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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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