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the h. i8, is the real or, which is clearly enough re- ir in the | Potub 'your Belgian friend explains. 'la : al | rarity. Former! | tute the bulk [the soldier's w A DECIDE, | Taking "Can Produce Largest and th well visit. The park alone remains open, eir favorite prome. roms of recruits are drilled the public streets. AY me he STRANGE SOUNDS IN THE AIR. rious Noises Heard in Many Parts of the World. It is a hb fternoon shore, wre startled 'by a muf- fled detonation that seems to come from somewhere far out at sea. Can it be thunder? There is not a | cloud in the sky, and you remember thunder is rarely audible at a, r distance than fifteen miles. 1-of-war at t practice, i offing. At this ; was the mistpoeffer, he says, and , sign that the weather will con- But what is the mistpoeffer? If v answer that question you oan alse explain the mysterious 'Barisal guns of India (Barisal is the name of a town in the Ganges delta), which have puzzled scientific 'men for half a century ; you can ex- 'plain also the strange rumblings that, in certain parts of Italy, seem to come from nowhere in particular, and are known to the peasantry un- der forty of more local names; the desert sound of the Austrilian wil-' derness; the water guns of Lough' Neagh, in Ireland; and the 'aerial detonations that occasionally star- tle Californians during thé warm season, For example, in Septem- ber, 1806, to quote the Santa Rose i §EE i i northwest. I sent ope of the men yp a tree, but he could observe othing unusual. The country round him appeared equally flat 'on all sides, and thickly wooded... What- ever occasioned the report, it made a strong impression on all of us; and to this day. such a soupd in such a situation is a matter of mys- tery to me." Science has not fully eolved the mystery of brontidi, but it can hardly be doubted that the origin of these sounds is really subterran- ean. From a focus far underground the jar of settling rocks sends vibra. tions to the surface; not at one spot, but over a wide area. Then, if the overlying air is calm and mogeneous, it, also, is set in vi- bration ; and if the vibrations are of the right period to be audible, the result is a booming sound. of alto- gether indefinite location--it is sim- ply "in the air." Ste Widen tera Legal Love Letter. g "Who writes you so many letters, dear?! "A young lawyer." (opinion that the battle- Jeo ; | ship ag a fighting craft is doomed. _ All'new construction in 'the Brit- ish shipyards consists of heavily armed cruisers of great coal pares. ing capacity, destroyers and su marines," For ten miles along the Tyne in coming into Newcastle the passengers on: the boats cannot hear each other speak because of the din of the steam hammers most of which are making destroyers and submarines. : When Sir Perey Seoft expressed his doubts of the efficiency of the dreadnought just after England had placed her seal on it as the premier fighting unit of naval warfare, his unorthodoxy made him, the strate- gic heretic of his time, but this war has' come near to vindicating his | theory, for thus far not a single success can be placed to the credit of a dreadnought, while the experi- mental, almost despised, submarine has won most of the naval laurels. France is also reported as hurry- ing the construction of submarines, while Russia is said to have asked for tenders on a submarine of two thousand tons. Del early lame New Brunswick lady Was Restored to Her Anxious Family When Hope Had Gone. St. John, N.B,, Dec. 16th.--At one time it was feared that Mrs. J. Grant, | of 3 White St., would succumb to the deadly ravages of advanced kidnay trouble, "My first attacks of back- ache and kidney trouble began years ago. For six years that dull, gnawing pain has been present. When I exert- ed myself it was terribly intensified.' If I caught cold the pain was unendur- able. 1 used most everything, but nothing gave that certain grateful re- Hef that came from Dr. Hamilton's ! Pills of Mandrake and Butternut. od stead of being bowed down with pain, | to-day 1 am strong, enjoy splendid ap- | petite, sleép soundly.. Lost properties ! have been instilled into my blood-- | "TA Young Logi Sunday School. 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For the outstanding fact i¢ plain- that if the painful progress by 18 to come to an end it must |p, hen either side is ready to 4 vast new army against th called, in scientific = literature, brontidi, a name first used by Prof, Tito Allippi, who has made a spe- cial study of these phenomena in Italy. The "Moodus noises," fa- miliar to old residents of Moodus and East Haddam, Connecticut, are more definitely associated with sub- terranean earthshocks than are ty- pical brontidi; and the same may , which the Canadian Paci-| known agency, are now generally | outing corns with a razor is danger: Railway 'leased in 1911 for 99 I 'ucels 'years shows that new wharves have 5. 46 miles of new track ed; 30 miles of rails have been. laid Ro cattle-guards have been bridges | probably kindred phenomena, al: though they seem to be somewhat{ ous and useless. The only remedy is Put. nam"s Corn = Extractor, which removes corns and warts in one day. Because painless and safe, use only "Putnam's," 25c. per bottle at all dealers. | SCAR Baiting the Railroads. "Our community thinks your rail- road oughter furnish a couple more trains per day. We're going to take the matter to the Legislature, 1» be said of the gouffre of Haiti, too which--at least in some cases--is{ | easily recognized as of subterran- ean origin, La 4 a Although systematic investigations | of brontidi are of recent date, oc- currences of the phenomena have . | been recorded from early times. Lord Bacon mentions "an extra- ordinary noise in the sky when there is no thunder,'"' and similar sounds were known to Humboldt and Boussingault. Captain Sturt, wrote in 1829 | a pioneer explorer of Australia, or | nor a felt. "On a sud- | to be the distance es. Tt] an ception, but it wasn't because they | 'Buti very few people in. your community 'ever travel." {Maybe not. But we like to see the cars go by." INFORMATION FOR INVENTORS Messrs. 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