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STEVENS S ARMS & & TOOL CO. F iy U.S.A, ® 4 elixir of "No One Has Yet § Yet Succeeded In Extracting It Accurately. SOME IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEMS The Effort to Cultivate a Blue Rose, the Search For Absolute Zero, the Perpetual Motion Phantom and the Squaring of the Circle. \There died in the year 1902 in st Felix, a small village in the oer ment of Haute Garonne, in France. Wealtby octogenarian hexticsliurtat who spent the last forty-five years of bis life und a sum variously estimated at from £12,000 to £15,000 in attempt- ing to produce by artificial cultivation a blue rose. He failed, and for the best of reasons --the task is one impossible of accom- Pilshment. As De Candolle, a great au- thority on this subject, has pointed out Yellow and blue are the fundamental types of color in flowers, and-these col- ors are antagonistic, mutually exctud- ing cach other, Yellow by ¢ulture may be changed Into red or whilte, but nev- 'er into blue. On the other band, blue will pass into red, but never into-yel. low. We have a yéeHow rose; hence there is no blue. The pursuit of the absolute zero poins is to chemists what the discovery of | the north pole is to geographers. Ever since Fahrenheit in 1724 broached the prollem scientists {nnumerable have outdistanctug the other. Thus Fahrenheit 2d that no one could ever attain artificially to « greater degree of cold than he produced with salt and !ce--seven degrees below zero--although, of course, he did not Suppose that cold ended there. Yet, within a few years of his death, over 100 degrees below had been obtained, and Professor James Dewar, whose re- the almost inconceivable temperature of 422 de; below zero F. But this is not absolute zero, and the problem remains unsolved ue and there, in odd corners of the cricinieg seeking er's stone--that mysterious and wonderful" ce which will, they believe, na have no concrete existence. Nevertheless for hundreds of years the best intellects in Christendom 'sought early and late. -- Nor were their labors wholly wasted. for it was while searching for this mythical treasure that Bottcher stum: bled on the secret oe of. porce! ; on that of je composition of gunpo ; Geber on the properties of acids; Van Hel- ont on the nature of Dr, he thi century Jong hunt for the fe bequeathed to us a whole host of valuable remedial drugs ee was the means Indirectly of saving o at all roses, prolonging literally mall. lions of liv So also, Be the result of the vain search after perpetual motion, there Was evolved the greatest of all the gen- eralizations of modern physical sci- pie the principle of the conservation energy, and even now more or less Gapncant discoveries are belng con- veda stumbled on by seekers after the same "perennial will-o'-the-wisp. For let it be by no means Imagined that the perpetual motion cranks are all dead and gone. On the contrary, .they are probably fully as numerous and as sanguine today as they were In the time of Leibnitz or Newton. Of course the thing is Impossible and has been proved so over and over again, but that does not deter them. Only the other day n man turned u ut the office of a well known patent agent with a.modelof a -perpetual-ino- tlon machine which depended for Its proper working upon the interception of gravitational attraction. The principle of the invention, the inventor was good enough to explain, was simplicity ftself. The only thing that remained to be done, he figenu- ously remarked, was to find the proper material for an interceptor. Is It pos sible to conceive of human folly going further than this? Among mathematicians the two most famous unsolvable problems kre the trisection of the angle and the dupli- eation of the cube. Meu have toiled "sc a similar fashion, too, | of these for fifteen, twenty, thirty years, ouly to retire at last batiled and beaten. Their calculations and meth- ods of work Lave In many iustances been published to the world, but the subject Is too abstruse to attempt to do more than merely touch upon it in a popular article of this kind. It 13 somewhat startling, however, to find that even figures, just plain, ordinary arithmetical figures such as are easily understandable by any mod- board school boy, have given rise to problems quite as Incapable of solu- tion as any of those springing out of the higher mathematics. No one, for instance, has yet succeed- ed In extracting the square root of 2, although Dr. W. H. Colvill, a civil sur- geon of Bagdad, enceeeded in work- ing it out to no fewer than 110 places od decimals, and, moreover. his titanic ™m has been proved to be absolutely BUGGIES. FOR SALE Top Buggies, Open Buggies, Road Carts and Wagons It vou want opens! in the voliets line now is the time to say JF WILSON, "Y Maia Streat.f, Listowel, THE SQUARE ROOT OF 2} 'essor, Jacob Marcelis by name, Worked at it for forty-three years and came at last to the conclusion that the circumference contained the diameter exactly = ' 100844908737754167962428718 4804 i 7 7102 times. He was wrong. Another nota ble computer, one Ludolpbh van Ceulen, continued his calculations as Jong as he lived ond at his death had the result luseribed on his tombstone at St. Pe ter's church, Leyden. Yet a third enthusiast worked out the calculation to more. than 700 places of decimals and even then did not get so hear as Peter Metius, who guessed at his answer, This latter lucky gentle man asserted that the diameter Is to the circumference as 118 Is to 355. This_, Is so hearly right that the error would | be less than a fodt in a circle with a 2,000 mile radius, For a long time this speraseatios Was a8 near as any one got, but in a lady mathematician-went one Sitter Here 1s ber formula: "From three di- ameters deduct eight thousandths and seven millionths of a diameter, and to the result add 5 per cent." We have then not quite enough, but the shortage is only at the rate of about an inch » gray, bent men still pore over j it brains and keen = | and a sixteenth of an inch fn 14,006 miles. Finally, an Englishman name' Shanks succeeded in reducing by more ne-half even this well ee in imal error, sa zd 'or thr It may be of foteceat: to note, how ever, that some little while back a mar made a great hubbub In London be enuse he had not obtained the reward which he alleged had been offered for the discovery of the correct solution although he'claimed to have arrived at it. He said he did it by actual meas urement, and it was found on ables gation that he had constructed a wood disk of twelve inches in pana which be rolled pie : straight rail was a joine and evi- dently tee well hee he was about when he measured, for his answer. ee is wrong by less than one fn ---- - INDIANS 'WHITE ANTS. tals | eet of only One Kind d of f Wood, Sandal, Can Insects of 5 pee area peren- ninl plage eto. Tn Indian dwellers, tea' ey eich i bushes in the Assam -eesirel wich ilar, the mosquito and the white ant, all of which attack the bush | and Says ch cage dam age, i the worst of these plagues is the pAireots ant, the mosquito king the leaves and causing a blight. The ants, however, begin at the roots and eat upwatd, reducing the wood to powder and leaving only the bark to support the top, which soon topples over by reason of its own weight. There is no Indian wood which would resist the ants' insidious attack except sandal, It delights in reducing pine and white wood to a powder. It can- hot work in the light, but must get at wood from some 'k recess and work within a sheil. In some mysterious way the white ant gets indoors and has a particular penchant for penetrating Into a veneer- ed or lacquered picture frame, and in a short ue nothing will remain but the veneer or lacquer, nothing else being left uit s small portion of the powder, the rest being consumed or removed. The method of attack {s by emitting a kind of acid, which destroys the wood. And this ant has been known to bore holes through the sheet iron bottoms of trunks, Several lo} ong, sup- porting joists in a consular bullding in Calcutta were eaten out so completely that they had to .be replaced. with steel ones. While these destructive white ants O not seem to possess much literary taste, they sometimes attack books and destroy them by Dorling holes through leaves and cover from side to side, An English resident in an Indlan city had a fine set of upholstered furniture which he protected by some coverint as well as,be could before leaving bis home for an absence of some -months on business, and when be returned be sat down In a chair, which collapsed under him like a framework of card- r at one or the other, sometimes at both, | board. Literary Coincidences. Tennyson said of a strange literary coincidence, "A Chinese scholar some time ago wrote to me saying that In an unknown untranslated Chinese poem 'there were two whole lines of mine al- most word for word." Byron in his monody on the death of Sheridan, where he says there will never be an other Sheridan, the mold being broken up, employs, word for word, terms Ip which an ancient Sanskrit document refers to the death of Maru, notwith- standing that Byron could never have seen the document. Shakespeares Passage about love and lightning :o "Romeo and Juliet," fl, 2, is almost identical with a quotation from "Bfa- latu and Madhava," by Bhavabuti, before and not translated up to Shake- epeare's time. p. o vy Uver vi oath, Cane millions. af fi ge na o 'or whileteething. If at night broken STOVES! - ~~ STOVES STOVES! IS SECOND ~~_RAA When buying Range why not bay the best ? THE CELEBRATED HAPPY THOUGHT TO NONE, We Have the Heating Stoves in Town. Best .Line _ of Depot, F. HOWES, Leading Hardware, Stove Tinware and Plumbing Phone No. 4o. AERIAL NAVIGATION. The First Gas Bag and the First Dir- igible Balloon. On the ist of December, Goeth when the first gas balloon rose from the Tuileries, yaaa up by Chartes and Robert, the Marquis de Villeroy, an octogenarian and skeptic, declared it Was tempting God himself. 1 ment the aeronaut. gnyly Saluting the spectators, rose in the alr, the old man, passing suddenly from 'the most com- plete incredulity to unlimited faith in the power of genius, fell upon his knees and exclaimed: "O men, ye will find the secret of never dying! And it will be when I am 4 The public, easily éonfounding the atmospheric witb the astronomic beay- ens, already hailed the day when the seronaut would continue his aerial course to the moon, to Venus, to Mars or Jupiter, Pierre Giffard, then Dupuy de Lome, tried the first dirigible balloons. Later Captains Renard and Krebs in thelr nheroplane, La France, went from Meu- Gon te Paris and back nt the same time that Gaston Tissandier was car- tying out his fine experiments. But all Progress was soon stopped by the .Weakness of the motors eompared to thelr weight. Nothing furth done until the arrival of. the explosive sober. In fact, it was the improvement in auto- mobiles which won us the conquest of the air. ------$____. Hands and Feet. It {8 sald that Disrael? was prouder of his smal! bands than of all bis great mental accomplishments. 'This was presumably because they were badges aristocracy in their evidence that he had not been brought up to labor, and he worshiped aristocracy. And small feet of the same character--evi- dences that the possessor did not go barefoot when.n child. Generations of carefully shod children of the nobility leveloped this characteristic of those of "gentle blood" as distinguished from the commonalty. But such proofs of Superiority were not meekly endured. In due time brainy commoners discov- ered that the "artistic band" was not small, but long and slender, and then came the athlete multitude, who scorn smull hands and feet us evidences of effeminacy. Gray Haira In Wall Street. "It seemed to me down in New York the other day," remarked a Cleveland- just returned from the me- all street und the financial region by the number of gray hatred young men you see. 1 had occasion to be in several offices on Wall street the other day, and | bonestly believe more than balf of the young men | saw had gray hair. I noticed the same thing along the street. It may bave been just a coincidence, but I couldn't help wondering if they would have been gray just as soon if they had been at some other game for the last few years." Stupid Fellow. "Mary said 'No' to me last night," sighed Peter Sloman, "but I don't be lieve she could honestly tell why she did it. "Oh, yes, she opal ------ his cousin Kate. "She to "Did she?" "Yes; she said she --_ think you'd take 'No' for an a . rrants are [fyutritious. The reason why currants are so re- aeirkably ontritious is that they con- sist loon verge lurse degree of saccha- rho in its imest-easiiy digestible form-- that of grape sugar. The piquant fla- vor of the currant, which adds so much to Its pleasantness as a food, is deriv- el from the valnable percentage of tar- tarle uchd which the berry contains, Potash Is olvo prevent Ip the form of rream of tartar und is andotbtedly of dietetic value.-- Ladies' Pictorial, No Excitemént. "Here," said the dramatist, "we have nvhusbaud whe leves bis wife and a wife who loves ber busband." yell?" "Well? "How om 1 to construct a drama from such material?' eripenagaiencrianti canes His Inference, "Evidently a Turkish beth t a "No, bat I've seen' a Tork"'--; ebange. 1 | you've never taken on MOUNT FUJIYAMA. Japanese Pilgrimage to Its Tempest Sw Summit. To the people of Japan the mount Fujlyama is sacred. The meaning of the word is "honorable mocntaip." During that brief six weeks of summer when Fujiyama's wind swept sides are climbable, writes A. 1. Edwards in "Kakemono," the pligrims come in thousands, In ten thousands. They dress Sr in white from bend to foot. arry lous staves of pure white ial) in their bands, each stamped with the demple crest, and in bands and compinies they climb the mountain Always the leader at (belr head, hi- staf crowned with a thikting mass o! bells, like tiuy eviitals. chants ate hymn of Fujiyaima Fer six ster summer weeks they come Then th Winds rush down. the suow falls, tls tempests rage, nud Lord Pasisaaana live alone. No human being bias yet stayed . winter on his sunit, and even in th Bummer weeks the winds will blew oh Java, blocks from the walls ef the rc houses and sometinies thie pilsrios fro the path, Fojirama stands glone. not ane pes among o range, but utterly alene th ing straight owt of the sen ou one <i and from the great Toke plain ant: other, bis 12.005 feet in two long cur ing lines of exquisite grnee rise ap a: up Into the blue. nod net an . bh one foot ts hidden or lost " there, visible as nu tower built on a tre Jess plain. It dominates the landsen It can be seen from thirtert prov Inne and from a bundred miles at sea 1! pale white peak of Fujiyama pos above the blue. a e's Gormandizing. e of a uation commence mandizing beyius, Keone' was well under war whe: gases were thrown fnto the vet pits + increase the guiny flavor of the ve when they came upon the table Success has n great tendency ta eo ceal and throw a vell over the eeds of men.--Demosthenes Pepper In Olden Tim During the middle ages in Europ» pepper was the most esteemed and in portant of all the spicys Génoa, Ven ice and otber commercial cities of cen tral Europe were indebted to their traffic {In pepper for a large part of their wealth. [ts importance us a means of promoting commercial activ fty and civilization during the middle ages can hardly be overrated 'Tribute was levied in pepper. and donations were made in thix xpice, which wus frequently also used as a medium of exchange ip place of money. When the Imperial city of tome was le sleged by Alaric, the king of the Goths, in 408 A. D., the ransom demanded tn eluded 5,000 pounds of gold, 30,000 pounds of silver and 3,000 pounds of pepper, illustrating the importance of this spice at that time, For Poetical Reason: ~"Perchance," called the amiable wid- ow, "come here!" The little !apdog trotted meekly up. "Surely that is a strange name for a dog!" excialmed the gentleman visitor "What made you uname him Pe ebauce?"' "I am 80 fond of poetry!" explained the lady lucidly, "Madam, forgive me, see the applicability." "Why, silly -" esclaimed the merry widow, "! named It after By- ron's dog! Don't you remember where he says, 'Perchance my will bowl?" but I fail to What He Knew. Master--If your friend were to bor- row 12 shillings from you, agreeing to pay 1 shilling a month, bow much would he owe at the end of the year? Pupil--Twelve sbillin "You don't know the elements of arithmetic." "But I know my friend."--London Scraps. The B "I want to get rid of some bonds." "Out of my Ine," replied the lawyer. "But these are matrimonial bonds," rejoined the caller, putting a different face the matter. ¢onenemenanppenreneemnesaness When we are happy we seek those we love. In sorrow we turn to those who love us.--Cecil Imperia CAPITAL PAID UP OF CANADA. . D R. Wilkie Pres. Hon, R. Jaffray Vice-Pres, CAPITAL AUTHORIZED .- RESERVE FUND = ial Bank» $10,000,000.00 Special At Savings | erst alowed Money may be notice. Bank, posit } Cheese Cheques Farmers' Business a Specialty, General Banking Business Seacee, ipal -- ear. - eee by ch aque oithoe it ar forwarded to (depositors by mail on ues otes of responsible . fe 'armers 'Discounted. Baa oe mais collected and and es made th On any bank cmt or taken ie without charge, LISTOWEL H. C. SECORD, . ane NCH, Boot a Shoe Sale. J.S his General Stere and CO Every Pair mre Stock lines in Gents' Underwear, Win Ladies' Heavy nao wear HALF PRICE Has moved his Stock of Boots and Also balance of stock of China an GEE Shoes to the Store next to MMENCES TO-DAY A THIRTY DAYS' SALE, ok in Boots i Shoes as the ust be So together with all ter Caps, Furs, Men's Pants, Skirts, al!'to clear out at Now is Your Time to Save Money. FARMERS BRING YOUR PRODUCE. APPLICATION 0: | PARLIAMENT. Notice is hereby ¢ given that upon the Application bein, veh = made on be! vor tion of the T of e lative Assembly of the, Pro. vince of Ontario at its pres: or an Act as mentioned in the Notice thereof dated the 30th day of & tow n January 3rd, 1908, and the | in the azette on (reibey = 1908, and ni subsequent five issues thereo the said Legis = will be esked 1 '6 include in said A uthority for Lei said Municipal i ration to purchase the Electrical ! Plant and Sipllaneek and Electric Light Company, tenting their boiler = engine} fe for the Dollars (2500.00) pursuant A ya provisions | ae entered into between the | er takirg over said Electrical Plant and ap. | pliances-or after the tende e said said Con ri refusing to -- Ag tender an y necessary By-law douneatia | as well as for oe street li gt ing phy for such purposes to acquire such property and rinilages as may be | deemed advisab! . Authority rs the said Municipal Corporation to a By-law or By-laws | providing for t Lperse = pac enteree a | e said Town of Lis ey exceeding $7000. 0 fo ir the mamoun' | } 1 the said Company's paemny --. ead appliances a pipe Hd said ment and the pure uch addin. al elettrical plant poe ap) coleues 5 as May be deemed advisable and for installing of Listowel aforesaid, such debentur, to be repayable in equai gr es fatal. | | sated within twenty years from the is- | sue thereof and to bear interest at suc rate not exceeding five and one-half per centum per annum as the MP icipel TS er unicipality, the reason for requir- ing the issue of the said te be- ; ing for the purposes above mentio The total amount of the existing deben- | ture debt of the said gerne emg i bs | $158,682.71 ($18,644.88 of w Improvement debt) of which a ea ™ in --, for principal or interest and there the Py of the Sinking Fund thy sum of $19,02 3. For such other Pights, powers and authorities as may be incidental to the above as well as to those mentioned in said Notice canes ee Solicitors for the Applicants. Dated at we site 12th day of Feb- ruary, A. D. A City of Happy Homes Dublavin took a walk in the ceme tery, where he noticed on the tomb stones, "Good Llusband." "Good Wife," ", 'on."* "It is evidently bere 'that the hap- plest homes are found," he reflected.-- Nos Loisirs. P) An Admission. rather like that young Thompson, He has such a firm mouth and chin. Hazel--Goodness! Has he been kissing you too? Always Strong. : Church--They say the human voice fs stronger in the morning than !t is REDUCED One Way Second Class Colonist Tickets Will Be on Sale Commencing |Feb. 29th and Continuing Daily Until April 29th TO THE FOLLOWING Ponts : Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, Spokane, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Mexico City. 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