The Brussels Post, 1924-11-19, Page 7411
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FOREST AREAS IN PRAIRIE PROVINCES
•IVIisapprehension Exists as to
70 Per Cent,
To nially Cenadians as well as aim
qi nae Prairie Provinces, by whit
Mantle)" Saalsetchewan .and .Albert
are knowzi mpaes that they are de
void of f•ereats or tree growth of as
kiod, says the Natnral Resources
telligence Service) of the Depertmen
of the InterlOr. Such, 119W0Yer, kg no
the case with any of these provinces
° There
aro large area:3 of foreste
lauds in each, while in Manitoba full
70 Per cent of the total area is node
forest cover.
Recent estimates of the commercia
timber stands of the three province
range 'from eight to eleven milli°
*ores, and the commercial saw.timbe
from 33 to 42 thousand million boar
feet, These estimates do not includ
much of the northern area, wliere th
growth Is more or less ot a sorubb
nature, This latter, however, con
tains a large potential supply of Pull;
The Forest leranch .of the Depart
meet of the interior has segregate
-considerable areas in diet of the pro
vinces as .forest reeerres. 00 a 'tate.
reserved area of 31,926 square miles
18,894 -square miles is in Alberta, 9,30
equare miles in. Saskatchewan, an
.3,729 equare miles in Manitoba. Mos
.of this forest reserve is composed o
land melt for agriculture, and the ob
ject of the Interior Department in es
tabliahinge•the reserves has been. no
'with the Idea of keeping the timbe
and other resources contained within
• them out of use, but to supply, in per
'petuity, the largest quantity of the
best timber that can be produced. A
eed:tin amount of fuel and building
the Timber Supply—Manitoba
Forest ,Coverecl,
'a loge are give, 000r -b)' settlers, and
e permits ore given, ter tienonitnal fee
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areas in which a local supply of coal
e Is available. 'Natural gas also PrOVidea
Y a fuel supply in a number of districte,
- particularly in Alberta.
The proteetion -of the timbered areas
from foreet fires is one of the chief
cares of the Forest Service, and for
d on the ad -
this purpose fire patrols are maintain -1
ed both on the reserves an
'Joining timbered areas. • Aeroplanes
are engaged during the Are. danger
season in patrolling, and good„ results
'have been secured in Ore prevention.
Through the efforts of the Tree
Planting Division of the Interior De-
partment the reputation of the Prairie
Provinces as being composed of bald
Prairie land promises to become ob-
solete. Millions of young trees are
being planted annually about the farm
homes, and in many districts the out-
look is broken by wooded areas, which
add much to make homelike conditions
for the new comer to his prairie home.
to cut timber for demeetle, cenunueltyl
and veriourt other PerPesciL
The forest products of the three
prairie proviecea in the aggregate for
1022, reached a large ileure. The lum-
ber cat amounted to 00,157,009 board
feet, 24,737,000 lath were cut, also
487,885 erette ties, 37,403 polefi,'5,520,A;
057Sfienee -pests, 486,380 retieand a;
large quantity of other forms of forest
product. The betel value of the out-
Plitefor 1922 was 38,443,231. • There
wag cut for fuel purposes 1,210,936,
cords of firewood. Wive le net so
generally used for fuel in the settled ,
Portions of the Prairie .Provieees, as
in eastern Canada, evitug to the many
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Naval Definitions.
Fatbam—A. measure of six feet.
Turret—A tower tor the protection
of the gunners.
Crow% nest—A perch for the look-
out at the masthead.
c Armament—A term expressing col-
lectIvely all the guns of a. ship, '
Jacob's ladder—A short ladder wit
wood rungs and rope sides.
"Capstan—A machine used on boar
ship for lifting heevy weights.
Bow chaser—A gun mounted in th
bow to are on retreating vessels.
Bullchead—A partition separatin
*ompartments an the same deck.
Cable—A. long, heavy chain used to
retain a ship in place at anchor. .
Binnacle—The compass box of
ship, with a light. to show it at night.
Gatgway—The aperture in a Ship's
side where persons enter and depart,
Displacement—The weight in tons
of the volume of water dtspiaced by a
thip's hull.
Barbette—A fixed circular belt of
armor for protecting the guns in a re-
volving turret.
Knot—A nautical mile of 2025 yards,
equal to about one and one-eighth
statute miles-.
Monitor—A low, nearly ftat-bottom-
ed armored vessel, with one or two
turrets, each carrying two guns.
Bridge—A platform above the rail
extending across the deck for the con-
venience of the ship's °Mears.
Conning tower—Au armored tower
where the wheel, engine, telegraphs,
etc., are located, and from, which the
captain is supposed to dircet his men
during a battle.
Bullets That Fall Like Rain.
Looking across the Thames to the
Surrey side at Waterloo Bridge in Lon-
don, there May be seen to the right a
huge round tower rising out of a Jum-
bled coliection of •wharfs, sheds, and
chimney stachs to a height of about
200 feet. This is the shot tower 'of
Walkers, Parker, and. Co., Ltd., the
Lambeth Lead and Shot Works,
The general public knows little et
the purpose of this structure, and ae
a rule regards It as a kind of compli-
cated factoiy. chimney, But it holds
the secret of shotellaktngjor sporting
cartridges and other purposes in Eng-
land.
-Briefly described, the process is to
drop front different heights hot lead
run through a device somewhat like a
colaeder. The' falling Shot In the
course of this process drops into vats
of water at the hottom of the tower,
and when it is removed It has taken on
its spherical form.
The discovery of this method of pro-
ducing shot iu large quantities at
high speed has been attributed to a
man named Watts, .about the yecir
1787, at Bristol.' At all events, 10 was'
in tee end purchased by Walkers,
Parker for 850,000,
The records are to the 'effect that
Watts ascended the tower of St. Mary's
Church, 13ristol, on a hot day, Over-:
come by the haat, ;or some refreshment;
setnewliat more Potent, he fell aeleep,1
,and In a dream saw himself dropping
melted lead to the grotmd, where it
took the form of pellets, Much im- I
preeeed, he made experiniente anent°,
and the 'shot tower Is the Indirect
result,
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A new type of store e taiuk lor
gasoline is spherical in shape, 30 pres-
sor° is more equally distribUted over
the entire sphere.
Did you ever realize that by yield-
ing instead of resisting, by giving in'
instead of being stubborn, of being a
etickIer for an apology, you (beam!
the resentment and awakee the better,
nature of the one who has injured,
yort? Malay people have tints gflitted
the good Will of one whom they had
regarded AS an eeemje -0, 5. Xavier',
Seals and Camels Have Real
Trap -Door Noses.
Moet of us when we go in for diving
have very unpleasant experiense of
getting our nostrils full of water. Na-
ture did not design man to be a diving
animal, otherwise she would have been
as •clever with his nose as she has been
h with the seal's.
, The seal is, without doubt, the clever -
u et diver In the animal world, and his
nose is a very ingeniousContrivance
a indeed. Each nostril is provided with
muscles which close it hermetically at
g the owner's will, And the ,shepe of the
nose is such that when the nostrils are
Closed not a drop of water can enter.
With seals the closing of the nostrils
a at the moment of diving has become
an automatic process.
This Is, -wonderful enough, but we
ean tee a still more remarkable appli-
cation of the same principle in an
animal as tar removed from the ' seal
as chalk is from cheese.
The seal is a vete- animal. The
other owner of trap-door nostrils is
the camel, an inhabitant of the driest
parts of the world, the waterlesS,
sandy deserts, .
Now 'why should the camel require
auch an apparatus? Ile is not troubled
with water, but he is troubled with
1 dist; not the dust that we see in this
lcountry, but the fleece, blinding dust
atorme of the desert
These are so violent that tiny par-
' ticles are driven Into the works of
even the mostly finely nuele watch,
which becomes at once clogged and
useless. If the camel bad not nostrils
which were perfectly dust-tigbt, he
Could never endure the dreadful sand
and dust ,storms.
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The Day of Rest.
"Why doe $ he sit so far back in the
shadows in church on Sunday?"
"To rest his eyes from sitting eo far
front in the stage lights in the theatre
all week."
A Gift That Backfired,
• Brother Allen had In his store au
old-fashioned, ornate silver table cas-
ter that no one would bay, though ho
had marked it down to "only $4."
When the sisters et the church asked
for Contributions to the good pastor's
donation party he put in the silver
monstrocity, taking care to insert the
digit one before the four itt order to 1`
make the gift seam valuable.:
The party was held with its shower
of good things, /Attie Mrs. Elliott, the
paetOr's wife, gazed cenriously at the
caster and its plethoric tag, "It's too
rich fa* us!" She said. "EePecleally
when the ohildreu need clothes and
we all need teoci. I'll go- and ask,
Brother Allen to take it hack and let
us have the feurteen dollara' worth of
Other things that wo steed so badly,"
Ilank Evans, the Village gossip, Was
in the store When she came in with
the bigh-priond doeatioe. So, father
than betray himself to Hank's biting
tongue, Brother 4.11801 sent fourteen
dollars' worth of goods up to the par-
son's house--almoet a dray lead of the
cheaper but more comforting' things
that the little woman had selected.
Moral: A'clean girt, like a clean en.
gibe, will not backfire.
Tho fear of what people will think
of us is a very common cause of slay-
ery. And the nervoirs anxiety as to
+neither we do not please is a Strain
Which wastes the energy of the great.
er part of mankind.
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The Little
People.
The Lord of the Little People,
Gentle and very wise,
Walking His woods in the twilight,
Harks to His children's cries
And His tender mouth is wry with
pain
And terrible are His, eyes.
The ellen that has throttled the rabbit
Jerks *to his dying strain;
Trapped by his rush -thatched dwell-
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• ing,
The muskrat whimpers his -pain;
And here the bird with the shot-
• mashed wing
Hidden three days has lain.
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The Lord of the Little People
Wistfully goes His way,
Seeking in vain His children;
Few and afraid are they
Of the mighty beast who has ravished
the world
With his hunger to slay, slay, slay.
Lonely the fields at twilight; ,
Empty the darkling wood,
There, in the woodchuck' burro,
Dead lies an orphaned brood.
Here, where the bob -whites cowered,
Are feathers and gouts of blood.
The Lord of the Little People •
Who may divine what stirs
His heart, as He seeks in the twilight
The songs of His worshippers,
And hear but whimpers and squeals
of, pain
From creatures in plumes and furs?
The partridge rots in the woodland;
The wild duck drowns in the sea;
Beasts on the wide -flung trap lines
Perish 55 agony
That the monkey thing with the wea-
sel's lust
May wallow in masters.
The Lord of the Little People,
Who can His thoughts surmise?
Cattle and small gray donkeys
Heard His first baby cries.
He knows, He knows when a'sparrow
is
And
falls
are Ills eyes,
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By teaching we learn. Not to com-
municate one's thoughts to others—to
keep one's thoughts to oneself, as peo-
ple say—is either cowardice or pride.
It is a form of G. Wens,
Wanted: A Hymn Censor.
Very strong representations have
been made by an influential Buddhist
committee in Ceylon against the con-
tinued singing, in its pre.sent form,
"From Greenland's Icy Mountains."
The hymn, as everybody knee's, re-
grets that "Ceylon's Tele" is a spot
where "every prospect pleases," and
"only man is vile." The Cingalese
strongly °Wept to being called "vile,"
and there is much to be said for their
point of view.
It appears, indeed, that in the first
draft of the hymn, which was written
in tweny minutes, Java was the island
chosen for special "vileness," but Cey-
lon was substituted as being more
tuneful in sound.
During the -course of a children's ser-
vice at St. Paul's, Covent Garden,
Canon Adderley was leading the child-
ren in the singing of that favorite
hymn, "All Things Bright and Beauti-
ful," but, .coming to the third verse, he
said:. "Children, don't sing that verse,
because it le a lie!" This is the verse
which he objected to:
"The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate --
God made there high or lowly,
And ordered theirastate."
A returned missionary from Janiaica
and Old Calabar says that Dr. Dodd -
ridge's description of heaven in his
well-known hymn:
."No midnight shade, no clouded sun,
But sacred, high, eternal noon."
will make anyone shudder who knows
what it is to be exposed to the sun of
the torrid scale. He se.ye: "The man
who wrote these lines must have lived
far north, where a glimpse of the sun
was a rare favor.
once met a black boy," he con-
tinues, "sitting under the shade of a
palm, taking shelter from the suit's
glare and the dazzle of the eandy, sea-
side road. I said: Did you ever hear
of heaven, my boy?'
" boss!'
"What sort of a place do you think
1011 be?'
" 'Guess it'll be a mighty cool kin'
o' show, bassi' said the little chap;
and he knew more about It than some
hymn writers."
An avalanche that swept across a
road near Rochetaillee, Prance not
long ago, dropped a huge block of ice
hat contained the carcass of a wild
oar, just how the bear became im-
bedded in the me is not clear, but
probably it was caught in the slide,
and the mass of MOW closing round it,
solidified and thus converted it into
cold storage pork.
Did you ever notice that the chap
who is always carving his initials b
'upon the fence, trees, and his desk at
school, seldom, if ever, writehis
name upon the age in which he lives?
He coinmences carving too early, and
gets tired.
The remarkable achievement of Miss Mabel Green, blind typist of Len -
doe, lies behind the publication of a book' reeently, the entire manuscript of
whieh extending to 40,000 words, she took clown lu Braille shorthand and
faultlessly transeribed,
WHAT FOREIGNERS CALL INSULTS
We have all beard of the adage tbat
"one Man% meat is anether'e poiatm,"
blit it is not so well known that' Mate
nere differ almost se lima as food, In
erelllotes obeervances, for instaece, see
how the Christian takes off his hat
when enteritis' a churcb, wbile the Mo-
ham:1100m keep on his hat and takes
0 3hoea
The Foreign‘Office In England ono
time received a eomple.Int through the
Chinese Legation in London that the
minister representing Her Majesty In
Chine had insulted the Chinese Cabinet,
There was great excitement for awhile
but investigation revealed that the
only conduct of wide& he bad been
grilltY was thumping the table at
which ire was eitting. to emphasize a
remark, In China, it is a grievous of.
tense to thump the table, and because
"the British Government refused to die.
cipline their representative, the Chin.
• ese diplomats were exceedingly ellgrY,
In WS country If a friend le visltlug
another and stays; to dinner, he may
oak for the •Ioan of a hair brush with-
out giving offences, but in Hunger)" he,
may not.
To attempt to borrow that useful ar-
ticle is one of the greatest ineults
Which can be offered to a Ilungarlan,
and one which will In most cases
cause a duel.
In France there are several insults
which the unwary foreigner may offer
without knowing It. For example, he
may be visiting a friend, and may put
hie hat upon the bed. This is a griev-
ous form of insult, but why is not
known; it is a very ancient one, and
so, probably, results from an old super-
stition.
Again, there are two ways ef pour -I
ing out wine in France, as everywhere
else. One "of these is to held the bot-
tle so tbat while pouring the thumb kf
facing the tablecloth. The second way
Is to hold the hand reversed—and this
is a great insult to the assembled
gusto and the nest—a far greater 00
Suit than drinking bealtb.le voster,
autO that is pretty Serious In Franee.
Germany bee eenne tgrAla of
insult, To begin with, to Offer a xpee,
or any' other flower, wItitota any green
or leaves within to a lady is to deePlY
insult her, though why ties ebould be
so is not known preeiselY,
The Germ* Students are formed in.
00 Pip, some of which are fighting
eerPs, and °these not, Caoh eorps lies
its distinctive cap, and wben a mem-
ber of one meetanother in the street
it is etiquette for each, to doff his cap.
Should the other not respond a Isom -
plaint le made to Ilia corps, and a duel
is fought—a real, duel, with sabres or
Pistols, not the fencing duel which is
parttime in Germany, for the insult Is
nearly the worst that can be offered.
There Is one Worse, end that is Sinn-
ing or ilielciag beer over another see
dent purposely. No apology wiIt wipe
out this offense; nothing wtll 8,10014 a
duel to the death, or a duel which ia
-continued until one et the combatents
too badly wounded to continue the
tight. .A. minor insult is to refuse to
drink with a student if invited, or to
refuie to respond with "Prosit" when
he raises his glees and says "Ieh Korn -
me ver"; but this is more a breach of
good manners than an actual insult.
We might finish with two Spanish
examen* of cuneus Ineults In South
America. The first of these le to re-
fuse to smoke a cigarette which an-
other man offers you after he has had
ft in his mouth; and the second is to
refuse drink out of the same glass
that a man has just drunk from, or,
worse still, to wipe it before drinking.
There are doubtless many other un-
known insults which" Canadians may
commit without knowing it, and that
is wily they should be very careful to
learn in advance something about the
manners and customs of the people
among whom they intend to travel.
A Poem You Ought to Know.1 Living on Seeds.
Ode to Autumn.
John Keats enriched our literate
with eve of its greatest Odes. The
"Ode to a Nightingale" Is perhaps- the
beat known, but the following, though
the ehortesC, has the perfection of a
fia.wless gent:
Season of mists and mellow fruitful-
ness,,
Close bosern-friend of the maturin
sun;
Conspiring with him how to load an
• blesa
With fruit the vines that round th
thatch -saves run;
To bend with apples the mowed oo
tage trees,
And fin all fruit with ripenese to th
core;
To swell the gourd, and plump th
hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set buddin
more,
And still more, later flowers for th
bees,
Until they think warm days will neve
cease,
For Sumtner has oierbrimmed their
clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid, thy
store
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad
may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary
floor,
Thy hair soft -lifted by the winnow-
• ing wind;
Or on a half -reaped furrow sound
asleep,
'Drowsed with the fume of poppies,
while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its
twined flowers;
And sometimes like a gleaner thou
dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a
brook;
Or by a eider -press, with patient
look,
Thou watchest the last oozing,
hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,
where are they?
Think not of them, thee bast thy
music too, --
While barred clouds bloom the soft -
dying day,
And touch the stubble -plains with
rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats
mourn
Among the river sallow, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives
or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from
hilly bourn;„
Hedge -crickets sing; and now with
treble ,soft
The redbreast whistles front the gar-
den croft,
And_gatherieg swallows twitter in
the skim, •
Yen sit down to your breakfast and
re begin with porridge; the oatmeal is
crushed oat- seed. You go on with
toast, whicb is made from the seed of
wheat, and with these foods you drink
ooffee, which is a decoction of the
-crushed and roasted aeed of the coffee
shrub.
Has it ever occurred to you to con -
g ,sider the extent to which seeds enter
into the diet of the whole human race?
d All our bread Is made of seeds, either
of wheat, barley, rye, or corn. Eastern
e races, who do net eat bread as much
as we do, live largely upon the seed of
t- the rice plant, boiled Instead of baked.
We ourselves eat enormous quantities
e of rice, both as a vegetable and as a
pudding.
e In Central America, the whole popu-
lation from Mexico down to Southern
g Brazil lives mainly upon corn, either
cracked and cooked as hominy or
e ground into flour and made into bread
and cakes.
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• Flood Lights to Repel Bandits.
Floodlighting pfojectors for use on
railroad ears carrying Chinese sol-
diers sent out to repel bandits have
just been provided, The floodlighting
projectors were equ.T.pped with 250 -
watt lamps, and a -considerable ntun-
bet of these projectors were mounted
on several railroad cars used to trans-
port detachments of soldiers. Good
work was done by this meats in re-
dueing the number of bandit attack:3
upon railroad trains on the Tientain-
Pukow railway,
Undiscovered.
"My friend, are you travellingthe
strait and narrow path?"
In silence the man handed over his
card, which read:
"Signor Balite:elm Tightrope Walk.
The Mental Burden.
Th s peek of the day's load is Mere
Iteltutt 1,1:t.Qato,a,;;,tubtyt:44 ttteoluintniyile,
berden is the heitey • freightage Of A
reeponeibilitY' assented, and amiable
calumet. 000 to worry dew; not' take
from us the nandeilaess of all that we
are cerrying,
• But the workman who broods 10 de,
tractieg OM his value to his task
He needs to *:titivate deliberatelY the
qualities ot serenity, equipoise and de.
tachnlent. Sometliinganay be learned
front the attitude of Japanese Intel -
!equals durIng the earthquake, though
we may senile at them as stoics and
Mallets combined. ror Instead of
running alma in circles crying, "Woe
is me!" and wrieging their hernia they
wore an itnpenetrable mask ever their
emotions and said, "What is to come
will come. If we must die, we die,"
rice -paper shuttled into ab011t
them,
0118 Wield With no outward Bliow of
emotion their universe of bemboe and.
It is a axiom older than the brIelte
of Babel that the worst is what meter
occurs, Like all epigrams, the state.
meet overshoots the mark of the
winged, words; but 1t1s, extraordinary
how often we evade the thing we
dread if we march toward it unafraid.
There are few days in the lives of any
but the immature whose proapect 55
altogether pleasctat To think, lie the
poet affirms, is often to be full of sor-
row. The thoughtless and the con-
ecienceless are gay; with our sober
prescience of a destiny we fee! the
shortage of the, the imminence of the
end, But 10 58 importaut, for the sake
of our work, to admit the9sunlight of
irradiating laughter; to disseminate
content and cheer, to keep our anger,
our black moods, our envies and re-
aentments subliminal, and net in sight
or hearing.
The load imposed, that we cannot
Wet to other shoulders., is sensibly
lightened by the disposition of the
porter.
Stories Written at High Speed.
Even in these dens of intensive pro.
duction, the teraperamental and ehar.
:toter/el° elements make all the die
termite between one writer and an-
other. W. W. Jacobs once confessed
to sitting a whole morning, pen in
hand, without putting a word to paper,
whilst Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has
written a story of 12,000 words with-
out leaving his desk.
A story Is told of Sir Arthur that a
friend sat up late with him and, in the
coulee of conversation, related a true
incident. At breakfast the next morn-
ing the novelist showed him a corn -
pieta Sherlock Holmes "adventtlre,"
with this very incident as a plot Ile
had 'written the story before retiring.
H. G. Wells has often written 10,000
words in a day. That such sPeed 55
not necessarily destructive of style is
proved by the fact that Stevenson
wrote "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" In
seven days.
Sir James Barrie counts five or six
hundred words a good day's work,
bieh reminds one how Goldsmith,
hilst proceeding at ruing speed
through such beck work as his his-
°ries and his "Animated Nature," con-
idered a dozen lines of "The Deserted
'nage or The Traveller" quite sue
dent for one day.
Andrew Lang often wrote 5,000
words In a morning, and it is said that
S. R. Crockett wrote the latter half of
"The Stlekit Miulster" in forty hours,
ut all those feats of rapid production
re eclipsed by the record of Dumas,
ho, In one phenomenal year, heeled
ut a novel a week!
E. Phillips Oppenheim has confessed
that he 'Seldom makes "two bites." at
his short stories, but William Le
Quenx, although his output seems pro-
digious, seldom exceeds 12,000 words
a week.
Among our most prized vegetables re
are green peas and broad beans, bath w
the green seeds of cultivated plants,
while dried peas and lentils are used t
for soup and as winter vegetables. e
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Cocoa is also made frotn a seed. And
our eontliments, with the exception of
salt, nearly all come from seeds. Mus-
tard, pepper, and nutmeg are well-
known examples.
Nuts form a considerable proportion
of the food of the human race. We
eat walnuts, chestnuts, Brazil nuts,
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and hazel nuts, which are all seeds of w
different trees.
But by far the most important of
nuts is that of the 0000.palm, from
which is made margarine and oil, and
hundreds of tons of which are need
in the menufactere of cakes and con-
feetionery. Almonds are also essential
to the makers of cakes and eNveets.
Hard Luck.
Bug --"Great Scott, old man---"
Worm—"Lstet it terrible, I swallow-
ed a hairpin on a bet!"
A Canadian Wembley. I
liven when. the British Faeelre Ex-
hibition is over, its memory will -still
be preserved In Canada,I th
latest railway -station, fifteen miles
south-west of Grand Prairie, Alberta,
has been given the flame of Wembley.
This is not the first time that places
in Canada haee been named after well.
knowpersons and places in the Old.
Ceuntry. There is a Beaeonefield and
a Gladstone in Manitoba, tui Asclbith
past-ofliee In Se.skatchewan, and a
Boner Law statien in Ontario, Revel-
stoke, British Columbia, is another
case in point, It was named atter the
Drat Lord Revelstoke, of Baring Broth-
ers, wile took over the first bond issue
(flifteen million dollars) of the Cana -
(Ilan Pacific ntellway.
In addition to these there are the
clitseital examples, of Hudson Bay,
named after the explorer; and Windeer, Woocistock, Chatham, and Len-
don-otterhames in Ontalle, The last.
nazned, suitably enough, Is is Middle,
sex County, which provides another ex-
ample. Ontario also boats a Was.
gow and a Glencoe.
Jewels That Keep Time.
A watch movement contains pre-
clous stones to diminish Its wear. The
lever and the balance wheel pivots an
ways run on bearings made out of
jewels. In high-grade watches the
bearings of the entire watch move-
ment are jewelled. The best grade
jewels are made of sapphires or rubles,
the cheaper grade of garnet, and the
lowest grade of ordinary reek crystal,
There are from seven to twenty-three
points of jewels In a watch, and unless
they are all of good quality and lit the
wheel pivots perfectly the watch will
be a poor timekeeper even If it does
MA,
Excivators Find Old Roman
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Proof that babies of the Roman ex.
pension era wore accustomed to the
luxury of the nursing bottle has been
found. during excavations on the site
of an ancient Rt31110,11 city near Polke,
stone, England.
The areheologists have unearthed
the nipple end of a baby's bottle made
of stone, and of a shape identical with
the latest in nursing battles, The nip -
pie aleo is made of stone, through
which a small hole i piereed, and the
bottle itself is 'very heavy.
Stocking Outlying Waters.
Owing to the great distant° and the
edifferent means of traneportatioa
available, the DepertMent of Marine
and Pisheries has found that it is tot
feasible to transfer fry front exteting
hatcheries to many of Um important
but isolated spawning arees of British.
Columbia. As the only alternatiee to
f te, these waters are stbekod with
eyed Baum eggs and upwards at 28e
000,000 pink and goelroye Salmon eggs
have beau carefully planted is selected
places during the current season.
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