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the liner as it was enter- ith : Bay. y h steamer Kalimba, enh pe juenos Aires, also etopped at) th Bay and landed her ar.) penter, who also was severely injured. : Betiber 'Bargoed, South Wales, a land-' 'slide caused a mineral train to topple 'over an' embankment; killing the en-| and fireman. Incidentally, 2,000] will: be laid off, as the train| the central part of the city is to a depth of two feet, a sight which ng not been seen for 40 years. The rivers in the northeast of; France and Belgium are also very {high and at many places are already over their banks, At Bruay-en-Artois ; the dyke burst and the river flooded the town in the middie of the night. The inhabitants were awakened by the tocsin and escaped as best they could, "CAUBE AND PATH OF SUN'S oki ~ About 9 o'clock on the morning of January 24,'Torento and a sixty. mile strip of territory in Western Ontario will be du the path of a total 'solar wreck destroyed the electric power abandoning everything. Hundreds are| eclipse. It will be visible only for: rabput two minutes: e above map shows cables connected with the mines. now without shelter. the path of the shadow that will rush so swiftly across. the continent from . A despatch to Lloyd's from Barry, A full gale lashed the French ol Duluth to Long Island. The single column drawing shows how the sun and day anounced. that The United joutd ut Brant. las gt, sud a tor-| moon caper around to cause an eclipse. = Although the relative sizes of the shipping Board steamer -| rential rain e near-by coun- gtrat beck, which sort out wireless distress|{try. The River Elorn a wip Tom 2ud earth ste Sistbgarted di the fii 6, us guungal edi signals off the coast of Scotland dur-|while tho Towns of Landivisia Cha-| the eclipse may: he chserved. Because ihe aun:is-datghr thaw the moon, tA Riau, | the shadow of the moon; when cast toward the earth, comes nearly to a point Ing last Friday's storm, was proceed- | teaulin and Quimper were 'inundated when it touches the eartli's surface. Yet as seen from the point T on the ing for New York The Eelbeck in'by several foot of water. : 2 wens earth, the moon, because it 18 nearer, looks as large as the sun and appears completely to cover it--just as with a lead pencil a quarter of an inch in French Think Colunibus UL S. Thanks Great Buitaith diameter held six inchef from: the eye you can cover afi object a foot in Did Not Discover America| for Aid Given World Fliers aiameter stated 24 teet from the eye. In addition to hiding the sun at T a there will be part eclipses between the points X1 and X32. Between Pl and French savants are sweegigating] London, Jan. 4--The following mes- P2 the degree of the eclipse Increases as the observer happens t the thorny question of who discovered sage from the United States Ambas-| pe nearer the belt T. Pom W America, says a Paris despatch. In| sador in 'London to Hon. ~Austen ® paper read before the College de| Chamberlain appears in current fleet | ginning has been made. } at mowers "led only. by a white Bes France, a paper which the French! 'press terms "sensationa)," Professor) Meillet states that it was not Chris- topher Columbus. The famous voy-; ager merely rediscovered a continent | which was known long before his day to other navigators. Up to the present, says Protessar | Meillet, no serious study of the indi-| genous languages of America, and of other regions has ever been made, but the ground now is being broken by French students and a comparison of the voeabularies of 'a group of Cali-| fornia languages and certain Polyne- | sian languages has brought to light' "satisfying and numerous coinei- "The vocabulary of-the indigenous races of Patagonia," the lecturer told his colleagues of the College de France "shows striking resemblances to that of Australian races. And it is inter- esting $0 note tht thewe linguistic re- semblances parallel almost identically similar resemblances in the arms, do- mestic utensils and other objects used * in the same epoch in America and other regions. But these similarities do not date from the time when these continents were connected by land In- stead of vast oceans. Therefore, it is $0 be concluded that navigators sailed over these immense spaces." : Eight Hou Day Introduced | First by Cze Czecho-SI , Grecho-Slovakin wae was the first indus- trial state among the European coun- tries to ratify the eight-hour conven- tion and introduce a statutory eight hour day. A report on hours of labor In Crecho-Slovakia has just been issued by the International Labor Office. orders: "Under instructions from the Un-! ited States Government, I have the honor to express the deep appreciation of the American Government for the many courtesies and assistance ex- | tended by the British authorities to) the American aviators in their recent flight around the world. The Amer- jean Government fully realizes that | without the co-operation of the var- | ious foreign Governments over whose | territory the flight passed, this | achievement would not have been pos- | sible, and it is therefore particularly | happy to express its gratitude to his| Majesty's Government for its cordial co-operation." a me rn Wheat Reaches Highest Mark. at Minneapolis Since 1920 A despatch from Minneapolis Bes sayei--A carload of wheat sold at the! : Chamber of Commerce here on Friday pe : for $2.21 a bushel, giving the first; ! day's trading here in 1925 the highest | 1 mark reached for wheat since 1920. The previous high post-war cash price! was $2.18%, established Dec. 26 last. nig ad It is believed that the carload aboye| King Boris of Bulgaria is about to' referred to was of fancy spring grade, start a round of visits to all the royal which has been selling at a premium courts in Europe in search of a royal on the Minneapolis market all season, bride, it is sald. Word has gone ahead although this is the highest figure yet, that he wants-to make the allied coun- tries [forget his country was gn the other side in the war. recorded on this crop. is er a Ontario Housewife Wins Dictionaries Were Popular Prize in English Contest Gifts for X-Word Fans Acton, Jan. 4--Mrs, Schram of| Many persons this Christmas have Acton has received the prize in the been astonished and delighted. at get- competition in fruit cakes with the ting a dictionary, of all things in the ladies of Acton, England, at a bazaar! world, for a gift book, and the book- ¢ The Spectucte of Jarisgh : Canadian Res Reuision at Los Herschel Island Visited by Angeles. First Relief Ship in Year. A despatch from Los Angeles, Cal,! A despatch from Nome, Alaska, says:--This city will be the scene of says:--Here's a gripping plot for a a huge Canadian re-union on Feb, 7, thrilling sea isi 1926, according to an announcement: year not a vessel made here by John. Hooper, president had tan Hérschol Island, fsolated of the Canadian Tourists' Society and in the Arctic Ocean northeast director of the American Tourists' As- Alaska. The few white traders sociation, who estimates that fully 50,- trappers living 'there and several) 000 visitors will attend the gathering. Eskimo colonies were justabout. ready The municipal coliseum, seating 81,- to resign themselves to a diet of seall made 000, will be thrown open for the field blaubber and bear meat for the winter day and an open-air 'picnic will be when a strange thing happened. held in the exposition grounds ad-, The gns power: schooner: Maid of joining. { Orleans; out: from Seattle since June Announcing the: re-union, a Can-! 25, trying vainly to reach' Victoria, adian ball was held in the Bon Ton Land and unspoken by any. ship later ballroom on the Lick Pier; Santa Mon- than August 80, was given up for lost, | ica, recently, and which was attended as were four other Arctic boa {by 2,000 members of the' various like Santa Claus ng' down Maple Leaf Societies, i chimney, came the 'Maid of 'Orleans According: "to the announcement to Herschel Island, frozen in a Died des among the trees or Vines: made here by Mr. Hooper, the plans floe. The boat, fast in the ice, is for the reunion were formulated at safe harbor for the winter, On on the recent conventions of the Tourists' schooner are sufficient suplies to keep On the the part overtaken by a ecloudburst. For orton and onechalf inches of rain. fell { tracked ded the rhinoceros, which a charged.' The Duke. waited until the| We ol pon arial was within 80 yards, then he| Would EE The of hat "The. 'camp is irrodnded by: fics va and the party. co consequently expect to m) peoyle. I a ; B1X 0: Duc! J cenaful with small Hr small game. . May Use Ships'. Sirens to Saves Dy A says i--T Irrigation of New "Sou available "money; to undertake a unique exper Joss. ment. It is. proposed to ma yards - orchards. in the irrigation. meade o urea. The apparatus: consists of AEE educational institutions aed by teen fond | moral and religious character would be operate ont | made. ; The the farm, the siren prio pluced of our ares p Association at Toronto and at Put'in- the islandérs from want until next! Bay, Ohio. The Chamber of Com. summer. In return Captain Klengen- merce here will assist in working outberg will get a cargo of the white tars, plans for the big gathering. for which Hersche! is famous. geal So Herschel Island is saved and the Duke of York Ducked Maid 1of 'Orleans in a harbor--there// by Ship's Passengers, Jee have it, the framework of a = t er. : etd opin Halifax Chronicle. Celsbrates | 100: Years of - A despatch from London says: ten | Passengers on the steamship. which | took the Duke and Duchess of York to Kenya had the experience of shaving and ducking 'the King's son and then helping him/shave and duck the ship's 1 captain. Theso amenities are part of The Morni ng Chronicle, in association a ceremonial to which 'all Persons, oy an Nova Scotian, i y pig Halifax, N. 8, Jan. 1.--Celebrating| clous and Seonatulé, 00 years of continuous publication, | 18 The first part of the monograph is "davoted to an account of the scone and | provisions of the Czecho-Slovakia re-| act of 1913, by which the eight- ir day Sr Jouty-sight-hom week was held here-recently.--John-Taylor; See-| sellers -have-expressed-equal astonish- usually rime | retary of the Acton Chamber of Com-| ment at the demand for such 'books,|' The Duke was ready and wore run- merce at Acton, England, writes! says a London despatch. ning pants and a vest for his hazing. "Our people here appreciate very| It is not any particular thirst for He then led the assault on 'the cap- much the response in the matter of knowledge or love of learning for its tain, who was dragged'from the bi and boisterously baptized. {Prince Offers to Drive. While |The Chronicle's plage in the Tired Chauffeur Sleeps crossing the Equatar for the. fivet tS an edition of 84 est io Cenada. | Th e section Ing magazin Robi by Dr. Archibald Mac the cake competition. Should your own gake, this tide of buying, but | and Dr. J, D. Logan on Joseph Acton women folk decide to challenge simply to meet the demond for refor-| our Acton women folk to another con-| ence work in' cormection with thd | | in the future I will do all in my solving of cross-word puzzles. tention to the methods of applying the | act: 'in railway undertakings and the for permanent or tempor- ~=This 1a followed hy Ganoerning the administration vt ; third part of the study nga, penne nd Girl Who Fell From regarding hours of work. she countries already gover Coquitlam, B.C, Bel- {Travelling with her mother from Vul- power to make it a worthy hustle." Following 'America's example, the Macleilan, a former plan {newspapers started this amusement To the benefit of their zeaders, B flering prizes for correct solutions,| the Prince of Wales is called on to's Jo of the first Train Picked Up Alive pi now "everybody's doing it." fulfill' often demand long hours of Sassi i rat. issue of The duty on the part of his attendants, ld Jan. 4-- Cologne Will fue he is uniformly 'considerate Largest Belli in the World them Germany, Great Bri-| can Alta, to Vancouver, Harriet ether) {Stans 10 years old, fell from the train| A despatch from from. Cologne saysi--| morninig and told his 'chauffeur ha} i yp ittheriands. and ear the Canadian Pacific yards here! The City of Cologne is soon to have would require his car at 7 o'clock. De- Friday. Her absence was not noticed the largest bell in the world. It will tecting a shadow onthe: chauffeur's ln by ber mother, who was conversing weigh more than twenty-five tons. £: ace, the prince. i Lhe w with a friend, until the train neared; The bell has béen ready for ship-| The ons replied Vancouver. A message sent along the! ment from a factory at Apolda for ave |1ine led to the discovery of the semi-|miore than a year, but on' aceount x ] conscious child nearly three hours the foreign occupation of the Cologne t rday later. Her injuries are serious, but it dave | i was: piri dapmacticable by farm near this elty is believed she will recover. # hor price arrived home early one with matter of great Bioko inter: sub) perhaps its most brilliant editor, and} 'history of ova Scotia is graphically told by Dr. Service of the Dept. of the. Interior says that if Canadians would, give! more serious thought to the groat min-| 'eral resources of thelr co 2 would : 'more fully appreciate them. 'They take tas puch for Sha andi sppets to thin y 'are : . | ; ndividual interest except' toa few being {i or or others directly Tat ER latitude as Florence; Gochrant; the '{ed. The number of minerals, , 18 on. " line in which im jh miles sou inn; # prbdsnts ory, i the lenders! sch % rte wo Ing rprise many of 'our people if a ould bo give 8 little thought to the itty. "In the many | The numerous rounds; ef engagements ji "q.42i1 The edition also includsa the the it