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- bh HAP Esperts' Congr. Evirott From a Bird's ar oe _ BlueEyed Babies Before writing a paper for a sclen- tific journal on the skylark, Noble Rollin took the trouble to time more than a thousand songs of that bird, He found that the range varied from one to nineteen minutes, and that the autumn song was twice as long as that in July. i During the past century the whole GENERAL -- -- -- ----. TRAVISS universe has been reduced to figures. There is nothing too small or too great to be carefully counted, from the number of electrons in an atom to ~ the distance between oug sun and the star islands remote in space. _ We Spoke of the skylark. The statis- tics accumulated about birds alone are sufficient to fill many volumes. We know the exact size and weight of several thousand kinds of birds, the size gnd weight of their eggs; we know the weight of food each eats and the speed at which they fly. The Farmer's Worst Enemy Immense pains have been taken to find out exactly what amount of fish each sort of British gull eats, and how much in each case consists of the kinds of fish that man eats, It has been found that the guillemot is the worst offender, 51.42 per cent. of its food consisting of food fishes. The razorbill comes next; while the com- mon gull eats only 5.16 per cent. of the same sort of fish that human beings can eat. Naturalists have analyzed and count- ed the contents of the crops of num- berless birds, and so proved that the wood-pigeon 1s the English farmer's worst enemy. Eight hundred grains of wheat were found in the crop of one bird. By watching a pair of spotted fly- catchers for sixteen hours on end, a naturalist was able to prove that a family of these invaluable birds con- sume just over 15,000 insects per . week. Russians Die Earlier We have recently had a census. Man is, of course, man's principal study, and the facts revealed by censuses are extraordinarily interesting. For in- stance, we learn that the average age of French people is thirty-two and a half years, while that of the people of the United States is only twenty- five. France has 126 persons in each thousand over sixty years of age, but Russia only forty-six. The census enumerator does not ask the color of your eyes or hair, but scientists have collected figures on these and similar subjects, and some of the results are distinctly odd. Among them 446 per thousand have Hght or pale-colored eyes, but among women the proportion is only 342 per thousand. One hundred and twenty- . three men in each thousand have dark eyes, but the feminine proportion is 207. Twins occur thirteen times in every thousand births, triplets 160 times in a million births, but guadruplets are twenty times rarer than triplets. 'our Favorite Names Botanists are fond of figures, and have told us that a bushel of wheat contains 566,000 grains, a bushel of rye 888,000, but it must have taken much patience to prove that there are no fewer than 16,400,000 seeds In a bushel of clover. A peculiar fact is at a twenty-year-old mulberry-tree produces 217 pounds of leaves suitable for feeding silkworms. Careful statistics have been collect ed as to names, from which we realize that John is the favourite Christian name in England, followed by Thomas, 'William, Richard, and Robert, in that order. Mary is the favorite among women's names, and during the past hundred years sixty-eight girl babies out of every thousand have been chris- tened Mary, Eliza, Sarah, Anne, Jane and Ellen come next among girls' names, or did so up to the date of the Great War. Nothing is too small to he covered by the statistician. He can even tell you the number of pins we use, the average number being 520,000,000 a week all the year round.--London "Answers." . ---- es America Knuckles Down To Marble Playing -- EIST x Ry S AR ASR AFT LEC SEL RNEASY Owl Laffs 'Miss Ima Hardnut, of Brushville, has returned the lavallier her sweetie gave her because it made a green spot on her wishbone, Teacher--"Robert, here is an ex- ample in subtraction. Seven boys went down to the creek to swim, but two of them had been told not to go in the water. Now, can you inform me how many went in?" Robert--"Yes'm; seven." If you want to find out how valu- able you are about an institution, lay off a week and see how easy it is to fill your place. 'This is a a good cure for a person who has allowed his con- ceit to assume undue proportions. Flattery often leaves a pleasant feel ing even though you know it is flat tery. There ought to be a law against travel bureaus sending their alluring summer trip folders to busy folks. They disrupt the entire day's work. It is now claimed that no man can really love until he is 60. A lot of peo- ple are lying about their age it this is true. The radio inventor who will in- vent a radio which will tune out pro- grams filled with boring advertising broadcasts, will make a fortune. An optimist is a guy who thinks his wife has quit cigarettes when he finds cigar butts around the house. A Scottish lassie, © who applied for a job as an artist's model, was told to come down again the next day and to bring along father and mother, Gerald--"Hello, aren't you a stranger around here?" . Imogene--"Yes, to you!" Any store, any business, that lets a gang of loafers hang around it, no matter how fine and charming they may be personally, is sure to fail. These hangers-on won't buy much. But they will keep real customers out of a place. Mrs, Pemberton--"It is sald that the young girls to-day are abandoning all restrictions." Lewis--"How 80?" Simpson--""When he remits ip pay- ment he writes: 'You have already found the enclosed cheque'." It's Up to the Girls When skirts were short, some funny things Both fat and thin were viewed; We hope those props will be improved Ere short skirts are renewed. Father (to son who is leaving on summer vacation)--"Don't let me hear any bad reports about you." Son--*I'll try, Dad, but you kno how these things leak out." . Wedlock often develops into a dead- lock. Bathing beauties are among the bare necessities of life. The late! husband catches the early morning lecture. The turning point in a man's life often is when he begins turning his pay envelope over to his wife. Men have only themselves to blame. Wo- men buy nearly everything on their account. Some wives seem to think This is the marble Boys are *knuckling down" all over the United States with shouts of "clearance" and "dubs" and with arguments over the value of "immies" and "aggies." In New York the annual tournament for the marble championship of the city was recently concluded and the winner received a gold watch given by the, Rotary Club and presented to him by Aldermanic President Joseph V. Mc- Kee. The game of marbles is played dif- ferently in different sections. Some play "ringers" and some play "liners and some play a game in which the | marbles are tossed into a hole scooped in the dirt. The game played in New York City championships is a form of ringers. Thirteen marbles are ar- ranged on a small mound around which a ring hap been drawn, The ob- ject of the game is to hit the marbles out of the ring. Each player gets a + turn lasting as long as marbles are - successtully hit out or until his "im- my" does not roll out of the ring. WOOL HIGHEST PRICES PAID The Canadian Wool Co. Ltd. 2 CHURCH ST. TORONTO GET RID OF CONSTIPATION Dr. Carter's famous Little Doe pillar Entirely V. ] 25¢ & 75c red packages Ask your druggist for 1 + ISSUE No. 26--'31 | good-night 7" do first?" it isn't very much better to be old and rich, either: Boundingly up through Night's wall' Embattled crags and clouds, outbroke Above the conscious earth, and one Her heights and depths absorbed to His fluid glory, Of mountaln-granite which, Laughed first the thanks back, to the On fold of vaporswathing, Shattered beneath some giant's stamp. Her work done and betook herself in a pair of tights. She brought "her |' To marsh and hollow, there to bide Blindly in acquiescence. Did earth acknowledge Sun's embrace Thrilling her to the hearth of things: No ore ran liquid, no spar branched No arrowy crystal Glad through the inrush--glad nor Than, 'neath his gaze, forest and wild- Hill, dale, land, sea, the whole vast The universal world of creatures bred Mr. Pemberton--""Well, I'd better s not catch Mary Katherine without By Sun's munificence, allke gave hers on." praise, 3 --Robert Browning, in Poems. | ----p------ Simpson--"Hallerston is the most . brutally frank business man in town." Paris Suburbs Grow slowly. their husbands are made to order. A girl may allow herself to be led to the altar, but that's when the leading ends. Dashing young ladies often lead fast lives, Even in these swift modern times occasionally a girl may be found who is so slow that it takes her thirty years to reach the age of nineteen. Paul--"Are you going to kiss me Eve--""Mercy, No! thing I'll do." Paul--"All right, then, what'll we That's the last It's terrible to be poor and old, but inmate edie The Sun's Munificence dense and dark, the Sun by one the last spark from the far fine ridge trans- formed to gold, vale's dusk fold like a bridge Night wist mist her time Everywhere sublime, since there anew, gleamed, straightway grew but more nor less erness, stretch and spread, Paris--Paris suburbs are growing rapidly, the recent census shows, while the city itself expands more The explanation lies in the housing problem and in suburban communications, In 1926 the census showed an in- crease of 220,000 inhabitants in the suburban districts of the Depart- ment of the Seine, while the popula tion of Paris itself decreased by 27, 000, Since then Paris has annexed the outer zone, where the old fortl- fications stood, with a population of 40,000, and apartment buildings have been built within the city limits aec- commodating 39,000. Notwithstanding thir increase, the total gain in the 1931 census was 20, 000 for the city, while the popula: tion of the Seine Department was augmented by 280,000. Migration of the Paris population to better quar- ters in the suburbs has been made possible by improved transit facili- ties. mimi res A Sense of Progress 1 was dining once in London, quite informally, with a great electrical en- gineer, a very trim maid in attendance. At the table near my host's right hand was a small block of white marble and a tiny silver mallet. When he wanted the maid, he struck the mar- ble a resounding blow. 1 was somewhat amused, and asked him it he had ever heard of a push- button for the same purpose. "My boy, I have," was his reply, "but 1 get enough of electrical devices in the city; 1 don't want a single one of them in my own home. ( I've not come yet to using gas; I prefer candles; they are not so likely to get out of or- waiting for something to, happen. When I make a nolse myself I begin to feel a sense of progress; that's what we stand for in this country,"--with a | knowing wink, -- progress."--A, Ed- ward Newton, in "A Magnificent | Farce." | Large illustrat: 4 ed catalo, der. I hate this pushing a dimple and | - The handsome Silver cup, shown at long ranges. which forms the base. of the pedestal. above, was sent to Lt. Col. R. J. Bird- whistle, secretary of the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association, Ottawa, by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, to be shot for at the famous meet- ing at Bisley, England, by teamg from various parts of the British Empire, It is 30 inches high, Including the triple wooden mounting The figure of a rifleman in the prone position is reproduced on the base of the cup, coinciding with the front and rear faces The Crocodile of a Sanctuary Many Creatures the New knowledge of an ancient Egyptian cult will result, it is be: lieved, from the recent discovery of the first complete sanctuary, with all annexes, of the crocodile god Sekneb- tunis. This sanctuary, composed of a long processional way, a temple and priests' dwellings within a walled en- closure, has been unearthed by an Italian archaeological mission in the Fayum district. Limestone reliefs in a vestibule at one end of the way show Seknebtunis in several aspects, as well as a procession bearing the sacred crocodile on a litter, Much has still to be learned of the many cults of the ancient Egyptians, though it is known that hundreds of them were recognized by theologians even in late dynastic times when ani- mals, beasts, birds, fishes and reptiles were worshiped. The gyptians ex- tended their veneration to human be- ings, to the great powers of nature, and to the large numbors of beings with which they peopled the heavens, the air, the earth, the .ky, the sun, the moon, the stars and the water, These animals were not venerated in dynastic times as animals, but as the abodes of gods. The cults had their origin in the precarious life of primitive man when the physical conditions of Egypt were similar to those in certain parts of Central Africa to-day. The land was covered with forests and the ground obscured by dense undergrowth. Great Egypt Yields Secrets Of Animal God Cults Recently Dug Up Was One of Ancients Held Sacred the serpent seems to have been con- stant in all generations and many prayers were said to deliver the hu- man dead from the "Serpents which are in the Underworld, which lie up- on the bodies of men and women and consume their blood." The Egyptian so coveted the power of the serpent that he learned those prapers which were most certain to bring him its powers after death, when his soul wan- dered about the earth: "I am the ser- pent Sata whose years are many. I die and I am born again each day. I am the serpent Sata which dwelleth in the uttermost parts of the earth. 1 die and I am born again, and I re new myself, and I grow young each day." At the period when the serpent was being worshiped in Lower Egypt the vulture was the thief object of ador- ation in Upper Egypt. So powerful were these two centres of worship that the kings gave themselves the title, "Lord of the Shrines of the Vul- ture and Uraeus, 'to proclaim their sovereignty. Other. wild animals | which were worshiped by the Egyp- tians were the lion, the lynx and the | hippopotamus. Not much is known of the cult of the fish, but several species were venerated, The beetle or scarabaeus became the symbol of the god of creation and resurrection. It was often placed in tombs because it was thought to give potential life to the dead body upon numbers of beasts roamed about the forests; huge serpents of various spe- cles, including hosts of deadly rep- tileg, lived in the undergrowth, and the river was filled with great croco- diles such as may be seen even to-day in the Blue Nile. When the' canals dried up, the crocodiles wandered about the fleld at will and ate what- ever came their way. When man cap- tured them he tamed them, fed them honey, put crystal and gold earrings into their ears, and bracelets on their forepaws, After death he embalmed their bodies and buried them in vaults. Worshlp Because of Fear Facts now available indicate that primitive man worshiped animals be- cause he feared them. They possess- ed, he thought, greater strength, power and cunning than his own; they were endowed with some quality which en- abled them to do him harm and to cause his death. He regarded them as the personification of the powers of evil and of death, and came to believe that he might court their good-will by offerings and prayers, for their spirits must be appeased. The Egyptians, having developed the idea that individual animals were the abodes of gods, believed that cer- tain ideas wer> incarnate in them. They were beloved by him and treat ed with reverence and care. Apart ments were set aside for them in' the temples throughout the country; whole cities were dedicated to them. Sacred animals were washed in hot baths, their bodies annointed and per- fumed. Rich beds were provided for them to lle upon and the greatest care was exercised to give them the most comfort. The Fear of the Serpent The abject fear of the Egyptians for FREE cal gue of new and rebuilt bicycles from $10 up. Motor- Othoary Motor Y ru Motor: traits to 'CYCLE AND MOTOR 30. Street W.. t's Good It's Even Better anamnmal -b Stim: 5. A bullock weighing 950 lbs, yield about 500 Ibs, of meats « * 's, Radios, ete. Transpor- 'Toronto, Jut. ~ «Knights " Meaford Flooring IT'S THE BEST which it was placed, provided the pro- per words of power were first sald over it or written upon it. 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