__ PAGE FOUR hy VNR gy A Big Variety Of Colors NR yyy VN Ay "THE CLUB" 112 Princess SL Wy q JOKER OR SWINDLER? | Money That Was Circulated as Result STRANGE TRICK PLAYED ON | PUBLISHING FIRM. Editors of Encyclopaedia Published Biographies of a Number of Fam- ous Botanists, But It Now Turns Out That the Names and Data Were Faked and That No Such | Mem Ever Lived. S fine a humorous passage as H. G. Wells has been able to write in recent years is that . in "Marriage," in which the heroine's pampered father plays his favorite game. It consisted in a letter | being pronounced, after which the contestants immediately wrote down | the names of as many famous people {as they could think of whose initial | the letter was, the one writing down {the most names being the winner. { Mr. Pope used invariably to win this ! {game when competing with his { family, but one day a stranger took |a hand, and defeated Mr. Pope with | humiliating ease. His practice was to lug in a lot of names which he alleged to be famous, but which no- | body else had ever heard 'of, but for | fear of appearing ignorant they dared i not challenge them. A similar sort | {of joke on a vaster scale has been | perpetrated at the expense of Apple- | | ton's Cyeclopaedia of American Bio- | graphy, if we are to believe Dr. John Hendley Barnhart, librarian of the New York Botanical Garden for three years, and now a contributor to the {| Gardens' Journal. He deals only with the botanists in the Cyclopaedia, but | the suspicion arises that if so many | of the supposed botanists were fig- { ments of the imagination, may not many other names be equally fic- | titious ? The editor of Appleton's evidently | considered that a European who had | visited America and made any dis- | coveries there was entitled to men- { tion in an encyclopaedia. Therefore, | We come across the following list: Kehr, Gustav Herman, German bo- | tamist, b. in Freysingen in 1581; 4d. in Magdeburg in 1639. Kerckhove, Lorenz Wenceslas, { Dutch naturalist, b. in Bois lel Duc | in 1786; d. in Amsterdam in 1839. Kjoeping, Olaus, Swedish explorer, b. in Dalecartia in 1741; 4. in Soroe, | Denmark, in 1809. . THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987 Wanting anything done in the tery line, Estimates gt of repairs and new work; alse hard. wood floors of all kinds. All orders! will recefve prompt srtemtion. mii, Chamberlain Metal . Weather Strip For doors and windows. Makes House warmer. Stops Draughts. Saves Coal. Try some. J. R. C. Dobbs & Co. Tel. 819 41 Clarence 8¢ ITS\PEREF he any better bread or pastry than is turned out by this establishment you can feel quite satisfied in your mind that) we would be making a better article. This, however; is a human impossibility. We bake a perfect bread and per- fect pastry. I" it were possible to make I_ACKIES BAKERY IE rN TEE Koehler, Alexander Daniel, Ger- man botanist, b. in Altenkirchen, | Rugen Island, 18 April, 1762: d. in . | Langenbranden, | Dec., 1828 Wurttemberg, 6 Lotter, Frederic August, German botanist, b. in Kleinaupe, Moravia, {in 1741; 4d. in Gotha in 1806, Mortier, Edouard Louis, French { naturalist, b. in Mulhouse in 1801; {d. in Rio Janeiro in 1852. i Nascher, Friedrich Wilhelm, Ger- | man paturalist, b. in Newent, Eng- land, in 1702; d, mm Paderborn, '| Westphalia, in 1764. Ramee, Stanislas Henri de 1a, | French naturalist, b. in Perigueux {in 1747; d. in. Fontainebleau in 1803. Thibaudin, Gaston Louis, French explorer, b. in Dunkirk in 17271; 4d. { In Lima, Peru, in 1796. | Vivier, Jacques du, b. in Lorent, { France, in 1720; d. there in 1793. Wallerton, Charles Louis Aug- juste, French naturalist, b. in Sainte- | Menehould in 1721; d. in Nancy in 1788. If we trust Dr. Barnhart, every one of these men is bogus. They never made any contribution. to! American or any other science; | they never lived. Dr. Barnhart says that the editors of the encyclo- paedia were imposed upon-by some one who was either a practical joker or a plain swindler, and contributed the biographies at so much a word. He finds internal evidence to indi- cate (hat fhe biographies were all the work of ome author. It is to be noted that of all the eleven; none died in the United States where a tombstone might be supposed to confirm or deny a story alout him. Two are supposed to have died in South America, and certainly the editors of Appleton's wculd not have thought of despatch- ing an expedition tp search the churehyards there. All these great nists were safely interred by the author in small, remote towns where it might be expected that the encyclopaedia would never enter, and to which no su uent botanist would make a pious . Om this account Dr. Barnhart says that thirty years have elapsed since the fraud was perpetrated, and is only now exposed. Probably, too, the house of Appleton now will find it difficult to look up the records and ver who was the contributor whose acquaintance European botanists of some hun- dreds of years ago was so intimate. Dr. Barnhart mentions not fewer than 69 titles of 129 volumes in all mentioned as the work of these bogus botanists that never were written, and it was a search for some of them that first gave him the clue to the fraud. He notes that the earliest work on sex in plants was not pub- lished an 1694, seoun- | mous distance it were placed in the The establishment of an institution for medical research in Belgium is One of the am of Queen Dn gt ae pant { There was lack of copper and nickel QUEER COINS. of the War. The gréat war brought into ciren- lation some very odd kinds of money. | { throughout Europe, owing to the de- mand for those metals for munitions, jete.; and, to aggravate the situation | people everywhere took to hoarding coins. - ' : Germany issued hundreds of mil- {lions of five-pfennig and ten-pfennig {iron coins, the later output of these i pleces being coated with sinc to pre- | {vent rust. Iron coins were likewise | | minted by the Governments of Swe- { den, Norway and Denmark, : The Germans issued one-pfennig | | pieces of aluminum, and in Algeria | | also aluminum poins of five centimes | { and ten centimes made their appear- | | ance in circulation. i { Germany issued muslin notes, and | {the local governments in, that ¢oun~ | {try and in Austria printed paper i money of the smallest value ever | known, representing one-fifth of a | cent. i Even more curious was the paste- board money issued in some of the | enemy-occupied cities in France. It | {was in denominations up to five { francs, and was of different colors and shapes -- square, round, octag- onal, oval and diamond shaped. This 'card money"was guaranteed by the local municipality, and was good only | for use in transactions with mer- chants of the town where it was is- sued. | Meanwhile the clever Japanese bought up in China nearly all of the | visible supply of ** 1"'----the copper { pieces with square holes for string- ing them together. At the enhanced price of copper they were worth con- siderably more as bullion than as money. = In African W ers. The Congo might be called the Amazon of the Dark Continent. They are the two greatest rivers in the world if measured by the volume of water they discharge into the ocean. { In one very important respect, | | however, they are strikingly differ- ent. For whereas the Amazgn is com- { fortably navigable for more' than 2,300 miles from its mouth, the Con- { go is beset by long stretches of im- | passable rapids. | The vast basin of the Amazon is low lying, flat territory, through which the mighty river and its tri- { butaries (some of the latter huge | streams) flow sluggishly. But the Congo, to reach the sea, breaks { through a mountainous plateau. Thus a vessel ascending the Congo proceeds only ninety miles before { reaching, at Matadi, the first great rapids. Its passengers or freight, to | get around the latter, must be trans- | ferred to a train for a "portage" of | 250 miles; and further pn there are | two other long stretches that have | { to be covered in the same way. By steamer and rail one can travel all the way from the Congvd's mouth {to Bukama, 2,200 miles up. In its | upper reaches the river, though still | | wide, becomes very shallow, so that | the steamboats plying those waters | | are small craft, such as one some- | | times sees in Florida, with stern { wheels and drawing no more than | three feet. i From Bukama the journey may be | | continued by rail to Lake Tanganyika | | ¢= body of fresh water 400 miles | | long) down the lake 200 miles by | | steamer and by rail across what used i { to be German East Africa to a sea- | port, Dar-es-Salaam, on the Indian | {| Ocean, a short distance south of | | Zanzibar. Thus may one cross the whole of { middle Africa to-day by steam, Where Rabbits Climb Trees. i Asked what animals can climb, | the average person would answer | "eats, monkeys and squirrels." | Ask him if rabbits can climb, and he will either laugh or regard you as | a lunatic. i Yet rabbits do climb. Not English rabbits. They have not had need to learn to do so, for they have been | able to find plenty of food on the! gronnd. But their Australjan de- | scendants have been driven to climb trees to got green food in time of | drought, and in some districts the Australian rabbit has become a regu- lar climber. The stoat, ferret and rat, all ground animals, are yet quite good tree climbers when the need arises. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG A World of | Philosophy in this Packet "To live well with the world '-- To forget, for a little while, the strain and rush of business-- To relax the nerves-- Such is philosophy. A quiet corner by the fireside, a good book,--and a packet of dainty, candy-coated Chiclets. These "Really Delightful" confections, with a tingling peppermint flavor, bring good digestion to the aid of leisure hours; relieve the tension; give an impetus to clear thought. Sold everywhere at ten for Sc. For home use--the big Week-End box at 25c. --an Adams product, particularly prepared Canadian Chewing Gum Co, Limited, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1919, One of the weasel family, the pine marten, is as much at home in the ~---- tree tops as the squirrel itself, A rat, though quite nimble among the branches, cannot come down as con quickly as it goes up, and sometimes oli 3 comes badly to grief in trying to t A "round robin" ecimeists of a paper ining a petitiyy, protest, - com- "Round Robin" or congratulati sas around which sun. Its diameter is 184 times that would be within 20 degrees of | zemith. jump from one bough to another. A hunted fox will climb a tree with wonderful agility always sup- posing it can get any hold for its feet. A dog, on the other hand, will not climb; the reason is not so much that it cannot as that it seems aware that a very slight fall 1 snap its foreleg below the shouldey, A Giant San. Canopus, the giant of the solar sys- tem, is, according to a recent caleu- lation, 49,000 times as bright as the of the sun; it is 18,000 times larger in surface, and 2,420,000 times larg- er in volume. The distance of it from us, according to this caleulation, is 489 light years. "Suppose," says another authority, "that instead of being at this enor- centre of the solar system, in lieu of the sun' It would then occupy .85 of the space lying within the orbit of Venus, aod as seen from the earth would subtend an angle of about 70 ¢ of arc. Thus, when its lower Hmb was on our horizon, 1s upper 8 to say, no life It is estimated that there are lod 10" ea an ' now ; sheep. however, show a decline in numbers of 900,000, y exist on earth with such a neighbor. * teem 2 OF the names of the sigmers ire written in a circle so as to avoid giving prom- inence to amy single name, and so that no name heads the list. The term bas been found in Coverdale's preface to his translation of Calvin's "Tract on the Lord's Supper," dated 1546, but it is there used by "scurrilous Prot- estants" as a term of reproach for the ciborlum or pyx. Brewer claimed the term to be a corruption of the French "rend" (reutid) "ruban" (ribbon). Ap- plied to persons, the term g 3 8 { 3 Jor growing d's » si a is i.e SLB