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13 the average man were asked whazard a guess at the total num- ber of telephone eonversations in the United States during the course 0! a year he would probably reflect a minute and chance “a billion." making ready to back water for the extravagance of his fancy. As a matter of fact he would be some- thing over 13.000.000.000 calls out of the way. [or the statistician of the A. T. 6" T. estimates the num- ber of calls in 1011 at $14.5“).- And Smith and Jones proved to Until-met then bliflfll‘flfi at the 33V- ingot time and chewy which has made the telephone a national m- utitution. Incidentally they are wing one more to the enormous number ofcallu which place Annet- ion 80 far ahead of all other counâ€" Ltiod that there isn't any 5000M. Baton: you get your breath at the veritable ocean of language conjured up by these figures it may be well 00 let you huVe another astonish- im fact carmected with them. The total number of telephone mnver- nations throughout the world during this same year was 22.0001NHLOLH). Which means that the l'nited Stat.- es alone used two-thirds uf the tele- phone messages of the entire earth. Hello! Hello! This you Sm This is Jones. l haven't. time get down to your 0mm. but if can arrange matters over the wone°'~â€"--â€" Out of a total of 115,453,000 tele- pgoncs installed throughout the world. the United States has 8.- 30.3.00!) and all 0f l‘hu'upt' only 3.- 239.000. Of a universal mm! of 29.56li.0ll0 miles nl lvlvlbllnm' wire, the l'nilwl Status Nah l".lT‘J.lFUU miles uni all of lflurupv U,-ll°>l.1,IOU. The number of tvlt‘plhmns per 100 of population is 5.1 for the United States. For tlw (Barman Empire it is US; for (in-at lh'ituin 1.4; for Italy 0.2: for Russia ”.1 ; fur Spain 0.13 and for tln- x-ntin- Wnl'lll 0.6. A T alkative Race of People--Number Woum Make it Peflectly of Calls in [9“ Were 5““ tyrant: l 4.500.000.000 1‘- ‘.‘3si 1 $13,000,000 TELEPHONES Hanson anv anon IN UNITED STATES ”“WFWW tile Will be Prolongeo and lleatb Deputy Minister of Mines ibinls lllill llnly be snort Cessation Discovery llotlm possible but of Breathing Highly Improbable Another step forward in Dr. Alexis Carrell's experiments looking to the prolongation of life is announced at the Rockfeller Institute for Medical Remmh. Some time ago Dr. Car- roll created a sensation in the scien- tific world by keeping a fragment of tissue from a chicken heart “alive" for 104 days. Now he has succeed- ed in separating from the body of an animal the heart. stomach. liv- . or, inteitines. killneyx and bladder. and in having: those organs Hu- and functionate under his eyes for ten hours. “.ilVing dimmtvd these ligflll‘es, you are in a pusitiuu to understand another phase of the situation which is equally impressive. The sum] of $95li.000,000 is invested in the telephones of the United States whivh fact makes it the fourth in- WHEN SEIENHSIS BU Tl] BRING RIGHT in a recent address: "11 It were possible to transplant immediately after death the tissues and organs ~whiuh compose the body into other identical organisms. no elemental death would occur. and all the con- stitumt parts of the body would continue to live." Cisml m "The aim of Dr: meme was thus exp. 'in a recent address t'ion, supplimi continuously m kept at. the r0 an apparatus tor The colleges gives a man polish. And with polish a man appears fme, wonder if that is the reason Some students are seen with a shine. 2M ”SIRS. ROOM. BAH." rpm us won supp] iod nun pl i address: "If it were transplant immediately 215w nu-h Dr._ Carroll's experi- oxpoumlod by him this result. the 3’20" This you Smith? 1 Ct lnunps, and mnpcraturc by k0 rm int-nim- m 21 solu =d aorutm tcle [dustry of the country in point of Iver capita invesunent. ‘ The Provincial Department of .VIin- ies has little faith in the existence l,of coal deposits reported to have ibeen discovered by a farmer in I[Melanchton Township. County of ilhlflerin, and on whirh Toronto peo- 3ple have secured an option. a business necessity. And it growing all the time. Small tlur that \‘initnrs from the Side ol Dhe ocean pick uponlit. a distinctive phase of Am life. "What strikes and frightens the haekwanl European almost as mueh as anvthine I" the l'nited States." he says. ”ls the efficiency and fearful university of the tele« phone. Just as I think of the big t'ities as awlmnet'ations pierced 'eV- er} where by elevator shafts Juli of movement. sol think of them as being threaded. under pa\'(.-tttents and uvct‘ roofs and between floors and ceilings and' between walls. bymil- lions upon millions of live filaments that unite all that privacies of the organism and destroy them in order do not mean that Europe has failed to adopt the telephone. not that in Europe there are no hotels wibh the dreadful curse of an actiVe telephone in every room. llut I 'do mean that the European telephone is a toy. compared' with the unexorable ser- iousness of the Attfirriean telephone. Many otherwise highly civilized Eur- opeans are as timid as in :uhlressing a royal soVel'eiL'n. The average European middle-class lmusoholtlel' still speaks of his telephone. if he has one. in the same falselv casual tune as the corresponding: Amerivan is liable to speak of his motor var. It is naught ~a ne-LrliLrihle trifleâ€"«hut sunmhuw it comes into thq eom'er- Sud: is the present status of the American telefllone. It has work- ad its way into American finance as it has mm the American home. It. has b90001: a social as well as ; Decency is someuhing you demand gun the streets and you pay three ‘.bucks a seat to see violated. sution !" (lurtclephmws are efl‘u:ient. as nur raw un t'hv infn-qumt nevu- siuns when thvv fail to Work um- plv. pmVns. 'l'huy am} universal. as is shown by the figures we have ud- ducod above. And if the fmu'tovn billion tolonhuno mnwrsutiun: which plo'. pl'ans. T!!! is shown by [.ht ducod ahow. billion tolommm are «audited tn inordinate l'uq‘uz vnuuuh fur us 1 l‘ct’nl'tl in hlls‘il :md n-ply that Wurth whilv to HAS “THE HIITH IN BUM fliPflSlTS The department does not, lil'e to say anything is impossible." said Mr. Thomas (lihson. the Deputy Minister. “but the reports of geolo- gists received go to show that the uemll'rent'e of (mill in quantities Miivh would permit of profitable eommerrinl enterprise is unlikely. The scene of the alleged discoveries in Melanehton Township is not a great distnnve from the locality where mulv frziu‘munts whirl] will burn hzu' 0135' turned up by the p10 which was. investigated. however. no lame body of been found. and unless it considerable quantities. it ing more than a curiosity On a similar report about ten years mm the (‘h'wex‘mnent drill was loaned to prospectors operating in the adjoining township of Mulmur. but nothing other than gas was found. and that not in commercial quantity. althmIgh the drill was sunk to almost 1,000 feet. A DEPINATI'ON rl [nus swm m point to luquul'it)‘. it ought to be u.- tu turn to America's husinvss and vmmncme, than wv have sumcthing t' tn talk about. lilm' report about ten the (‘h'wemment drill was 1nd ass it exists If n the plow 31’ coal it American 0 the r “‘0 fl :m noth- Ll'i ft and tar, has . .»\ ('aptain's “pinion. , Fermi him he learned that ice did not seriottsh interfere with him in .his trips. and he has been making them yearly for the past twenty lyears. “If.” said the captain. “the massage were buoyed and lighted lproperlv. and wireless stations es- :tafblished on each side. it is per- lfectly praeti able as a trade route. The idea that Hudson s Strait is an flee-logged ri\ei is foolish. It is i 500 miles long and about 120 miles wide. and at W0 lstenholme it is ,eyen 1% miles wide. There is al- ways a passage. and if wireless ;stations “ete established navigators muld know just \ylieie the ice was "and would be able to avoid the delays they experience now." No llouht Route is l’rat'tii'able. 'l‘llt' explorer juinetl llle shit) on .\u::. 21 of this year. and 13am .1â€" eross Hudson's liay and until they reached .lames liay they did not meet any ice at all. Aeeorling to the information he has obtained from those who make their living by sailim: the sub-aretie seas. there is no doubt that a northern trade route will some day be. established which will largely alter the trans- :portation map of Canada. If the (‘rovernment really wanted ito discover the truth about the llllilttCX‘, he asked. why did they not get the opinion of the big English shipping firms wh‘) traded into those “seas and had unique means of esti- Emating the situation ‘9 i Possibilities of Minerals. I According to The Globe's inform- lant there are great possibilities of lminerals. but the expeditions fitted out so far have been ridiculously in- ;adequate to cope with the needs of the tremendous country. “It is a iworld apart. and no man can get, a conception of its vastness unless he has been up there." he said. “Living 'with Indians and Eskimos. the White ‘men are imbued with their fatalism, and View any enterprise or explora- tion as so much writing: on the, sands of the seashore. to be wiped out utterly Hll the morrow." Buoys, lights and Wireless Ben Hurhes writing from Cochrane for the Toronto (llobe, has inter- Viewed explorers who say the Hud- son Bay route is feasible and with- out any especial danger it safe- ituarded the same as other navigo able waters. He says: "Most of the tales that are being t-yltl of the impossibility of the Hudson Bay as a trade route are mere hearsay and mmsip. The men who naViirate these waters and hue naviirateil them yearly say that if proper pmt‘llllllfllls are taken Hud- son's Straits van easily be, maintain- ed as a regular traile passage.” So speaks a man who has just return- ed to civilization after eighteen months” exploration work for a wealthy syntlieate in the liarrens oi l’ngav . lle joined the llmlwm’o Bay hunt. the Mosmuple. a fourteen-knot Ves- sel 300 feet lomt. at the west end of Hudson’s Straits. and he made particular inquiries of Captain Smith here. a veteran captain. as to what he thought of the Hudson's Bay route. 'I‘he attempts that the Government have made so far to discover the possibility of this mute. says this explorre, lime been largely conduct- ed by people who were unfamil- iar with L'UlllllIlUlln and had nu ex- pert knowledge In Verify what they were tnld. 'l'he l'ludsnn's Bay fac- tor, who is «generally the source of information. has pery little idea of the country :1 hundred miles away from his post. except by rumor and hearsay. Rounding up The Canadiens Montreal, Oct. 2(i.-â€"\Vitll all his player‘s scattered to the four corners of the compass and not a single one in Montreal (icnl'm‘ Kennedy is hav- ing the time of his life rounding up the C‘anadiens. liuhean, who played point on the fast French team last year. lives in Prescott, to-day wired that he will be in Montreal shortly to talk busi- ness. Payan writes that he will be back from Brooklyn, and that he will be playing hockey again this winter. Laviolett is expected back from Fort William shortly, while Pitre, who is at the Sault, is also expeC’ted to return shortly. I‘HE PURCLTPINE ADVANCE Bank of Toronto Leaves Toronta 2.30 p.m. daily ex- cept Sunday up to Sept. let and from Sept. 23rd to 28th, Monday Wednesday and Saturday. 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