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Id be destroyed. 'by the fly itself: was only a tiny, white, oval | memorials of antinquity, ersol ores oven LE] ) LLECH oF Ui : nd Norally t the owl. The Rhode- to-day' believe' them to furnish for many years higher ranks of the law, judges e an mvitation to further ex. | (cularly, are. pProverblally long-lived, ologists.. About but many fall by the way in the law. tmosphere 'of mys-| yor's busy calling. 2 of them it may be said, that |" A ¢laim is now being made for these me other of the Important relics of | who 'obtain & comfortable position in quiy, not even the Great Pyramid, | the world of music, aud, instances are esses for us moderns an Interest | given. Sir Walter Parratt, the orghu- ntio and picturesque. v. - fig of St. George's: Chapel, Win has been at his work for sixty- '| years, beginning as a boy "of eleven, It has just been announced from Pro-| and he varies music with the most try- + | vincial Boy Scout headquarters in| Ing of all games, chess. e's 'Toronto that September 8rd will be a Vegtte myer hi Sreauis at, ; y, a 1 ear's bi tario Bo ncsor before Sir Walter, held. the [kown to-day, in the mative 'language,' a oan will Jig Outs fn i post for forty-seven Bete Sir Freder ae Great. Zimbabwe--meaning |ngefion with the Canadian National { ick Bridge, late organist at Westmin- Is the Great Kraal"' | Exhibition in Toronto and it is expect- | ster Abbey, retired when he had held __ The Great Zimbabwe was fn Solo-{ed that thousands of Scouts from all | his Dost forty-four years, 'and he fol- 8 centre of the mining distriet Rich his huge stores of gold. w: ed... They are the Sri 'myst ell as the most interesting | mion's time a large and populous city, | parts of the province will attend. A |I10wed an 'organist, James Turle, who office who was showing os hour looking at his watch, yawning and sighing noisily. > > 'At fhe close of the lecture the pro fessor spoke. "Mr. Smith, why have you looked at your watch every' fe Tiutoh fusing the last hour?" ose" retorted {he professor, mere have been sighing every tow would not like to] still breathing." ty [) portant to the sick per: more #0 in many let may. re- #8 may be judged by the fact that its | special feature of this year's rally, will | bad served the Abbey fifty-six years. recognizable ruins cover an area of | bd'a "Boy Scout Achievement Exhibl- TT. more than three square miles. Doubt: | tion" devoted to a display of the many Weight of a Crowd. 88s its extent was much greater, inas- things - made and collected by Boy | Interesting experiments were made : much as outside of this area are | Scouts in connection with their 'ro-| some time ago at Harvard University tered remains of many important ficiency badge work. These will In-| which seem to demonstrate that ene Structures, and mounds hundreds of clude. model bridges, bird houses, | gineers usually underestimate the Yards In circumference which have | model aeroplanes, collections of | maximum loading caused by dense been found to contain conical towers, | leaves, woods and other nature speci- | crowds on bridges, floors and plat- traces of walls, ete, mens, pathfinder and surveyor maps, | forms, Forty men averaging 163 The city was formidably fortified, | firemaking outfits, knot boards, etc.| pounds in weight placed In a box six and must have been garrisoned by re- | The Toronto Boy Scouts Association | feet square caused an average pres- . Siments of troops, In the middle of |wHI conduct a model camp during the | sure of 181 pounds to the square foot it rose an isolated granite "kopje" two [first ten days of the exhibition "and | on the floor. : : 'hundred and fifty'feet high, which was [will also operate a camp for the con-| .An engineer has estimated the Crowned by a fortress. The latter was | venience of visiting troops which de-| weight per spuare foot of the densest probably in its day the mightiest | sire to rémain in Toronto for a longer [crowds on the New York elevated Stronghold in the world, an unassafl | period than the Saturday of the rally. railways at only 45 pounds, but since able citadel, its south side being de- [Aside from the conveniences pro-| thé Harvard experiments the opinion fended 'by ninety fept of sheer preci- | vided, however, visiting scouts will be | has heén, expressed that the maximum Dice, while massive labyrinthine walls | entirely at their own expense. loading on the elevated cars and pldt- rendered approach to the summit pos- Jind, deo forms may be nearer 181 than 45 éible only through marrow passages | Three new appointments of provin- | pounds. This applies to other cloge easily blocked, 4 ¢ cial interest: were sanctioned .at the crowds. : "The mines of King Solomon 'were | May meeting of the Provincial exéou. "XEEP YOUR HEALTH worked by a Boer 3.0% tive. tive' committee. They were the ap- UR HEALT hid Negro slaves, and gli of the gold. out. otubent of Mr. John G. Kent, Qen- : | Put was brought to the Great Zimbab- | eral Manager of Toronto Exhibition Wei to- be - converted into ingots for {and formerly President of the Toronto pment. - It 'was thence that cara- | BOY Scouts Assoclation, as Scout Cont ng. Heparted . r the sea- [Iissioner™for Toronto, and the' ap- BI Ho cao I een | ointment cr Mr. Gow. Sot WO hundred miles, carrying, under |land and of Mr. Harold Motton of med guard, gold, ivory, and other | Brampton . as Honorary Field Secre- Precious merchandise destined for |taries attached to provincial head: d ine-and-Arabia.- A SURMONE ov Ll : jewellery of Oldep Days. # Foxborg and Camnington . Scouts T In the Great Zimbahwe,arg found ex: nave. planned bls eld. day for the tensive rorighopagor the handling of' 24th of May, = Toronto Scouts are] gold, in which objetts of that metal [foiding their spring Celebration four! (as discovered by excavation) were | days later on the 28th, with a city-wide | strewn over the cement fldors "as rally and "Jamboree," i AE thick as nails in'a carpenter's shop," : . . . J . There were also furnaces for melting At. the end of April 0 0 the gold, soapstone molds into, which | proops were pln in a Se] It was poured to make: ingots, burnish- | youn ana villages'in Ontario. Ing tools, etc. The manufacture of > | gold jewellery seems to have beén pur- A i bg sued on a considerable scale, judging His Hearing Restored, from the number of bangles and other | The invisible eardrum invented by ornaments recovered from the ruins. A. 0. Leonard, which is a miniature armless and cert: Ir 'action, which is to bufl thy : 'e vitality to run. v i a growing who re 'thin 'and. , for 'pale, tired wo- : for old people who fail in : ims' Pink Pills are ) e testi- the mis The region here described is: now |magaphone, fitting inside the ear en- believed to be the Havilah of Scrip- | tirely out of sight; i restoring the ture, which speaks of "the whole land | hearing of. handreds of people in New of Havilah, where there is gold." The | York City. Mr. Leonard invented this seaport of Sofala (on the East Afri- [drum to relfeve himself of deafness can eoast, close to the twentieth paral- | and head noises, and it does this so lel of South latitude) is almost un- successfully that no one could tell he doubtedly the Tarshish of 'the Bible. [is a deat man. It is effective when 'When the latter mentions Solomon's deafness is caused by catarrh or by "ships of Tarshish," it refers to his | perforated, or wholly destroyed natur- fleet of sailing vessels which voyaged | a1 drums, A request for information southward through the Red Sea and [to A. O. Leonard, Suite 437, 70 Fifth down. the African shore to Sofala, Avenue, New York City, will be given Mining engineers, as a result of care- | Prompt reply. advt ful study of the ancient" workings, ---------- Sickroom Clock. { irning! Unless Jou soe the name have estimated that at least $400,000, "Bayer" on package or on tablets you worth of gofd must have been taken out of them before--rather suddenly, it would appear-- they were abandon. ed. Solomon' © was doubtless large, Judging from the plentifulness' of the precious metal in Jerusalem, as' described in the Bible, where, ds. 'we are told, "silver was nothing account led of in the days of Solomon," and | 'was "made to be as stones." ikely she obtained much additional gold through trade with the Himyark tes and Sabaens. E 7] abwe. it | auch as 4,000 years old. Forty Centuries Ago. t entirely possible that [10203 products to. the value of | A sickroom clock invented in Swit zérland has an electric lamp beside a translucent dial, so that when an in- valid in bed presses a button the dial throws the shadow of the hour and hands magnified upon the ceiling. PREC. SE, MONEY ORDERS, When ordering goods by mail send '¥ {a Dominion Express Money Order. BE ae. The forests of British Columbia in nerease of $22,000,000 5 2 EE a Minard's Liniment Relleves Distemper are hot getting genuine Aspirin at all. In evety Bayer package are directigns for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rieu- matiem, Earache, Toothache, Lumbdgo and "for Pain. Handy tin boxes" of twelve tablets cost few cents. Drig- gists also sell larger packages. 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