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HOULD w- [ Y, d I? PIOKED UP ACTIVE MA MINE Tho fishing was: Scorpio recently picked up a live mine in its ttetc. " Durham, England. She wen: taken to harbor and isolated while the firing apparatus was removed. The mine and the extracted mechanism are shown 3. the 'inure. "(‘zmada'n chief alsndvantago in that 'ror further northern climnta render. her prmiucu lo“ ttiTert5ttMtd than Anmrir-u's why which he means ot ,r irc,'. the United Bttttes--and grips urn! arms in frosts that forever for. lvivi t-u."_i.vatfott of them." On thr tact, of it, this would aeem to be fur' hit it would be dlillcult to con- vinru Sleinnsson and other recent Nortrnrum explorers of this fact “For; ever" a, applied to cultivation and llv-. in; conditions in Canada is a doubtful With the shortening (all days and tho approach ot winter mambo. once "ul:t urine. in foreign publications arguments Ind ortiatom " to the " , v. mm; or disadvantage. of Canada'. Human Energy Before quoting from that article, Hi Dim to however, let us just Joint out that this ighest Degree In North Sr',,",,",', at excessive Arctic climate an unproductive Northern areas is Sars Stefnmeon. fast losing its foundation. Settlement With the 'shortening (all dam and in the Peace River country, in North- 'hn approach. of winter months. once em Ontario and in Quebec, iq going tam urine in foreign publications,” ”we. and areas that, like the lrgumcntg tutd opinions I. to ttte de- ( Northwest, were once considered un- ' C, “my or disadvantage. ot Canada'a l inhabitable and unenltivahle, are now , um proving desirable and productive. A,, who live tn Canada no quite Back in the early nineties, wheat ”You“! with our winter climate; we trromt a thousand miles north ot the ...,'" h ,3 both desirable and gaunt. I international boundary took first prize 'r h“ and that without it we could?” the Chicago international Exhibi- , - ,, .9 to raise the finest hard wheat I tion. since when settlement in that '. _" world and the splendid crop at! area has been steady and expansive. . .rlv. healthy, Iona: men “a wo. , When Cnnadajs possesses of a popula- ' 'A yum," ttnow that bracing cold i tion ot eighteen millions instead of '-.-.~.'E:or pm. pm m muscle. tat and I eight " at present, this question ot .. tr,'t horse. ttttd cattle; lumbermen uncultivable Northern areas owing to ', Manners that new solves their l excessive climate, will have faded Just !, cirrrtation problem; while to the 5 in the same way as the question of the -." ., outdoors sports. winter time fertility and livableness of the North- l I irctda is a season to be antici- _ west faded with time and experimen- 1 vi. Finally. vital statistics bear tation. But let Stetansson speak tor _ Hun fact that nnwhere in the world ttimselt:-- i , .I '_r.oalthler ciass ot children be "We have pointed out that the t all 'Enin in Canada, and the state of growth or grass and other plants is j V . it cf the younger generations is ‘measured not by the length ot the t ,. l "ry heart indication of the advan- ',' summer in months, but by the number L in», “g the climate. got lzours of sunlight, and that there e in h wry "tilogttatic article on Cana. ' are as many hours of sunlight in three Iv. in» october issue ot the Inter. months of Arctic summer as. in 51x P. mm” "ttllotitt published by the in- months of tropic summer, givuig the i; 'l..i[iHlliil institute ot Economics of plants. therefore, in reality. twice as j} N' Tr.rk. one of Canada's great long a growing time as thc'careless d ”3,3,4” ts stated to be the climate. I reason" assumes them to has e, /1'his o umupultz," who writes the article. it one PF the 1"t.damyttal constdera- b L I G H T RATHER THA HEAT MAKES PLANTS GROW. ADVANTAGES or - CANADA’S CLIMATE fr " '1 mm,- is the well-known can. too. of a my“ hire baronet who bet a hun. drmi mum-as that he would dine at 5”,.“ oh ruck in a suit or clothes made [rum and which had been growing on t." sheep's track the some day. As LIL" bet was covered. the expon- -.,,1 " t' t' art ot hurrying directed that) WNW inns should begin at 5 Ln. with] hr. wuxhing of suillcient sheep to pro-1 >,.1.- the wool. Prom a neighboring ‘h‘hrl'y the wool was returned as cloth nu in ti e afternoon, but early enough n pormit of a tailor and his tum-“- wa W ""'"---- The rum-lit remarkable ”we“ at 90mhamptou in wall-c the White Star liner Homeric by hand in record time. arut in "rtltting the Maimtte for a, I' Vip to New-York In about thirty wwrjcvn," hours. “and out as connplcu. Er'l- rrxzxmples ot what can be accom- ',) 3.»! when human energy as well u l .11., ical appliancas am put to the lr- . mun-xi time. \ 'h, Alt’h the Dragon! «am --, . V " nu-utly I the I _ ----~u '00] A on the old Jennies and woven {mum}, a Jacket and vast were 1 at Enrich Mills in sixteen m in 1816. an American paper urded that "at a woollen fats Inniday Cue the wool sham back of a sheep in the mom- washed, carded. spun into eighteen cuts to the pound, yea. tuned. dried, sham. and o a coat and won, all in the: twenty-four hours," the same} ' Pelfzirmed in England t.-, (h the Maseru age of hurrying in m vltit"rry Is used. it the I": ot mart our Fw-""'"" u, "nan cull rs and twenty minutes. , hour and y a Canadian firm accuttr I tirst tree work in nine hour. and a The m paper to " -aarr_t.-- - ion nee on Am 1iiiiLiiiiiiifir1'ii"ii"i"ii- in 1837 um-m age excels tn in: In matters In is used. it is surpris- ur ancestors In the ant century Could " r-vssitatcd their "get. ' but early emrutrh and his assistants " "at tt 'roollen me. We the wool sham sheep in the mom. carded. spun into 337. when wool nnles and you,“ pmum, ulclctulc, In nanny. LWICU as in some cagetr, be developed to i high' long a growing time as the (iuri‘lessldegree in Southern countries, notably reasoner assumes them to have. This on plateau and where the sea breezes is one of the tumlattr?.tttatl 'l;rirdll'll'%to,'f freshly. We need not so into [ tions which explain the universality , any such elaborate arguments as the“ and luxuriance ot vegetation in the of Ellsworth Huntington's book 'CU. North that is always so startling to mate and Civilization,’ to prove to any the traveller w'ro 5095 North with a thoughtful man that so long as wo mind furnished with ideas derived I have a, competitive emulation and from school pro,'r,rar':'.ii' P,', long " public opinion continuo- to; "lt ”on”, to be light rather mamallow the energetic and tho powerful! hm ti at makes a plant grow inst. But l to take whatever they will: from ttsol if it WM.” hunt, the [-Uldr plants would , lethargic and tho weak, so long will! not be badly on: A fairly slmpleJha North continue to dominate the mmhrnmlivul tsalptt'.tuion mum; that 3 South as ft In doing to-day, for it ttro.' tptv.tt thts m t mm}; at Juno m the (lures tho one- crop that matters when second “Wk ot July, the earth at 50:: In! “orienting energy and restless tttti. level receives from the mm more heat t biticm" ‘ ‘ "We have pointed out that the growth or grass and other plants is 'measured not by the length ot the ; summer in months, but by the number Pt hours of sunlight, and that there ' are as many hours of sunlight in three months of Arctic summer as in " months of tropic summer, giving the plants, therefore, in reality. twice as long a growing time as the careless reasoner assumes them to have. This ‘ is one ot the fundamental con-sidera-‘ tions which explain the universality and luxurianee of vegetation in the North that is always so startling to the traveller who 509: North with a mind furnished with ideas derived from school geographies.“ word, for, as time goes on. conditions in Canada change. and wlth further northward cultivation and colonization the weaned Arctic climate is being driven farther North. To any who have read 8tetaruson's, article on eli. mate in the February, 1922, World's Work. 'The Livable North,' the follow- ing quotation will be familiar; to those who have not read it, it will be ot in. tore“. In the United States shoes have been made in sixteen minutes; in the Midlands of England in twenty min. utes; and at the Agricultural Hall, 13- Huston. when the leather passed through Mtrthmse machines and re quired the attention of sixty-three peo- ple. in thirtrtive minutes. Shoe tl wonderful ,,_ I...l.\-, unit: nour and fifty-nine minutes after the tirst tree was felled. The manufacturers then took the paper to a printing establishment two miles away. and by 10 o'clock the trees had been converted into news- papers ready for delivery. “LAA - - ,.-~u~o - They were then con tihrators. The wood-l to a vat, mixed with tl harmless but quite n cals. and the proces: liquid pulp was sent t chine, which at 9.34 Brsst completed sheet hour and tittrninst m -v-v some type in nine hours forty. Ioven minutes. In Ihlphulldlng yards and other con- structive industries one sees work lanceded up by the use of pneumatic 11nd other tools for which modern ‘seience is responsible. and road con. stmctlon and repair work has been greatly accelerated recently by the use of mechanical appliances. The papermaking trade can boast of some famous teats in the, way of quick work. On one occasion three trees were felled at 7.35 a.m., and har. ried to a factory. where they wereI tramt Into pieces about one MN "m" At one time the Great Eastern R w” Company performed the teat building n locomotive and tender the goods type In nine hours to: seven minutes. completing the suit by , thm., in " time for the baronet to don buttery to sitting down to his In; meal. Old Beliefs Broken Down manufacturers, , keenness in pieces about one foot long. re then conveyed to five de The wood-pulp was run in- ixed with the not altogether mt quite necessary ehemi. the process finished; the was sent to the paper ma- leh at 9.34 turned out the eted sheet ot paper, one It“. - . _ _ _"'"" ... yum” baronet to don it pre- I.... 4-7» A - a recently by the appliances. lg trade can boast eats in the way ot one cecasion three t 7.35 a.m., and har. where they were '00. display beating re. d tender of hours forty. ' in plenty Unexphded shells, bombs, and ohm "live" war souvenirs to the number of 6,600 have been picked up in Paris streets since the beginning of this year; it is suggested that owner] of these dangerous articles are 1125 ing" them to get rid of them. And Thomas was quite satisfied-- until he had had time to think over the generous otter. I Thomas was nut the brightest speci- I men on earth, and, try as he might, he 5 could no. succeed in obtaining a. situa- (ion. led M lad. even- the World,' and to a tailgay' which II commonly conceded to be the great- est of all railway systems "Human energy, Lentil and physi- cal, is developed to the highest degree in the Northern climates. It may also, "it is hard now to realizp that this argument was applied in good faith to the district which is now, with some justice. called ‘The "read Racket of Yell. my I u Examples of Unconscious Humor. 3 b "The speeches in Parliament ot Biri . Edward Blake and others are new! classic in Canada and are there the best known examples ot unconscious i' humor. The English language was; r taxed to its capacity in showing the,' _ obsurdity of the building of the Cana-) F dian Pacitle Railway. The argument‘ said in substance that the expense of. building the road would be so great', that, even were we to accept the mosti optimistic View ot what the resources l ot the Prairie Provinces might de-,", velop into, even so a reasonable freight, tariff tor carrying them to the Atlangl tie would never pay tor the axlel'1 grease of the freight cars. Opponents l l of the road were willing to concede“ that it anybody had the incredible fol. it ly to squander that much money the” road could be built. They admitted.‘c ‘turther. that it could undoubtedly be”: operated in summer, but submitted I , that it was preposterous to suppose!” that it could be operated in winter, I and there followed the self-evident h conclusion tint the railway could a never be protitable, for 'no enterprise d can be prnlitable it it is operated only,u half the year.' " of per square mile per day at the North . Pole than at the Equator. In moun- Th at, Man to Anne. talnous regions, such as Greenland, ' e actor ot Barrier-e Post, Hud- there is left over from winter, storedims B1it2.'eta'giui," $32.33? snow to counterbalance locall this . . . tremendous downpour ot heat; bin on I smddam's article in Onting. we should the tar more extensive polar low-lands j say that the ttustor--his name is AU. ot Siberia, Canada. Alaska and the F tonfprobably would do well anywhere Canadian Arctic islands, there is noi, gen-ther- t"ri'1.' the polar hem and In. stored-up snow to temper the summer i li ans 0 t e we threg or among the heat, which explains the stories tra.) sons and Pyle ot the jungles. vellers trom these regions tell of the, One winter evening, writes Mr. Stod- unbearable swelter of the Arctic sum- : f/l,"'; the factor, who was returning to mer and explains such weather bureau; "Jim noticed that something, ap- records as 100 degrees in the shade at, t'2',f.mttnd,,tioi,t'g Jd', 'f,'egiy. , I . F0: Yukon, Alaska. “bought that the animal was rather xamplu of Unconscious Humor. 'big tor a dog. And it seemed to tso) "The 'speeches It1 Parliament ot Si" coming pretty close to him. Then he Edward Blake and others are no“Understood It was not a. dog; it we. classic in Canada and are there urea polar beer! ' best known examples ot unconscious; Alston had no wee. n ot an sort humor. The English language “ml with Mm; he had marina excezt his: taxed to Its capacity in showmg the but-“ -- ' . . _ ----AND THE WORST IS YET To COME "m""------, Twice Nttthintt, sir." said Thomas. latein "ontemplated the " vages is d 2b I A Blight Error. , A dravellor rushed up to a str; on a miiway station just as the was about to start, and asked: "Are you going on this train? i "t Inn!” was thn reply. j "Well my frimd," said the trag i “you might do me a favor. I haw 5 big trunka and they always mak ( pay extra for one of them. Would ! mind taking one, it ts.:ll cost you i in!" “Yea, I am!” was the answer. “I'm one ot the company's Inspectors!" by ler. "But I haven't a ticked" suid the stranger. "t thought you said you were going br this train?" exclaimed the travel- , ---e_9r_V M... m, weapon or any sort] was.’with Mm; he had nothing except his; the,' lantern. and he knew that it he tried! "e to run, or it he showed any signs off tent fear, he was Ins/c. So, turning round.’ , tr, he walked toward the bear, waving the j ”at; lantern in his face. The bear reared, toat I on its hind legs and waited an he was; ~cee ,,' only a. few feet away; then it dropped f tt i to all fours and saunte'red ott--Nuitedt 3 l D..L A‘_A - - They made tho journey In bitter cold 1 weather in tour days with only one day's provisions and arrived thorough-J 1y exhausted at Port Nelson. The In-E dian man had a fiozen foot. What an pity it could not have been the Indian I nth" L-J _‘,rr! " _ - who had remained ireiiri.,' But Ahton knew that if he did turn back his prestige with the Indians would be seriously injured; so he took the provisions and divided them into three portions. "Now," he said to the two Indians, "take your pick. We are going to Port Nelson. I want you to realize that when a white man sets out _ todoathing ho does it!" l, The Indian boy had no satisfactory answer to give; it was evident that he " well u the third Indian was play- ing the game with the one who had stayed behind. They had supposed that Alanna naturally would return when he found that he had no provisiom. for the temperature was down far below me t" "Why is that all we have?" demand. ed tbs factor. "I laid out plenty of pro- visions." "George take them," was the answer. "Dht you use him take them?" asked Alston. "Yea." I "Well, then, why didn't you ton) The tlrst day after the three the encampment the Indian h. to Alston with R small bag t tamed about one day's rations is all we have." he said. , - -- -eFF uwv an“ ' H19". 1 I ”w“--. “I um “u, ”I u:- I; to all fours and iii/ic,,,','; 0111:3123!!! 5 tuwa them, ig a good conservatory with I 6 But Alston also knows how to “call ; emcient teachers. Just twenty miles! ; a. bluff." Once during a very cold win, I} or so away on the line of the milmuis i I tor he visited some Indians who werei b a little village that is the centre of perhaps eitht days' Journey from Port [ a. t"yuh.lyr farming community. and I Nelson; with him he took three ot his 3 in this Ylliage a. class of twenty-four ‘0“ Indians. two men and tb boy,, pupils units in vain for a. teacher to 3 When the time came to Mart back 0M ' take the place ot the (me whom they ' j of the Indians whose name was George) have lost. Each ot thrsty pupils in 1 licomplainod that he was not feeling' willing to par titty “In” tor a hull-f; f well and said that he wag not ready to , hour lesson, whdlo one family in the " start. Alston was t'trtistied that there I village offers free board and. lodging t was nothing the matter with the fei-' for} day and. a night each week to I 1 low, but that he simply wanted to stay I an) 2y1ey “hung to go trom the "ity ii and vfsit a little longer with the ln-Ito (rite lessons to the children The" dinns at the encampment. Bo he said T railway tare to and from this villago I," to him, "All right, we shall return amounts to one dollar and tittern , without you." [ fonts Thin leaves Ci profit ot ten dor', .i The factor ot Barriers Post, Hud- son's Bay Company, is an exceptional man. After reading Mr. Ralph G. Sboddard's article in Outing, we should say that the tactor-his name is AU. ton-probably would do well anywhere -either among the min:- hnam and in» H, .0". "V mun-MU"! i Iagtse in Canada in mod of help front to give: it was evident that he; the music teachers. " the thin} Indian was play-‘ What about it? Am u , going to game With the 0'19 who iiii(neildl'ltl our little friends in the rural mind. They had supposed that i disrtriota ot this great Domini m? abut-any would return uh.» in: 1 day after the three had left small li the Lravellor. or. I have two Ways make me 'm. Would you etyst tron noth- a stranger 3 the train QUAINT ELECTIONEERING IN ENGLAND Mrs. J. Tudor Rees oven-anus the ditilculties ot electiomserpc, unique fishing town ot Clovelly by climbing its steep streets on u The picture shows how the streets an! built. v _ -_ Ion l Tobacco takes ita name from the, Island of Tobago in tho Caribbean: Sea, where it was discovered, but li "nicotine" was the name first given to man tobacco in France maxim the intro, r".0,r' duction of tho herb bo Catherine de in Medicis by the Anharrad .r to Lisbon,) nf ft Jean Nicot. ' WN--- Fifty cents a Mason may not be much to some teachers, but then wit about the opportunity tor rendering real service to them children who 'at'e still looking for their music tenehtsr? There must be many other lihttea m1. __ ,, __-__ nulu‘J-III ' l is a little village that is the centre of 5f a. flot1riathirur farming community. and t; in this village a. class of tweritrdour "pupils waits in vain for a teacher to -;take the place of the one whom they " have lost. Each of these pupils in " willing to pay titty cents for a hali- I';hour lesson, while one family in thol 'Qvillage oftens free board and. lodging l for a day and a night each week to inny teacher willing to go from the Pity; ,to give 11035035 to the children The; railway fare to and from this villago 'amnunts to one dollar and titteen cents This leaves " profit ot ten (101-5 1 lam and eighty-tire cents for approx/ ,mutely one day's wrwlt Almost tlie) , same story with the same inducement! f tor a teacher holds gnarl of another vll, ilage'in a different direction up among , l the Outineau Hills, but it would not ha 3 quite so convenient for a student tu go 1 there an to the flttst plane It mixing however, be well worth while I ' _ Making Ends Meet in Music Education. The problem ot making "ends meet" while continuing their education ia music In often the most Naming quea- tion whdch confronts the students of today. Yet many times the very peo- ple who need it most was by an op- portunity at their doors and going tar, ther tuield go make money tail dismal- All this showed that bee language is able to convey information as to the presence ot food, but that it cannot describe the position of the find unless the place is already known to the re- cipient ot the message. The language is obviously founded on touch rather than upon hearing. Then the experiment was repeated with two dishes. one white and one yellow. Both were till-i with sugar and left in the window. The been I were marked with white or yellow. ac- cording to the din to which they new. The dishes were removed and the white one emptied. Afterwards both were replaced in the window. The full dish was discovered by a yellow bee, which returned to the neat and repeat- I ed the dance. Both white and yellow l, been then tiew back to their dish“. the white ones of course, tuding Both. tng waiting for them. Ag ed. By touching the back ot each bee with a spot of color, it was discovered that the inter Arrivals were not ee- corted by those who had been before. gand it was concluded that they must 1 have been sent. The next step in the investigation was to Lindy the behavior of the bee Iwhieh had discovered that the sugar F had been replaced in the window. When the creature returned to the nest it{ handed over its load of sugar to the workers. and then executed a curiousj dance, describing circles and other! figures. The other bees watched care-E quy. and attempted to touch her.) When one of the bee which had been I marked succeeded in thin, it tiew out immediately and went to the sugar. The unmarked bees soon ceased to my ( any attention to the discoverer of the; sugar. . The sugar was retmGiiuiraGiik the insects disappeared. When the dish P"" replaced, the swarm return- He placed I. m ot sugar solution on o table by an open window. A has came along and, having stolen as much as he could carry, new away. Before long we dish was coveted with been. Kt?! von Frisch, when making was on beets, discovered many Interesting he" “out the system of communica- tion adopted by an“ creatures. Can animals a land: talk to and: othng A German seientlst, Professor TheuntruntregBees. many other little vi] the city of ot. lip.. mom! HQ; 10 "em0urE, and that's why ym at The alarming little island of Juan any you are going to Cracow. Hui tf 3 Fernandez. whom Alexander Selkirk know very well you are going to Cru d T spent four years of his life, and whose COG .'" ' story led I9otr.e, to write his famous A Bcttttamt “at. 'r'lirltti't'pitoiato be tmnatormed into A scimcilmy once donned a bars": a o ay res . . " ial it touched animal) as an animal 3’ It “mm” to tho Chm“ Govern. 5th (in: a. pouch in tho middb of m. 'il".'.'..'.'.'? and can be reached by simmer Momm'h into which he an retire when 'i ham Valparaiso. 'No island is thirty- he u hard pressed." 5 six innate miles . in extent, and 'sl, Charles Summon. the apath- nt ami- Himzu'iiy wooded with . splendid "mi slavrry, twhen raked iuurrr.tiueutly by Mom's. orange trees, turtles, tusd "fe, a minister why he did my! go into the Udu wood. It in mmuous. and will 'r, . i... . r rl 'isouth- whore Fr:ah'r5 existed with mot “vines and torrents. Chanda all“. tutti"slavery WNJHS_ roth'fed: _wi1d gram mum through the under; "You are tryt'ng to Fave .w:rabs from ‘wood, and myriad: of humming birds , . T .. ' u ' I .. . P---- , un-nt _\ou. Min tiou't you go when among the ferns. The animate is there?" 35am to he ideal. I . th At (‘umbesrland Bay, where 80mm landed, is the ialand's only hamlet, San Juan Hamish. A modern hotel in to be erected here, and a brweekiystearn. boat service is to be run. Naturally. the treat curiosities of tho Island are the places where Robin. son Crusoe, aevrordinq to the storv. A holiday oi, iiiiiaarcTiii,oeu, is land wili be 1.o.=sible in the near ta, ture. All doctors aKrre that over-indulg- ence in tea or coffee. owing to the cat. tein these drinks "otrlain, in dm-idedly Injurious to health. A use was mported in which a wo nun swallowed half an 01mm ot cayenne pepper and died in agony a few hours afterwards. Many of the cheapest kinds oi jam contain arsenic. as do inferior brands '/* sweets and 'ronteotlonerr Then, again, such familiar items as cloves. nutmexs, horseradish, and cer- tain ltorbs are poisonous if takm in large quantities. Black pepper contains an alkaloid poison known as piperine. while the cayenne variety, better known per. hapn as red pepper. is even more pot- ent as a poison. 1 Another salt ot which most ot us , partake fairly freely at some time or (Ciiiii la 0mm acid, 3 distressing” 1 powerful irritant and poison what: 'laken in mtttieient quanutles. It ls found in mubnrb and sorrel. and glvm 'both their pleasant thlmt<tiernchittg ( ttttvor. _ l Blowers and klwen m not intro- {uncut-1y preserved in a preps-lulu: Immunity formaldehyde, which hi i liable to bring about stomach trouble than one ounce ot which is $1 to km two or three people in short. time. and sometimes wane enacts. The amount wed in curing thrh, however. b no small as to be almost negligible Even Sour iced Christmas cake can- not be absolved from the charm" of be. ing poisonous in a. slight degree. Thu deNttttig almond tiavor, appreciated by most people. in A sign ot the pro sauce in the Icing of nrngglr avid hue Mention ot salt bring! to mind the little known: tact that a favorite Chin. ese method of committing suicide is by taking . cuptul of the common table variey. In any mom than small quantities, nit is . violent gastric ir. ritant, one ot the effects of which I: the letting up of fan! ittthumntrtion of the stomach. one instance: of people having Vite; made very 111 by mistaking this Bub. stance ter name other form of salt. An ounce of traltpetto bu been known to kill 1 Demon In two hours while medical records contain numer- How many people who were tamed by the recent epidemic ot food pol-on- inc Mile that daily most of In con- sume poison with our malt? Bacon. for enmpb. which an". on most bunt-u tables. contains u small amount ot coltpetre; it gm. tho rind it; coloring. Take a dose ot on ounce or so of saltpetre. and even if you do not die you will have a decidedly un- comfortable time. ONTARIO ARCHIV TORONTO as or electioneeriug in the steep streets on . donkey. Itt he ___ ----- A'.- - An Ideal Memory. “"1”“ your hurl} Pn Crusoe’s Isle. ring of [music acid, Gl “we island of Juan m Moxunder Selkirk of his lite, and whose which is trtrttieient 1p tureons. and tanks. wtich he he plateau rc a very , Sim spa-um found in Brit Eumbia. is said tn be WM] su (the manufacture of revving {for ninth“. vioiins and wink :This is the finding uf Prof, do lGroom. of the Imperial 1/l {Donna lar, _ l. who was com: ed after tr, “If to PM)? it {quench of Ir:c"ttq sew ....-m 150%de ltd-rd.» “me time has come when it ix Item: to pay in down“ and wan tn grw trees. When {casters can deman- stable to the paper tnanufaeturee that he can rdhmt to Crow pu'lpwoud, we am going to see the same sensible turning to {cushy that we hnro Men in the turn to better banking method. quite lam” of st "' Ptmtd, the l ample of tutotl remark of u I the University "Wishiior In Wp.rr in 11s ( thtueers, That he had to won: over his ears To hear oven thumlma then Mr wan forced In requr mm meme: - Bo very de ans t Th, treason, set root upu shook u little, and he cutloner. who ottepo "Help me to ascend myult coming down." Hero is a bumoruu When 81 man and w treason, so, The mt A schoolboy once deiined a humm- phd la punched animal; " “an animal who has I. pouch in tho mm]. ot " wtomm-h Into which he can mum when he is hard unused." Cha Hes Summer. the uncut. of anal- 'r A lecture manager once telegraphed I lo Anvmus Ward. the humus humor. ist asking him what he would take fl'r forty nights on the Pturttic Coast. He wired back, "Brandycnd-wuvr." Chades um!) In. vary much puz- zled by a whimsical strmy, which he descrihel in one of his essays. "An Oxford scholar," he wrote. "meeting a porter who was carrying a hare llu'ough the 'streets, accosted him with this extraordinary question: “Priww, "tr, is that thy own ham. or u wig ' " Two Russian Jews met in a railway station. "Where are you mink?" said One. "To Cracow," said the other. "What a liar you are!” said the ttrat. "Wu want mo to believe you are Ro- ing to iwmburg. and that's why you any you are some to CHOU". Hut I know very well you are going to Cru. The Beet My. Olive a man who was subject to apl- lemic seizures wu picked up uncon- scious on the streets of New York. m, was rushed to a hospital. AM when they took " " can one of the names found a piece of - mulled to tle lining. upon which was mum: "To Infvvrm the house surgeon that this is tust a vase of plain tit-not appendi~ cilia. My appendix has already Item, rumoved twice." In mun-mat with that is the modem 'oke--ern Atttertraut awry -ot a Mule old lady who went to church one Sun- _ day morning. stepped unly down the ‘ulsle. leaned over an elderly gentle- , man. and aim] him in a loud whisper, ," "N this pie occupewed ?" A man was compelled to ride to his wife's funeral in the “we undue with " tttothetritaw. All his pro. tests and evasion: having ultimately tuned. he leaned over and mwlod u the funeral director: "Well, you've Doomed the any for me. that's all!" I Then ll. tor I“. I t%trssktt Latin Joke was. I- - an Irish i "bult." Cicero (all: hot " Mend Na. ‘Ilca "mod “and! upon 1 Roman ‘11:de Bantu. upon whom he had i,ttaid a can. self!" “Why. you maul." add Nata. " believed your maid wen 8h. told me you were not " home. um you won't believe me even when I tell you my- -- -_ - - - ‘“ ,dtvem In "tttrqtetnttttet ot humor. jand it is nmhblo the "Hon In“ i ot 'oltes that alone. hustler. He had been [alarmed by tho man! that Ennilu in not at home; and when it came shout that Bimin- called upon him, he stuck " head out of tho window and said, "I am not at llama" tpolled Om Day. “What are you talklng ghoul?" said Ems-tug. "Don't I know your voice?" tar me lads of mttnufrwtur tn different as m in alien-m countries (have In. boa-and I. u um Type-ofHumotw anthem qud'l Fun. the psychologist. gives an at anoma- type ot humor in the f a professor who taught at 'rsity of GolUngNI. * to vnrd a :mde Inmml ate Tiler who w t root upon ', who Wag: commission- \'.'u' to hole into the " was thief is pm. upon the m d he said to " stir, W. I suited for dine bounds " him " it Nth? for tho hm War!' " t IPrrud re. I character h ncey.og. or Perry “an of - an Irish w " Mend Na. upon 1 Row whom he hm led by the maid tlr shift tor . states- uted tor aifoid it the one a hand. H-hild mtuat much puz- which he 1131;. "An "muting ttt than his (hat ', he ml md nod: “It d in