PAGE TWEN Some JAIL ¥ I'HE BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY DECEMBER 31 New Vern Stories of Abounding Interest ' I ee THEIR NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS same OlG Ald k nyt i year Have I don't Ye Ir 1 Ki you know EO Of had my sioner lecide to Wwe hing close at 7 p.m. till De a Tames Relanger inter by fall Strand Theatr a vmber | ed in 11 Word arrives of Edward Barry in a in death of German St. Andrew hall club Ikehara, Japan of INOK given over for solflier 15 i'oshi Queen's gradu Kingston 22-- Cable received stating that Queen s Stationary Hospital bad ta ken over harracks in Cairo, Egypt 20--Child of Mrs. Oshorne F. Tay lor, 28 Johnson street, burned to death when fire damaged house and visit . September 1 -- Schools reopened; T. J retires from grocery years. 6,~- Hon Labor picnic i 7----Word came" uneri's daughter Nursing Sister Robinson, was saved from 88. Hes perian, torpedoed by German subma- - rine. 8--Mr. and Mrs. J F McEwen | wedded 50 years ! 10 Lieut -Col Perrean returns from the front 12 Ensign Madele Wilson, York, conducts services in Army Citadel, James Leahy busi after Martin Burrell spoke at that Canon For-| New Salvation Douglas, New| of Queens' Blun ord Fleming N mmerman began nspector ichola Tati r por allow re id € 8 Cheyboygan th ank Schooner city eft on Island gale arowned decide retur Coun ne acon daughter) of Willian Battalion (son ind wil af 21st Lt October. Kin 21.825, an increase of 64 during ear Memori Hall for duates k al service held in Grant Queen's students and gra- led in the war Sam Hughes reviewed Barriefield camp and made officers; colors presented by R Waldron te 5%th Battal WATCH SORE THROATS swollen glands inflamed "often Taffe t other tissues ¢ trouble easily ye troops at some Mrs S WC UN © membranes follows, \s e's of troub! he pure cod liver oil in Scott's Emulsion is speedily converted inte germ resisting tissues its tested glycer- ine is curative and healing, while this wholesome emulsion relieves the trouble and upbuilds the forces to resist tuber germs and avert the weak ening influence which usually follows. It env member of your family has a bottle of Scott's Physicians prescribe overcome corrector tender throat, Emulsion it to avert get a to-day. 1 t bile throat troubles, "| bronchial disorders and strengther hangs. No harmful drugs. ways insist ai Scott's, Scott & Bowne, Terouto, Ont. Al 3 | way | | sentenced | manager | from | sentence; i a | number of { throat | Kingston; le le es ee ee eB yen ard too! yald, lay upon emphasis Deed 1 r Sam Hughes Sutherignd to give » of the Martello tower Park for a museum f---Citizens fund of Xth C 5 Andrew of gold Kingston in Macdon presented $1 MR cangreg to Capt. the going overseas and Miss G against Street Albert E hi g Mrs R Tray of I penitentiary City ( ratepayers 1o tlderm D. A of 1} going ov on Rev i purse M. Compton 7--Mrs. R secured damages Company: Spooner Rail Suddard peniten Job to ei for killin w vears in tiary Nancy 12 eX-g¢ ed completing de on armen Bank, relea after ides to red k vote ng en 13---Dr perintende tal 18 C Coon resigns nt we General Ho ity Council votes $2 500 rstons population reported | the British Red Cross fund 25--Evengelical Alli Lith Regiment officers of congregation join ing corps; City Couneil remove city engineer ince promises to urge men home train refuses to to November. 1---Pte James Savage dropped dead at Artillery park while on duty; Whig's cooking school opened. 4 - Trades Council opposes month Iv collection of gas and electric rates: Belgian company gave con cert in Grant Hall for relief fund 8-- The 80th Battalion left | Barriefield Camp breaks up. , 16 --Death of Clark Hamilton | 13---8ir Herbert Ames, M Pl Montreal, gave address in City Coun- | cil chamber on the work of the Pa- triotic Fund. 16 Hoard of Trade rejects pro- posal to oust the Utilities Commis ston | 26 Australtan Cadets visited | Kingston. i James T Sutherland elected president of the QO. H. A. by accla- mation 37 AS December -Lt-Col. W. T. ConneH arrived home from Cairo, Egypt. 3° Provincial Boatd of License mad worse! ened 10 Silence! Viamma vourselves! guilty he couldn't takes two to the other explain commanded | 'Now, now you sce for You were all equally | no mutter who started it, have quarreled It | make a quarrel And two of vou had kept lent and refused to quarrel wi the began it couldn't h himself, don't mean, children! To ones would be able New Year Resol five minutes! Oh simply dreadfui And forthwith three little pairs of | HITS TUS Mamma and reached | up to clasp her around her neck and to promise her that ney ver do they solutions they Silence! for alone whoever avi with at 1 my little first quarreled 1 see wl think keep just to their about makes me feel tious it hed at they would ne A ad ri vowed or it again insisted all would upon over again keep making and this the they time it So consented hoped they their second What Mamma them that in this Did they? told S114 and would trial do she ceed ou think about it? Commiss ton 4 Dr lawa University Church Kingston by vote of 7 Nolan, the dynamiters oney paid visit to Kings James W ted rector Robertson, Ot ele of Queen's union 471 Ol carried to 460 Welland ( refeased 7 last a nal per 12 Irom James Bute died Texas, aged 78 14 -Kingstor wma jority at Houston, | Preshytery for church 18 Dr. Robert Hanley appointed | attending physician and Dr. W. T Connell consulting physician at peni tentiary 20 well 24 Queen vice, gives | of 68 union Mavor banquet Thre street, Sutheriand Frontenac Club of Mrs. K. Davis, for overseas ser gave fare at SONS enlist Ald. A. W. Richardson Ald. J. 8B. R. McCann nominated mayor; Masons held banquet at tel Randolph. : Knights of the Grip held ban-| Hotel and for | Ho quet in Re andolgh SPIDERS WORK FOR A LIVING. Make Cross Hairs for Survey or's Telescopes at Hoboken Plant. op lar Monthly There is a colony of in Hoboken, N.J., which start work and stop work when the whistle blows. They are probably the most indispensable workmen in one of th: largest surveying instrument factor- ies in this gantry. It is their duty to spin the@licate thread which is' used for th® cross bars to mark the exact center of the object lens in the surveyor"s telescope. The spiders produce only during August and September. In that time R[elence 200 spiders | | they spin thousands of yards of web whieh is wound upon metal iframes and stored away until neaded. A few weeks ago the entire eoiony; for no apparent reason went on a strike. Fyerybody was worried until the | "forewoman" of the spiders, after patient coaxing. fually induced them | to begin spinning again. | just | Moreover, | ground, | a spider } are the reer esl Bn ss A ee et Br 5 hs ls ee el se TURNING OVER A NRW LEAF Br BB BABB Hh Rn bk and 1 hays for thinking such \ A ma Iie d 1 ithout self But ry tomy ugh a 0 Iie Vi and that 1 would Resolat & not erbout them for my hig found ng paper ed eround the big Mamn from the I sharpened the could find 1 arefulled mi 11 cidud ke a few Year nobod itched it the had e rappi ion Say chanst ant the lib peace of was ra came the other longust had to table a big which box that store te hat per many over 80 tions to make & turn leaves that T needed pape 1 ver ce of ol Rick whic Donaldson I turned over Mamma will day 1 myself Number 1 les f give won't smer me sum andy every maki out of and 08¢ wont say but 1 you? ution No imho Te do for y oth hen Wel heard hat whi woe wa may more dignerfiec Ihird le Mamma at table into my po Towser after won't make jog solution, 1 green behind my he hool, cept when does it Number 5, 1 under the me doing it won't reach clean Mamma gives dirty shoes erlong a will ¢l table so every noth Resolution ar my fingernails Pay 1 can't see at dinner and 1 for ing until Leaf no six erbout having going Car to polish my shoes with every before 1 come into the when I am called for dinner Number 7, T wont make Mauds bow give a cent to get the room every nite when comes (0 her Sometimes 1 it for nothing Resolution on my old trowsers down the banissters, Leaf number nine ma what desert they are me fits and to day house out of he S6¢ 8 that 1 w when 1 no 1 pu slide Mam have to table from I wont to Ask we are going lll ask cook down at the home for dinner we se at tell hefore I'en I will walk school with Marjory when ever I want | Lo no matter if fellers going and me Bud and Jonesy are vellin at carry er But I an't f hers Resolution Mamma to no leven gO number make me 8 bed can Lo at nine oclock but I wont go to sleep til | to show | time | oughtto any old her 1 want 12 le tells want stay to just up long as 1 al, 1 will do everything Teach me to for 1 week and then fl ~nn oe er Spider material hairs of web the only yet discovered for the cross surveying instruments, Al most invisible as this fibre the naked cye, it is brought up in the powerful of the telescope fo the size of a man's thumb, so that all defects, if there happened to be any, would magnified to such a degree that the web would be useless. H man hair has been tried, but when magnified it has the apparent dimen sions of a rough-hewn lamp post human hair is transparent, and cross hairs must be opaque A spider "at work' dangles in the air by its invisible thread, the upper d being attached to a metal wire frame whirled in the hands of a girl The girl first places the spider on h hand until the protruding end of te thread has become attached. When the spider attempts to leap to rae this end ix quickly attach 1 is suitable is to lenses be | to the center of the whirling fram» and as the spider from its pouch, this line is wrappd around the frame, Several hundred feet of thread can be removed frow at one time, It is difficult to estimate just how many thousand vards of web are used by this con pany in a year. They produce thou- sands of surveying instruments year- ly, and hetween six incnes and one foot of spider web. go into each. The spiders are kept in a large room, under the supervision of three girlsjand a forewoman. When not spinning, the little workmen are placed in a large wooden cage Flies chief article of diet pays out thread Economy the Watchword. Montreal Star Economy must be the watchword now with' Governments, municipali- ties, corporations and individuals, in al services not required for the war. CASTORIA . For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years | --r | tr | day I'm | hankercheef | Sister | will | hooks | that | | A solve al she d mite cks for th stance that for 0 for navy thousand sirable the matter the EBA EB BB hb Be d not oes turi turn lamed | well 01 the sun em frequently Wate AH Right things de enough 8 must ur people may support of the the things that npport the army the any good that would has brought inder happier circum he Canadian people Canad d now, in order he able to save things that Necessary and | he denice loan is a st Let be made ¢ cess at a later ister of Finance make another cal and the prep ven now for a period, when are may he obl on the and of causes purses of the people Wishing Everyone A Happy and Prosperous New Year Louis Abramson, 336 Princess Street imilar the befor 1's war ral S110 Mii patriot AA A A LA SN