The Clinton News Record, 1925-01-22, Page 3tnxiferitto wollt,
,,#Hata` at klZrYiiL��yaaglxrsli rzr of bel founders `
the past tad'' ¢ek'zrtuleers, The price .to bili
11,0cf9x Oze 19y r,ituThe shipment raid' -is stated tobe-$20000 approxi
• Las bran 'et in Oregon mately. The; clock will:be al tie "13i
and it`s,
it the tiitner trade 'Ben"" tvne, and 'here' iaill•b : a ,..111 ..
-with-this dlstl'it may'dave•op as a of lit i dozen
•
resin,,,:of. this,. inti al ,shipment.- The Pas,Mazi,=Preparations are
Sy4i1ey 1 S.-Wh i:e ii<hing out of amide ,Ter the .eighth annual' 2007 mile
Iia' 1thi Harbor'and Rdse to Reau, • non -step lyes'. d lbs vrhi 1 , ie .lc, ,Le
.Newfoundland-, Coast; has cone well h ';,hc ;e about , the beginninb o£
this'seit>on, ,•Newfoundland Whaling FebrL±ry. Nearly 100,riicing. dog.
s
Cornpany two -steamers caught ,o being trained daily and prepared for
gether, during_ the snnimei , ' .181 the silk ?ing grind - over the long
whales, in comparison with 71 in the route The Ninnet• of this- race will
sununer, 8 1921. restive a. handsome cup and 'a1 iso,
St, John, N.B.--Fraser Ceinpanies, of $2,500'. s.
Ltd.. are erecting; -a new sawmill at Swift Current, Saslc,--The second
Quisibis, N.B.; which will have a ca- annual coin show ,under the auspices,
parity of 100,000 feet a day. The mill of the Saskatchewan Cont Growers'
IS not likely to be erected for several Association, proved highly successful.
months yet, but, will embody latest in spite of the fact that the season
features in sawmill machinery. - The has been it disi,incely unfavorable one
Fraser Companies aro also building for coni, growing, The: exhibi were'
a new finishing mill at Edmundston,i of a, high class and 'reached the grati-
X .B., which will be used foe finishing. ;fytng number of 305, `-
softwoods. This 'Well'be ieady to com- Calgary, Alta.-Neailly ten; thou -1
Monet operations in a few weeps.:_ I sand -people have come to Alberta as
Quebec ,Quer---1t is understood that settlers. during the eight months' per
an option' has been take,,en some ,of ,iod between April and November, in
the mines along the •13arricana River. elusive. A total of '6,435 cainec from:
by American interests for a period of • overseas and ,2,809 from the United
two` years. These interests report' States,_
having arranged with the Abitibi Vernon, B.C.,:-.According to figures
Mines and I2ienawascle Mines-repre- issued recently, 563' cars of Biiitish
eentative, and, _state:that 'their plans Columbia apples were_' exported last
call for 8100,000 in improvements, ' If year. Of this number` 267 went to
'the expectations are realized the pro- the United kingdom, '20 to New Zea-
perty'will then be taken_ over within, land, 27 to Scandinavia, 44 to Ger-
a period of two years. { many, 20 to South Africa and 3 to
Ottawa, Ont.-Tilecontract for the China.
Prince George, youngest son of was
George, who is now with the fleet,,,
the: Orient.
WELLAND CANAL HAS
$600,000 CARGO OF'
COPPER SALVAGED
British Captain Recovers Met-
al Lying 318 greet in Ocean
Oft Chili CoaSt.
A despatch from New York says:-
Divers have recovered a $600 000'
clspatch froiri Pan ell
1)'.I3eie{le,tine. Canadian scien-
Iho dzsb ,ly4 . ultra -microbes,
risil,'e'orgari�irrt' that pi cis open -
a kills disease -`germs, .has been
awarded the Leeuwenhoek Gold Medal
by;; the Amsterdam • Academy of
Science.
The prize bah been given every. ten
oars since 1873 in;inentery.of An
,bony Van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scion,'
list of the Seventeenth Century; who'
made great improvements in the
microscope and with it found many
previously: unknown facts about hu -
roan and animal anatomy.
The medal is an award to the sci-
entist who has made the greatest dis-
covery in the preceding decade, and
it is believed D'Herelle's discovery.wili
lead to the curing of diseases by use
of the ultra -microbe, • I
The previous recipients of the
Leeuwenhoelc Medal were Ehrenberg,
of Berlin,. in 1875; Cohn, of ,Breslau,
in 1885; Pasteur, 'in 1805; Beijerinck,!
in 1905,.and 'Sir David Bruce, who dis-
covered the sieepirig :sickness trupan- .
onsome in 1915.
Provincial tlriiaersity Re.
ceives' Scholarships. -
Within ethree weeks recently ' the
University of'Toronto was the happy
recipient of scholarships founded by
donors in three different provinces
Sir James :Adkins, Lieut, -Governor of ' Here is shown the aftermath of a $200,000 fire at St. Hyacinthe,,Que., in
sity, donated five thousand dollars too
Matxitob4, a graduate the Univerwh}eh ;the firemen Delight the flames in below zero, weather, the water freez.
endow perpetual annual scholarships
shortly s£ter-leaving the nozzles: `
in English language and literature in
order to develop a love for the mother`
tongue and ah ambition to use it pro -AT DIVERSION d'
perly and well. The T. a GREAT LAKES® ��
E ton Co.
JohrndEd, Sn, sc olarshi late .Sir HARBOR ASSOCIATION
John Eaton two scholarships, of the tY
annual value of sixty dollars each to'
be awarded to boys in the University
A despatch' from Cleveland Oh}a Ri e
cargo . of copper "which had lain 318 of Toronto Schools Who are in the maw says :--Approximately 300 delegates,
feet below the surface of the sea since ',triculation class and ; who are looking represent}izg about 80 different" 'ort
1869, when the British frigate Cape forward to 'a business career. Jenkins=p.
Horn 'was wrecked off'; .the coast of Bros., Limited, of Montreal, seat • a' organizations on the Great Lakes, met
Chile, according to messages received' cheque for five hundred dollars to pro -here on Thursdayunder the auspices
by the Westinghouse Lamp Co, from vide for Ave ,years an manna' scholar- of the Great Lakes Harbor Amnia -
Capt. Ben Leavitt of the salvage ship, -ship of the value of one hundred dot. tion (Canadian and American) to
Biekeiy. lars to be • Open .to all students of the formulate an official h � protest against
Thedivers worked in high-pressure third year iq engineering. . Only a few the practice of Chicago in` divertingsults of Capt; Leavitt`s invention, and .weeks agc the Alumni Federation, the waters of the lakes by means :of it
with special pressure -resitting , deep- , established fifteen scholarships of the I drainage canal, with alleged resultant
sea lamps made by the Westinghouse value of two hundred dollars (some damage to navigation and other:in-
Co,, which made -it possible, fox them of them two hundred and fifty ;dollars) I dustiies, found that Chicago •h
to see plainly even while 300 feet- to be awarded to diligent students A ` ommittee snhad through ape-
be g ' �, .was appointed at, selected comnritiees of ex arts
low the surface, the reports said. who need them and who are relatives, afternoon session to draft a resoi, tion t p'
The Blakely sailed from H of returned ' soldiers. All of which to'protost against the Chic -prepared ,herr report on ;the -pia
Hampton a t
v d'
r rstr}ct residents, and makes a
wholesale raid upon the Great Lakes ”
Resources Bulletin.
in order. to maintain "a profitable � OU'� BRITISH I �A�N t Natural R 2�1t1% t
water power at a cost of three times
Gum hit 'LC)P011i'('f# i 14 �, wir¢onev-60-1b t atri ,,;11je past' 1'lz.;
Mali izeat 1�0 1 Mirth ti $2.06 tan ,
No 2 Nwori I ., gl ) I5i ; Iv'r Noz'�, Ri ,tans, 1t
8i.94bd 7 No, 4 wncat, $1.81%. e nioked ;,neon li;,rns- med.$ ,25 50
Man, oat,-•-..:�^Jo. 2 ,C.V$., 7Sy'Qe; No. 200; cooked hams 3'7 to ;;3c of "•
CSS%, 75%c; extra No, 1 feed; 73%c3;,rolls, 18 to 2,0,; eat€4:ge ro11s, 21 t0
No. 1 feed 7151e; No. 2 feed, 68%e 23c; breakfast bacon, 23 o 9.70; spe-
All-the above c.i.f. bay ports. sial brand 'breakfast bacon, 29 to 31e;
sons eor'n, track, Toronto --No 2 bacic>, bonel ens 29 to 36c,
yeilow, Cured meats --Long clear bacon,
acon 50
Millfeed--Del: Montroel freights,' to 70 Ibs:, 517.50. '70 to 90 lbs.,
hags included: Bra per ton $36; 905 `3ht
shorts, . per -ton 8; i i` l , in and' up, $$13,0, e v weight
' $3 , n dl nes, 543; rolls, barrels, $ 3; heavyweight
Coed feed dour, per- bag, FvL. t 5: rolls; $27,
Ont. ots=ilio 8• whit, 53- to 55e. I -.P.
Ont. ..wheat -No. 2 cwiuter, $1:57 5r and e ore; tierce, 18 to
$].61; No.• 3 `winter,'51,53 to 51.59• tube, , '21 to 19e; palls: eni', to AOr es,
N$10„,611;
o, 1: commercial, $1.54, to 51.57, Prints, 21 to 22c; shortening, tierces,
p 15 to 1614.c; tubs,15t/et.to 15i,,c•
Eh pprla paints, accoriiing to freights. 10 to 16%°; prints, 13%
to I8a;p
B y Malting, 69 7o 93 9• Choice hes s $
Buckwheat -No, 2, 87'to 91c: ' heavy steers, 7.76 to'. II,26;
Rye -Ne. 2, 81.28 to `$1.33.
'butcher steers, choice,' $7 to 57.50; do,
Matt. flour,• first pat., $10.60, 'To- rod' 56.25 to 57; de, med., $5.25 to
zonto; do, second 'pat,.510.10, Toronto. rod,
torr,., $3.25 to 54.50; butcher
Q v. ekfer9
5
nt., flour-�9D per :cent.80, cho}ce, $0.26 to ,$7.26; da,
in bags, Montreal or Toronto; do, ex- g fid, 56 ta' '$5.50; 40, mod., 54.75 k'
porta 45a,, cotton bags,0.1.2. 5 wn, ando, cont., 58 :to $4; butcher
y. No. :t5:90::11
timothy, per ton, track, oleo,' 54,25 to 54.75; do; fair
Toronto, $14.50; S7o., 8, 512.50. to good, 58.501'5,2515:13.
54; canners and cut•
Straw-Carlots, per ton, $9. tern $1.50 tv $2,50;' butcher bunts,
Screenings-Stand
ard,,reeleaned, f. good: 34.60 b955'
do,fair, 53:76 to
o.b bay ports, per ton; $27. $4; ,bologna 52,5050 50.25; feeding
Cheese -New, large, 22c; twins, steers, good, 55 tP 36:50; do fair, $$4
2234e; triplets; 23c; Stiltons, 24c,,01d, to $5; stockers, good,,54 to,;54.75;,
large, 24 to 25c ; twins, 26 to 26e; ,trip $ $ $11
fair 8 60 te' 4• calves choice,
lett, 26 to 27c. to 518; do, med„ 55 to 59; do, grassers;
•1 Butter -=•Finest creamery prints,' 89 '$3 to •$4;'°znlielr cowe,. choice, '$60 to
to 400• No 1 creamery, 37 to 880; No. 566; :fair cows,' $40 to 550„springers,
+2, 35 to 36c; dairy prints; 28 to 30c. thrice, $70 to $90; good -light sheepp,
Eggs -Fresh -extras, In cartons,. 72.$7 to,58; heavies and bucks, 54,50 to
to 73c; Ioose, 70c; 'storage extras' in $6.25; culls, $3 to $4; good owe lambs;
cartons, 57 to 59e;-IobSe,5G to 56e; $14.50 to $15; bucks, 512.50 to 513;
.storage 'firsts, 62 to 53c; storage -see- do, med., 59.50 to $10; do, culls, -$8 to
ends, 45 to 4'7e. ' 59; hogs, thick smooths, fed an wet -
Live poultry -Hens,. over 6 labs,, 24c; ered, 510.50; :,do, country points, a@9.76;
do, 4 to 5 lbs., 18c; do, 3 to 4 :be., 139; select premium, 52.06; do, fele., 510;
spring chicltena, 2 lbs. and over, 23c; do, off cars, $11.
roosters; 12c; ducklings, 5;1bs. 8nd"izp,
18e.
Dressed poultry Hens, over 5 lbs.,+ . MONTR'EAL
28e; de, 4 to 5 lbs., 23e;• do, 3 •to 4 Butter,, No. 1 pasteurized, 34l5 to
lbs.,: 16e; spring chickens, 2 lbs. and 86c; No. 1 creamery, 8854 to 34e;
over, 30c; roosters, 18e; ducklings, 5 seconds, 32% to 32e. Eggs, storage
lbs. and up, 25c; turkeys; 35c. extras, 52c; storage firsts, 48c; stor-'
- Beans -Can. hand-picked Ib., 61e; age seconds, 44c; fresh extras, 70c;
primes, 8e. . I fresh firsts, 66c.
Maple products -Syrup, per imp. Veal calves,' $8 to $10.60; hogs, mix -
gal., $2.40; per 5 -gal. tin, 82.30 per ed lots of good quality; $10.75 to $11;
gal,• maple sugar „ ., 25 to 26c, selects 511;60.
INCS SOLD TO U.S.
that profit to the commerce of the - The Natural Resources Intelligence
Service of the Dept. of the Interior at
Great Lake" - Six Front Collection of.Earl
C. A. Maguire, former` mayor of Ottawa says: -
Toronto, present at the afternoon ses-
sion, said:
"We Ossnhdians cannot understand
how any American city would go in de-
fiance of the courts and the laws of
the land: We_ were shocked when we
a k g,°e8,to indicate the ted'to
t , the
posed nChicagt.navigation channel be
Bootle, Va., on Jan, 4, 192i•;,axidlwork grawing realize=�. The: pkotest will presented to -the t�veen Chicago _
tion that it IS an excellentrnves The
h go -and the- Mississippi
began on he salt/aging, River lied made it public- '
P c before the
recent Supreme Court decision.':
"The`, people"of Canada - realize the
importance of safeguarding the.heri-
e ane own o a the people in
t u 1,1 tmeet for adoptio , thebe for
t
r n n- -
Eighteen trial descents were made b o assist young men and- women who warded to the Secretaries of War and
n Captain, Leavitt, his son, Harold' and are seeking higher education. ' Can- :State aiid " to ,,.embers of Congress'.
Chief Engineer" . Charles , Meil , adien universities have not nearly, es: As dr�fted, the resolution. op • osestl
Westinghouse Co. stated. In the he many scholarships available as have''McCormicle,Bill:now beforePa 1T0
e arm- sF� al heri-
tage d d d t all
orad (hying suits the men were ableto universities in Great :Britain, but the Senate 'committee, Which provides for ,; the waters of the; Great Lakes ,and
re a' number rs ro we. join w the people inthis•countr
t in scholarshi Pays `..' •-,'e t - '. Y
HIGH TRAFFIC RECORD m In under water from 25 -mi iu g wing steadily. Incest authorized diversion of 1'0 000 cubic
z tea :men b c j with
tl
to 3 idaursnt depths ranging from 79,1 Ps F Y• large div, . e of water, a second front Lalto;Mr inuo opposition
s in the develop
of le sill an thio PP on the stand taken by
e'er t F ,ht depth at which F adees g ugh the Chicago' drainage »
had to. be d in all walks of hfe curial f
Capt: Leavitt according ding to tyle
to 318 feet, thedead
Sees cavies reisrwork •l g ai ago Chicago.
St. one, or navigation, purposes. W" R Hopkins managercity ' f
- e. -V- - ' wi11ia1�ii ,George :Bruce, president of
Business in History —
Lawrence Canals Report
' Increase.
A c
des eth from Ottawa sawn-.
F y
Traffic through the Welland Ciinal
statement, claims to have broken all the association, opened the meeting by
previous redeep-sea a'' charging cords for diving •4 ,� .;��s ;�r,• g< g Chicago•{}vith Makin a.bold
g
by 179 feet, having .reached` a depth l` `$ t v s ,� ;;, attempt in the Balls of Congress to
of .361 feet in other trials.': p i''` a3 {'t sanctify 'theft of water from r ;.. cr f m the
o' - �I
e ief, of Capt. Groat Lakes into an hon
Leavitt ' the
�^�. iiti�•`.�•a;., r��<. �:<<. ,,. est. act,• and
that "tyle Chicago •sanitation `schema a conferene
constitutes the mostgigantic' e .that was said that the tin re was n
engineer- invitations had been extended to the p one of
Ing •blunder of modern times." He said Governors of seven states to send re the most important ertit as recent years,
it conserves the•heaith of Chicago by resentat}ves to another protest meet- seldom, if over, :it was said, y such
menacing
menacing the health., of the Illinois ling in Washington, January 30, large a group of n brought
by such
eminent artists- been brought to this
Th belief in
during the season of 1924 was, the chances fore the success of th
heaviest of any year in the history:,of a pros
that waterway. - Pram its opening hist
year on April 16 to its close on Dec.
13 the `freight carried through the
canal amounted to 6,037,412 tons;
which` was over 1,280,000 tons ahead
of. the previous year,,rnd over •1,1,75,-
000'tons ahead of the previous high
record made in 1914.
The largest increase was in wheat,
which aggregated 2,996,419 tons, `or
99,980,600 bushels, This 'was nearly
56,000,000 bushels ahead of 1923, Can=
edian 'wheat inereaSing'by"24,406,400
pective Ltisitan a expedition has been
strengthened by his trial descents,
when he reached a depth of 361 feet.
The Lusitania" is believed to be up-
right, resting at about 252 feet below
the surface, eight mile's off thecoast
of. Ireland, where she was sunk by a
German submarine during the war.
Hundred Persons Freeze to
Death, Caucasus Herds Perish
A despatch: from Tiflis, Georgia,
bushels, 'and 'Milted States wheat -In- says: -One hundred persons and thou -
creasing by -11,472,420 baskets. Bariey sands of cattle have been frozen to
was Iighter by 87,024 tons, while ..the death - during_ the unprecedently cold
other grains' showed slight increases, weather new prevailing throughout
A new high record was also esfab- the Caucasus. In several cases shep
fishedon the St. Lawrence -•canals' in herds and ,farmers who Went to the
1924, the total traffic being 5,536,374 fields to tend their• sheep lot; Cattle war
te
tons, exceeding the previous high re- found frozen with their flocks.
cord in 1923 by nearly 1,000,000 tons, In the Aiaxandropol district of , ?,, rnvi v
or 22 per -cot. The principal factor Armenia, where Americans of the t____
-Q++•ew M;�y �"`"""°""- -'`"�' Li within Near East Relief are caringjsr;thou-'liar too round these tiny: yoies
Sal this increase Was wheat shipments. The "Mailed -Heft of' S sin, That'
vYet to try°to stand;
Inventor 'of Sailless Shipregisters 32 degrees below zero,', e name sometimes' given to Can----�---- sands of orphans, the thermometer is th
_tai. General- Emilio Bai•rera, -literal •Fon• a while -be mine. alone
Only Shio in the World
Spencer to Go to the
United States.
,A despatch from New York says:-
Six
ays:
Siltfamous paintings have been Pur-
chased -from the collection" of the late
Earl Spencer of Althorn Park, North-
amptonshire, Eng., and are to come to
America. This became known when
it was learned that the painting: had
been acquired by Duveen Brothers at
a; price said to have been: more than
51,000,000. Duyeen Brothers cleaned
either to confirm or deny the report.
The paintings inolude two portraits
of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire,
one by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the
othernby Gainsborough, two other 'por-
traits by Reynolds, one of Lavinia,
Lady Spencer, and the other'' of
Frances, Marchioness Camden; a por-
Cleveland,;, said the big. -thin in his trait of. a man, by Frans Hale, and
Og' the Daedalus'und Icarus of"Van Dy4k.
judgment, Was to keep before Con- These have long been treasures of the
gross the fact that "no diversion of Spencer 'famil and until
water. at Chicago can be justifzed Y , u ti now they
> •. 1'. Williams,' secretary of `the have hung on the walls of Althorn
New York State Water and Power MInoa`
Commission told th Ill art circles oil Thursday night it
Mother's Song.
Don't grow old too 'rest, my sweet!
Stay a little while :.
in this pleasant baby -land
Sunned by mother's smile,
Grasp not with thy dimpled hands
At the world outside;
Tlidy are' still too rosy soft,
Life too cold•and''wide.e,
De not wistful, street blue oyes,'
rind your rest in' mine,
Which through life shall watchful he,
To keep, all tears from urine. -
130 not restless, little:,feet,
e wi bin my hand •
Called Most Famous German , dictator 02 revolting provinces of i So helpless and so dear.:
•
Spnfn In i3arcel
'The Ger
, recent!. to mads 13y-and-bi thou .lust go forth,
mairnewspapersare engag- 300 aiiests fu":bona reeen
I�rilYen by Electricity
ingIliary
9 w patch from,New Yorh says;-
Eggs.
who flew the dirigible ZR -3 across the
The only electncalIy driven and cell- All . Rights Reserved. ' IIr ee was •Iso' Idea t0 find 7ohnn
` ,+ On of tired the ria 1 •' y
- ip in he World ! g, dear. gluing feathers all over. iii. ,
the Cuba, - s pet lot
piaign of, Birt now, sweet, elumber let e,
as stern cam
warm controversy over the roproasion.,
nether ,Dr. Hugo Eckener, despatch I ^'---•-^• �: Acquiring E
1i
'" o as , O :feet -daughter) , what. are you am
• German" of• 192, says. a Bci in- d,c- in le ``She. -(a 'publisher's g•''
n th with` 13 fo.' th - "The leacher
gof be" and i said that thi
Atlantic, or Anton Flettner, the in -trolled sh Ile I have d
venter . of the "soilless ship, , is en-'',arrivedeg it would you like to have
from S P v engraved terrier.
titled taranit as the "most Yon it "
celebrated f t Z
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snatch,' Eckener, `hewerer,Cseems. to ',three Shi resew d''
ee darks, a , as "SVell, All :id5 : ?;,w e .. 1 think' � With` feath - 'r ,
.,
. ..... ,w.,,.. ,,.. el s,lald:&3fia, vvas,7olinnys
have more supporters than"the =man ' �`: - wouldr:be ratlrtrr nice!';,.. i�e`1 :: '
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Dr. W. A. Riddell -Represents
Canada at Opiuin Conference'
A despatch from Ottawa says: -Dr.
W. A. Riddell, Canadian representa-
tive at the League of Nations, has
been appointed to succeed Hon. Dr.
Beland, Minister of Health, as Can-
adian delegate to the International
Opium Conference at Geneva., Dr.
Boland has been `obliged to return to
Canada for. his ;parliamentazy duties.
He sailed en the 14th.
The,conference resumed its sitting
on the 19111 inst.' Dr. W. A. Riddell
was formerly Deputy :Minister• of
Labor for Ontario, 'He was recently,
appointed : resident_. representative of.
Canada at the League of Nations.
He: Knocked. the Tiger Flat,
Little :Toni and his father were call -
Ing on as big game Bunter, and Tom
had been put on the fiber to play with
a tiger -skin rug. He interrupted his
elders' conversation With so many
questions that finally the hunter took
him on -his lap and told aboat•the tiger
g
hunt. rt. Tom returned to the rug, exam
ined it with renewed interest, and then
incfu•i'ed: "How 'dill You shoot" it so
ttat?" -
country. ,
In the world search for `economic
minerals the northern portion of Can-
ada has not escaped attention, As
early as 1770, Simmer :Hearne, one of
the Hudson's Bay Company's servents,
then et Fort Prince of Wales,.. received
instruction from London to investi-
gate rumored copper mines. After a
number of attempts Hearne accepted
theoffer of an Indian chief to"guide
the white man to the `far-off inetal'."
The trip was successful, the outcrop-
pings 'of copper Were found, and
Hearne named the 'river on -whose
banks the discovery was made " the
Coppermine. The river is situated in
the: Mackenzie district of the North. -
'west
orthWest` Territories and flows into Cor-
onation. Gulf of the Arctic Ocean, The
copper deposits are situated at what
Is ltziown es Coppermine Mountain,
spine: sixty Giles front :1he,.wouth pf
the- rivet,. The Scientific ,American,
in reviewing a number of reports on
the urea, compares `it with the Lake
Superior copper region. At Corona-
tion Gulf the, copper -bearing belt is
said; to be • <0 elle and of: un-
known length, while at Bathurst Inlet,
anarmof Coronation Gulf, the area
is said to be 50 miles long with a
maximum, width of 25 miles. "Taken
altogether," says the Scientific Am-
erican, "the: indications are favorable
for the existence of high grade mines
as well as larger low-grade deposits
In this region. We have, therefore,
it is probable,, a region 'comparable,
let us say, to the Lake Superior cop.
per region, on the Arctic shores."
Speaking of the possibilities of min-
ing enterprises
in-ing-enterprises in the northern field,
the late Dr. James Douglas,'who head-
ed an expedition in 1911 to investigate
the copper deposits, at, the meeting of
the Canadian Mining Institute in 1313,
"One has to recollect that for -mttny
years the Ifeweenaw promontory. of
Michigan was out off from all corn-
munication with the market e'tcept
'during the .comparatively few months
of open navigation; that supplies, of
fuel- and merchandise were conveyed
by water to the mines :before naviga-
'tion.,elosed, andthat the copper
cumulated on the penihsula until navi-
gation' opened the following • spring,
The open ahason was of course longer
than it would be in the Arctic Ocean;
't and the climtite of the Arctic is more
an }n Michigan the tli'
severe than an
g , t erniom-
: .
Here ds the,. latest plrotot;raplt of . ete - r. dropping occaeiOtbnally to 40 and. ,.
s 50' de"
'Visc'ount count: Tsuneo' Tees ole
Nlatsudaira, recently. b° h w zero. -Tho fall of ,
appointed snow, h
pp utod';7apaneso ambassador to't}te Prrever; as re rte
,. - � Fo d o the'
t Dea n
United States- to succeed Ambassador se; Rivor,tid£ci not at,
any t}nig ora
tianillara • teed $;feet; and thereyfore,n!n}ng,.005
concentration, end si elfin
• ,, ,. ,,: ,-.: ,g, as .:well
as railway transportation; ,would, not
he conducted;;ander conditions much
more onerous than in the Province of
Quobed, or in Michigan:"
vessel is ;regarded as still being merlePREPAP.!NG
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or less -in the trial stage, while Eclten
er's achievembent „in landing the;
ZR,''3 safely in the; United States wast
a definite accomplishment, • I
Professor Miethe, who :is said to
have succeeded in .,converting: bay
metal into gold, &so is being area--
tioried as a candidate. Dr:. Hja,urar
Schacht, president of the Reichsban c,
who stabilized German :currency, is
facetiously.. alluded: to as the man who '
really ;has been inuch more of a -raiz'.
acle worleer•,than Miethe
Contestant Swims Icy,seine
in 2 Minutes,' 50 Seconds'
One ofthe most novel-��ways in
which Christmas is 'celebrated in,
• Maris is by the annual contest for the :
"Coupe de Noel," the Christmas cup,
which is 'won by the man or woman
who makes the fzlstest time ez e sing•:
the Seine,. a crossing, made not on
slcates, but in the icy water itself.
This year nineteen Swimmers, in-
cluding one woman, plunged into the •
river, ,and in two minutesand fifty
seconds the wiiirer'was_ cliinhing.ent
of the freezing water ori tlic other
hank. 'Fortunately, -for -•those braving
the passage, the day' ,pas compaaalive-
Iy mild and' all those who Sts 3 gid coni-
p5oted the ceu'se. The Cup \vel ;: to a
Swimmer named Dti1ta sy,''who si _t,
victor in Iasi, yea,) C0111,est.
i3 T1'1NG i CAGY-1DO "SHOOT', TNS CI II'9> 'tai Ili `SitJIV •A7 ONIG 9 COFNERS
Scleutfats firs now busy malting pleemettions at Letge Gorno.io, on the Ilnmitton mountain to ole5
serve the eclipse of this sort on-•Satilrday nioin:ng, Jan. 24, TiiC above jjicturt.s;sitov,•, at tho "loft,
Prof. 0,
y,
Ulaaut and Prof 11. Tf, young, of tyle d°p.,i•tir,ent of asWPrnrn:y, tTnft`erslty of Toronto, al iLiteand of .the, for-
liv-e foot tolescepe, Al the top right is Long'[, Dorn ns, nearltyreal, four le lies ..south et Iiamiltor y
where
the dcienilfre rgsetvaf,ioais will be}na ale, I3elrv, is seee rem, ;leiter loa'tl.o scientific irs ti•unrenits,'and the
tooling for the lrlg telescope.
Schools Losing 100,000
Annually in Each Age -Group
A' despatch from London says
The British Board of Education is
budgeting. 4,000,000 fewer children in
primary classes -than it ,did in 1910,
according to Sir Robert BIair.
Commenting on the birth rate, he
said the decline seemed to be continu-
ing, and Great Britain,' was losing -
100,000
osing100 000''' children annuaiTy.frciri eaelt
g. -group,,
Asnerican Waits Thirty Years
to`Purchapoo Treasure
lftei• waiting': for thirty ;years,
James ; Abercrombie Burden, who
placed his hong 'Island home at Cillo
disposal of the Prince of Wales dur-
ing the Prince's American visit, has
had tho opportunity of gratifying ono
of his greatest desires, says a Loudon
despatch. He has become the owner
of the stonework from the two port -
ars' lodges of Devonshire ,,louse ---
part of the coping and ai set of urge
and gateway poste, %Odell guarded the
nlStoe"ion; for many year•;',-