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e\) ae is pure; wholesome and Green Black, or Mixed Tea. } — “ 878 an ; b Aidreat Salta, Toronto, co s He ey RECORD, G1. AGES. Actuaries Skeptical About the Claims . of Parr and Morris. Do people ever live more than 106 -years?. Men reported to be well over ‘the hundred mark are likely to re- ceive more credence from the general public, it appears, than from scien- tists accustomed to base their deduc- tions about human longevity on hard and cold facts. In two recent cases, one of a man reported to be of 135 aod another of a man reported to have died in-his 117th year, investi- gations seem to have shown that the York Life Insurance Company. tes: “As I have seen so many unreli- lable statements regarding persons \living to 11’ and older, and as I have never known an authentic case, in- cluding Parr; 6f_a person living be- yond 106, I thought it worth while to trace the case of Thomas Morris through the Bureau of Census. The director of the census informs me that Thomas Morris gave his date of birth in 1900 as 1825 and his age as .75; yet ten years later he gave his age as 116, or an increase of 41 years during the shart space of ten calendar years! One is also puzzled by the fact that he claimed to be 116 in 1910, dnd-yet in 1920 he claimed to be in his 117th year. It is highly probable .that Thomas Morris gave his real age in 1900, and that he actually died in his 95th year—not in his 117th. year. With regard to the famous case of Thomas Parr, who died in 1635, and was said to have been 152 years of age, there is no evidence whatever except his own unsupported asser- tions. It is frequently said that Har- vey the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, testified to Parr’s age; but Harvey merely stated that Parr appeared to be an aged indfvidual and that his viscera were in vigorous condition. It is likely that Parr was in the neighborhood of one hundred years of age. .. Actuaries are naturally skeptical regarding. claims of such persons as Parr and orris, because the re- cords of 150 years have not shown a single insured or annuitant who lived beyond 106. The differences between these persons and those who claim to have lived beyond that age is simply » that the ages of the insured and the annuitants, especially the latter, are reasonably correct at the time the contracts are ed, whereas the others are basing their statements on memory, which must be weak when the century mark is approached.— Literary Digest. The Jews Are Not a Nation. “Jews may ebe a race, or a sect; ‘they are not a nation,” says Frederic Harrison in the Fortnightly Review. They bave a religion of their own, ard inherit physical, moral, and in- tellectual qualities. But that does not make a nation; much less does it give a right to turn other- races out of their oww® homes. Catholics do not pretend to be a nation, nor do they “claim to turn all inhabitants out of the Papal States of the church. Gipsies are not a nation; nor do they claim to return and drive the fella- heen out of Egypt. All people with red hair or long noses, or all the Snuths and Joneses in the Empire, or America, might as well pretend to be a ‘“‘nation’’; or the Daneg claim to return to their ancestral homes in East Anglia. “Jews not ofly are not a-nation,” he says, ‘but they have been for 2,000 years citizens of almost every nation on the earth. They have been active membés of countless poli- tical nationalities for ages, especially of British, American, French, Italian, nd German. They are no more a ation than Buddhists or Quakers.” A Rare Stamp. Chicf among the treasures of the Ferrary stamp collection, which be- fore the war was estimated to be the second most valuable collection in the world and worth something like $2,500,000, was, it is said, the rarest stamp in the world, a one-cent, Brit- ish Guiana, 1856, of which issue’ it is the only known specimen. In that year Demerara ran short of postage stumps Owing to the late arrival of a supply from England, so an issue of one-cent and four-cent stamps was printed off, by order of the authori- ties, in the office of the local ngWs- paper. Presumably the delayed ship arrived soonafter, for of the one-- eent stamps struck only this single specimen has ever been found. It was unearthed by a local resident in 1873, anid sold by him for 75 ts. -T yoars later, it was bought in London for $125. At the Ferrary sale ioe ~expected to -tealize about $25,000, Depth of Sea Measured. The much discussed plan of meas- uping the ocean's depth by sound has worked -out in Th is attached. ¢to the vessel's side under water. » It includes a device for setting off a siaall ¢ _ of i mii me that records bth the sound of the explosion and that of (the. erho™ from -sea-bottom ape BSE + Ce ee explosive, with a. ‘(ine ‘aliference erence of the two te cords shows the dépth very accurate ly. Certain corrections nD ary, roaking allowance for the-travel of the vessel, and for the variation in the velocity of sound due to dif- t 7 ti) ferent water temperatures. “. A Tin Mystery. Anciént vessels of tin are rarely found by archelogists. Some might think this is because tin rusts, but it is not so, for the metal does not com- bine chemically with the oxygen of air or water. It is due to the circum- stance that a sort of decay. does attack it, producing a change in its crystalline structure, the nature of whick. does_not seem to be clearly un- derstood. This ends in reducing, the tin to a fine gray powder. The pro- cess procéeds much more rapidly at certain times than it does at others, ard seems toe transmitted from one picce of tin to another. Sugar Sugar cane requires an abundance of sunshine and water and a deep, fertile sofi. In plantifig the stalks are laid lengthwise in furrows, and | each joint sends up a shoot, which | later produces suckers, When ready | for harvesting a field of sugar cane | resenibles a corn field, but the plants | are somewhat larger and there are | no tassels and no ears. The stalks at this time have been growing about twelve months and have changed from green to reddish in color, while most of the lower leaves have fallen away. They are cut by hand with a long kuife, stripped -of their: leaves and carried on carts or small cars to the sugar mill. It is asserted that there is in India .saficient bamboo to produce 1,409,000 tons of dry pulp a gear. World's. Biggest Gem. What is considered as the largest uncut precious stone in the world is a flawless black opal recently dis- covered in America and now in the office of a Government official in Washington, District of Columbia. The gem is said to contain approxi- mately twenty-one cubic inches, weighs 2,572,332 carats, and is yal- ued by the owners at $250,060. The colors are translucent blues and greens with a little red. The famous Viennese opal, which was. without equal until the American specimen was found, weighs 1,658,927 carats, but has a number of ws. . A Suburban Millionaire. In a small villa at Forest Hill, near London, lives a millionaire without servants or assistants, his wife doing all the housework. He is Mr. G.-L. Moore, who, beginning life as a solici- .to1’s clerk in Belfast, ultimately went to London and carried out numerous financial ventures. ~° ; Everything he touched turned to gold, and to-day he is interested in two hundred and fifty different com- panies, all yielding magnificent pro- fits. Mr.-Moore intends to devote his wealth to phjlanthropic purposes, and recently offered £150,000 for a Vietory Park. He is determined to die poor. Wealth has left him quite un- ehanged. He still gets up at three o'clock every morning, works in the city al. day, and goes to bed at seven- thirty. “Rich people Who livé a pam- pered life are a curse to humanity and society alike,’ Is the view he olds, Safest Angle For a Ladder. Experiments to determine the angle at which ladders should be placed to secure the maximum degree of safety for those using them have shown that the angle of 75 degrees is the best, whatever the height of the ladder. At thi8 angle the ladder is upright enough to prevent slipping if properly grounded, and to ayoid eacessive strain being thrown on it by the weight of the user. To secure this angie it is only necessary to place the foot of the ladder at a distance from the wall roughly equal to ong quarter the léngth of the ladder. — A Pathetic Font. There is in the Fiji Islands a font which, can 5 be described as the most pathetic:in the world. It ‘is made. out of the piece of ruck on which little children were brained before being eaten!" The resuit«pro duced by missionaries on these ‘fg- lands wrung from~Charles ‘arwig this tribute: ‘They have abolished human sacrifices and the power of an idolatrous priesthood, anda sys em of profiigacy' unparalleled in any part of the world.” Missionaries at. work in the islands not many years back ten saw- the ovens where the cannibals baked <heir victinis.—- Loendop Post. —~ ; be ‘Dark at Jane’s, “Say, Bill, you didn’t know that.l» “{ missed my calling.” — : “How’s that?" ‘ be .. “Why, last night, over at Jane's, he electric Hght fuse burat--out. Guees who fixed it?) Me—I-—myself.” “Huh!’-—a final shot Bi events, was an electrician?” ‘boasted Jack. ; 8T@™, being. revolutionized ‘placed than‘in the past. - progressive colleges are coming to authorities are realizing that they ate responsible for the ignorapé among the alumni “of the colleges, the care of the body, as it ‘14s a well known fact that eighty per cent- of graduates die from ten to thirty years before the age at which they shofild, They are also realizing that under the old method less than fifty. per cent. of the students are engaged in any- form of systematic or organizéd.exercise, This is due to the fact that ou> eclleges were, and some are as yet, fostering two c one class attends for social and ath- letic advantages, a the other attends largel.’ for intellectual oppor- tunities. The t nelined to neglect mental work and carry athletics to excess, while the second ‘class is inclined to ‘neglect. physical training and carry mental efforts to excess. Neither class lives strictly hygienic lives. methods to eliminate such conditions and are awakening to the fact that physical. education ~has a legitimate place in the college curriculum, Some of these methods are as fol-. lows: (1) Intra-collegiate sport and recreation in addition to our inter- collegiate sports, with the constant by friendly rivalry. (2) Organization of activities on the basis of athletic sports, rather than on gymnatic basis, giving games to the student if normal physically; if not, remedial gymnatics until fit. It is necessary to have a wide range of sports; games, and physical activties, and a plan to encourage mare. general par- ticipation in them. (3) Exercise tak- en systematically and at regular“in- tervais. (4) A’Bubject with required attendance. entering and at the end of each year, so a student may realize the benefit of systematic training. (6) Encour agement of e. ty of physical exercise that .. student is likely to use in after life. (7) The teaching. of fundamenta! principals of hygienic living. (8) Increase of facilities for outdoor 4n winter and sumate: O. A. C. have been carpied on without these advantages and, in spite of great difficulties, we have been handi- capped primarily in not having an athletic field, and nece$sary funds for equipment which is essential for exe- cuting an effective program; this is our greatest need and .will be a + hinderance to our progressive pro- gram for ear. It is our great desire that it will-not be long before we benefit by both. a+ The whole student, body had a meeting before final examinations on the thirtieth of last March for the purpose of discussing and voting on the new program for the coming year which was outlined by. our athletic exécutive. Professors. Blackwood, Toole, and Crowe, and Dr, Creelman pointed out to the students and fac- ulty the great need of such a program and their duty in regard.to athletics and themsefves. After a discussion, each cause of this program was voted on and passed unanimously by the whole student body. The following is a brief outline of ‘the Athletic Program for the coming year:— (1) Students who have had_pre- vious training to act as leaders in the different branches.of sports—to coach in boxing, wrestling, aquatics, and track and instruct in athletic games. (2) Promote a fuller pro of inter-year athletics by having, sche- dules in more branches of spor Inter-year competitions in the follow- ing sports: Rugby, ‘soccer, ‘play ground ball, push outdoor basket ball, boxing “and wrestling, track, mass athletic meets, nis and aquatics.. (3) For those students who do not take part in these sports, wrestling. . In order to promote this program we had to enlarge managers, picked from” the s , and the Athletic Executive. faeulty Maiiagers of inter-year sports picked from the students.« The ade directors the coaching and managing of ‘their teams and are responsible to their ‘year representative who is a member of the executive. ; ‘+ By such an organization we’ feel confident of swinging-our program ucceasfuHy, which nreans every stu- dent will take part in some branch of athletics. Those. students,“ who come under clauss (3) of Our pro- will be given special instruc- C) \“You're no él : Shot? 2 — you'ré an | on a more stable basis Pee | bougnt’ realize the Supreme importance of |” bringing physical training to: the front in educational work, College |. Now our colleges are adopting new |. piirpose in view of usefulness in after : life. ‘This draws in the spectators on} fo0%; fi the gardener, and, his the side lines and promotea interest |" Or" course, -this is inconvenient. (5) Strength test upon. T. 4 In the past years athletics atthe ball, volley Dall,- cross country runs, tug of war, ten- ‘ The crest re~ in which they will 4 peri } in| quently in old chairs of Sheraton athletic games, field and indoor) qesign, Swimming, -boxing | aD on our Athletic Council which was composed of the To this we added a Leaders Corp and Leaders 'Corp of (one for each sport) -havé charge of Suggestions -athibeties In bn 5 x. WW, (water. from a f hg | ‘Yehp h+s been invented with ‘w“Hole: |) Had made eno plumber. returned Bot so clever as this dear fellow. Now, let us suppose that we have our box at the window. The next id: What shall we’ fice, ever, we must have our bor- der - y perennials. Whethér we go in for vistas and a formal effect, or whether we let naturé, go to speak, run riot, in an informal way, we must have the hardy perennials. Italian gardens are, of course, for- mal;-and so are the Japanese, and -it is doubtful whether it is wise for the amateur, during his first season, to attempt them, alone, If one: hires a gardener, the gar- daner will, of course, insist on his _wife, and possibly a child or two, be- ing -properly lodged somewhere on the premises. And if one’s apartment is very tiny—as°so many dear little apartments-are these days—one may ‘have to ask some of one’s own chil- dren to leave home in order to make But it comes down to the question:.- Do you want things right? Or don’t <¥ou? Do you. want everybody on the block laughing because your window boxes are perfect frights, artistically? Well, then, you wilk have to have a landscape gardener. And probally a Scottish one at that. — No matter how simple your orig- inal plans are, you will find, as the gardening spirit grows on you, that you will not be able to get along without a-rockerry. This will give you a lovely background for your color scheme. Do not. trust your eolor scheme entirely to your gar- dener; work it out for yourself with a kaledoscope. Of course, you already know that the only decent plants for your rock- ery must -be imported from Japan ‘and Switzerland? ‘If you 'don't-imow- it you'll find it out when the neigh- bors begin to hoot at you for being a boob. ‘ The rockery is the place for the bird bath, as, of course, you already know. From the bird bath the water garden should be approached by a sunken path, and there should be a miniature lighthouse where the “Bunken path-joins the lake, It’s easy to go wrong aesthetically right here; and you'd better work out. your water gardén effects in company with a specialist and hand the blue prints to your gardener. . These aré only hints, of course, Any little house-husband who puts his heart into it will be able to get up a very creditable window box, very inexpensively, indeed, if he is really interested. Iceland. poppies give darling effects at times! But we never cared much for the alpines, did you? So many men prefer to idle their time away outside the home. Though Heaven knows where they go or what they talk about, now that the bar-rooms are closed. Just one more hint: plant moss agates in the crannies. Prince of Wales’ Crest. At a distance the personal crest of the Prince of Wales is easily mis- taken for the French ‘‘ffeur-de-lis,”’ but it really consists of three ostrich plhimes with an antique coronet and a scroll, which bear the motto; “Ich Dien” (I serve). The crest and mot- to originally formed the insignia of a king of Bohemla who was killed in battle at Crecy in 1346. Edward the- Black Prince tuok them from the helmet of fallen king, wore them as his own and brought them to Eng- land, where -eventually they, were adopted as the insignia of the Prince f Jupan’s National Flower, In Japan the chrysanthemum is regarded as the queen of flowers, be- ing the Imperial crest, but the cherry blossom is revered as the national flower, representing the people. It is always a decoration on the Japanese sword, signifying the samurai. Oné of the most famous poems in the lan- guage is on the cherry .blossom— which may be done into prose as fol- fows: “If any would know the heart of Japan, let him gaze at the blossom of the nountain cherry shining in the mofning sun!” ‘ , “The, American Language. “Nicé lookin’ lofta fillies in this man's town,” remarked the curbstone boxes for every Window. in the apart- ‘ment. But, of course, all men are}. namely, the waka verse by Motoor%, . Every pound. of ; from a ‘port outside ‘Canadian territory . retards our maritime growth, weakens our national prosperity and places control of a— part of our sea-borne commerce in the Canadian products shipped ate hands of-a competitive nation. a { » -- 4Phe Navy League of Canada > 7 : x & 7 ” ARTIFICIAL STONE. ;-* . { ' rr —— and sna seoekues ae ‘in daily use in every household are Swiss . Have Patented Valuable; | tincial stones made with the help +_Prooess, | of high temperatures; in imitation of The Gyr-Guyer Bank, at Zurich, } nature’s volcanic methods. Switzerland, holds patent rights in a new process. whereny an artificial! Scientific Christenings. stone suitable for building purposes| Ghristenings in the scientific world can be produced at one-third the ordi-| sometimes lead to curious results nary cost of such material. This is} New species of plants and animals deemed of importance at the present! are ysually given.a form of the name ime, P vas ouses are so badly of the discoverer, and the fuchsia, needed | for instance, hides qhite prettily in The stone in question is-an artifi- | its angiicised pronounciation the fact cial sandstone, and the machine for! that it was.christened after a gentle- making it turns out 3,000 molded; man-of the name of Fuchs. The and pressed blocks per day. Thre®!natyralist who named the family of days later the blocks are dry, hard, crystacea followed an original plan, and ready for use. | having many names to bestow. His” Nature has two methods of making | wife's name was Caroline; He took rocks — with water and with heat.) ¢ne letters of that name, put’ them. When you pause on the street to) in a hat, and drew them. out~again Watch thelaying-of-e “granolithic” | in every combination that would yield sidewalk, what you see is an imita-| , ronounceable name f tion of the process by which sedimen- | shelabe and their obusiti«. dates tary rocks are formed, In nature the} naturalist-reversed the p He material is deposited. from water in! na, t tiny particles, which, cemented to- i hea se an ae irate eine gether by silicateg, form Fock. | had been bestowed, and he had also Tho so-familiar Portland cement i8| seven daughters, $o each daughter composed of clay, lime an@ silica,/ag~she arrived, was christened after mixed dry. When water is added the | ono of the worms -Silica is dissolved, and glues the par-| . ; ticles of clay and lime together in a} Picturé Postcards. — solid mass—converting the mixture) picture postcards are evidently into rock. Within recent years there has been | oe agg eta fan is hb? cod _| Bupposed. eir bir as been fixe an enormously increased use of arti ‘shortly after the war of 187M, but it ficial stone in the form of what Wel coms they go back neatly, « centary call te, fr f L conertte; whith if a mikicré © earlier. We are told that. in the sand, gravel (or broken rock) and ;’ —" cement. It has been estimated that “Almanach de la = Poste” of the quantity of concrete utilized in| 1777, one finds e following: the construction of the locks of the; “There are at this moment some @n-*" Panama canal would suffice to built} a continuous street of houses all the! the post on cards, often with com- way from Philadelphia to Ne ork. | munications which are yisible to all. Mortar is a mixture of sama, clay, This new invention is by Demaisdn, j the engraver, and has caused mitch» - and lime, which ‘sets’ solidly, be- = - i talk.” This would establish the claim’ — coming an artificial stone so enduring | 0)". ice to the birthplace of the that in many ancient structures it has | outlasted the stone blocks it held to-| ™°dern pictorial card. gether. Nature knows how to make mortar, as proved by a geological for- | Canard. at mation that covers extensive areas in| The word canard,.a duck, m re. nsas and Texas. It is composed of !also a hoax. Cornelisseu, attempting sand, clay and lime, and is popularly | to try the gullibility of the public, known as the‘mortar beds.” reported in the papers that he had For making artificial marbles there , twenty ducks, one of which he cut are various processes. In Vermont|up and threw to the nineteen, who the debris of. marble quarries is, devoured it greedily. Then he cut up ground up and used for this purpose, ; another, then a third, and so on till Chalk, which is porous, is plunged, Hineteen were cut up. As’the nine- into a solution of mineral oxide, to | teenth was.gobbled up by the surviv~ give it color, and then into a bath/ing duck, it followed that this one, of liquid silicate, to cement its par-;duck actually ate nineteen ducks. ticles together, the result being fine tale gave a new word to the ery hard material that, has the | language. ; ing” of marble, and which takes an! _ exquisite polish. . | Plaster of paris is gypsum. It has| many uses, but we are most familiar: on take off their shoes at the door. incr Syed plaster, which is @0j Pye jadies squat on their side of the When it comes to “igneous” rocks, room to await the bride’s coming. we find that mankind has not failed ee and aa we ore oka cleverly to imitate nature’s methods. | (, aynected to cry f on. bl bate 6 Most familiar in this line is the com-| +), KY. fOr 8. °W ore : e ceremony. Her wedding gifts mon brick. An artificial granite is fromthe com: ints. of made by taking the refuse‘of granite tat than hs aah ; hoe quarries, grinding it to powder, mix-| PICO) oo. REVSS CE'BES,ERS fugit with clay, molding it into ie biocks and subjecting the latter to an intense heat: i a Curious Wedding Customs. _ At a Persian wedding the gentle- Relieves Deufiiess, Stops Head Noises tizard vernacular of the\type. “You Paid it; boy, you said it,” re- c- | plied. the #win lizard, ‘‘The janes in * this burg is easy to look at—if I do greatly benefit -theniselves and say it myself. college. In this way we will be able tid ‘to reach th the New Kind of Drinking Cup. @° person®ta obtain Dbubbliihg fountain a BGR” Ditty Gurough which It ts It is not pt in the ears, but is’) Rubbed in Back of the Ears and Inserted in the. oe ie ‘Has had a successful * sale” since 1907. 2 as i . For sale'in Listowel, Ont.,'Canada, by. Jas. A. Stuart, : enaihctnat Sales of Torekias Ont. This Signature on Yellow _ on gravings which are carried through » =