= | w THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1915. T00K THE ADVICE OF HIS FRIEND | General Information for Busy People Accidental Inventions. The ancients believed that there was a certain kind of mineral substance in | --., )eXistence Ly means of which all the | common metals could be. turned into gold. This supposed substance was called the phiiosopher's stone, and the alchemists of classic times and during the middie ages spent much time and labor in search of this wonderful sub- stance. Of course, since nothing of the kind ever existed, it was never found, but it is worth remembering that some of the | most notable inventions were discover ed in this wide search. It was in look- iug for the philosopher's stone that the German chemist, Befticher, stumbled Stamach Trouble pnd Rheymatism Relieved By "Fruit-a-tives" A Cure That Faltered, Samuel L. Clemens used to. relate on the lecture plutform a comedy of courtship that might well have served to iMustrate his dictum that there are | three kinds of funny storigs--the witty ! story, which 1s Fréfch; the comfe story, which Is Englisti dnd the ui- morous story, which is Americhn-and that the latter is the only hard kind to tell. He recounted how a young swiin was rejected simply because of hisembarmssing impédiment of speech, and how a friend counseled his taking the whistling cure--whenever be felt a disposition to stutter just whistle. He tried it, and with such surprising Submarine Ba As a crown is the badge of Kings, as are the badge of pawnbro- badge of a submarine offi- er is a handful of cotton waste. When e half dozen ollicers of a modern sub- clad in their black leather wa- er] suits, come aboard a saflor stands on the tiny gangway to receive them, and to each he hands his waste rolled in a neat ball. The reason is that the steel doors and steel walls of | a submarine sweat oil eternally. The | steel seats sweat oil. The submarine officer before opening a door or before sitting down wipes the oil from the knob or from the seat with an uneen- | scious gesture }ke that of pulling up | + Datlls 3, so the He WA. L. LABRIE 594 Champlain St., Montreal. "I have been restored to health by taking 'Fruit-a-tives'. For two years ful Dresden porcelain. in the same way, discovered the com- position of gunpawder. salts which now bear his name.--Co- lumbus Dispatch, upon the seéret of making the beauti- Roger Bacon, Geber found | the properties of mids: Van Helmont discovered the nature of gas, and Dr, | Glauber found the secret of making the the trousers to keep them from bag- ging. Jovial young submarine lieuten- ants say that even the dishes sweat oll on a submarine trip. before filling their plates with meat they mechanically wipe the oll from them with their balls of oily waste.-- Cincinnati Enquirer. They say that | success that in a very few weeks he | sought bis lady to anuounce his vem: plete recovery. Unfortunately the ex- citement of the occasion proved too | much, and those who have heard Mark Twain will recall how be would stand trembling on the platform, earnestly | stuttering out of oue side of his mouth and vonscientiously whistling out of I was a miserable sufferer from Rheu- malism and Stomach Trouble. I became very weak, had frequent dizzy spells and when 1 took food, felt wretched and sleepy. [I suffered from Rheuma- tistn dreadfully, with pains in my back and joints and my hands swollen, A friend mdvised me to try Fruita- tives' and from the outset, they did me good. After I had started the second box; I felt 1 was getting well gud I persevered in the treatment. I ean truthfully say that 'Feuit-a-tives' is the only medicine that helped me. LOUIS LABRIE. YFRUIT-A-TIVES" is the famous" medicine made from fruit juices. 50¢, a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 250. Atall dealers or sent on reeeipt of prico Printers and High Hats. In no-trade, writes a correspondent, Law the fall from favor of the top hat | been moregharked 'than among print ers. The old time compositor--the | "case hand," as he is now termed to distinguish Lim from the linotype op erator--uever forgot that he was the aristocrat of the labor world, entitled, as he proudly claimed, alone among old time craftsmen to wear a sword, the mark of the gentleman. A qudrter of a century back top hats were com- mon wear in printing offices. They are found still in quiet backwaters of the trade, But what would happen it the linotype operator came to his "mangle" nowadays wearing one? He would probably be pelted to death with a MW the other, until his audience fairly A Sharp Distinction, | groveled in mirth.~Washington Star. A merited retort is not always a re- | tort courteous. The rebuke that was | administered to a party of intruding tourists by the old watchman who was | set to guard the ruins of College hall at Wellesley not long after the great fire conveyed a keen but subtle re proach.' "Ye've got to keep out!" he ordered grufly when he caught them trying to slip under the ropes that surround- ed the crumbling walls, The inquisitive visitors paused and | eyed first the ruins and then their de- | termined guardian. "See here," a callow youth accosted him; "we're willing to risk it, and we'll take all the responsibility. What do you care if we lose our lives?' Husks of the Prodigal Son. It appears that the "husks" (slliquoe in 'Latin) which were fed to swise io the east and to which the prodigal son | was finally reduced were nothing more nor less than the large, podlike fruit of | the carob tree, whose botanical name | is Ceratonia siligna, - This plant per | tains to the pea family, and the husks | are sometimes nearly a foot in length. These husks contain very hard seeds resembling beans, which may be eajen with refish, although ope would soon | tire of them as a sole article of diet. | Occasionally these husks are to be | found in England and this country in | confectioners' shops. where they are by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. "slug." Beauty's Skin Neegs . DYLCIA TOILET CREAM y Asa to an: for Se. me Davis § Lawrence Co, Nextreat Chronicle. Voices of Animals. If he owns one he keeps it for funerals, christenings and weddings. One hat 1 know of has already com- mitted polygamy. having been fréely | loaned to bridegrooms whose wardrobe | was minus the hat of staje.--London There Is a chapter in the natural his- "Ye've got to keep out. I ain't thinkin' of your lives; I'm thinkin' of | me job.""--Youth's Companion. Nothing toe Wear, There are women who live to dress, and the more frequent and radical the changes are the better they like it. If their pocketbooks can stand it, no great harm is-done. But the great majority of women can't afford to keep up with | known as "St. John's bread." In the east in the old days the plant | was regarded with disfavor, not he | cause it was thought to be unpalatable, | but because of its association with | swine. Together with the acorns of a | species of oak called Quercus aegilops, | it served as the principal food of pigs { and hogs.--Every Week. Ape the Three Monkeys. tory of animals that has hardly been touched upon as yet and that will be especially interesting with reference to families. The voices of animals have a family character not to. be mis taken. All the canidae bark and howl ~the fox, the wolf, the dog~--have the same kind of utterances, though on a somewhat different pitch, All the bears grow), from the white bear 'to the small black bear of the Andes, All the cats meow; from gur quiet fire- side companion to the lions aud tigers and panthers of the forest and jungle. This last may seem a strange asser- tion, but to any one who has listened critically te their sounds and analysed their voices the roar of the lion ig but a gigantic theow, bearing about the same proportion to that of a cat as its stately and majestic form does to the smaller, softer, more peaceful aspect of the cat.--Agassiz. the most healthful spirit ob. tainable, and the 'very best stimulant for general use, As A Bickae- un tonic and diges- tive Wolfe's Schnapps is always opportune, exercising the mont beneficial effect upon the liver, kidneys and other organs. Obtainable at all Hotels and Ratail Stores, Phata Enlarging Idea. A simple enlarging machine may be made of an oak board seven-eighths. of an inch thick, and a little wider than the eamera with which it is to be used. A box is built on one end of the board. with an opening the size of the camera in that side of-the box which faces the other 'end of the board. A thirty-two candle power bulb backed Wolfe's with a reflector is mounted in the box. S chun 's Gin in ataiied and bottled in Helland. ning in the slot, is provided to held the weruria er. printing paper on which the enlarge Distributor. an enlargement of a negative the piiite (or film inclosed between two pieces of glass) 4s mounted in the usual place in the camera, the lens'is opened and "You knew hi a spall come Ta : | "Yes, but 1 didn't think be'¢ es a Ta Si ™ - this pace. - The 'result is that some ment is to be made. In order to make | stay at home because their clothes are | statue of three monkeys. The hands not In the latest style, many are made | of one are over his eyes, those of an- unhappy, and others keep up with the | other are over his ears, and those of procession, it matters not what may bé | the third are over his mouth. See no the cost. | evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, is the If a man can wear the same dress | Interpretation of them, # suit for eight or ten years and not look | There are great men in the world, like a freak, why is it not possible to | but there are few great men who talk design an evening gown for women | much, When they do talk they do not that will be in good style as long as it | utter idle words, hence little evil creeps may be worn? It is absurd to hear a t into their speech, There are loved men woman: say, "I haven't a thing to iin the world, generous and pitying, wear," when she may have a half | but they have no time to listen to gos- dozen gowns all in good condition.-- | sip and evil communications, There Frances Frear in Leslie's. | 'are other men who see evil, not through : ep morbid curiosity, but with an eye to Highland Mary. {ts cotrection; nor do they impute evil Small as 15 the number of statues of | and view with suspicion all human ac- women in Britain, there are two of | tions except their own. one woman, concerning whom very | Evil communications, seeing evil little §s actually known save that she | hearing evil, speaking evil, corrupt hin- was of humble origin and 'was asso- | manity. There are many who can af elated with the life of Scotland's great- | ford to ape the three monkeys.--Phila- est poet. Passengers by the Clyde | delphia Ledger. steamboats are familiar with the statue | of Mary Campbell, whom Burms im- | Past. mortalized as Highland Mary, which | 1, a made to the overlooks the pier at Dunoon. There | ! was a good deal of controversy about | contrary, fall hits were invented long hing at a | before 1813, A Mr. Toft of Tottenham, She Mieumorinl ate Henley ratorsaa | Who dled in 1767, left £30 to the goy- to 4t in his famous "Essay on Burns" | Sroors Of the Fottenbam free gram wi as 4 "fantasy in bronsze." Liverpool, | Scheal. CE aa 10 be with which Mary Campbell bad no as- | Hero, to, {be Purchase of three ta has also chosen | PALS 88 Drises for the three best boys. |" The hats used to-be purchased from | & patter in Bishopsgate street named | Greenway for 24 shillings. But in 1811 Bibles Instead of hats for the boys.-- Pall Mall Gazette. ¥ £ f g EB EFF if: gs fii i & gt i "4tY jimi ih i stil & ern I i H+ i Ee i is § x 31; i i i rT I Dito brads 8 In Japan almost every: house has a | PAGE FIFTEEN - < INES SX] hb A' packet of Black Cat cigarettes is its own reward. It immediately removes one. from the rank and file of indis- . criminate smokers and singles him out as a good taste, man of exceptionally As a mark of distinction always have a packet or two handy. Be liberal. Initiate your friends into the secret of good smoking -- for Black Cat has everything that satisfies a smoke lover's appetite -- fragrant aroma, pleasing flavor, mildness--all in the proper degree, Your dealer sells Black Cat cigarettes. So do all others. Any one is looking for -- and Save the cou The Black Cat war game will be sent for 30. 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