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of tologist, 9 Sinosurs, Suge continent millions of years ago. It is the st northerly point in the world where dinosaurs are known to have on and thelr discovery throws : le new light these prehistoric animals. "Over 400 tracks were found in the rocks, made by at least five distinct "species. of dinosaurs. They range from six inches in length to 25 inches. The 'largest tracks were made by an animal at least 36 feet long and the smallest by a creature about 12 feet long. Mr, Sternberg prepared moulds of some of the tracks and these show the largest bi aa ow Iren Theory To Be Probed by Province To Ascertain Value of De- posits on Bank of Matta- gami River, Known «for the Last 25 Years Toronto. -- Immediate commence ment of diamond-drilling operations at Grand Rapids, on the Mattagami River, 60 miles north of Cochrane, to prove or disprove the value of the dron indications at that point, was an- nounced here on Dec. 12th by Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines. Thomas F. Sutherland, Acting Dep- uty Minister to the department, will leave for the North shortly to super- vise, personally, the oeginning of the drilling. Occurrence of iron ore at Grand . Rapids has been known for the past' 26 years, and while reports on it have been made to tle department at dif- ferent times since 1904, it remained for Dr. M. E. Hurst ol the Provincial Geologists' staff, through the informa- tion he collected in a survey of the deposit last summer, to advise the "proving" operations about to be; daunched. The 'iron outcrops A. Grand Rapids show only in the bed of the river and surrounding along the banks. The country is covered by glacial drift to a depth of 50 feet or more and the only way in which the value of the deposit can be ascertained 18 by drill dng. The ore is a siderite with some limonite, of exceptionally good grade, and especially suitable for the mak- A shipment of "dng of sponge iron. 800 pounds, taken out by Dr. Hurst, and forwarded to the Ontario Re: pearch Foundation, gave 48 per cent. iron. 'The department plans to put down a series of shallow holes, vertically at distances of 75 feet gami River, The drill, work, ernment's lignite flelds, only some 16° miles downstream, Dr. Hurst, who will be in charge of the "proving" work, is firmly of the opinion that the iron will be of great economic importance if. any cousid- erable body is proved up. 3 ead) rit Appeal is Sent to Ontario '0 Eat More Maritime Fish Halifax--A message to R. W. E. Burnaby, Maritime Trade Commiis- sioner at Toronto, requesting the good offices of his department in helping to create an immediate improvement in the demand for fresh fish was for- warded recently by Dr. Richard Ham- or, Secretary of the United Maritime "It seems to me that possibly you could assist in some way dn educating the consuming public of Ontarip and Quebec to ask not only but alse for the fresh- can be caught," the "Anything you can do to relieve the present depression dn our Canadian markets for fresh t would: help to improve the winter in «the mes of several thousand Maritime lermen. for a a cog a stated. fish at pres conditions fo hermen." +; Wooden Drainboard ; tw "to keep a wooden drainboard clean and nice looking is a problem who has one 18 the way one tor nearly tn her EB woman ved it oss successfully. 8, wdod, was. and clean reptiles that roam- i ed over parts of the North American on the life] apart and wbout 100 feet back from the Matta- to do the will be moved from the Gov- which are to be. practically two feet square end 111s | sunk into the rock about seven inches. Although the whole 'district was heated thoroughly, no dinosaur eggs were discovered, such as Roy Chap- man Andrews unearthed in Mongolia some time ago. The spot where the discovery was made was close to the Hudson Hope on the Peace River, about 475 miles north of the international boundary line, The greatest deposit of dinosaur bones and skeletons in Canada is near the Red Deer River in Alberta, Strangely enough, although there are plenty of bones there only one track has been discovered. Mr, Sternberg removed the rock con- taining some of the more perfect tracks for presqrvation in the Nation: al Museum in Ottawa. King and Queen Differ Over 'Phone Latter Insists on Old Style Receiver, but Former Has French Type in Office London,--New telephones of the French "all-in-one" type have just been installed in the study and private apartments of King George at Buck- ingham Palace. The phon:s are con- nected with the general switchboard of the palace. The new telephones have revealed a divergence of opinion in the royal family. Despite the King's choice Queen Mary still has the old type of telephone in her apartments--and what is more, an official of the palace stated, she does not want the new ones undér any circumstances. "King George dislikes the tele- phone," the official said, "but he car- ries on much state and personal bnsi- ness by phore and frequently calls people oua'de the palace, "On the other hand, the Queen dis- likes, using the telephone and only does so once in a while to communi- | cate with other parts of the palace." ( Although the apartments of the King and Quee are.connected with the outside world by telephone, only a handful of persons can "ring up" Britain's rulers. How they get their calle past the giant switchboard of Buckingham Palace is one of the most closely guarded of all royal secrets. The rew telephones which have been installed in the King's apartments and other parts of the palace are noted for their clearness, They are said to have a sixteen-mile "range advantage" over other types, which makes them particularly suitable for long-distance calls. The palace telephone system, how- office buildings and hotels in that there is no house telephone. Every call, internal as well as external, must go through the general switchboard. mal deca Firemen Mend Toys During Idle Hours Boise, floor the length of a bare gynasium, and here is the story. the broken toys from things. fer. boxes, parts. their spare hours, one, and by assortment of toys ready for service. family, livered them personally. © Willie: you er have for a Christmas ence, ever, is less modern than that of most tire Past year 50, then we must 100k Ida--Toys--mended toys-- hundreds of them, spread out on the The place is the central fire station, In the summer the proprietor of a large department store inquired of the firemen if they would care to mend Is store and give them to children having few play- The firemen accepted the of- The toys arrived In two enormous a motley mass of detashed They were placed on four long tables in the gymnasium with an over- flow of two small piles on the floor. Then, like working out the puzzle of a dissected map, the firemen, during segregated the broken toys and joined their parts to- gether, sometimes usihg two to make Christmas they had changed the confusion into an orderly The firemen procured the names of poor children and filled boxes for each and at Christmas time 'de "Mamma, which would sige or a sealskin A Merry Christmas To All Happy New Year A happy New Year to you all. Another milestone passed; another leaf turned over in this book of life! Fresh resolutions made and deter- minatjons registered--how often in the past have we done these things and declared that we would learn by the failures of former years, but with the fresh start many of us set a pace we have not maintained. We might have done so much bet- ter had 'we not been so clumsy, Still, ¢| it we are to do better, we must switch our attention from past mistakes and centre it upon the present, looking hopefully ahead. It i§, too, our happy privilege to be scorers much more frequently than we Imagine. We ars just starting a fresh game in the league of our exist- We can both head and kick goals if we so determine. Many of us have not made good because we did not take sufficient pleasure in our play. Let life ba serious, cer: tainly; it with humour. thing if you take it philosophically, always remembering that "the best is yet to be." It, then, our resolutions this year are to be improvements upon previous ones, wa must remember that the world is big enough to hold us all and that every other man has a much right to live as we have--perhaps more 50! must banish the impression that we are a'vays right and the other fel low wrong. It would be a fine thing to resolve that we will practise this during the year. ing the year.® Pvery year should be better and better for us, and if we have not found within our own lives; the explanation of errors will be found there. This year, then, may you all be filled with a joy that will increase: this must inevitably bs so if you per- mit the best in you to come to the top and crush down the ill-feelings of life. S80 let's forget the things behind and face the future with a smile. Let's live in the sunshine of happy things. ness; we must possess it and pass it on, 8 Determine, therefore, unfriendly living shall mot be yours. and go on and win, Very heartily I wish for you that this year may be the best you have yet known.--BY "Best Wishes." in A emma: New London Well Pumps 2,200,000 Gals. In Day London, Ont, -- London's amazing new water well on the 4th concession capacity estimated by engineers on well was pumping more than 2,200,000 gallons per day, or about 1,528 gallons per minute, with no sign of any dim- inution in the supply. = and happler. to: and more light. that are becoming evident. but it is always well to leaven | Living is a grand We cannot afford to neglect happl : that petty irritations and miserable gossip and Open your eyes and heart to the light continues to far out-distance even the optimistic 1,600,000 gallons per day Dec, 9th, On Dec, 10th, from 2 p.m, the ~ For the new year of 1931 I resolve Have a window cut in the west end of my kitthen (even if I have to do it myself) to give better ventilation Have my work table raised three inches Blower to forestall the round| Interesting "Tests Made With Crabs A recent government Blue Book de- ments that havs been carried out with crabs. as nipping rather than nippy. "You wouldn't imagine, would you, that a long walks? During recent experiments were removed from their crabs nore f for them and where it was happily. But they did not. had they been turned 'ntp the sea than they 'alt started for hom2. And in a surprisingly short time the majority of them bad walked, or sidled, the 78 miles back again. Each of the walkers carried his own identification dise, for he was marked by means of a label attached to his higgest claw.--From it-Bits. a Pompeii Yields A.D, when an 'erupt fon of Mount Ve- | suvius buried this city, was found re- To put it another way, wa, cently by Government cxcavators who ' uncovered a large house rival in quantity and artistic and<his- | covered at Poscoreale in 1805. is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Pu Mrs. A. husband Christmas hints?" "Do you ever give your Mrs, B.: "Of course I do." Mrs. A.: "Do you! Why the least hint makes my husband so mad." Mrs, B.: "Poor dear, you don't know the combination, I tell my husband I don't want what I want and then I get it." tion of the word--yes, sir!" Sambo: street?' "--"Northern Messenger", "No; she 1s the tried-to-be." 'Resolved by One Homemaker This letter came a bit late, but even resolutions are better late than never, 80 I pass them on. If the writer suc- ceeds in following these resolutions through to December, 1931, she will undoubtedly be a better mother, man- age a better home, and be healthier a disgruntled family, myself as well as my household, more with less work and worry. with these items, Jesotng. scribes some extraordinary experi- Everyone knows that the crab has pincers, but most of us think of him creature that makes » habit of pro- ceeding sideways could indulge in very original Lome to a place where there was far thought they would settle down quite No sooner Rich Treasure Pompeii, Italy.--A rich store of gold and silver vessels from the days.of 79 Archaeologists sald the find would toric value the famous treasure un- This reese eet "Didn't you tell me that Sambo: 'procrastinate' means to 'put oft?' " Professor: "Dat am the significa- "Den why did that street car conductor laugh when I says: 'Procrastinate me at Twenty-First Cora--"So Frank is engaged, ls he? And 1s Clara the bride-to-be?" Dulcle-- for a disgruntled mother often mdlkes Dress attractively every day, even in the morning, and be mistress of Plan the meals a week In advance, thus having myself worry and provid. fog my family with a more balanced diet, Plan my housework at least a week in advance to be able to accomplish Keep a reminder pad handy to jot down needed supplies and things to attend to, and net tax my memory Put home-keeping ahead of house-| My Shutly nesds a cheerful High School R eporter Gains : Exclusive "Scoop" From Einstein New York nid the editor of the relative bignees of the world of hat in which we live. Q.--What mesage has the professor to send to us as the future citizens Newtown High School X-Ray to Wil- liam "Blimp" Friedman, his star re- porter: "Dash over and get an ex- clusive interview with Doc Einstein." And "Blimp" did. The German scien- _ tist autographed his notes. Friedman, who has beared nine celebrites at 18, sudenly appeared be- fore the savant of the liner Belgen- land and began to fire questions. i Q--"How mach math:matics is necessary to the high school student? A.--Mathematics itself is not as es- sential as getting the spirit of the of the world? A.--Although practical mathemat- ics builds the world, its usefulness is bcunded by the extent to which the spirit of mathematics may let it In conclusion, I wish to con- vey my best wishes to these students for a life of usefulness in this world travel. of mathematics. Then he smiled, hand and the interview was over. Stamp Collection | On Cottage Walls Paris.--The most, fi freakish and one of the most valuable stamp collections { in France is pasted on the walls of the | pottagesof a priest in the Savoy Alps. Collectors who have found the stamps have bid fabulous prices for the right to steam the collection from the walls, but since church property belongs to the French Government, the stamps must remain pasted up un- til they are spoiled by time. The collection was started half a century ago by a young priest who had no other distraction in the moun- tain village. The Community is an hour's walk and climb from the near- est road. But the priest received a great quantity of mail, and friends sent him stamps to add to his collec- tion. He started pasting stamps on the bare walls in place of wall paper. And then; as the collection grew, he pasted more on top, making Greek designs out of the issues of various countries. There are nearly 250,000 old postage stamps on the four walls of the salon, many of them now rare issues much sought after by callectors. The French collection is particularly rich, with copies even of the famous balloon stamps issued for air mail by gasbag, when Paris was being besieg- ed by the Germans in the war of 1870. Ther¢ is a rare triangular stamp from the Cape of Good Hope, some rare vatican stamps of the first issue before Italy took over the pontificial territory, war stamps from 1870 from Alsace and Lorraine, the first issues of Norway, series, and countless others, ee Plan 1,850 Miles New Hydro Lines Additions to Serve 9,700 Rural Consumers and Cost $4,380,000 Toronto.--Plans ha the primary lines during 1931, in addition | officials of the commission announced recently. It {3 estimated that these additional lines will serve more than 9,700 rural consumers and cost ap- proximately $4,380,000. Farmers of the province will benefit directly by the éxpansion, it {3 stated. During the month ending November 30, 40 applications for rural service were received which will necessitate the construction of 149 miles of line. There are at present more than 149 miles of line constructed, which will serve the demands of 40 additional consumers, and will cost approximate- ly $303,000. The following summary of lines shows the progress In different sec- tions of Ontarlo: Program Progress for for year 1931 to date Southwestern .. 1,061 109 Northern . 292 20 Eastern .... 619 20 Totals ... 1,862 149 --- New Process Makes | New Orleans, La,--Carleton Ellis, of New York, told the annual convention of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers here on Dec. 9th of a new German process for making cotton from fron. Except for the color, which is blackish, he sald it looks and feels like cotton and will burn about as easily as cotton. * Mr, Ellis also told of the German ware. provement of gaso! H, B. Howe, edit. it conld be made Ahe famous Greek mercury | | rd ne | New Animal Bill To Be l Passed In Holland ve been made by Outarlo Hydro-Electric Commis | sion to build more than 1,850 miles of | to the 7,100 miles already constructed, Cotton From Iron process for producing urea, made from a mixture of ammonia and carbon dioxide gasses,® Urea, he explained, not only is suitable for fertilizer but for manufacture of unbreakable china- Motorists may loci: for further lm- 3 and lubricants Trom the hydrogenai on process, sald -* Industrial and Buogineering Chemis{, °, who predicted t) convert crude petroleum completely. ints gasoline of Newsprint Output 67.6 P.C. of Capacity di Mills Produced 40.,- 372 Tons in November Montreal.--Production of newsprint 1930, tons and ship- Production in and shipments 93,631 tons, making a total in Canada during November, amounted to 201,703 ments to 213,673 tous, United States was 82,33 2,33 7 tons, shook the boy's -- South American hunt clubs cannot chase the fox, but in its substitute, the jackal, they find a far more ewning: and wily quarry, The way in this little animel has employed its craftiness has excited comments trom most who have come in contact with it, writes W. L. Speight, of Cape Town, South Africa, in "The Boston Trans cHing, " On one occasion a greyhound spoor- Fed a jickal for more than two days without pause. The jackal was unabia to shake off the dog. It was chased through bush and river, over moun- tains and swamps to an Isolated cor ner of Basutoland. When the jackal gave in here, both animals were spent, They could but lie down and pant al each other. They were found thus by a party of Basutos, who immediately killed the jackal and sent the dog back to the club named on its collar. This Is the most notable instance of a dog in South Africa chasing a jackal relentlessly for more than 400 miles of rough country, The jackal employs many tricks to throw dogs off the scent. Occasionally United States and Canadian newsprint it spring ¢ . t production of 294,000 tons 1 ship- ih a Ee , pa ments of 307,304 tons. During vem. | Wile anoLiep ruse } often Andy sue ber 24,208 tons of newsprint in, Mexico, so that American to the newsprint Service, New York. The Canadian sills produced 182, 403 tons less in the first 11 months of 1930 than In the first 11 months of 1929, which was a decrease of 7 per The United States output was less than Pro- Newfoundland was 29,234 tons or 12 per cent. more in the first! and in| cent, 91,557. tons or T per cent. for the first 11 months of 1029, duction in 11 months of 1930 than in 1929, Mexico 4, tons less, making a total decrease of 249,212 tons or 6 per cent, During November the Canadlan mills operated at 67.6 per cent, of rated capacity. United States mills at 68.0 per.cent. and Newfoundland mills at 106.1 per cent. Stocks of newsprint paper at Canadian mills totalled 40,372 tons at the end of November, and at United States mills 31,818 tons, ing a combined total of which was equivalent to 4.2 days' age production, were made in Newfoundland and 1,268 tons the total North production for the month amounted to 319,616 tons, according mak- 72,190 tons, aver. cessful is to jump from rock to rock in mountainous country. Dogs are much too clever to be beaten for long, but respites so gained are often sufii- clent to enable the wary animal te complete its escape. The jackal, it must be remembered, is the master of the fox in the art of cluding pursurers, It prefers most often to leap into the first stream encountered. On emerging on the op- posite side it will career for a few: hundred yards over the veld and them double back to the water again. It may swim up or down stream before crawling out on the side from which it originally entered the stream. Ia most cases it escapes. Where a hun- ter is aware of this ruse, however, he is sometimes able to beat the jackal ' by taking his dogs ulong the banks of the stream until they locate the point at which the little animal for- sook the water. The wiles of the jackal are demon- strated remarkably when it is hunting * sheep. Flocks all over the country have been ruined by its attacks. Farmers recognize a means of deliver- ance in hunt clubs, but they laugh at sportsmén who will chase the beast over miles of country, often with it in sight, and not take a shot at it. They Amsterdam, Holland. --The different} sonsider it too clever an animal to al- ! organizations for the protection of anl- low any chances. South Africa farm- mals and the prevention of cruelty to| apg always use the rifle against this animals in the Netherlands have re: creature. Sheep farmers employ a cently given practical proof of their| wide range of dodges and devices ta willingness to co-operate in humani- run the jackal to earth. Occasionally tarian aims by_appointing a mixed | they trap it in rocky borrows in dis- Judiclal.committee from their number tant mountains. It might be possible to draft a bili for the protection of to send a little dog down the narrow animals. | holes through which jackals crawl, but The names of several eminent law-| it would have no hope in a fight. A yers and scholars appear on the com-| dog sufficiently large to deal with tha mittee and tho assistancd of a large! pest cannot enter here. number of experts will be available to The fox occasion ally may be tamed, consider the possibility of basing the put never a jackal." He is alwavs new law on modern conditions, giving sly d treacherous, however much he definite rights to animals seom to have succumbed to he These rights comprise that of pro- 5 8 tection against ill-use and ill-t | stronger will of hia Xearler, © Even reat-| when they have been reared from cubs ment, of good treatment and care and these tr s cannot be eradicated. But working ds iy with reasonable animal young jackals are difficult to rear. In the right of not mora than a 10-hour| ost cases they die in captivity. holiday At'empts to breed out the strain milrinone | have failed. The sly, wild character- Second Albino Otter istics remain. Continued breeding Trapped in Canada of North an| Albino otter, was trapped a few days ago on the northwest branch of the Oromocto River near Tracy, Sunbury and is In the possession of a be mounted and sold to one of the rall-| Fredericton--The rarest American fur-bearing animals, County, Fredericton fur dealer. It will ways for exhibition purposes. So far as Is known, the which was taken by George A. Nason, of Tracy, is the second of its kind to ba caught in Canada. The animal was caught just 10 miles from whers the first one reported In Canada was caught by Locke Phillips, | animal, ! may minimize them, but the result is a poor sort of animal, a mongrel of absolutely no use. A greyhound bitch and a jackal were once mated. The resulting animal" had any attractive appearance. - It had sledk lines and excellent pace, but it was akin to the | wild, and had to be watched with as | much care as a pure-bred jackal would have demanded. It stole when not watched and had the instincts of its forbears to seek difficult hiding places. No amoun; of well planned training could tame or correct its be- havior. Similiar experiments have | had eq nsatisfactory results. 1 { The] § an ou t with a price a head. of Tracy, four years ago. Tha first | upon its To hear it howling in was bought by the same dealer, w as| the Bight it seems that it is aware of mounted and sold to the provinze )t this. Squs atting on his haunches, with New Brunswick, and has been exhibit.| Shout pointing skywards the heavy ed at sportsmen's shows. silence of South Africas calm moon- FR fight rights is shattered by shan wail- ing howl. deep dread'seems to run Argentine Railroad . through it, ng observer has re- Lines Face Crisis marked that even the Canadian wolf, Buenos Alres, Arg.--The rallroads| declaiming its loneliness amid the of Argentina are experiencing one o the most acute crises in their history, F. D. Guerrico, attorney for the Buenos Alres Great Southern Railway, stated in response to recommenda- tions by the Minister of Agriculture that the rallroads lower freight rates Dec. 4, on agricultural products. Reduction of rates under the pres- ent circumstances, Mr. Guerrico de- clared, would be a grave economic error, affecting the stability ot the railroads besides preventing develop ment of the communication lines and the zones served by them. -- Bug: "Why the knot?" Worm: - "Christmas shopping " ) eternal snows, cannot express so much torment and pathos. With open spaces and starry nights the jackal pours out in discordancy the mournfulness thab apparently fills what he has of a soul. The jackal is a brave fighter. It will not scorn to tackle animals twice. its size and often win the combat. Im hunting, dogs are its greatest enemy. It has many clever tricks by which the ordinary hunter can be thrown off the scent, but many ingenious devices ° must be tried before the dogs are de- feated, for they are vigilant and per. sistent, eager and keen scent, Jackals have fooled even them by get- ting among. flocks of sheep, often but a few hundred yards from a home- t } deg its eseape. et onbe Took i shelter In & spreriety but this animal dentally and had Yo) pay What can a baby 4 an artist?--1Its breath, Rei