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here and there great britain used 1000000000 gal- ions of petrol last year a banana plant bears a single bunch of fruit and is then cut down whales have been caught with as much as two tons of shrimps inside them there are 5167 publichouses and beorhouses in the london county area there are sc3 justices of the peace for the county of london and 27 for iut city people who go to the seasido to re- cuperato after illness should indulge in sunbathing only ou medical advice great britains total population is 447904s5 this is ovei 2000c00 higher than the figure for 1921 american aro fond of sweets their consumption of chocolates and candies last year working out at 12 50 per head i the population one of the largest forests in the world situated between the ural mountains and the okhotsk sea in jlussia stands on ice in spite of tho increase in unemploy ment figures british industry as a whole employs 727000 more workers than it did five years ago it is now possible to travel from london to karachi india by regular aeroplano services in a few hours over five days with the exception of belgium bri tain is the most densely populated country with c85 persons to the square mile a gas which stops an aeroplane if any enters the engine is the latest german device in tho wa against air craft an offer of freo telephone installa tion in home italy during may brought in 13000 new subscribers after london britains largest cities are glasgow with 1088417 in habitants and birmingham with 1- 002413 divorces are becoming much more common in 1871 there were 106 cases in england scotland and wales in 1929 there were 339g organized airlines now cover -130- 000 miles in regular routes over which 600000 passengers and 13000 tons of mails and freight are carried every year among private motorcars the aver age horsepower is 1311 the average petrol consumption 20 miles per gal lon and tho annual average mileage 7000 one big firm of drapers in the west end of london estimato their annual losses through shoplifting at 10000 they prosecute thieves in about 250 cases evory year a cow sweats to somo extent but in cows the sweat glands are not abund ant except on the end of the nose that is why a cow sweats freely on tho muzzlo while perspiration is hard ly perceptible elsewhere on her body among the true ostriches ot the old world several females lay their eggs in tho same nest and the malo sits on the eggs during tho night while the hens take turns at the job during the day all fish have an organ very similar to the human car by which they main tain equilibrium and through which they are conscious of sounds and vi brations in tho water about them red snow which is to bo found on vancouver island- is puzzling thoi scientists where tho snow lies deep it is of a decided red color although when a handful is picked up it appoars i white searching all over the world for rare j mice is tho unusual hobby of n young man who has discovered innumerable i types ranging from tho size of rats i down to less than one inch and a quarj ter in length j new delhi tho seat of government in india is only used half tiio year tho result being that for six months out of every twelve it is a deserted city with mules and camels roaming in tho principal streets divorce is now very simple in china j a married couplo simply writo down a declaration ot ther desiro to scpar- nto and sign it beforo two witnesses who eso sign they they aro divorced j if however cither party objects a court action is necessary approximately 10000 head of cattlo have been shipped from canada to the united kingdom so far this season nccording to information in tho office qf tho hon robert weir minister of agriculture believed to bo the oldest ship afloat tho success solo survivor ot tho oldj tlmo convict fleet which journeyed be- 1 tween england and australia remains i in her original state and sails round tho world as a sideshow largo enough to supply 3000 por tions tho worlds biggest applepie re cently mado at birmingham was 12 ft long 10 ft wido and 2 ft deep it contained 4 cwt apples 1 cwt flour cwt lard and 28 lb sugar all british produce ducks and certain waterfowls do not get wet becauso their feathers are kept in an oily condition by small oil glands whilo paddling about in tho water ducks frequently bend back and rub oil on their heads from tho glands nt tho baso ot the tail and then oil their feathers with their heads in ad- ditier to being supplied with oil the feathers of a duck aro exceeding dense which aids in keeping out tho water e specially 300c f or children can eat all they want of this nourishing whole milk food on gra ham crackers toasted or in tempting sand wiches for school unches velveeta contains all the elements of rich whole milk it is digestible as milk itself hilltop and aunt ellen i suppose there are sorte things we hoard close in memory and which in the naivete of our childlikeness we think can never change so the little town of hilltop was with me- and the strange part is that it is difficult to say why my acquaintance with it was limited to about six short summer vacations in childhood during which my family occupied a cottage just across the creek from the little town itself to reach this quaint village you came down a long green meadow from the white clapboard house pass ing under a great ei its green some what grayed with tho years and under which so the town folks will tell you and turpentine and tar is a cold ster ile cleanliness of a modern factory that makes little paper boxes all day long there is a challenge of brick and mono everywhere and 1 thought all bad yielded to its insistent clamor it was with some misgiving then that i walked l a familiar treelined street to aunt ellens 1 had not seen nor heard from ler in all the years that i had been vay and i wondered a little if progress too had had its way here as i walkel i remembered our meeting it was upon the occasion of my first trip alone from our sum mer cottago to town i was very brave in my smug assurince of eight years the journey held no terrors made oy the makers or kralt cheese and kraft salad dressing j indians once held their powwows j with which i did not fool equal to cope crossed the bridge and walked up ajl was coining down tb j narrow board- little dirt road and presto you were walk she was coming up and in or- ou hilltops main street der to give her room to pass i stepped doubtless all of us remember some j too wide and tumbled dowi ignobly in- to tho street in a second she had find animal life waxes then wanes strange outside influence dominates man beast and plant great laws link all matamek river que many inter esting and surprising facts concerning animal life were revealed at the cana dian biological conference held re cently in matamek factory comments lois currier in tho ny times he writes a summary ot tho work of the con ference prepared by dr ellsworth huntington of yale university has just been made available for publica tion reviewing the discussions dr hunt ington says fluctuations of all sizes and sorts were discussed not only irregular fluctuations but cycles with lengths ranging form 30 months to 260 years or more such fluctuations occur in trees insects fish of the sea fish of tho rivers game birds birds of prey mice rabbits and a dozen different furboaring animals that prey upon their smaller neighbors they also oc cur in bacteria and other parasites rfliich cause epidemics among animals and sweep them away by the millions rcproducion diseases and deaths among human beings also came in for discussion agricultural fluctuations and even financial panics were not neglected a number of solar lunar and meteorological cycles wero sug gested as causes ot the cycles in plants animals and man somewhat to the surprise of the con ference continues the report the main discussion did not centre around the wellknown sunspot cycle ot eleven years but around shorter cycles of four years and especially nine or ten tho fouryear cycle was described by dr a o gross of bowdoin collego as re rose ye ft n goobtfcxl such old village with a white covered bridge leading into town and per chance a red one leading out with board sidewalks lying between i sup pose all of us must remember too how harshly that which we misname progress has encroached slowly but surely upon all which we onco held hallowed so you will understand how rudely i was jarred upon coming back some time ago to be greeted first by a new concrete bridge and second by a sign extolling tho virtues of hilltops royal hotel ono hundred rooms and baths with a radio in every room now i would be tho last to dis- parago tho obvious advantages and utility of one hundred rooms with baths to say nothing of an equal num ber of radios but oh i did miss the old covered bridge i missed its dusty shade and the chinks in its roo that let the sunlight filter through to lie upon the floor in multitudes of fantastic shapes i bicycles auto tibes 8p0bt goods picked me up wiped off my face with a consolatory dab to mj nose with her white handkerchief smelling sweetly i know now of lavender would you she inquired like some gingerbread j o discerning woman had she said i so 1 have walked barefoot and been busy with great thoughts classified advertising i have walked barefoot along drench ed trenches mile on mile in meditation my thoughts have come in rhythm with my stride slowly across the waste oer laud and sea and sky seeking their destination in my heart chocolate cake i would never have yielded even lemon tart would have found me somewhat reluctant but gingerbread has it i inquire gravely rais ins raisins she assented and smiled so from that meeting we became fast friends and i called her for no reason that i know about now aunt ellen it was with such thoughts that i walked up the vineshaded path to the old colonial doorway under its grape like gloom my heart beat faster as i lifted the brass knocker she might not remember and she might have changed and i thought desperately missed too the old bo rd walk now concrete that led up to jacks gen- j of bobbed hair and bright dresses but oral store dry goods and notions it was tho same familiar face that an- now the hilltop national bank i had swered my knock it might even liavo counted upon jacks wth its cool dim- been tho same black lace dress and being well shown by the migration of ness and open cracke- barrel and the high white collar she peered at me the snowy owl into new england ye cheese under glass covers but intently for a moment and for a see- again i was forced to bow to progress j ond i had a desire to run away and and forego an old and cherished dehido from my impending disappoint- snowy owl charles elton of oxford university describes tho same cycle in far north ern mice lemmings and ptarmigan aiid also in the arctic fox and snowy owl which feed upon lesser types of animals similar cycles in britain were cited i and also in norway whero lemming migrations have been known for hun dreds of years dr william rowan ot the university of alberta has found a fouryear cycle in western mice and shrews tho regular course of events seems to bo that the mice lemmings and ptarmigan increase enormously in numbers for a season or two foxes owls and other creatures are thus pro vided with abundant food thay too increase so fast that tho number ot skins brought in to the hudsons bay company may be many times as great at one phase of the cycle as at an- i other thousands die in crash then there comes a change so sud den that tho term crash was ap plied to it light onco there were canals ment but then she stepped back and and oblivious to sinking of my feet in sand along my way oh i have been oblivious to laws and labors of the waters sweep and swung be side me been oblivious within great thoughts i have been busy carl john bostelmann in christian science monitor river opened wido tho door warehouses dotti- tho outskirts of come in she said simply the the old town but the canals are long gingerbreads most done 1 inquired exult antly for the trains have como and the mo- j raisins she laughed tor trucks and yes oven airplanes and i knew there are some things in place of the dusty romance of hemp that do not change j c r since gono and the warehouses are del with raisins sorted now tliere is no use for such tivity in the united states with a period ot 186 years when measured by the five cycles between 1837 and 1930 during the samo time there have been six financial panics separ ated by fivo averago periods of 184 years the panics go with tho agri cultural depressions but may precede or follow them there can bo no doubt that migra- i tions of animals and variations in i their numbers aro often due to food supply a clearcut examplo is the migration of snowy owls when the supply of mice runs short after a the rodents and gamo i perio1 of great abunuance tho cx birds begin to die by the thousand or traorataary variations in numbers of somo of them such as the rabb muskra and other rodents million seated a number of curves indicating an elevenyear cycle in tree growth agricultural production the value of fish and abundance of animals it was thought however that much of the evidence advanced in support of the eleven or twelve year cycles fitted equally closely into a cycle of nine to ten years more significant was dr hunting tons charts showing a distinct cycle of droughts and of agricultural produc- supply one of the most interesting of such wanderings is the migration of sperm whales described by dr charles townsend of tho new york aquarium the minute forms of life upon which these huge animals feed in or- luuuus imisttwils iwiu utuvi luuvina upon which uiese hugo aillllli lemming migra o long distances only j from ono cxtrcme o tho tenyear cycle are abundant only in summer to meet death in some other region j o tho ouler ar0 clearly one ot the i der to obtain the huge quantities the creatures that have been feeding ma wusw forvnilauom in numbers wlchh form their meals tho whales j upon them soon become hungry they l m and othcr fur i each wandel back aim lorul over i frva lal t ll avw nlun marvvnttfa rs i i f aluminumplated iron incapable of oxidation london a new process for the plating ot iron with aluminum has recently been evolved in sweden says engineering the process is the result of experimental work by h johansson of stockholm the plat ing process is carried ou at a tem perature of 90 deg c and it is stated that the aluminum not only covers the surface of the iron effec tively hut penetrates into the base metal to a certain extent the re sultant product it is claimed resists oxidation and the influence of cor roding gases and fluids the pro cess has been subjected to a seriej of tests at the sandviken iron and steel works and this concern has acquired the sole rights for sweden norway denmark and finland for the use of it in connection with the manufacture of colddrawn and roll ed tubes and cold drawn iron strip which latter product is extensive ly used for the packing of pulp wood at the present time tho process is being tested in connection with the manufacture of hotrolled sheets and such appliances as kitchen ranges j stoves dairy utensils and meat mincers why arc you looking so fedup i bought a book called how to make love and now i dont know what to do why well it says yon should take the girls hand look into her eyes and say i love you bea- i trice whats wrong with that 1hkee new 19311932 catalogub 1 auto accessories tires sports goods bicycle liadios big money pavers toronto tire and radio sale co 19135 dunda west toronto little children he who will not learn from llttlo children will never gain any of the prizes of life o employment in canada showed a slight upturn at tho beginuing ot july as reported by the dominion bureau of statistics the 7s03 firms report ing showed an employment roll of 94022 workers or 1791 more than a year ago tho index number now stands at 1038 kennedy menton 421 collego st toronto harley davidson distributor write at once for our bargain hst or used motorcycles terms arranged best for ou oj bnlv too when cranny wasyouno she used babys mm my girls nama is lizzie too begin to dlo or else migrate to opens friday august 28 keen enjoyment and inspi- even greater distances snowy owls for example aro described by dr w moid blair ot the new york zoological park and by dr gross as moving ration follow avlslt to the largest vom subarctic canada to southern annual exposition take a day now england and new york by thou- or two or the entire fourteen i the generally perish for they j do not appear to return north and days seeing things new and cannot brcc1 so far south strange from other lands listen- j m the plains around edmonton ac- ing to music of famous bands cording to dr rowan a cycle of al- or the exhibition 2000voice j tc years i3 grouse somo other nonmigratory birds and chorus watching some sport and also in their enemies such spectacle of international re- las tho coyote lynx red fox and other j furbearers further north tho volum- i inoiis records ot tho hudson bay coin- pany liavo given mr elton abundant i data which show a cjlo of 97 years in hares muskrats grouse lynx red j fox marten wolf mink and goshawks tho extraordinary thing about all this is not merely that many different animals show the samo periodicity i but that the same period occurs in tho i far northwest ot canada and all the way south into tho united states tho j increase or decrease in the animal population appears to begin in tho far north and to work its way southward land eastward teaching southeastern of the easttrn world nightly grand- j canada after three years or so in itand pageant also for the 4 concerts by spite of this tho period ot ten years internationally famous exhibition or a llttlo less is constant in eacr re- 2000voicb chorus in the ion coliseum still moro astonishing are the re- grandstand pageant of a g huntsman ot tho orientiarcsertedseals100 i hw t an t n it nu ti atlmit in i tlc biological station dr earlo b 11 ilhe1 of columbia university and each box j r d l nclding of boston university exhibition 2000voice j sc of medicine xisi tho records chorus sat aug 29 thurs of tho commercial catch of salmon in sept 3 tues sept 8 and sat sept j the bays along the coast of new 12 ground floor reserved lie box j brunswick dr huntsman found indl- ing animals routes 0000 or 8000 miles long enjoy- it was also made clear that sea ani- ing our summer in tho northern hem- mals wander about in hugo numbers 1 isphero and- moving to the southern in response to variations in their food hemisphere tor the southern sum- crease in tho vital activities of both mer plants and animals all over north america from the borders of alaska to tho maritime provinces and north ern united states and also in the ad jacent seas dr ralph e dclury of tho do minion observatory at ottawa pre- future bobby jones nown or the grandstand pageant unfolded on the worlds largest outdoor stage the canadian national exhibi tion is different bigger more wonderful more diversified than any other exposition send now for illustrated literature describ ing in detail the forthcoming canadian nauonal exhibition mail reservations now for orientia glamorous spectacle chairs 100 auc28fosepti2l93 worlds greatest permanent exposition 5sbscomsgeutiveyear jaioooo0o invested buil0img5 parkequipmeht sam harris h w waters pmijai general manager cations that the salmon como and go in periods of 9g years still another typo of evidenco of tho 1 tenyear cyclo was contributed by dr i huntington himself ills mcasurc- i ments of the annual rings of growth in i tho giant sequoias of california show- 1 ed variations in rato of growth rccur- ring in about ten yea cycle found in tree growth i thus onco in ten years or a little j less something seems to happen which causes an increase and then a de- i fish affected differently i tho fish of tho sea apparently are affected by different influences and i in different manner from land animals as shown by dr harry m kyle of hamburg and glasgow their num- i hers may vary enormously but a year i in which fishermen do not catch a 1101- i mal quantity of fish does not neces sarily mean that there aro fewer fish than usual in the sea the ocean is so hugo that tho host food supply or tho best spawning grounds may lead iho fish to concentfato in parts of tho ocean where there is commonly little fishing tho rato of reproduction as a casual factor in fluctuations is also empha sized tho averago litter of snow- hoo rabbits tends to increase in cer tain years and to decrease wiion scar- city of food occurs dr huntington showed that even in man tho rato of 1 reproduction is closely correlated i witli climatic conditions a rapidly increasing raco like tho japanese would decline in numbers if tho rela- i live rates of deaths and of conceptions j resulting in living births stayed steadi- ly at tho lovels of september when 1 health and vigor aro at a minimum i ono of tho outstanding features of i tho conference dr huntington says i was tho frequency with which was emphasized tho fact that in spite of i minor differences tho general reac- tions of men animals and even plants to physical environment aro cssontial- 1 ly tho same certain great laws seem to run all the way through tho wholo realm of life and ono result of the working of theso laws in cycles are a i very widespread phenomena then as nowthe leading canadian soap for toilet and nursery best for you and baby too 10c in individual cortons u albert soaps ltd montreal he couldnt read for indigestion m for some years previous to 1923 i was subject to indigestion with head aches and thousands of stars sparkling in my eyes which prevented 111c from leading 1 decided to try kruschcu salts that was august 1912 and i have taken a little in my first morning cup of tea ever since 1 now eat any thing and am entirely free from 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it took away the pain i used to suffer and i am getting well and strong this medicine is helping mrs kenneth cooper of 9 davison st halifax nova scotia it will help you too wont you buy a bottle t libajt 1 fly catcher gets the fly every time vegetable compound 1 issue no 3531