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UPAL HAlL : RANCE IN WEST i§ IN ALBERTA ASK ATCHEWAN. ~» Development Out in These real Areas. ilsadventures ilture _ which and exacting safoguard or id practically roumls ArO an lly suffer in from the deâ€" considerable ms and comâ€" ‘ble for the Bong to Wahabt is â€" and They ev are AT is crop !!, and with a Lhey s, howâ€" ta and rance crate _ has jJortty rt. rld‘s it mM3 AS~ 10 feld. At the end of 1918, thero were 3b,i2i manufacturipg establishments in Canada with a capitalization of $3,â€" 034,301,015. . Fheso gave employment to §17,787 persons who received the sum of ~$692,460,863 in salaries and wages. The cost of materials used was $1,900,252,314 and the year‘s proâ€" duction $3,458,036,975. Some idea of the rapidity of expansion in Canada may be gleaned from a comparison of these figures with those of 1915, at _which time thero were 21,306 estabâ€" Afshménts; a capitalization of $1,994,â€" 103,.272; 514,$8$3 employees; salaries and wages araounting to $289,744,503: cost of matefals, $802,133,862: and a production o# $1,407,138,140. Owing to the time taken in compilâ€" ing and publishing industrial statisâ€" tics, these are at all times considerâ€" ably out of date and the latest availâ€" able cover only the year 1918, since which time, in the fever of postâ€"war activity, there has been a considerâ€" able expansion, & feature of which has been the remarkable introduction of so many foreign firms into the home ly from the exploitation of natural se sources with agriculture, the products of the farm, accounting for the largest item in Dominion income. Industrial progress is, however, a necessary corollary to any national growth, and agricultural settlement in Canada has seen manufacturing activity striding side by side with it as towns have sprung up over the breadth of the land to meet the extensive demands of the farmer. In the older eastern provinces there are many cities and towns where industry has come to be the main factor in development and which have an assured future of great importance in manufacturing. In the newer westorn provinces, where towns are periodically springing into being with the invasion of the agriculturalâ€" ist, industries are as rapidly brought into existence to meet their muiltifariâ€" ous wants. | Many of the shortâ€"length and weakâ€" er ones, for example, are not strong enough to get any farther from the sun‘s Interior than some thousands of miles below the surface. There they are imprisoned, with the result that we do not seo them affect the sun‘s golor in the least. At the sun itself, however, it is cerâ€" tain that large numbers of lightâ€"waves are stopped before they can emerge to our sight. est w otarg violet Theso combined give a white light such as we see ordinary light to be. car is under 500 milesâ€"which is about one twenticth of the life of a tire operated under ordinary conditions. This difference in tire service is due directly to a difference in heat deâ€" Proper inflation is as important as prover loads. Tires are not built to take the place of steel springs or of shock @bsorbers. Underâ€"inflation reâ€" sults in an unnatural flexing on the layers of fabric which causes separaâ€" tion and early destruction of the tire carcass. If easier riding is desired oversize tires may be used and such tires in addition to furnishing extra r siliency, give more traction on rear wheels and supply greater mileage. However, oversizing tires requires a readjustment of the speedometer, otherwise the recorded distance will be less than that actually traveled. Keep Same Pressure. Do not change inflation pressures with changes in atmospheric temperaâ€" ture, since more damage results from endeavoring to compensate for an inâ€" crease in the tire temperature than is | caused by the increase in temperature} itself. Avoid running on a flat tire.l Such practice ruins the tuwbe and breaks the casing at the bead or sidewall. l If you collect automobile racing sba-‘ tistics, you will find that the average | life of a highâ€"grade tire on a racing | Revenue in Canada is derived magaâ€" The strong violet and blue are stopâ€" All this summer‘s glorious sunlight composed of different colors and ves of varying lengths. The longâ€" . waves are red, after which come ingke, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and i ‘Yhy the Sun is Yellow. it exerts a deteriorating effect on aized rubber in proportion to the Canada‘s Industrial Centres Both Montreal and Toronto have an annual industrial production of more than five hundred millionâ€" dolllare. Hamilton and Winnipeg have producâ€" tions of over a hundred millions. Vanâ€" couver and Sydney exceed fifty milâ€" lion dollars in their output. Sevenâ€" teen cities exceed twenty millions and are under fifty millions in production. Only four of the remaining cities cited are under the ten million dollar figure in their anuual industrial output. © _ Four cities of the Dominion have a capitalization in exces of fifty million dollars, Vancouver with $98,434,309; Winnipeg with $82,709,029; Sault Ste. Marie with $69,234,987; and Niagara Falls with $51,199,485. A total of ten cities have a capitalization between twenty and fifty millions; Lachine and Quebec, in Quebde; Welland, Gait, Peterborough, Brantford, Kitchener, London and Ottawa, in Ontario; and Calgary in Alberta. _ Seven centres, Sherbrooke, Hull, Halifax, Fort Wilâ€" liam, Port Arthur, Oshawa and Ford, have industries in which capital beâ€" tween ten and twenty millions is inâ€" vested. The remainder of the fortyâ€" four centres have an industrial investâ€" ment between five and ten million dol-‘ larg. A survey of the fortyâ€"four principal municipal cities and towns in Canada for the year 1918 shows that there were 12,796 manufacturing establishâ€" ment with a capital investment of $2,â€" 070,916,944. A total of 514,747 people found employment at wages and sulories of $450,609,582. These plJants used $1,291,751,860 worth of materials and had a production of $2,346,589,â€" 994. The city of Montreal leads the Dominion, followed fairly closely by Toronto, and then at some little disâ€" tance by Hamilton, Ontario, and Sydâ€" ney, Nova Scotia, these cities being the only ones over the hundred million doilars in capitalization. _ Montreal had $468,401,480 invested and Toronto $392,045,178. These four cities mainâ€" tain their respective positions also in regard to production. 1 fornian school. Built of concrete in the middle of a lake, a nuge relief map of the world is used to teach geography in a Caliâ€" A thumb lost through an accident has been replaced by the patient‘s big toe, through the skill of a French surâ€" geon. ; Thus it happens that from the comâ€" bination of these tints we get a yelâ€" low sun. But for all that, we have a narrow escape from having a blue sun, Altogether, so manry of the sun‘s light rays are unable to escape that in the end we find only the very powerâ€" ful red, orange, and green ones comâ€" ing our way. pol only when they have nearly sucâ€" ceedcd in getting out, and they, too, are therefore prevented from entering into the sun‘s color. saves tire wear. It is a factor that should not be neglected. Because of the tendency of front wheels to spread during driving, car manufacturers set the wheels at a toeâ€" in of from threeâ€"eighths to oneâ€"half inch and when thus adjusted the wheels are properly aligned. The measureâ€" ments â€" showing these differences should be made between the felloes of the two front wheels at points inside and on a level with the axle. Alignâ€" ment or the toeâ€"in of the wheels should not be confused with dish, which is setting the wheels further apart at the top than at the bottom.! Frequently checking wheel alignment| Front wheels may be out of alignâ€" ment due to cross rod axle, or steering knuckle becoming bent by contact with a curb or some other obstruction, or the cross road or knuckle may be imâ€" properly adjusted. Also the tire alone or the tire and rim may be improperly mounted on the wheel. tires come in contact with the road surface which wears off the rubber alâ€" most as fast as if in contact with an emery wheel. sense of responsibility. The Eddystone, which is, perhaps, the best known of the English lightâ€" houses, stands on a rock off Plymouth, and has a range of seventeen and a half miles.. The light on Lundy Island carries thirty miles. Next in point of carrying distance is the light on the Needles, those sharpâ€"pointed rocks off the Isle of Wight. This has a range of twentyâ€"seven miles. The South Foreland light is visible for twentyâ€"five miles, and that on Beachy Head twentyâ€"two miles, Married men are more trustworthy than single men, in the ratio of 6 to 1, probably because of their increased The Lizard light, which is the last link between Engand and vessels sailâ€" ing in a westerly direction, is visible for twenty miles, and gives warning of many cruel reefs, with which the coast of Corn wall abounds. ~* <**~ * These lighthouses warn vessels of sunken rocks and jutting headlands, which are a danger to navigation at night time. Without the lighthouses erected around British coasts, and maintained by the corporation called Trinity House, shops would be in far greater danger while on the sea than they are now. Great interest is being exhibited this summer in oil investigaton and search in Northern Manifoba. R. C. Wallace, ‘Commi.ss»ioner for this territory, as the result of preliminary investigaâ€" tions into the possibilities of oil supâ€" plies speaks optimistcally of prospects for development. _ An offical of the Dominion Geological Survey is spendâ€" ing all summer in that regton with a party of men. The Norton, McMillan Syndicate is taking a drill into the disâ€" trict, whilst the Pas Development and Exploration Company, with a capital of $2,000,000 and leases of 3,200 acres, is also to drill there. There is a well organized effort this year to revive the growing of flax in New Brunswick, especially in the northern portion of the province. Farmers who have previously been content with a small patch are putting in a considerable acreage this year. Government assistance has been proâ€" mised in the establishment of flax growing in the province. In 1920 fortyâ€"seven creameries operâ€" ated in Saskatchewan produced seven million pounds of butter. Five new creameries are in course of erection at Yorkton, Assinaboia, Weyburn, Shaunâ€" avon and Empress. There is only one cheese factory in the province, which produced 28,367 pounds of cheese last year. A chain of three lookâ€"out stations is to be started in Northumberland and Glouchester counties on the North Shore of New Brunswick, under the direction of theh geometric survey of the Dominion. The New Brunswick government will also use these towers to make observations in order to preâ€" vent forest fires. The experiment of assisting indusâ€" tries by government loans has been successful commercially, according to D. B. Martyn, Deputy Minister of Inâ€" dustries for British Columbia, who states that there has only been one failure. Two industries made possible by government assistance, a woollen mill and a paper roofing company, he cites as outstanding proof of the adâ€" vantages of provincial government aid. Alberta is a favorite location with emigrating Hollanders, according to indications, and mixed farming, to which the province is so adapted, atâ€" tracts them. They have been arriving in some numbers since the spring and settling on the land, whilst many more are due to arrive this summer. A re cent party of arrivals numbered sixtyâ€" five, practically all being in possession of sufficient capital to make an imâ€" mediate start on farming operations. England‘s Eyes of the Sea. Canadian News Items. Câ€"â€"fyâ€"Nelling +0 The financiers and statesmen of France promptly set about devising ways and means to pay the ransom, but it was not until June 26, 1871, that definite action was taken. ~On that date the government authorized the opening of subscriptions to a loan of $400,000,000, half of which would be applied to the payment of Germany‘s claims. The subscription lists were opened the next day,â€"June 27. Gerâ€" many was expectant of an appeal to her, at least of an invitation to her bankers to subscribe to the loan. Allâ€" day long Bismarck, the Chancellor, and Baron Bleichroeder, the millionâ€" aire banker, waited eagerly for some That former Treaty of Versailles was signed on February 26, 1871, and on March 1 it was ratified by the Naâ€" tional Assembly at Bordeaux. Never in history had so heavy a forfeit been imposed upon a beaten power. After Waterloo, in 1815, the indemnity deâ€" manded from France was only $140,â€" 000,000, and the maintenance of the army of occupation and all other costs did not bring it above $220,000,000, for Qayment of which the time of five yéars was granted. This was in addition to the extorâ€" tion of many millions from the inâ€" vaded provinces during the war and of $40,000,000 from the city of Paris to the paying of the cost of maintaining a German army of occupation in France until the last franc was paid, and, of course, the seizure of two of the richest provinces in France. Deâ€" ' ducting the $65,000,000 allowed to Gorâ€" many for the railroads of Alsaceâ€"Lorâ€" raine, it is calculated that France was compelled to pay to Germany, all told, fully $1,100,000,000 in gold coin, and it was required that it should be paid within two years. ‘ Hoped to Ruin France. The other point of difference was this, that while now the Allies have shaped their whole policy with re spect to the indemnity, to the end that Germany shall not be crippled or prosâ€" trated, but rather shall be assisted to | get upon her economic feet again, it was the deliberate purpose of Gerâ€" many im 1871 to impoverish and crush France beyond hope of recovery. But the sum extorted by Germany from France was, according to Gerâ€" many‘s own confession and boasting, several times larger than the entire cost of the war to Germany. For it was officially reported to the Reichâ€" stag that the total cost of the war to Germany, taking every conceivable item into account, was only $278,000,â€" 000. Of the billion dollars extorted from France, then, $722,000,000 was clear profit to Germany. } Between the two indemnities there is a vast and radical difference. In the first place, it is recognized that the whole sum which Germany is askâ€" ed to pay is only a fraction of what might justly be demanded of her, since it is only a fraction of the actual loss which she inflicted upon the counâ€" tries which she attacked. Germany‘s payment of the first inâ€" stalment of the indemnity by interestâ€" ing coincidence was made at a date close to the fiftieth anniversary of France‘s payment of the first part of the ransom which Germany extorted from her in the "Terrible Year"; and which Bismarck and his colleaghe Bleichroeder designed, in their own phrase, to "bleed France white" and permanently cripple her economically. 50 Years Ago French Nation Completed An Undertaking Unprecedented in History. CONTRAST WITH GER. MANY‘S INDEMNITY. HOW FRANCE PAID HER HUGE RANSOM A playâ€"room for the children, with slate panels lot into the walls, and colored chalks provided, is a feature of one of the latest Atlantic liners. Trench maps, which werse printed for military use on strong canvas, are now being used in England to make inner soles 108 Whutu thees.~.** *‘ That final $50,000,000 was paid on September 5, 1873. Eight days later the Germans reluctantly evacuated Verdun, and three days afterward the last German soldier marched across the frontier and France was free from the invader. The fact that Verdun was thus the last place to be given up by the Germans caused that place to be regarded with special interest of a sentimental kind in the World War. It gave the Germans special eagerness to reconquer and reoccupy it, and nervéd the French with extraordinary resolution to defend it "They shall not pass!" was uttered with a keen recollection of the occurrences of 1873. Remember Verdun. In March, 1873, Germany received the unwelcome notification that the fourth billion would not be delayed to March, 1874, as provided in the reâ€" vised agreement, but would be paid on May 5, 1873, and that the fifth and final billion would be forthcoming, not on March 1, 1875, but before the end of 1873. With the morning of June 28, howâ€" ever, word came. Not a cent was needed from Germany or from anyâ€" body outside of France, for all over France there had been an uprising to meet the emergency. Every thrifty peasant and artisan got out and openâ€" ed the woolen stocking in which his savings were stored away and offered the contents to. the government, if only it would get rid of the Germans. Three billions had been asked for. The prompt subscriptions totalled 30,â€" 000,000,000 in France alone, beside beâ€" tween five and six billions more from other countries. It was such a reâ€" sponse as had never before been made to any government‘s request for a loan. 1 such word from Paris. But none came, All that night German financiers reâ€" mained awake, at their desks, ready to respond to an apeal which would give them a mortgage on France, but they remained awake in vain. No message came. monster struck the ship, hurlini' men off their feet, Spurred on by their captain, the exâ€" cited crew tried in vain to get the Anna out of the way of that terrible charge. In spite of every effort, howâ€" ever, they failed. With a crash, the Seeing the vesser moving off, the whale ceased its circling, and, like a warship intent on ramming, . came straight at the schooner, throwing masses of foam to right and left of its massive head. The Terrible Charge. Presently the captain of the Anna, alarmed at the threatening attitude of the whale, gave an order which sent the men burrying to their stations, and the schooner soon began to draw away from the scene of the monster‘s gambols. Meanwhile the sailors laughed and chatted about the ecentricities of the whale, which showed not the slightest signs of exhaustion. Suddenly, howâ€" ever, anxiety came into their weatherâ€" beaten faces, for without warning the huge mammal, with a mighty rush, came straight for the ship, only sheerâ€" ing off when quite close. It repeated this disconcerting manceuvre several times. He laughs best who laughs last! As if the whale understood that all this laughter was at its expenée, its moveâ€" ments became more and more erratic, until they were terrible to behold. The waves were churned® into milkyâ€"white foam by the furious rushes of the great creature and the passionate lashing of its tail. The movements of that colossal body, twisting this way and that, divâ€" ing and reappearing, seemed to fascinâ€" ate the men, and they laughed at its curious antics. The sailors watched the strange Eyrations of the monster with keen inâ€" terest. The Anna was sailing at about four knots and a half an hour, quite close to the leviathan, so that her crew could distinguish every moveâ€" ment of the enormousâ€"creature as it rushed hither and thither through the waves, lashing the water with its tail, hurling glittering masses of foam high up in the air, and playing pranks for all the world like a sportive kitten. "Seems preity lively," eaid another | man, as the whale came to the surface. | t} "Look, the thing is‘ swimming round !se and round, as if it had gone suddenly | wi mad!". beu "A whale!" observed a seaman, The carelessly over the bulwarks and starâ€" carelesly over the bulwarks and starâ€" ing at the place where the spout had risen, in the hope of secing a repetiâ€" tion of the display, Suddenly the attention of the men was attracted by a spout of water that rose high in the air about three hundred feet away. The Danish schoonerâ€"Anna. on a voyage between Iceland and New Brunswick, had been twenty days at Several sailors lounged idly on her deck. sound of rending timbers could be An Amazing Adventure With a Sea Monster A Mad Attack. The Whale That Wrecked a Ship TORONTO the Additional emphasis was placed upâ€" on the phrase through the custom in taverns in the Old Land of keeping account of purchases of beer and ale throughout the week by writing a "P" in the credit book for each pint of liquor sold but not paid for, and a "Q" for each Gquart, On Saturday, when men hAd reâ€" ceivedâ€"their pay, they would be greetâ€" ed with the cry, "Mind your P‘s and Q‘s"â€"a gentle method of informing them that no more drinks would be For this reason, one of the first inâ€" structions given to the apprentice who aspired to become a printer was to "mind his "p‘s and "q‘s"â€"or, in other words, not to get them mixed so that they would be interchanged in print The expression "Mind your P‘s and Q‘s‘ arose in the printing house, where the sinall "p" and "q" in Roman type have always confused the printâ€" er‘s apprentice on account of their similarity in appearance when the type is mixed or "pied." Sometimes on a perfectly calm day there will be a sudden troubling of the surface of the sea, and without the slightest warning a wave 150 feet high will appear. These vast mountains of water rise sometimes to a height of more than a hundred feetâ€"as high as the spire of a church. They have been known to extinguish the mast â€"head lights of sailing ships. If the ship can meet such a wave with her bows she will ride over it, though thousands of tons of water may be swept over her decks. But if the wave is foilowing her and rushes at her from the stern, she may fail to rise, Many a good ship hbas gone to her doom in this way. _ _ Even in stormy weather the uvemge" height of waves in midâ€"ocean does not | as & rule exceed thirty or forty feet. | Sometimes, however, one enormous wave makes its appearance, amidst | the rest. ’ Why this should happen no one can say. All we know is that a mighty| mass of water rushes suddenly toâ€" | wards a ship at the appalling speed of | over one hundred miles an hour. | As they reached the deck of the big steamer an exclamation made them turn round in time to see their own unfortunate vessel disappear. At last the boat reached the side of the sinking ship, now rolling sluggishâ€" ly, deep in the water. In an exhaustâ€" ed state the schooner‘s crew climbed over the side. "Mind Your P‘s and Q‘s." With eager eyes the shipwrecked men saw a lifeboat leave the side of the big liner. Towards daybreak, however, the ofâ€" ficers, after a consultation, agreed that nothing more could be done. The water was gaining fast, and the ship might founder at any moment. Sorâ€" rowfully and reluctantly the captain gave the order for abangonmenrt. Timely Rescue. Under the first mate‘s supervision the lifeboat was provisioned and swung out. It was about to be launchâ€" ed when, through the misty light of early morning, they saw the buge bulk of a big vessel. Ragerly the men on board the sinking ship began to shout, and soon their cries were answered. "Ahoy there! Who are you*" "The Anna," cried the Danish capâ€" tain. ‘"We‘ve a hole staved in our bows by a whale, and are sinking. Can you take us aboard?" you take us aboard ?" "Right," came the reply. "We‘re the Quernmore, of the Johnson Line, Liverpool." rouintntntimiiz. Patinbitte Peranaidisricta rBh w rass. c When he came on deck again the| lines on his tombstone in Croydon carpenter‘s face was grave. A huge | Church: | rent had been made in the ship‘s bows, "Alack! and well a day, ‘thronsh which the water was pouring | Potter himself is turned to clay." in a veritable flood. Quickly the skipâ€"| _ Sometimes it happens ,that the | per ordered the men to the pumps. humor is unconscious,. An inscription 4 The Victor‘s Wounds. ’nt Pewsey, Bedfordshire, describes ; The whale had guffered as badly as | the doceased as "first cousin to Lady | the ship. It lay on the surface of the JOU¢s, and of such is the Kingdom of | sea #ts great body rising and falling | Meaven." | with the waves, Hlood was pouring in' Another, on the tombstone of an | volumes from two red gashes, one in | Englishman at Mailta, states that he | the head and the other in its side. The | "@XxPired on this island, having been | water was dyed with red, and the tell.| Ordered by his doctor to a warmer |tale stain on the surface of the sea | Climate." O somerset tomhstone Igrew larger every moment, showing "8@ds: "This stone marks the resting that the whale was paying with its PlAce of John Clark, accidentally shot, | lifeâ€"blood for its extraordinary act. | as a mark of affection by his brother." Meanwhile the water rose steadily | A Surrey churchyard shows a grave in the well. _ The whole afternoon | With the name of a woman who "lived passed in futile attempts to repair the 4 life of virtue and died of cholera, gaping rent in the ship‘s bows, and ©2U8ed by eating green fruit, in the night came on with the pumps still fuUl hbope..of blessed immortality. working steadily. | Reader, go thou and do likewise." The night passed in a superhuman struggle to keep the vessel afloatâ€" that grim battie between man and the elements which is so often fought at The captain, by voice and example, urged his men to greater exertions, and they responded gailantly. By this time a gale was howling on all sides of them, whistling weirdly through the rigging. "The water‘s still rising, sir," said tmg carpenter, gloomily. ed until their accounts wore set haii uis s HGZ _ ky 7A * "We‘re stove in somewhere!" roarâ€" ed the captain.. "Carpenter, get down below and find out the extent of the damage." heard, and the deck of the schooner quivered as she heelod right over unâ€" til her port bulwarks almost touched the water. Then, like a sorelyâ€"stricken animal, she righted herself. Shocks for Ships. chambers, a library and the usual apâ€" pointments. It is interesting to not» that the last three occupants of the famous house, one from the aristoâ€" cracy and two from the middle class, have refused all honors and titles. The real leaders of England ars aâ€"l Mr. Balfour, Mr. A«qwith «no Mr, Lioyd No. 10 Downing Street, London, has been the home of the prime ministers of England for nearly two husidred years. The first floor of the house is given over to council rooms and the offices of the premier‘s secretaries. German flameâ€"throwers, of which the French captured 70,000 in the closâ€" ing phase of the war, were used in France recently to fight a plague of But when J see, after two thousand years, One open graveâ€"one ‘neath the world‘s vast skiesâ€"â€" Doubt vanishes, and hushed are all my fearsâ€" I know I, too, shall rise! » â€"â€"Alexzander Louis Prrser. I thank Thee, Lord, that not ‘mong lanes of deadâ€" Echoless lanesâ€"I have been left by Thee: Then not a text above a dreamless head Could comfort bring to me. Public documents and notices are printed in the French and German languages. In the Swiss national Parliament the members make their speeches either in French or German, the members being as familiar with one language as the other. one language as the other. Statements from the President of Switzerland are furnished to the newsâ€" papers in both languages. A majority of the people speak Gerâ€" man, while the others use French and Italian, varying as a rule according to the proximity of the people to each country whose language they spoeak. Switzerland‘ has no language of its own. The official languages of Switâ€" zerlanl are French, Italian, and Gerâ€" man, all three being recognized as the "mother tongue" of the majority of the inhabitants. You can see now why it is so necesâ€" sary to keep windows open,. Proper ventilation means a continuous supply of fresh air, Sitting in a stuffly room means starving the body of the thing which it needs most. A gas or coal fire needs a pounds of air every hour, or i a ton of air every four days! A smail room in which a gasâ€"stove or a fire is lighted soon becomes stufly because a great deal of air is conâ€" sumed in burning anything. Quite a small fire will use up in an hour more than a man breathes in a whole day. Every time we breathe thirty cubic inches of air lungs; supposing that we t breaths a minute for the 1 hours of the day, we use n 648,000 cubic inches of ; would weigh over thirty po day‘s supply of air, for cne ing, would be sufliciont t twoâ€"gallon gasoline tins; a ply would weigh more than Nation Without a Language. "Oh, air," you say; "but air woighs nothing. Docen‘t it! Each of us uses more than thirty pounds of air every day. A man may live well on three pounds of food and four or five pounds of liquid, but the air he breathes weighs four times as much as his food and drink put together. Of what do we consume the greatâ€" est amount? Food? Water? No; air is the thing that we noed in the creatâ€" est quantities, We consume a great many things to keep our bodies going. Woolwich Churchyard zas a fine exâ€" ampleâ€"*"Sacred io the memory of Major J. Brush, Royal Artillery, who was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol by his orderiy, 14th April, 1831. Well done, thou good and faithâ€" ful servant." a life of virtue and died of cholera, caused by eating green fruit, in the full hope..of blessed immortality, Reader, go thou and do likewise." Another, on the tombstone of an Englishman at Malta, states that he "expired _on this island, having been _ Thomas Fuller, a loarned divine of the seventeenth century, gave instrucâ€" tions to have inscribed on his tombâ€" stone in Cranford churchyard, "Fuillâ€" er‘s Earth." No less a dignitary than Archbishop Potter has those Joating lines on his tombstone in Croydon Church : "Alack! and well a day, t Potter himself is turned to clay." Sometimes it happens that _ the humor is unconscious. An inscription at Pewsey, Bedfordshire, describes the deceased as "first cousin to Lady Jones, and of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." things, including deat!.. Taste in‘ humor has changed now, but we can | smile at the quaint turns of thought and frankness in speaking <f the dead displayed by some of the epitaphs on old tombstones. I| The One Empty Grave. is a minute for the twontySour of the day, we use no less than 0 cubic inches of air, which weigh over thirty pounds. One supply of air, for cne humar beâ€" vould be suflicient to fill 1,1%5 illon gasoline tins; a year‘s supâ€" ould weigh: more than five tons. nall room in which a gasâ€"stove or is lighted soon becomes stufly se a great deal of air is conâ€" | in burning anything. Ouite a Your Ration of Air. > breathe we draw s Of air into our that we take fifteen for the twontySour d ibout fifty more than #55 Fitee