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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-12-05, Page 6i7 FROM MERCY 010 E LttU NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN ]HULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences to the Land Tont [. Reigns Supreme in the Coin- uhercial World. The Post Office makes £10,000 a year on issued postal orders that are not cashed. Liverpool, with 99 people to the acre, is the most thickly populated city in England. Ten persons are on an average run over and killed in the streets of London every week. The longest word of usual occur- rences in the English language is i'inc omp rehen sibil ities, " The Royal Navy loses 2.5 per 1,000 men drowned yearly, while the merchant service loses 10 per 1.000. No fewer than 14,000 claims for old -age pensions have been rejected by the London Pensions Committee. A memorial drinking -fountain is to be erected in Ballahouston Park to the memory of the late Lady Primrose. God has so made the British Em- pire that it cannot be •destroyed ex- cept by ourselves.—Mr. Norman .Angell. Since 1900 the production of beef in the United ingdom has been de- creasing, and is now about 33,000,- 000 standards barrels annually. Threadneedle Street, in London, is supposed to have gained its name from the Three Needles used as the sign of the Needlemakers' Com- pany. It is calculated that in large ocean steamers like the Campania more than 3,000 articles of glass and china are broken on every Toy - age. During last year the tramways of Great Britain earned over 3,127,- 000.000 passengers, or about seven- ty times the estimated population of the country. It is much harder, says the Bishop of Carlisle, for a rich man to to be good than it is for a poor man to be good. Some of our rich- est 'men are amongst the very worst of men. The new trains that are now run- ning on the Great Western Railway between Paddington and Windsor are claimed to be fireproof. -The carriages are built of steel, the only wood being the footboard, and this has been specially treated to make it non -inflammable. The flooring is of asbestos. The death is announced of Sir Wm. Henry Preece, author of many works on telegraphy and telephony, and who was engineer -in -chief and electrician to the Post Office for years. England is importing much hon- ey from West India Islands and the United States, the home supply be- ing short, owing to the continued prevalence of a tee• disease known as the "Isle of Wight." I)r. J. B. Simpson, of Bradley Hail, Wylam, near Newcastle, who a year or two ago gave £10,000 for the erection of the King Edward VII. School of Art at Armstrong College, Newcastle. has sent cheques totalling £10.000 to 47 charitable institutions in Tyneside. Sir Thomas Lipton made an at- tempt recently to purchase Sul- grave Manor, the family home of George Washington's anoestors in England, with the intention of tak- ing it apart and having it set up again stone by stone in the United States as his gift to America. The cost of London's municipal administration compares not unfav- orably with that of many of the minor European States. From the local taxation returns for 1911-12 just issued it appears that the to- tal receipts of the 86 local authori- ties in whom the administration of the metropolis is vested amounted to the enormous sum of £24,521,476, of which the London County Coun- cil received nearly £14,000,000, the Corporation. of London £1,376,000, the 28 Metropolitan Borough Coun- cils £5,250,000, and the 31 Boards of Guardians £3,249,000. The to." tal expenditure of all these bodies was about one and a quarter mil- lions less than the income. Educa- tion cot fully £5,000,000; high- ways; by Idges, tunnels, etc., £1,- 683,000; police and police stations, 402,094,000; poor relief, £2,819,000; tramways, L1,487,000, and parks and open spaces nearly £200,000. Several white mon hate married Esquimau women, but the only case of a. white woman marrying an Es- quimau is that of Miss Eillen Groth, a pretty Danish girl, who recently left her native home. • in Copen: hagen for IJpernavik, Greenland, where she will be married. SP'ARKLING EYES AND RUBY LIPS The Birthright of Every Girl With Rich, Rod Blood, The sad eye that goes with blood- lessness is a, sure •sign Of misery and weakness. Anaemic --that is blood= less.—=girls and women have dull, heavy eyes with dark lines under- neat'h. The eyelid is pulled down, looks pale and bloodshot inside. This is not all. Anaemia works. havoc all through the system; girls grow painfully weak and irritable; they are breathless and incapable of much exertion, while older wo- men Who are anaemic complain of being "never really well." There is only one way to brighter, better health foe pale, pining girls and women. That way is to invig- orate the body with new blood—the rich, healthy blood that imparts strength, cleanses the system of all impurities, and restores the bright eyes and red lips of perfect health. Thousands of girls and women know that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People make this new, rich, red blood, and so restore health and strength more surely than any other medicine known. There would not be an anaemic woman or girl in the land if those suffering from this condition would give Dr. Williams' rink Pills a fair trial. That is why .so many recommend these pills to their suf- fering sisters. Mrs. R. B. Keith, Steeves Settlement, N.B., says :— "At the age of 13 my daughter Sadie began to • complain of con- stant headaches, and clid not have her usual good appetite. I went to a doctor and got some medicine, but it did not help her, and finally she had to discontinue going to sche.ol. She seemed to be growing weaker every day and wanted to lie down all the time, and would continually complain of being tired. The doctor gave her another bottle of medicine, but with no better results. There was not abit of color in her face or lips., and I was afraid she was going into adecline. A friend who was in to see her said "if she was eny child I would try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills," and I decided I would take the advice. In a couple of weeks we could see a difference, as her eyes looked brighter, and she would try to eat a little. When she began the pills she could not dress herself alone, but little by little her strengthcame back until she could,go for awalk. She continued the use of the Pills several months with the result that she was again strong and active. This was over two years ago, and she has been a, strong, healthy girl ever since. We have since used the pills for other purposes and find them a 'good family medicine." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all medicine dealers, or will be sent by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. • France has 2,000,000 childless homes. So clear yoacasusee through it: The snt y see it y will Want it It is crystal clear --a pure, translucent green, the shade of violet leaves. Everywhere that this soap has been brought out, the demand for it has been in- stantaneous. Every person who sees it wants it. You, too, will want it. There are many other reasons why you will like this soap; its fragrant odor of fresh.cut violets, its instant lather even in the hard- est water; the glycerine in it, the iinest skin food there is. rtom. �m ''vHF ��'(f Y ts'��hh�9W�N�� 11 •prq Glycerine Soap 2Oc a cake. 3 cakes for 25e Got a quarter's worth Canadian druggists from coast to ooast,teato Una itis soap. Ash yours for 0. For a satanic cake, send 2e Rump to ilio Andrew jetg ei Co. 1,i,l 65borbrooko.Street, Pettit, Ontnrlo, Doings in Europe. Folncar° Visite r Natitaaallat• and Foot from Presidentpai�v sited@ Ieur r%'abr,e at�Tgeri g nen. The aged naturalist sat in his gar, den, The President, standing, called Binz beloved and great'anaeter, and said;, ""You have given so passionate attention to the study of the humblest creatures that in the smallest thins' you have shown us very great ones, and at even,'Page of your work we feel a sensation o! looking into the infinite." name was so . moved that he could not rforeplyhim,. Hie nephew thanked the President M, Poinca.re aleo visited Frederic .3116. tral, the famous poet of Provence, living of the village of Maillane. The •poet read an address to the President, .who in re. plying quoted Lamartine. who fifty ye;re ago acclaimed Mistral as another limner. Both Mistral and his wife wept, and when the President finished Mistral threw han. self into hi. Poinoare's arms and embraced him. Portuguese Royalist Killed. A grim incident of the rising in Porth. gal was narrated by a French sculptor 3p a Paris paper. A peasant's cart filled with straw drew up at the Spaniah-Portugueee frontier. The, offioials glanced into it; one, to satisfy himself, thrust his sword several tunes among the bundles. "Pass on," he said carelessly. An instant later he uttered an exclamation of horror.; Blood wen trieidiing from the straw. The driver sprang from the cart and. fed, followed by revolver ehots from the customs officials. Overturning the :cart the officials found beneath the straw . a dead man. The sword h'd passed through his heart ae he lay hidden. He. was a Royalist leader, trying to smuggle .him- self into Portugal for the riaine. You Live Longer In Bulgaria O01cial statistics just issued show despite her email 'population Bulgaria possesses by far the greatest number et centenarians of all the countries • of Europe. Among her 4.500,000 people there are 3893 persona of at least 100 years of age Other countries return the following figures: Roumania, 1,074 centenarians; Serval, 573; Spain, 410; France, 213; Italy, 197; Thug. land. 92; Ruesia, 89; Germany, 76; Nbk. way, 23; Belgium, 5; Denmark, 2, and Switzerland, 0. The longevity of the Bulgarians is sup. nosed to be associated with the eating of jaurt,' a sort of solidified sour milk or curd, obtained by fermentation. Test for Farm Machinery. M. Ciementel, the French minister of Agriculture, has decided to institute a monster agricultural competition lasting three years, which is to determine . the merits of the various French agricultural machines run by steam, oil, or other en- gines. The competition -will take place at the agricultural school at Grignon and will be ,fudged by a jury of agricultural experts from the French agricultural societies. A detailed report will be drawn up from the point of view of economy, as well as re- sults, which is likely to give impetus to the movement in favor of motor agricul- tural in France. The nee of motor machines Is especially marked in the neighborhood of Meaux and Soissons, where fourteensections of the district are using motor machines on' the co-operative system. Losing Weight by Science, . Mme. Emmy Destinn, the opera &lager, of Berlin, has been reducing her •sa;„ivt}t by the potato cure, by -means of which' a" friend of hers lost fifteen pounds in a month without injury. Their diet is the followitag: Tea or coffee without auger, one dry roll and fruit ad lib. in the morning; for luncheon no soup, light fish, fits large potatoes in their skins, no butter, but sar- dines or anchovies and whatever vege- tables you like, fresh but uncooked fruit and no dessert; at 5 o'clock, fruit the same as at noon and two potatoes instead of Ave. After keeping this up for •eight days' drop it for three and "then take it up again. Giant Aqueduct for Italy. Rapid progress is being made with the gigantic Apulian - aqueduct which will carry the water from the springs of the River e in ttP nigt hrough he Appennies to the southern end of Italy, distributing it over a territory of nearly 12,000 square miles, with about 2,500,000 inhabitants. The quantity of water available at the springs is stated to be about, 1,200 gallons per second, or over 103,090,000 gallons every twentyhours. The estimatedat825,00,Te length • the main pipe line will be 125 miles, in ad dition to which there will be several hun- dred miles of side lines. Saw Army of Napoleon. unearthed viler lage of Dorf mowo, in the district of Meseritz, Prussian Poland, an old woman who can prove by lindens able official papers that she was 120 years` old on Oetober 15, She is doubtless the. only living person in Germany who aa tually saw Napoleon's army march, through on its way to Moscow• tater elle saw the Russian Cossacks cross the front- ier chasing the French back. $edwig Stavne was born at Plesch.en, on the Rua - elan frontier, on October 16, 1704,. the daughter of a email innkeeper. Hedwig remembers, therefore, the passing of Terome'e right, wing of the Grand Army: She ears the troops behaved very well, but "the beggars wouldn't eat black bread," and ger mother killed geese and chickens for them. On the other hand, she remem. ben with terror the passing of Oossacke. Her father fled with all his cattle into -a neighboring forest to escape them, and for days Hedwig carried food to her father there. Use of Alcohol In France, • The French ministry of flnance.has just published sone interesting statistics con- cerning the production and use of alcohol' in France. The total production in 1912 was 87,440,420 gallons, as compared with 63,797,165 gallons in 1911. In spite of this enormous production, France received from foreign countries 4,913,571 gallons of pure aleohol and liquors. On the other hand, there was a total export trade of 8,- 321,370 gallons. Wedding Gifts In Miniature, A pretty eastern ,tae been introduced, at recent weddings in Paris. Miniature re., produetiozas of the presents that are too big to bo shown at the reception are placed among the other gifts. Thus at a reeent reception there was a tiny motor ear, an accurate model of a villa which had been presented to the bride and bride• groom, and a delicate roproductidn of's grand piano. Chili has wom:eii street -oar con. du ctors. Husband (at the Police Station) ,They say you caught the fellow who robbed our house nigbe before; list. Sergeant—Yes. Do ou want to see pini. HusbandeeSure 1 I'd like to talk to him. `I want to know how he got in without waking my wife. I've been trying to d that for the last twenty years. NOTES OF SCIENCE China now has 34 electric light plants and plans to add to the list, Beeswax and turpentine, mixed into a paste, effectively clean bronze. Rolland'& production of. • potato -flour is increasing rapidly from year to year. The German village of Rembor0 has a linden tree which is said, to be more than 1,200 years old. 13y the addition of magnets and an oxide an extremely elastic glass has been brought out in France. X-ray apparatus has been invent- ed for killing the tiny parasites that eat small holes in leaf tobacco. There are 80 plants in the United Kingdom for the conversion of municipalities' garbage into electric power. A complete cooking outfit for campers, folding compactly enough to be carried in a coat pocket, has been invented. An Australian has been granted a United States patent kr a pro- cess for transplanting living hair upon bald heads. Japan's rice crop this year is esti. mated at nearly 263,934,000 bushels, a 1,000,000 -bushel increase over last year, Recently deciphered inscriptions on Egyptian monuments indicate that artesian wells were bored as far back as 1400 B.C. A curious tree of the tropics, the matapalo, grows only with the aid of another tree, which it gradually envelops and kills. The Khedive of Egypt is an en- thusiastic electrician and uses elec- trical appliances wherever possible in his palaces and yachts. Motor lifeboats carried by one of the newer trans-Atlantic liners are equipped with wireless apparatus having 200 miles radius. All previous shipbuilding records on the Clyde were exceeded in the nine months ending with Septem- ber, 193 vessels having been launch. ed. Experiments on the Philippine island of Mindanao seem to indicate that the finest qualities of rubber can be produced there profitably. The granite statue of King Ed- ward VII. recently dedicated at Aberdeen is believed to be the first granite statue of a ruler erected since the days of the ,Pharoahs. Amsterdam is considering the conversion of the 140,000 ton of combustible street refuse that is gathered every year into fuel bri- quets for boilers. Chinchillas, valuable fur -bearing animals which inhabit high mount- ains in .Chili, have been imported into England for breeding experi- ments on a farm. WIFE WON. Husband Filially Convinced. . Some people are wise enough to try new foods and beverages and then generous enough to give oth- ers the benefit of their experience. A wife writes : "No slave in chains, it seemed to me, was more helpless than I, a coffee captive. Yet there were in- numerable warnings—waking from a troubled sleep. with afeelingof suf- focation, at times dizzy and out of 'breath, attacks of palpitation of the heart that frightened me. • (Tea,is just as injurious as ooffee because it contains caffeine, the same drug found in coffee.) "At - last my nervous system wa,s so disarranged that my physician ordered 'no more coffee.' I capi- tulated. "Determined to give Postum a fair trial, I prepared it according to directions on the .pkg., obtaining a, dark brown liquid with a rioh snappy flavour similar to coffee. When broom and (sugar were added, it was••not only good but delicious, "Noting its beneficial effects in me the rest of the family adopted it' --all except my husband, who would not .admit that coffee hurt him. Several weeks elapsed during whish I drank Postum two or three times a day; when, to my surprise, my htrabalxl said: `I have decided to drink Posture Your improve- ment is so.apparent—you have such fine color—that I propose to 'give oedib where credit is due.' And nawwe aro coffee -slaves no longer,• r' Nta,m.a` given by Canadian Postuni ;;Co., Windsor, • Ont. Read 'The Road to `Vttellville," in pkgs. Postum now comes in two forms Regality Poetuni--mu'st be boiled. Itistant I ostilni is a soluble pow- ders .A, teaspoonful dissolves quick- ly in a sup of hot water and, with cream and sugar., makes ndelicious beverage, instantly. Grocers ;sell both kinds. "There's a Reason" for ..1 O9tU111, a110141 i'041 tRetl' i COMMar,'NI1) READ THE LABEL 'OR THE PROTECTION OF THE CON- SUMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE IS THE4AYONLY WELL- KNOWN .MEDIUMPRINTED ON THE LABEL. - PRICED BAKING POWDER MADE IN CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS LTHE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL. Now�v'� . MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM 1S SOMETIMES REFERRED TO ' AS 'SUL- PHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUy11Nic SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES, E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMIT -ED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT. ~MONTREAL il ._urr71.. Li _i_u_ 1Til r7iTr,Ttit,,,,, e„rTT jrIT,= ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN The women of China,, India and Persia, still wear pantaloons. Women journalists in the United States number 2,193. All the public positions in Frois- ay, France, are `held by women. • Society women in Paris are wear- ing wigs to match their costumes. Queen Wilhelmina is an astrono- mer. There are 269,000 more women than men in London. New York City has aservant maids' club with 20 members. Aocording to statistics a woman loves strongest at the age of 30. Of the 200 women chemists in England twenty own their own business. There are 16,000 working girls in Philadelphia who are living in fur- nished rooms away from home. TxMrs. Rosa, Lehn of Appleton, Yy'is., recently paid a fine of $21.80 for gossiping. Ninety per cent. of the teachers in the public ,schools of Philadel- phia. are women. The Duchess of Portland has been appointed mistress of the robes by Queen Mary of England. The town of Mentreau-les-Mines, France, has a birth rate of only one per 1,000. .London has a hotel which is ex- clusively for the use of children and run by a woman. During the war in Albania the .women fought aide by side with their husbands. Premier Asquith of England em- ploys a. woman secretary in addi- tion to the men who are on his staff. As a result of a dispute at a meeting in connection with the election campaign in Italy, two wo- men fought a duel. In recognition of her talent, Mme. Chaminade, the well-known composer and pianist, hall been decorated with the Legion d'Hon near. Quite a number of women were awarded prizes by the Carnegie hero fund commission, which has just given out over $100,000 in prizes. Two sisters, Clara and Clarissa Pritchard, who are twins, auocess- fully passed examinations as mem- bers of the bar at Albany, N.Y. Out of the 30,000,000 or more wo- men in the United States there are nearly 2,000,000 in business, or one in every fifteen. The present generation of women are taller by 1% inches than their grandmothers, whose average height was five feet 1X inches. English society has become mad over the tango, and even Queen Mary is said to have permitted her daughter to learn the steps. Russia's women have taken vio- lently, to sport and aspire to lead all Europe both physically and mentally. Raine has it bureau for the care of wives and children of men who have gone to America and who can- not or do not :send back funds to support their families. Miss Edith Pierce, Philadelphia's only woman street inspector, is making a tour of the city address- ing housewives on how to help to keep the city clean. • Miss Ina Shepherd hats charge of the clearing=house at Birmi:egham, Ala., and is probably the first wo- man in the United Stages to hold such a,position, • S:cotlan,d Yard has two women as- sisting in the work of the convict supervision office, where they have shown that they are equal •to the men in tact and firmness. Of the 11,043 women employees in the factories of Christiania, Nor- way, 1,669 are married, 7,501 above eighteen years of age, 1,234 bo- tween sixteen and eighteen, and 639 fromtwelve to sixteen. Mrs, Frederick Penfield of Phila- delphia, will probably pay a larger income tax than any titled or un- titled woman in Europe or this country. Her income is estimated to beno less than $2,500,000 a year. 3• MAKING _± WILL. Have you made your will ? If not, why not do it now. If 'you delay, in the event of your death your property might not be dis- tributed as you would desire. The advantages of making a will are clearly and briefly explained in a pamphlet recently issued by the Union Trust Company, Limited, Toronto, who will send it free to anyone on request.' Our readers are advised to secure a copy at once. a English figures give the world's consumption of cotton in the year ending with August at 20,277,386 running bales, of which 13,760,261 were American. That lightning flashes appear to zigzag is an optical illusion, ac- cording.to a German scientist, who says the effect is produced by the eyes twitching when flashes occur. No Glib Is More Uzadlvers aily Accepiable Maga See that the celebrated trademark, as shown in illustration, is on every pair of gloves you buy. ON Tizis trade marls asseeres perfect Style, Fig and Finish. .. C1NnRVtl1Y N� toxmaa� .. .. _... .•.•..••..- .... High Class 5 -Year Bonds that aro Profit -Sharing. 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