wr THE DAILY BRITISH oe : oR a THE JOY OF BEING ALIVE AND WELL Restored To Health By "Fruitatives® The Famous Fruit Medicine k , MDE. ROCHON Rochon, P.Q, March 25915. #1 have received the me onderful benefit from taking 'Fruit-a-tives'. 1 sullfered for years from Rheumatism and change of life; and I took every remedy obiainable, without any good results. » I heard of 'Fruit-a-tives' and gave it a trial and it was the only medicine that yeally did me good. Now T am entirely well; the Rheumatism has disappeared and the terriblé pains in my body are all gone. Iam exceed- ingly grateful to 'Frusil-a-tives' for such relief, and I hop® that others who suffer from such distressing diseases williry 'Pruit-a tives' and get well". MADAME ISAIE ROCHON. The marvellous work that 'Fruit-a- | tives' is doing, in overcoming disease and healing the sick, is winning the admiration of thopsands and thousands. We. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25c. 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RITCHIE & CO, LIMITED 10-12-14 McCaul St., Toronto. on In our moral blindness we some- times: fai] to mote the danger signals in time, to prevent injury. ° |e | A patent has been granted for a woman's fan with mirrers on the sticks. - An Australian "engineer has in- t vented an engine that runs with sew- | er gas, i - Abput 25,000 'incandescent lamp filaments can be made from one pound of tungsten It requires 70,000 tous of cork an- nually to" serve, the British bottling industry. : Invisible door hinges which can be seen only when a door is opened have been invented 'Hamburg has an experimental plant" that obtains power from the ebb and flow of North sea tides A new electric filter for household use consumes current only as water is being drawn through it. An Englishman has invented a photographic plate which he claims overexposure is impossible A {'hicago inveutor has patented "an attachment so that a phonograph can be used as a burglar alarm. In Madagascar there has been dis- covered a tree producing coffee that is said to be free from caffein | It is estimated that the annual fall of rain and snow .in the United States weighs 6,000,000,000 tons. According to French statistics, but | one fourth of the aviation accidents are due to defects in aeroplanes. A small air pump operating direct- ly against the contents instead of a rubber bulb features a new atomizer. A farm in Btigland is devoted ex- clusively to raising butterflies, of which upward of © 20,000 dre sold cach year. Motion pictures are being used in the training of college athletes they clearly show faults of indivi- duals. : « Paris will erect a statue to the famous chemist, Bertholet, near the laboratory where he spent his later years, n A new process by which bread is cooled in an as ten days t An Englishman has_jnvented in- terlocking concrete piling that is said to be stronger than sheet piling made of wood J A sanitary stopper for bottles has been invented that opens a valve au tomatically when a bottle is tilted for pouring Experiments by German scientists have shown that an excellent pulp for paper manufacture can be obtain. . ed from hop vines An artificial leather for electri- cians' gloves that resists/dangerous currents almost as well as rubber has been invented, Pure food law advocates in Japan recently discovered that much rice was adulterated with quartz sand to increase its weight. A labor saving device for making color tests of cottonseed ¢il has been developed by the United States bur- ean of standards Australia has prohibited the im- portation of belts.alleged to produce a therapeutic effect by electric or magnetic influences. "he ordinary shaving brush and a r affair for rubbing in the lath- have been combined on a com- Xion handle by an inventor. Water power is used .to produce | electricity in Switzerland to such an extent that in some towns not an { ounce of coal is burned Experiments have shown that ace- tyiene light will make plants grow larger and mere rapidly than those subjected only to sunlight The record for efficiency is claim- ed for a French oil engine with a fuel consumption of less 'than 40 | pounds per horsepower hour A new. child's swing is provided with grips that enable it to be hung on the back of a dining-room chair to serve as a high chair. An Argentine Government burean has met with much success in mak- ing paper pulp from the wood of se- several varieties of native pine trees. For tourists there has been invent. ed 'a handbag that can be converted into a seat, available wherevor it ¢an be hung by one handle, z A German nitro-glycerine factory / { is completely covered with a network of wires, suitably grounded, as'a pro- tection against lightning Power driven air brushes have "been invented for painting and var- nishing furniture thrice as rapidly as the work can be dane by hand. . Electricians in Sweden have sue- ceeded in extracting carbon from tar and making it into electric light car- bons and furnace crucibles. About the smallest practical no- toreycle yet built, the invention of a New York man, weights but 45 pounds and is only eighteen inches high. . The Chinese Government has em- ployed a Texas cotton growing ex- pert to instruct the farmer of that country for the next three years. A machine has been invented to brush bugs from potato Vines as it is driven over a field and crush them to death between steel plates, Papera of exceptional strength is bei made in India frem pulp ob- tained from a species of ginger plant that grows in all parts of that coun- ry. : A Pennsylvania inventor has pat- ented a nail puller the paws of which have a graduated series of serrations to engage nails of different sizes. Motion pictures for the blind are the invention of a French doctor, an electric motor causing a series of re- liefs to pass under their fingers. For stretching the wrinkles out of "fabrics an inventor has patented three rollers mounted on a curved shaft and so arrapged 2s to turn in unison: ° i Railroad rdils with repewable treads, consisting of strips of hard steel to be fastened into their heads, have been invented by a French en- gineer. v " A crutch has been patented In which the top segment is mounted on The Newest Notes of Science y Surely RE -- | iter of but one twenty-five thousand- ith of an inch, A current motor inveamted by a | Montana man for.irrigation purposes {is doing more work than would bo accomplished by a three horsepower gasoline pump. © A motor driven plow that an Eng- lishman has invented automatically guides itself gver a field after it has | plowed the first furrow under human guidance. \ For the protection of persons cooking over open fires -there has | been invented a steel sleeve, with a closed end, to which a spoon or fork can be fastened. What is declared to be the safest aeroplane yet built in France is sta bilized automatically by the weight of the pilot and passenger-acting as a pendulum. For fire fighting and life saving a Massachusetts man has invented a collapsible ladder, carried on an au- tomobile, that can be elevated 100 feet in a minute Beautiful light effects have been obtained by ~"a German electrician wiro has polished both sides of thify sheets of marble and saturated ther with paraffine or shellac A Philadelphia surgeon is combat- ting diseases peculiag to certain ra- ces by transfusing to patients blood from embers of other races that seem immune to the maladies, To give warning of the presence of dangerous gases ih mines a German scientist has. invented a whistle on the principle of the safety lamp that is blown when the gases enter it. A Texas inventor's automobile has two wheels on the left side and ong on the right, so Arranged. that. he claims no two of them will strike ob- structions on a road at tlie same time G®ld mining companies in South Africa are experimenting with bla ing by electricity with a view to n imizing the fine dust, which is 1 atmosphere of carbon garded as the chief cause of miners | | dioxide is said to keep it fresh for phthisis, Above a news sanitary telephone mouthpiece is a roll of paper, one end of which covers the opening and tis pulled down and torn off to pre sent a clean surface when the instru- ment is used The total coal supply of the world has been estimated at 7,397,533,- 000,000 tons, of which nearly 4,000, 000.000.0600 tons are butuminous, Asia having the largest quantity of any continent. In a street care signal system in vented by Saint trie lamp in front of the motorman is lighted when the conductor opens the rear door and is shut off when the door is closed. A Paris electrician has electroscope for detecting the pres- ence of radism discharges so deli- cate that it is said to measure cyur- rent strengths as small as one ten trillionth of an ampere made an NEW AID TO PHOTOGRAPHET Distance Gauge Assists Amateur To Focus Surely and Quickly. To assist amateur photographers in readily estimating focussing dis tances, a simple instrrment has late ly been produced, says the January Popular Mechanics Magazine in an illustrated article. A handle is pro- vided by which the user holds the instrument out 'at a convenient dis- tance, keeping a small indicator on the contrivance in line with his eye and the base of the object which he intends to photograph On a scale opposite the pointer the desired dis- tance is at once indicated For ac- curate work the ground between the observer and the object .should level, and the Scale on the device properly suited to the user's height. For this purpose a number of scales are provided with the instrument. he Preserving Conscience, "They tell me you have signed the pledge?" "Yes, replied Uncle Billy Bottle top. "And I'm goin' to keep on signin' it. Whatever happens, no one ain't goin' to able to say my intentions wasn't good." BWash- ingston Star 1 be It is better to put your {rust in effor{ rather than luck. 4 GIRLS! MOISTEN A CLOTH AND DRAW IT THROUGH HAW It Becomes Beautifully Soft, Wavy Abundant and Glossy t Once, Save Your Hair! All Yandrun Goes And Hair Stops Coming. Ont. try a "Danderine Hair | Cleanse" if you wish to immediately | double the beauty of your hair. Just | moisten a ¢loth with Danderine and | draw it carefully through your hair, | taking one small strand at a time; this will cleanse the hair of dust, | dirt or any excessive oil--in a few minutes you will be amazed. Your hair 'will be wavy, fluffy and abun- | dant and. possess an incomparable | softness, lustre and luxuriance. | Besides beautifying the hair, one application of Dandérine dissolves every partigle of dandruff; invigora- | tes the scalp, stopping itching and | ! falling hair. . Danderine is to the hair what fresh showers of rain aud sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots, invigorates and strength- |#ns them. Its exhilarating, stimul- {ating and life-producing properties cause the hair to grow long, stropg | and beautiful. |. You ean surely have pretty, soft, | lustrous hair,, and lots of it, if you { will just get ~ a 25-cent bottle of | Knowlton's Danderine from any drug ball bearing for the comfort of its store or toilet cgunter and try it as user and to prevent it clothing. 'With the aid of an electrical fur- nace a London scientist _has drawn glass tubes with an outside diame- wearing his |-directed I~ Save your waif! Keep it looking | charming and beautiful. You will {say this was the best 25 cents you | ever spent. | Vetter from this same cbony critic. + "1 » ue Wie 'Owned the Cart? An old law in Carmarthen coupty, in Wales, required that every counvey- ance passing over th¢ tarnpike toll roads should be plaisly warked with the naine of the owuer so that the per- petrator of any lawlessness could be easily detected. 3 One young farmer kuown as Stam mering Jim was summoned before a magistrate, who denuded why his pame did not appear on Lis two wheel- ed cart. | "W-w-whose n-n-name am 1 to put, on?" stammered the defendant. "Your own, of course," said the mag: istrate, "B-b-but It Isn't my cart, your wor- ship." says Jiw. + "Who is the owner, then?" dewaunded the squire. "T-t-that's the t-t-trouble. sir," said Jim. "The old shsharts belong to D-D-David T-T'Thowas, the wh-wh wheels b-b-belong to Hugh J-J-Jones, the old axle to W-\W.William B Bow er, the t-t-tab belongs to Joshua M-M-Mdtgan, the tt-tailbourd belongs t-t6 we. Then w-w-whose n.pame ain I tto put on, sir?" --National Magazine -- 3 Meiba's Pullman Porter Critie. 'WHIG SATURDAY, JANUARY I Oue American experience recurs to we at the moment. | had beew ap Lpearing in "Faust" at Washington, | and, getting into the train after the performance rather tired, was pot un | naturally annoyed at finding my state- room unprepared. | called the eolored attendant. who kept me waiting a loug time before be condescended to appear gan. ' He looked mre up and down indif- ferently. "1 sa% you play Margaret (Margue rite) this mornin," he said defiantly, "an' 1 thought you weren't a bit o' good. You'll hey Ao wait, But Plan kon (Plancon) was fue," he added as an afterthought. Two years afterward | received a | heard you last night as Manon cant," it ran, "and it was real fine Yon beat the band. 1 take it all back." ~Mme. Melba in Strand Magazine. Les : England's Great Little River. Louis man an elec- | ( nights are often made darker with its One could hardly fancy an England without the Thames, It is the source, the Inspiration, the participant, in so much that distinguishes England's sy!- van beauty. In the centuries that have lived upon its banks it has been a potent factor in the civilization of this island kingdom, It cuts in twain and laves the burllest city in all the world, a dark mass of buman struc- ture impenetrably profound. It rides a vast commerce from London to the sea, and along its jutting wharves tragedies. Years ngoneé kings and princes and the fairest women in the land rode upon its tide in functions of state or in the idle pose of pleasure. Those were the days of the garlanded barge or the hiofed galley foist, which, gliding, stedltilly beuenih the Power portcullis, Ipst another noble to world of politics and intrigue.-- I'rom "in Thameslapd.," eee Clement Moore's One Poem. Just one poeln was written by Clem- ent Clarke \Moore, whose grave is in Frinity chudrbyard, at One Hundred ind Fiftg-fifth "street. Washington heights Twas 'the Night Before Christioas? lives becanse it touches now and has always touched human befirts. It was put jnto an sutograph album in 1822 aud published a couple of years later without the consent of the anthor, who was professor of Greek and Hebrew at Columbia col- lege and did vot think it comported with his digoity to write children's verse,. Dr Moore died in 1863 af the ripe age of eighty-four. His fame as a scholar is lost. His fame as theau- thor of that one real poem will live while the English language is spoken and read anywhere on earth.--Brook- lyn Eagle. Notwithstanding, A teacher had been at great trouble to explain to her class the meaning of the word "notwithstanding" and, on asking for a sentence in whith the word occurred, was somewhat non- plused to receive the following effort from a blushing maiden of some eight summers and winters: "Please. miss, my little brother has a hole In the seat of his trousers, and it's outwitbstauding."=London Mail. No Friends of His, "Well, what did your better half say to you®"* : "She said a-plenty." "You always seem to have friends to take you hoine after these ban- "Nut friends. Ny enemies Pittsbmgh Test. . 1 Foggy. : "James. 1 understand the fogs pre thick in London." "1 remember one. sir, that held for three wodths | was working on a tunnel, sir, And we cut au ninety foot tunnel throigh a sixty "foot hill"-- Washington Herald ------ An Ostrich Trick, Suturaliey state that an ustrich nev: 2r 'goes sdraight to its nest, but always approgches it with many windings, 'in order, if possible 10. conceal the local ity from observation. do it"-- 'Melancholy. Melancholy nas. be defined as a state of wind in which sa nan 18 sv out of touch with bis epgironinert that lire "has _lost Its sweethvis. Sir William Osler. ; 3 N Huw inant people live on the reputa- made! - Holmes. 8 $< Friend choosing ought to be par- ticular business. ; "Why is my berth uot ready?' | be- tion of the reputation they might have The man who cries thief may have the pocketbook. °* \ Chronic borrowers are seldom ve prompt payers. 15, 1916. 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