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< -''^^l»:^>sAe> II w I ; I Canada from Coast to Coast Charlottetown, P.E.I.â€" A consider- ; twe«j 127,000,000 and $28,000,000 a' Able export trade in live ailv«r foxes ' year. f la being cond»iCte<i by ialand fox breed-: Winnipeg, Man. â€" Gravelling of the era at the present time. The most re- Lord Selkirk Highway, the principal i cent consignn^nt was one of ten pairs 'artery of communication between Man- ' Oif bVack and silver fows from Bearjitoba and the United States, will be: I River to San Bernardino. Cal., where proceeded with immediately, accord- j ft fox nuich will be established by a ing to an announcement made by the ' former prince Edward Island man. j Provincial Deputy Minister of High- i HaUfax, N.S.â€" The NaUonal Fish ' ways. The tojal estimated cost for Clh, of Halifax, are adding a new in- t^e completion of the highway from doftry to their plant here in the shape l St. Norbert, Man., to the int«rnation- of a fish meal mill in which thev will! »1 boundary i.* $320,000. It will form utilize the wa^te from their products.! » ''"'' "''•* ^'*"'' "^'"*' highways south •uch as fish' skins, etc., in the raanu- ' **' ^^ border. fftcture of a meal to be used as a feed' Retina. Sask.â€" The estimated value for horses, cattle, etc. Heretofore this ' °' ^^ *"'''' ''°®' <^''P °^ ^^^ '*""«^ waste has b«en taken out to sea and P«i"« provinces for the past year is $fi.31.700, obtained for 2,690,000 pounds of wool. Alborta leads with 1,250,000 and received tha best price, which damped, but with the addition of new machinery to their pre.sent plant they will now be ab.e to take care of this waste as well as giWng employment to w°"^<* average arour.d 25 cents a poun4, Sa.'^katchewan had 840,000 pounds for which an .average price of 2.'5 cents was obtained. Manitoba's yield was 600,000, with an average price of 21 cents a pound. i Edmonton, .A.ita. â€" Preparations aro: Tbe Week's Markets 23c; braftk/ut bacoa. 23 to 37e; sp«- ciaJ brand breakfast baron, 79 to Sic; back*, boneless, 29 to 36e. Cured ine<it.-i â€" I>ong elci-r bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., »i:.50; 70 to '.W Iba.. $16.80; 90 Iba. and uo, |15.oO; lightweight rolls. IB barr^, $S3; heavywei^t rolls. $27. Ijirdâ€" Pure, tiMrea, 18 to IS'iie; tabt, I8><; to 19c; psSs. 18% to I9He: prints, 21 to 22c; shortening, tierces. TORo^^^o. B««n. wheatâ€" No. 1 North.. »1.3«H; No. 2 North., $1.91; No * North., $1.86: No. 4 wheat, I1.76S. Man. oatsâ€" No. 2 CW, 75 H<, Nat 3 CW, 71c; extra .No. 1 feed, ~l'rie; Ho. I feed, 69 ^c; So. 2 feed, 6«^«. All th« above cif. bay ports. Am. com, track, Toronto â€" No. 2 yellow, $1.4254. b.S'VS;^'''Br^'^;tnf^^: OS'^TliL'-S^^nil l^f "^T i^^ shorts, per ton, $37.25; middlings, : ^^^ ^ \ ' ?,^i^ ^ * «42.25; good feed flour, per bag, $2 45 ' MONTREAL. Ont. oatsâ€" .No. 3 white, 48 to 50c. Oatsâ€" No. 2 CW, 75c: No. 3 CW. One wheat â€" So. 2 winter, JI.43 to 73c; extra No. 1 feed. 70c. Flourâ€" 11.45; No. 3 winter, $1.41 to $1.43; Man. spring wheat pats., firsts, $9.90; No. " •ever a 1 men. St. John, N.B. â€" Improvement is not- ed in the fishin.q: industry of the Mari- time Provinces. The maritime mer- chant reports various happenings indi- cating that the industry back. Th<> outlook for canned lobsters, owing to market conditions in Franca and Germany, is improving. The acti- vities of the Lunenburg fleet are being Increased and the fresh fish trade is being developed by the use of steam traw^Iers. Montreal, Que. â€" The Canadian Wben some irregular :otiii pu.^te mutinied at Oardai, India, lliey took possession of a block bouse and defied the world. A £mail British gun. how- ever, upset their calculations and they were captured. 1 commtrciaJ, $1.40 to $1.41, fjxb shipping points, according to freights. Barleyâ€" Malting, 84 to 89c. Buckwheatâ€" No. 2, 80 xc 83c. Ryeâ€" No. 2, $1.18 so $1^1. Mar. flour â€" First pats., in jute ear lots, 114 to S14.50 sacks, $9.80, Toronto; do, second oats.. Cheese, finest wests $9.30, Toronto. Ont. flourâ€" 90 per cent, pat., $7 seconds, $9.40; strong bakers', $9.20; winter pats, choice, $7.15 to $7.25. Rol'.ed oats, beg 90 lbs., $3.95 to $4.05. Bran, $3.5.26. Shorts. $37.25. Mid- Dngs, $43.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton. 18 to 184c. Butter. No. 1, pasteurized, 354 to 36c. No. 1 creamery. 344 to 35c; seconds, oags, Montreal or Toronto; do, export, 35^4 to 33*4c. Eggs, .•aorage extras, '^ o^i!I5 "^"1* 'or tbe winter fishing operations 1 on the big lakes of Northern Alberta.; A total of 550 commercial fishingper- ] mits have been issued by the Domin- ion Fisheries office in Edmonton, ' year. Encouragement. Blessed are they who, without a mere rush of optimi.=m to the head or persistence in a fool's paradise. Ontario Government Makes Change in University Control. 45s, cotton bags, e.i.f, Hayâ€" No. 2 timothy, per toe, track, Toronto, JU.50: No. 3, $12.50. Strawâ€" Carlots, per ton, $9. Screeningsâ€" Standard, recleaned, r.o.b. bay ports, per ton, $27 So }?,J}'- ^>P>ts. :i2c. Stiltons, i-c. Old, .arge, 23 to 24c; twins, 24 :5c; triplets, 25 to 2t3c. 43c; storage lirsta, 43c; storage sec- onds, 40c; fresh extras, 70c; fresh firsts, 55c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 60 to 65c. Chriatiania is Now "Oslo," Ancient Name of Capital , ^"^"If 1^6 'he University of To- to 25c; tripled ' 25 to â- ''tic '"' "'1 ^n New Year's Dav the caoital of compared with 460 last year. It is habitually take a cheerful view of our 'p"'" •»«« b««n managed by a Board of Butterâ€" Finest cream'^rv nrinf, «k» N'orwav changed its name from Chris- expected that 70 more will be issued, i little planet and its citizens and are Governors appointed by the Lieuten- to 40c; No. 1 creamery 37 to 3Sc No ^'a.nia to OsU> and all the geography Last year tht- catch of the Northern forever lending a hand to help a good ant-Govemor-in-Council. This Board 2, 35 to 36c; dairy prints 28 to SOc ' books in all the schools of the world Lakes amounted to some 1,500,000 lbs. , work forward. '^ really a Government Commission, EgSrs â€" Fresh e.xtras, in cartons, 68 were made wrong. Prest-An-^ Ltd., a conipany recently of dressed white fish, and it is expect-} The world market is oversupplied "^^^ "^P °' twenty-four members re^ to 70c; loose, 65 to 66c: storage' ex- The citv has been called ChristJanlft will equaL with mere fault-finders, who do no- t""ing at regular intervals. For some J''">\" T"" Incorporated to manufacture a new ^^ that the catch this year refrigerant 'Prsst .\ir Ice." is estab- if .not exceed that figure. Ushing a plant here, which will have a daily capacity of 50,000 lbs. Timmins, Ont. to a~.- .t^n°"^'« ^1 â- Â°. f^'^' ^P°^^' •*'^ f>"- the past three centuries, but it was „. . „ ^ _, , i thing but knock. Those who know .«> ??"." *^he graduates of the Provincial ajreTe;.„nd"fo 7J^^/„- ^^ ^^^ ^'"'' ***'"â-  failed Oslo for the six centuries before Victoria B. C.-Whaling stations much and are content to know it usu- University have been asking for rep- ^j^g poultrv-Hers nv^r ^ 'h, on, . that : so it is now going back to tha , -- , f-°"? the British Co.umbia Coast are aUy do nothing, instead of doing more 'â- ^f^tation on the Board of Governors do, 4 to G lbs.' 18c- do 3 to 4 :bs" T^,: name of Oslo. The output of .sold finding business much better this than the rest - -â-  ""'' *~ *' '•- -"-- '^ ^ • •• â-  ' ' "•••"=• reached a new high mark for North- year than last. Up to the present is needed. That help aoes not come em Ontario during November. Com- month more than 200 tons of whale from those whose cynicism withers blned production from Porcupine and oil from the stations on the Queen whose irony =ears and chill<! h ' Eirkland Lake during the month was Charlotte Islands, have been shipped tongues are cuttine imD'ement..!'' *^ around $2,300,000. or at the rate of b^ to England. Indeed, the most XXSnt-as they seem to us â€" are often longing u'""^, ,. . ^ * he will insieaa or aoing more , 1 7/ . -v--.- ^.^^.^^.,^^^ oo, 4 to o ibs., ISc; do, 3 to 4 lbs 13c- "a^e < In all directions help ^"° , V^^^'^ requests the Government spring chickens. 2 lbs. and over' "Sc' Oslo t help does not come ^o^JP'^ea ^y ""eans of an amendment, roosters, 12c: ducklings, 5 lbs. and up', turies for the morsel of encouragement in our in March, 1924, to the University Act. 18c ; geese, 20c ; turkeys, 35c. Graduate members of the Alumni Dressed poultry â€" Hens, over 5 lbs.. Federation are now to select a panel f^' *>• 4 to 5 lbs., 23c; do, 3 to 4 of eight names to be submitted to the „/;; ^^.'P""f <=*»^?^«"^' ,2 ,Ibs. and Prime, Minister and from this P^f Z.'''Jh;,^.^r^L':: Aa^'u^yl select some or all for appoint- 38c became Christiania three cen- ago after a conflagration which wiped out the city and compelled King Chiistian IV to build a new capital of Norway across the bay from Osia In his honor it was called Christiania. During the past three centuries, however, the suburbs have recrossed .power to bestow. There stUl lives in "^"* ^ **^* Board of Governors. In Beans â€" Can. hand-picked, lb., 64c; the bav and included the sa^ of Oslo, each of us the child who runs to his 9^? "^^ the Government's responsi- primes 6c. I mother to be petted and encouraged ^''.'.'^ *°'' ^^ Provincial University ^f ^|o* ,n^'"°'^'-"'-?~^/7.P' Pf^ 'mP- and told he has"^ done well. ^ ^^ '-".«<> ^^ ^ ^^''''"^ ""^ =^' '^' S" matr^ su*^r "lb " of;^ Vr" "'' To one whoee hand is^set to the --« fnie the graduates wiU have an %o "y^eoT tins;* 4 c 'S'r lb • world's strenuous daily enterprise. 0PP«""n">- ^,f ^""e;" ^^ governing jQ-lb. tins. 134c: 5-Ib. tins, 14c; 24! soft blandishments and honey-tongued '. °^ . *. Mater. Graduate lb. tins. 154 to H\c. His first and "i^°*^«" °^ the Alumni Federation Smoked meats â€" Ham'*, med., 25 to i__? ,._j . , • jjom- 26c; cooked hams, 37 to 38c; smoked flattery are enervating. ^..^ ....,,. „„u best encouragement is to see the work ^""^ "''^ '^'"^ ^^^^ *° '*"*^ '" go forward, a.s he and his mates toil â- "^"""s, balloting will follow loyally together. They face all wea- three weeks and. after ">lls, early in February, IS to 20c; cottage rolls, 21 to capital In 1047. and the natiorjiHstic spirit of Norway hai emphasized its old traditions. The Christiania Chamber of Commerce, in hailing the name of Oslo, announces that "The Norway of to-day feels more than ever its unbroken continu- ity viitb the Norway of Harold the fair-haired who founded Oslo as his thers, surmount all crises endure all ^^^ "^^ "^'^ ^ submitted to the grief and hazard: and in the darkest ^"°^ Minister. hour, though they may say little, they ^ ! will be found gi\'ing each other the . ' steadying hand, the heartening word Foreign Population of Pau^S that comes with the force of new regi- j Estimated at 620,865 ments to soldiers hard beset. | â€" . â€" A $250,000 Property Loss by Fire at Winnipeg .A. despatch from Winnipeg says: â€" Fire, starting in the elevator shaft on the second floor, Christmas Eve, prac- tically destroyed the Werner Block, in the wholesale district here. The damage was estimated at §250,000. There was no one in the premises at the time. Fought in bitterly cold weather, the fire was one of the most stubborn ex- perienced by the city brigade in sev- eral years, and at one time threatened a cafe and adjoining hotel. The occu- .vere preparing to leave when mes were brcujrht under con- ortly after midnight, an hour he first alarm was sounded, block was occupied by several ale firms, the heaviest losers ihe Werr.er Drug Co. and the erkyl-Product Co. "Good Americans go to Paris when they die," is the saying here, says a Paris despatch. To their infinite num- bers must be addad 38.623 living citi- zens of the United States now in Paris. They are presumably good, since they have satisfied the Parisian police of their desirability as residents and have earned a place in the census . returns. Italians, it would seem, prefer earn- ing a good living now, in preference to enjoying Paris in future incarna- tion, since there are no less than 113,-: 574 of them registered with the police. â- â-  Most of these sons of Italy are em- ployed in the building trades in and around Paris. The Belgians come next with 96,457. The Russians total 56,909 and the S\viss 53,571. The total number of foreigners registered as residents of Paris and its suburbs amounts to 620,- ' 865, of a population of 4.500,000. ! The bow ot the newest oi' .\:iieriL';in subiuariuetj. the V-I. has tile appear ance of the head of a giant whale. The undersea dreadnought Is now in New York, being made ready for its trial trip to Portsmouth. "Fresh Egg" olained by French Court More Kill. A d More Vpwar Jnred missin. afnmbe.r of accidents tnnstmas .-..v tttd Ctaistmas Day. In addition to the loes of life, fires, Fourteen- Year-Old Girl Has Sight Restored British Leaders Protected from Stiige Jokes III two weeks she will go back to SLuti'eistern Kentucky to greet her father, mother and a blind brother, risio has never seen them. ;patch from Paris says: â€" .ree days of ponderous delib- a French court has decided it is a fresh egg. It is an egg e than two week« old in Sum- I • three weeks in Winter. Dealers " Id older eggs as fresh were fteen days in jail and fined 300 The court lasses egg. First is the egg a , , j je. that is. young enough to! ".'^' '•"^â- Â«'"*- fo^"- d.iys atar cond, the egg still fresh, though -°''""t- commission. Ihe pump and radio arc '«»" ***'«'" « fortoight, but not artificial- : were frozen, ai- mail officials said. I 'V preserved; third, the preserved egg. i A despatch from Hobart, Qkla..' Hereafter eggs must bear their proper mw^ <H them resulting from over- ggys: -With P/.i bodies, most of them 'a*^'- M^g due to the zero Christmas burned beyond. recognition, lying in a i i^ll^^r \T some parts of the country, temporary morgue in two store build-: .fHaea a hoa\-y property loss. jngg, and 20 others injured as a result At Stamford, Texas, four were kill- of a Christmas Eve fire at the district «4^and six injured, one seriously, in g^-hool hou.se at Dabb's Switch, seven • Hre in the Stamford Inn. j miles from hei-e. work of recovering! Two men were frozen to death in the dead wa.'s retarded hv iack of C3hicago"s five below zero Christmas water on the .school groiirds with' weather, a policeman was killed as the which to cool the embers. '' XMuK of a fan, and a Chinese laundry man was shot and probably fatally HHmntted in a renewal of tong war- Ht^ I Four were killed and one probably flitaliy hurt aLnd another less seriously â- I an %|;tomobilo accident at Rich- «MBd, Va., and at Dixon, III., a three- ]WaxM>ld child shot and killed his ton- Prominent British politicians have been protected from the irreverent chaffings of theatre comedians by re- \ despatch from Louisville. Ky.. aays: â€" Joy came to Elsie Day, 14. pa- ^ ,. , .u x j /-u u 1 • tient in the Kentucky School for the ^"^"^ "'^^'^^ °^ *^ ^""^ Chamberlain From Nova Scotia to Rome in Canoe «uad Steamship The night watchman on the house- boat of Marshal Joffre, a popular res- tuaranc in Paris well known to tour- ists, was startled the other night when a canoe drew up out of the darkness Blind, Christmas morning, when she the official responsible for censoring <» the Seine and its occupant jumped looked at the first doll .-he hid e\er|p!a:.s and songs, says a London de- o" the deck. The visitor asked if ha seen, her gift from Sinta CUis. ' spatch. could leave his canoe on the deck of Sight itself is new to Elsie. For! His most recent ruling was against the houseboat. Permission was gi-ant- as long as she could remember she ! a West End company which was about ^- Th* watchman politely '.U^*°,lafi,r^ .h . i-r.d been blind. Two weeks a-,'© she ! ta produce a new edition of its frothy "'here the visitor had come fi-om. f.!ff ic fk^^ !'%vas admitted to the :,cho«l. and two j musical ivvue. One of the songs in Matter answered. "Nova .Scotia." s'ave her the piece was not allowed to be sung The paddler was George Smyth, th« because in it four eminent politicians navigator, who is making his way by â€" .'V.usten Chamberlain. Winston ^anoe from Nova Scotia to Rome. His Churchill, Ramsay MacDonald and trip so far has been successful, and David Lloyd George^-werc portrayed with the exception of the .\tlantic in a lightsome vein. ~ "' " ' Calgary's Natural Gas Supply. They do things in a large way on the Prairies. Calgary has ju.'t com- pleted an additicn to its natural gas supply from the Foremost gas field. To make this f-a.< available required £r-old brother with their father's a trench 32 miles in length. Into thi.< t gun, and one person was killed ti-ench a ten-inch pipe wa.< laid. There 4* the result of placing oil in a cook are 8,500 lenRlh.s of th? pipe, each 20 ^»u feet long. The pipe was made at Twt» v.-cra killed in a Christmas Eve Welland, Ont.. and weighcnl 2,500 tons, flbooting scrap* near Richmond. Ky.; Calgary is now receiving its natural two were killed in an automobile ac-!gas supply through 211! miles of pipe ^UMxt at BlrminKham, Ala.: a thre»-|Une. The four gas well? at Fonemost ^*M >ld gin "lied of burn* at Wor- , can supply 49 nwUion cubic feet per ji**w. Maaa. ; one was killed in an day. more than double Calgary's pres- ^utmnobile accident at Lexington. N. ent consumption. Canadians not so lit a policeman was killed at New fortunately situated with regard to a WMMns by a bank robber; a mother fuel supply can hardly appreciate the 4M <rf bviiis at Lincoln, Neb., after advantages of having a gas supply for fvnring kerosene on a kitchen fire, two both cooking and heating purposes. SalvagiiiK oporatliMis helns und^-l iken hy Grctit Britain !,> raise the s unkeii German fleet at Soapa Flow .ire shown in the above photograph. The value of the fleet lies -jlofly in the enormous mass of machinery and brsM tad copper tubing it contalaa. ; crossing, which necessitated pass.iga on a steamship, he has made his way alone with the help of a stalwart paddle. The English Channel r.pre-ented the most difficult leg of his European travels and it tooli two aueinpts for him to make the French .-oait. On hia first trip from Dover to Calais a wave washed hi? compass overheard. He was forced to put back toward the Eixglish coast and was picked up at â-  the South Goodwin Lightship after I fourteen hours at sea. Most of the ; time ho \sas forced f-i kef p bailing out I hi-. eano€ ar.d lia-eiy escaped being â- nvamped. Si-,i\-th immediately padd'cd ba«.|. to r-ovcr after this unsucce^ofil atteiti'Jt am' the next day started out a^{:i. , This time he was able to pn.^'eei on a I straight course for France. '•'roin Calais ho came to Paris by river .-tnd canal, the most pleasant juirt of hi« trip, ano'-'ing to his rep-^rt.J. His "outL- from Paris lies up th" Stive into the old Burgundy Canal, dowr. the Saoi c snj then the Rhone, con^iin,; inl« 'We Mtditprraiia.-u; at M'i.-soules. !'« aIU sriivt the shores of th-' MeJitar- ranaar i.-til he rearhej th«< nio.ith of :he Arno. and then pa>idl>- jy this slicani iiao the Tiber and li^cc^ to T?oine. TSc trip from Pari* ;o 11>iim 'X [will mko bout t«i< weeks.