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could build a bridge in one arch it would be out of the power of the flood to hurt him a second time, and he was positive in his own mind that it was practicable. When he made this proâ€" posal to his sccurities they looked upon it as a very whimsical scheme. Howâ€" ever, at last they consented, and he set about it with all the eagerness of a projector. But when he had almost finished the arch the centre timber work gave way and all fell to the botâ€" tcm. Hs now began again, erected strongâ€" er timber work, fairly completed the arch, the centre was knocked off, and sliwstood the wonder and amazement of all and persons of curiosity W to see it from several different irts of the kinsdom. This was in the ‘Ar 1755, when a copper plate plan and prospect of this surprising arch was published dedicated to Lord Windâ€" sor, the lord of these manors. But the misfortunes of the poor mason were not yet cver. He was no master of the rules of architecture, arnd did not unâ€" derstand the necessity of preserving ar equilbrium in a building of that progdigious bulk; and therefore he must buy his knowledge by experience and pay dear for it. Remarkable Bridge Built at Pontypridd Welsh Mason Erected Widâ€" est Arch in Europe in 1756 The â€" recent destruction â€" of â€"the "HCneymoon Bridge" at Niagara FPalls through the smashing of the arches by ice has roused a general discusssion of bridges and their construction. Mr. T. Thomas has added an interesting feaâ€" ture to the discussion by giveng The Advance a clipping from a recent issue of The Pontypridd Observer, of Pontyâ€" pridd, Wales. This clipping shows that a Weish mason as early as 1756 built a cneâ€"span bridge that for years was the widest arch in Europe. The clipâ€" ping from The Pontypridd Observer gives a skeich of the bridge, and is of historic â€" importance. The _ clipping reads as follows:â€"â€" Mr. Urban In ycur In your Mazazine, page 483, it is said that the Riaito at Venice is the widest arch in Europe, which certainly is a great mistake. In your Magazine for 1751, page 296, we are told "that the width of the Rialto arch on the level of the water from one extremity to the other is 95 feet and the height of it 24 feet." If so, we have in our own counâ€" try a single arch which is 45 feet wider and 11 feet higher than the Rialto. Pontypridd, on the River Tave, agbout ten miles above Cardiff, in Glamorganâ€" shire, in one arch is 140 feet wide and 35 feet high; and it is probable that this is the widest arch in Europe, if not in the world. At least, I have never vead of anyâ€" thing equal to it that can be relied upon as a matter of fact.. The accounts given by some of the millionaires of some bridges in China look more like fables than realities. The building .of Pontypridd bridge is well worth recordâ€" ing in your book. About 12 or 14 years ago, William Edward, a country mason, in that country, agreed with the hunâ€" dreds of Miskin and Senghenith to build a bridge over the River Tave, in four arches, for £500 and to give securâ€" ities to insure it for seven years. This bridge was finished, but a great food in this rapid river entirely carried it away in less than two years‘ time. He wias then obliged to begin again. But he thought with himself that if he ter caused siuch an inegq sure on the arch that in time it crushed that s and it fell again to the t By wiis time the mas in debt and greativy dis GLASSES COST NO MORE AND ARE FITâ€" TED WITH PRECISTON Where an oculist (or in other words an eye physician)) makes the exâ€" amination, EMPIRE BLOCK Third Ave. Tj The vision of infants is developed during the first few weeks of life, In At first the eyes roll aimilessliy, then soon onte eve fixes on an Object momentarily and later both fix on the same obâ€" ject at the same tim». Thus what is called bifocal vision is eslablished . Copied dfrom the "Gentieman‘s Magazine" for the Year 1794 one eve may turn permanently inward. â€" some children this bifocal vision is disturbed later on by a too great effort to overcome what is called long sight and Optical Dept. AT Tintmins Geraldton Shows How Mining Towns Develop .. M (To which The Pontypridd Observer adds the words:â€"‘‘"We are much obligâ€" ed to Mr. Holmes Watkins for lending us the cutting and sketch.") in LUTPO) work of Romans. page 86) (From Sudbury Star) Where, a bare six years ago, was heard only the shrill whistle of the railâ€" way locomotives passing through the thick ‘bush and around the rockâ€" bounded lakes, there has been develâ€" cped a prospsrous and growing comâ€" munity as the centre of a goldâ€"producâ€" ing region which is steadily forging ahead and which promises to increase in activity and output. It is the history of other such cenâ€" tres in Northern Ontario being reâ€" peated. The town of Geraldton, just a short time ago merely a jumping off paint on the railway for the Little Long Lac mining area, which Tom Johnson and Tony Oklend brought into the limelight, has sprung up almost overâ€" night as it were, and feverish months of bcom have given place to stability and community routineâ€"a mining cenâ€" tre with modern buildings, executive administration and bright hopes for the futuro Amazing Economy in Test Run of Truck from side to side and gradually de iBee the plate an The parish of ] markable, not on bridge, the east on it, but likewise filly C equipoise has ecn! the abu Crossing Continent with fon Load,. Chey. gt More Than 17 Miles Gallon. Ottawa, February : record of economical faulitless perfcrmanc brought the financial outlay for fuel and lubrication to only $43.84. This established a total per mile cost of $.0145 and a perâ€"ton mile cost of $.0313. + Operating conditions were extremely gifficult since, in addition to the treâ€" mendosus ccntrasts in ~temperature, there were all types of roads, from conâ€" ecrete to soft mud, and many severe grades. In spite of this last fact, howâ€" ever, Hartz reported that he had to drop back to second gear only ten times in the course of the entire trip, alâ€" thcugh he carried a payload of 4003 pounds of steel. All figures on the run were compiled by Stanley Roeed, official Oobserver for the American Automobile Association, who accompanied Hartz. North Bay Nugget:â€"Establishment of a closed season on moose in some districts of Northern Ontario is in line with finding of game and tourist asâ€" sociations that conservation is imperaâ€" tive to insure against extermination of the forest monarch. And IL i8 for ages for ages to com! strong natural pa tempt of an Ancie N B.â€"In order t( For a time skeptical ones opined that the Little Long Lac district did not cffer encouragement. There seemed to be a feeling that it was a oneâ€"producer gold camp. But recent months have served to dispel the expressed fears. Aggressive development after early disâ€" couragement in several properties in the area has resulted in the hopedâ€"for encouragement, and the territory is assured of increasing gold cutput in the moaonths ahead. Little Long Lac Gold Mines, the pioneer producer of the field, has been joined by Bankfield, and others includâ€" ing Hard Rock, MacLeodâ€"Cockshutt, and Tombill are to join the list, with perhaps more to follow. The field, of course, is still in its infancy, and seems destined to greatly enlarge its sphere of activity. Geraldton .citizens may well feel proud of the town‘s colourful existence and have every reason to feel that it will become a centre of importâ€" ance in the vigorous and everâ€"expandâ€" ing development of Northern Ontario‘s minins resources. fauitless perfcrmance under exacting ccnditicns was hung up by the Chevâ€" rolet truck in which Harry Hartz has just completed a test run from this city to Mexico City. In 8022 miles of travelling, under tamperatures varying from subâ€"zero to traopical, the stock model truck mainâ€" taingd an average speod of 31.04 miles per hour during 97 hours and 21 minâ€" utes of driving time. Yet it used only 208.178 U. S. gallons of gasalin>â€"a mileâ€" aze of 144 miles per gallen. This is the equivalent, in Canadian measure, Ctf 17.3 milss per gallon. Equally impressive was the cil econâ€" cmy report, revealing a consumbtion of only 292 quarts which, coupled on a that enabled him to complete the bridge in one arch for the#ast time ItGt has now stood eight or nine years and it is supposed that it may stanc Last weekâ€"end Geralton turned on its new street lights, and thus gave notice to the world that it is out of the bush ccommunity class. It has organized for the present and looked forward into the coming years ready to expand with the mining district of which it is the hub. matller ‘n the ind mo surope. Epart, revealing 292 quarts which jasis with the upposed that it may stand o come, a monument of ural parts and a boid atâ€" 1 Ancient Briton. order to lessen the quantity in the abutments pressing ‘ch, thereby to bring it to an vith that on the crown, he red three circular arches in ents. These pass through 0o side, like round windows, lliy decrease in the ascent. ate annexed). h of Eglwysilan is very reâ€" 0t only an account of the east end of which stands kewise on account of Caerâ€" which perhaps is the largâ€" t entire remain of antiquity It is supposed to be the e Ancient Britons or the Vid: Duiwy. Hist.. Vol. XIX, that he had t ar only ten time entire trip, al â€"A remarkable onzsration â€" and ider ecxactiing by the Chevâ€" ‘ry Hartz has from this city Duchess of Windsor Best Dressed Woman Wins Coveted Title for the Second Consecutive Year. Paris, Feb. 22â€"The Duchess of Windâ€" sor, for the second consecutive year, was named this week as the world‘s bestâ€"dressed woman in a poll of the most famous dressmakers Of Paans. The Baltimore woman, who in June celebrates the first anniversary of her marriage to former King Edward, was the unanimous choice for head Oof a list of 10 internationally known socialâ€" ites, who were chosen not for beauty alone, but for taste and individuality. The rankings were: iâ€"The Duchess of Windsor. 2â€"The Duchess of Kent. 3â€"Begum Aga Khan. 4â€"Baronne Leo d‘Erlanger. The Crusader, one of the British destroyers bought by Canada to augment the ship, the Comet, was also acquired. |IEEE !!iii1||;1||‘l|l1||"llii '||EEE||l]|' fi ||F1I:L l‘l ||lJ||Ll|l ||'1||| l‘| I|IJ|lLIIl |||I1|Irlllb+|| ” y s Styling as diff it U u R ( " E u n o lE ' l m se ; ' yA gerâ€"looking, betterâ€"lookâ€" cS df| 6 ing, lowâ€"priced Chevâ€" ralaot show Roomsâ€"Fourth and Spruce Street, Timmins 5â€"Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes. 6â€"Baronsss Eugene de Rothschild. 7â€"Mrs. Harrison Williams. 8â€"Mrs, Millicent Rogers Balcom. 9â€"Countess Barbara von Haugwitzâ€" Reventliow. / 10â€"Lady Louis Mountbatten. The Duchess of Windsor celebrated her second triumph by appearing at the farewell reception for American Ambassador ‘William â€"C. Bullitt in a simple white crepe, square necked and barely ~decollette gown. It barely skimmed the floor with straight panelâ€" ced folds. She wore a tiara of diamonds and emeralds, the most recent gift of the Duke and considered one of the finest pieces of motiern jewelry seen in Paris in regent years,. A thin strand of dliaâ€" monds and emeralds at her thrcat The dress was trimmed with only two bands of gold embroidery which started at the waistline and came down in a curve over her hips. Timmins Garage Co. Ltd. ADVANCTE, She to offset this simplicit} with brilliant accessories, like jeweled handbags. and she favours hats that are large and shallow crowned without at the same time being eccentric. Begum Aga Khan. the former French Marina, Duchess of Kent, is now in mcurning for her father, the late Prince Nicholas, of Greece, and probâ€" ably will not be seen frequently this year at fashionable events.. Black, however, is one of her favourite colâ€" ours and her clothes are always simply tailored â€"even for evening. Her shoes, to which attention, show off he; she is always perfectly not a wrinkle in hes . out of place. compi¢ cowa CCiIOGuUr. noon and whi ning she like: he anadi F ~PIUC > she prc ure for evenin ailored suli n chbest adv ning. For morâ€" suits which set advantage. she pays special slim ankles and turned out with lothes or a hair 11 M i vourit( embanoes bher b with braown cloth deepest hunter green. Lady Louis Mountbatten is considerâ€" ed the bestâ€"dressed English woman. She has just ordered an all sequin suit for evening and prefers tailored dresses for daytime. Her skirts are short. Baronne Leo d‘Erlanger, the former Edaythe Baker, of the United States, is one, of the younger. bestâ€"dressed ladies. Very dark, she parts her hair simply in the middle. She wears tailâ€" ored clothes and avoids elaborate jewâ€" elry, choosing only simple pieces. milliner, who was ma thy Indian prince, m place which she was : The Hon. Mrs. particularly her sports cloth: dark and her sle: makes it easy for esostumes which neon and evenin Baroneéess Eugene D¢ Kotnscluid is the former Kitty Spsttiswood of Virginia. She was hostess to the Windsors at her Austrian mountain estate. She has a beautiful collection of diamond jewelry and sets off her statuesque blonde beauty with black and shades of green, varying from the palest almond to the deepest hunter green. Mrs. Donald Rush Balcom, the forâ€" mer Millicent Rogers, favours Tyrolâ€" ean sports outfits. She is tall and has a school girl complexion and more clothes than she knows what to do with. Countess Von â€" Haugwitzâ€"Roventlow, the former Ba/rbara Hutton, is more beautiful than ever, her friends say, umes wears afad \ brilliant green. H« jewels are among t jeweis aAare an the world e which she wa hird place, chi which mediun wear. D: Rothschile¢ Y he is short jovish figure nald Fellow id is th Virginia C Phone 8046 a t A 1 The quickâ€"healing salve for Cyanide Poisonâ€" ing, Bezema, Psoriasis, Impetigo, Salt Rheum, Itch, Cbhaps and mest skin ailments. 50¢ ; 81.00 : 8$2.00 sizes. (Medinum and strong). Ask your Iocal Druggist or write Kleerex Manuâ€" Co., Toronto, Ont. CGGlobs and Mail:â€"Japan propOoses taxing almost everything carried about by the individualâ€"pens, knives, hats, umbrellas, and so on. Nippon is learnâ€" ing that the war game is expensive. now that she has changed her «coifâ€" fure and wears her hair high on her head. She prefers white for evening and .diamonds. 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