig'hthousekeeper's cow saved the
the field crop per farm is, therefore, Belle Isle colony from starvation
52,174. If to this is added the aver- while it waited relief from the •out-
ag•e value of the dairy, meat and ,side world at the lonely island off
fruit production, another 51,000 can the Labrador coact. As long asi there
be added. The dairy production of was feed for hex the covr supplied
Canada is at least $800,000,000, and milk, which, with bread, provided the
the meat production probably more. complete menu of the colony for a
It is rather interesting to note that month and a half. When -rho cow
the United States claims this yearn feed was finished the cow was killed
record -production of field crops.- The and the beef and bread kept the
value placed on it .is 516,000,000,000, colony alive until the ship Seal res -
This includes cotton, corn, tobacco. cued tile^ members of the colony.
But there are in the United States "We lived one month and a half
about 7,000,000 farms of the same on bread and milk, and it help had
average acreage as in Canada, and conte some weeks later they would
the value of the crop production per have found the entire colony dead
farm works out at about52,150. Con-
sidering the great advantage of a
larger variety of crops, made possible
by southern fruit -growing, and. warm
from hunger," said Raoul Bergeron,
one of the refugees who has reached
Quebec with his,tvife and two chil-
dren, and William George Wyatt, who
climate crops, Canada's farmers are was with him at,East Point, Belle
holding their own fairly well, The 1816.
United States Secretary of Agrieul_ The colony, he said, had been with-
United
claims that United,. States crop out supplies since last November,
production per farmer is more than when thek'supply sh ps failed tos reach
twice as much, in value, as the Ger-� them because of the ice and storms,
man, British or Belgian production,' Chances of hunting and shooting
more than three times as much as, tvkld game were_ test `kiecause of con -
the French and more than six tinges; tinned storms, and the colony faced
the Italian. That may hold ell' starvation against the slim hope that
enough, so far as, compariso'n•s'w ih a ship would get through to them.
European countries go, but Canada's Forty barrels of fish which in an
emergency might have seen the col -
million farm workers are producing
an average of 52,000 each. This ony through the winter were washed
compares very favorably with the into the sea by the storms and lost:
average wage of the Canadian factory The gales were the worst in fifty
Years,
worker, The 1917 census showed that and part of the concrete land -
the average factory wage was $775 lag station that had been built by the
and even if it now is $900, `the much Government at the island was washed
higher' cost of living in the cities away
leaves the comparison as to net pre -
fit from labor clearly with the farm Enver Has -Become
worker...
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. 5 }il liWS
New X'•Ray Use.
A neiv and Intermitter: eotaillerott3'i
nee of the Xray whereby defeate 14
materials like steel and timbo;', may
be disclosed was 3118ouesed et ,e 00,
cent' meeting of the .il'ara0ay and Rout.
gen societies 111 .menden, 00002441g to
"Commerce Roper*" a • government
Publicoation:
"IC is oleimod that one obTIQue ap-
p110atlou of the 12 -rays is t0 the ex.,
amination of )neat oastinge for de -
Moto, suoh as blow holes, which oan-
not bo revealed by external inspection
and yot may seriously impair the
streng011 of the finished article, .It
the castings are net too large each of
them May be'subjoatod to routine
testing by the rays and blow holes cm.
earring at regular intervals elImin-
ated,
"Mr, Schneider, at whose plant much
work in radlomotallagraphy has been
carried out, suggested thnt if ,a num-
ber of carbon steel and .tungsten steel
bare .had been accidentally mixed up
they alight be quickly sorted by moans
of X-rays, the radiographs obtained
with carbon being blacker • than with
tungeten steel, becauee_ the rays pene-
trate tiie latter lees freely than -alto
former, owing to the lighter atomic
weight of the constituent tungsten.
At present only a few inches can be
penetrated, but great improvements
have been macre by the goolidge X-ray
tube,' and further advances may be
looked for not only in this portion of
the apparatus, but also in the methods
employed for detectipg the rays after
they pass through the material under
investigation,"
C _
Furs Worth Fortunes.
The statement recently circulated
about a woman who wore a:sabie
ket worth at least $10,500 is not so
eatiaoidinary as it seems, for geeddark single sable skins will almost al-
ways fetch from $100 to $200, and a
robe of real sable, such as Russian
princes used to wear, may easily cost
$5,000.
But the nobles of the province of
Kherson presented to the late Ern -
press of Russia some years ago an er-
mine mantle which was valued at 550,-
006;
80;000, Silver fox skins are even dearer
—at any rate, the price of a single
skin in Paris was at one time $1,250—
and a famous explorer has recorded
how, in Eastern Greenland, he met a
girl wearing a dress composed wholly
of silver -fox skins. At Parisian prices
this must have been worth quite $75,-
000.
• Threat to Britain
Alberta's Old Horses A. despatch from Geneva, says:—
Wanted for P.E.L. Foxes Enver Pasha, former Turkish Min-
ister of War, who was recently elect-
ed King of Kurdistan, has started
a Bolshevik revolution in Turkestan,
Afghanistan and Baluchistan, accord-
ing to a telegram from Balm. Enver
is said to have many' followers and
The volunteer army is said to be One rancher from the little island is directiu' .his energies •against Bri-
liolding' the line from Nikopol to has written to George Headley, M: -tisk prestige in .Southwestern Asia,
Melitopol, north of the Crimea' P. P:, of Okotoka, asking for infornia- the ultimate aim being India. - Large
tion as to the supply and price. sums of money, it is reported, have
Tho fox rancher 'Writes that sev- been furnished Enver' by the Soviet
eral fox -breeders are ready for an Government in Moscow.
immediate shipment of about 100
horses, as the supply of old horses
in - Prince Edward Island has . been
exhausted.
LADY DOROTHY CAVENDISH
Whose engagement to Capt, Harold
Macmillan, A.D,O„ Is announced, She
is the third dltughtereif the Governor-
General, •
Population of 833,267
In Saskatatewan, Now
A despatch from RBC'gina, Sask.,
says: --Saskatchewan's population is
novr: 838,267,' according to an an-
nouncement mads in the Legislature
by Premier Martin, who based his
statement on figures compiled by
the vital statistics " branch of the
Provincial Health Bureau.
Complete Independence
Of Armenia Recognized.
A despatch front Paris says:—Ac-
cording to the Temps, the Supreme
Council, at 'one of its recent sittingse
decided to recognize the complete
independence of Armenia, Georgia
and. Azerbaijan._
NELSON PARLIAMENT
Speakoot-designate oC the Ontario
L-ionse.
There are said to be handkerchiefs
or rare lace in existence worth 51,000
each, and real "cloth of gold, made of
pure gold dfawn into'' flue wire. and
then woven by hand, is only nowadays
obtainable in Sumatra at 5200 •a yard.
Lord Mayor of Cork is
Victim of Sinn Fein Attack
A despatch from Cork, Ireland,
says:—.W. F. O'Connor, the Lord
Mayor of Cork, was attacked by a
party of men while returning .from a
meeting of demobilized soldiers.
The Mayor was knocked down and
assaulted. A. couple of former' soh
diens rescued him from Ilia assailants:
The attack is attributed to the
Mayor's opposition to the election
policy of the Sinn Fein organization,
Lloyd George Gets
Legion of Honor
A despatch from Paris says:—On
the occasion of the ratification of the
Treaty, of Versailles, the Grand Cross
of the Legion of Honor was bestowed
upon Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain and Premier Nitti of Italy.
•
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Weekly Market Report
Wead'0 4h
oronto,' Jan, 20, --.Manitoba wheat
—er o,5 2, 770; 00N,0 119, 52,89;
2r1n 2 9
0011•
Manitoba Oats -No,
0,W., 91%,c•
No, 3 QM', 8790; extra 4o, 1 feet,
87 e; No. 1 feed', e301/4o; No. 2 fee ,
82' e.
anitoba Barley—No. 8 C,W,
81,72'; No, 4 C, y� ,, $1,47?/e; rejected', _
1,34%; .feed, $1,8L36. to *� 1 Pure, -tierces, 81 to 81 ;0
Ontario Whoat--I ,o.b, shipping >a to 82e; ppails, 81s/4 to 82 /a,
NM* -aoaording to freight—No. 1 rims, 82 to 8214x- Count=
winter $2 to 52.01; No. 2 winter, tierces, 27x/1 to 28a; tubs, 28 to 28t,S,a'
X.97 to 52.08; No. 8 winter, 51,98 0o eels. 28x/s to 28$40; prints, 29xg,o t
'1.90• No. 1 spring, 52.02 to $2.08•
o. 3 spring, 51.89 to 52.06; No, > Montreal.-Merkete.
sprlug, $1,95 to 52,01, Montreal Jan, 20.w --Oats, extra 17o
American Corn—Prompt shipment, 1• fend, $Ld71/a. Flour xraw etandaiti
No, 8 ~ yellow, $1,78; No, yillow, grade $18,25 tri 18.6t�, Rolled oats
51,76, bag, 30 lora„ $4,6 to 5.28. Brarla
Ontanio Oats—No, 3 ,vitae, 98c to 45.25; Shorts, $52,25, ray, N0. 2p
51, ,aceordin to freight, p01' ton, can' lots $25 to $
26. Cho@se
finest 0881001 1, 9>40 to 30e, Buttery
choicest creamery, 67c to 671c; dos
g
seconds, 62e to 63e, E gs fresh 90a
do. selected, 68e; do. No. 1 stoel3
55c; do, No. 2 e�tock, 52a to 580. X'00
tatoes, per bag, carrots, 58.76,
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, J'an: 20,---Choiceheat/
steers $14.50 to 515; good heavf
steers, $18 to 514; butchers' catth
choice 512,25 to $18; do, good, $11.50
to $1,85, to $12; 'do„ medium, $10,25 to $f1#
Hay—Track, Toronto, No. 1, 526.60 do., common 57.50 to 58.50; bulls,
mixed 525, Straw—Carrots, '514,50 choice, 511 to 511,50; do., medium
to $1bt,50, 510,50 to 511.50; do,, rough, 57,00 t£�
Country Produce—Wholesale. 7:25; butcher cows, choice, 9.60 09
Butter--Dair tubs and rolls,43 to 510• da, good, 59.76 1c' $10.25; do,,
Y, 39teclium, , 8.75 to $ ,26, do„ oomrnon,
44e prints, 48 to 60c. Creamery, fresh 57,00 to irl,50 stockers,' 57.50 to 510
made solids, 60 to 61c;, prints, 62 to feeders, 510 to 511.60; canners an
63c. i cutters, 56.25 to 8, 6.60; . milkers, goo
Eggs—lIeld, 52 to 54c; new laid,, to choice 5110 to 5175; do., corn, and
80 tb 891c, axted,, $63 to $75 springers, $9q it/
Dressed poultry= -+Spring, chickens,; $175; ehaep, $7,50 to $1.1,50; spl,in�
25 to 820; roosters, 25c; fowl, 20 to lambs, per cwt„ $18.50 tQQ $19,501
22563:
6c• ,geese, 28 to ^80c; ducklings, 30, calves, good to choice, $18 5110,319p91
o $21;
to 32c; turkeys, 45 to 50c; squebs,,hogs fed and watered $17,26 dgg.,
doz., 54.50, ' weighed off cars, $17.30; do., f.o.b.,
Live poultry—Spring chickens, 19 516.25; do ole., to farmers, 516.
to 202; roosters, 2,0e; fowl, 20 to 26c; Montreal Yank. 20,—Butcher steers,
geese, 220; ducklings, 22c; turkeys; medium, $10 25 to $11.50; common,
87 to 40e. $8 to 510; ibutcher heifers, good,
Cheese—New, large, 3134: to 32e;1510.50 to $18;f medium 59.60 to 510,259
twins, 32 to 324 c • riplets, 88 to, common, $6.50 to $9.23;' butcher cowry
88x/ac; Stilton, 34 to 854' old, large,' good,59.50 to :511.50 medium, 56.50
38x/4 to 34c; Do,, twins, 34 to 341440M:59; ca nier, $5.23 to $5.50; cute
Beans — Canadian, hand-picked,!tors, 55,75 to 55.50; butcher bulls
bushel, 55.25 to 56.75; ,primes, 54,25 good, 59.50 to 511; common, $6,23
to $4.76• Japans, 6.50 to $5,75• Cali-lto $9.
fornia Limas, 171/4 to 181/c; Made - Good calves, 516 to $17; good veal,
ggascar Limas, lb„ 159; Japan Limas, $10 to 517; medium, 510 to 515; grass,
Ib., ire. .. 57,60 to -$3
Honey—Extracted clover, 5-110. Sheep, 59,60 to 510; 'ewes, 59 to
tins, 27 to 28c; 10 -Ib, tins, 26 to 260;, 510; lambs, good, 515.50; common,
60-lb.,tine, 250; buckwheat, 60-112.,515.50 to 516,00,
tins, 18 to 200; combs, 16 -oz., 56.00 to, Hogs, off -car weights, selects,
56,50 doz.; 10 -oz., 54.25 to 54.50 d'oz.1518.50; 'lights, 516 to $118; sows, $14
Maple products—Syrup, per im- to $15,
rognmetrumornmwelmalsom
1'
Dorsal gal,, $4,25; per 6 imperial 9191jI9
54,00; nor, lb., 20 to 800.
Pr ovinto;tar•-Mbolesale,
Smoked meats—hams, medium 13
tp 36o' t 0., heavy, 29 to 800; u00jc0
47 to 300; rolls, 80 td 81e; :breal set
bacon 40 to 440 books plain, 49 59
610 boneless 68 to 5l$ .
Cured Meats—Long clear bacon, 85
to 32c^ dear belliee, 80 to 810,
Easily Arranged.
Two Cornishmen starting from - op.
posito places were to travel to dif-
ferent destinations past a common
point. -- They wished to know who
would arrive there first, but could not
think how to decide this.
At last .Tack had the solution,
"There's a stump there, ain't% there
'Bury?"
"There is," said 'Enry, "That's
where we turn and go in opposite di-
rections."
"1 'ave it," announced Jack, "if you
get to the stump first, you put a stone
on it, an' if I get there first 0'11 Imoek
it off."
• A Humble Veteran.
In an' Irish courthouse an old Man
was called into the witness box, and,
being confused and somewhat near-
sighted, he went up the stairs that led
to the bench instead of those that led
to the box, • •
The judge good-humoredly said, "Ie
it a judge'you want to be, my good
man?"
"kb, sure, yer•worship," was the re-
ply. "I'm an old man now, and mebbe
it's all I'm lit for," .
8lgnallingr bye Radio.
Sucoessful tests of railway signal-
ling by a new system based on radio
telegraphy recently were carried out
in France.
Shovel or Axe.
Tho edges of a recently patented
shovel aro reinforced and sharpened
so they -can be used to out roots or
buried wood,
Ontario 'lour --Winter, in jute
bags, prompt shipment Government
standard, 59.05 to $9,85, delivered at
Montreal, and 59.85, delivered at To-
ronto.
Barley --Malting, 51.75 to 51.80.
Buckwheat—Np, 2, 51.40 to 51.42.
eyanitobn Flour—Gov'ermnent stan-
dard, 513.25, Toronto.
Peas—No. 2, 52.75.
Rye—No. 2, nominal; No. 8, 51.80
MADE BOLSHEVIST
BY INTERVENTION
All Russian Parties United
• Against Foreigners.
A despatch from London says:—
Lord Fisher, in a letter to The Lon-
don Times on Bolshevism, says:—
"The Bolshevist army is now the
biggest on earth, and exceedingly
successful. Denildne and Kolohak
are both gobbled up, and the Cau-
casus and Odessa are both going Bol-
shevist, added to which our thrifty
rulers have now given the Bolshe-
vist armies the vast and goodly sup-
ply of guns, tanks, armored trains,
locomotives and airplanes previously
squandered upon Denikine & Co.
"What invariably happened before
has happened again.
"History tells us everywhere that
rforeign ,intervention invariably unites
all panties.
"Imagine the effect of the french
army lauding at Dublin to 'help us
coerce Ireland,
"We should all become Sinn Fein-
ers. '
"That is exactly what we did in
Russia. 'What was not -Bolshevist
we made Bolshevist.
"Bolshevism is an atmosphere.
You can't bottle it up.
"The great war took out the stop-
per, and the determination every-
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Bits of Information.
Dew is only found on vessels within
thirty miles of land.
Lusitania was originally the name
of a large portion of a whole ton of
water.
One grain of indigo is sufficient t0
affect the color of a whole ton of
water,
Thunderstorms are more frequent
in Java than anywhere else on the
globe, '
One California town has provided
,Its fire brigade captain with an aero -
plan e,
More varieties of fish are Lound in
the Nile than In any other river in the
world.
A man's hair :turns grey five years
earlier than a woman's, . it has been
estimated,
A lemon will yield' nearly twice as
much juice if warmed slightly before
squeezing.
On a•first-class'iiner' about 8,000
pieces of glass and crockery are bro-
ken on each voyage;
Music as a curative power was em=
ployed by the Romans In casesof gout
and sciatica,
A dog attains its full growth at th3
age of two, is old at ten, and seldoill
lives more than 20 years,
Buckingham Palace .:servant* have
revived their football club, his Majesty
providing, the,necessary lilt,
Nightcaps of cotton or woo] are re•
commended by it French doctor as
safeguards against colds in the head,
A shark 6 feet Iong was recently
caught by a girl fishing with an ordin-
ary hook and line in Dude Bay, Corn-
wall
The largest coral reef in the world,
,the Great Barrier of North Australia,
.is 1,000 miles long and 80 nines wide.
The lateot speed record for a dight
in an aeroplane is a distauce of 171
utiles in one hour; flown at Jionte
Celia, Italy, ,
The tour of the Prince of 'Wales in
Canada and tho:United States was 02.
iicially filmed, 15,000 feet bolug re-
ing required for the Canadian visit
alone.
Reclailraing the Zuider Zee.
holland has once more taken up tho
task sho sot herself some months prior
to the war of draining and reclaiming
the Zuider Zeo. It is a gigantic task
but one which Dutch engineers feel
competent to accomplish, They are
ambitious of reclaiming what centuries
ago.was dry land with wellpopulated
towns and villages, The project,
.when carried out, will enlarge Holland
by more than 800,000 acres, of which
it Is believed 488,025 will be suitable
for farming.
Work has already been started on
the dant or embankment whieh is to
span the north enol' of the sea from
Wieringen, in north Holland, to Pinata,
Fgesland, This embankment, which
will he nearly .fifteen miles long and
will take nine years to complete, is to
tarry a double railway and a road for
ordinary traffic, affording access be -
twain North holland and Friesland,
and communication with the North
Sea will be by menus of two locks and
thirty-three eluloe gates,
On•eompletion of the embankment,
the four e"reas within are to he drained
and reclaimed (yielding some 827
square miles), and the Yssol and other
rivere will flow into the remaining
water and thus form a reservoir, which
will supply the neetle ni: tiro anrround'
ins country. It is estimated that the
scheme. will take thirty-three years to
Complete, Ind that tho reclaimed land,
which will be tits property of the got/•
comment, will yield c. yearly net return ,
in rents of at,leest $2,500,000.
A ninety 'pound women can work
more mischief with her tongue that
$ 200 pound in3u 091)1 with ids :Gists. .,