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INTERESTING FACTS |)

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France has 48,631

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millionaires. |
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Denmark has 450 autobus lines.

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The Phillipines include about}
8,000 islands.
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Belfast, Ireland, hag the iereest!
rope works in the world. |
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The divorce evil is unknown in|
Newfoundland and Labrador. i
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In Berlin, women break the law |
only one-sixth as much us men, |
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est consumers of garlic as food.
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in spite of the great cost of radium
half the treatments with it are given
free.
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Uruguay permits women to become ;
barrisvers ,but not magistrates, jur-;
ors or judges.
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Papal guards in Italy are not per-

Mitted to wear war medals witnin |
the Vatican walls.
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The teaching cf Gaelic is now

compulsory in all of the Free State

schools in Ireland.
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All foreign currency in Cermany!
is being confiscated and turned ov er |

to the government.
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Blectricity is now supplying abou:
65 per cent. of the industrial energy
jn the United States. |
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Twenty-six thousand acres of land
is now used for the growth of to-
: bacco i in South Africa.

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“The crown prince of Sweden has

the reputation of being one of the

- best-read men in Europe. ;

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; The- development of a system or]
_ ‘radio-telephony throughout ‘the Wes.
aa Indies is in contemplation.

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‘Italy uses but four gallons of milk |:
‘per: capita per annum,: which is the
lowest average of; any Comite y =

The largest steel ‘bridge girder. in:
he «world was placed recently over
the 'Misdissippi at Rock’ Island,” mM.
if ‘ Weighs 97 tons. ;
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“ For being falsely imprisoned in
Russia. as a spy, Mrs. Stan Harding,

. English journalist, has  received|\:
: $15,000 from the Soviet government.
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Scientists say that radium throws
off enough heat to bring its own
-weight of water to boiling point
every hour for two or three thousand

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According to Prof. A. M,

~ British scientist, and inventor,
of water echurged with

Low, |

Jets |

wluctricity, |

will be employed In the next war th

vq, Kill men and horses. (ase
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There are 600 varietics of
malian Weed in Japan, most of whieh are
‘om, S soused for food or in the manufacture

of commercial articles, such as glue,
isinglaas and fdoine
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A new bridge is to span the Selne,
connecting the district of Montpar-
nnaso to Paris. This will make tha

Nours of wark in Germany

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CANADIAN NATIONAL OPENS ONE OF WORLD'S

-. Some: idea: of : -the extent
National Railways. is given -by
2,000-cars. This new terminal’

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classification yard.

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Campbell Building
VICTORIA

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LARGEST RAILWAY YARDS

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BARGAINS IN LUMBER

FLOORING, E.G. $35 per M.

Siding from $20 to $30
Ceilmg from $15 to $30

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. adian:National -lines, at:the head of. the:lakes;. expeditedelivery of grain.to elevators for shipment down the,
lakes. and also the, movement of.

th el, sification yard, showing car coming

4— Eight and -one= chalf million: bushel ‘elevator at ‘Port Arthur, - ‘owned. by Canadian . National Rail-/"

ways, the picture snowing: grain going: into ‘levator frome cans at one end and being’ loaded on
boat’ at the other.>.

5.—The “hump,” where the’ force of gravity’ ‘is the énly power used in n placing cars in the classification
- . tracks assigned to; them.., Two ears have just been released and are shown on their way to

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of the. Neebing Terminal opened at Fort William this fall by the Canadian’
the above: ‘pictures, showing part*of the 43 miles trackage with capacity for:
is: doing*much: to-minimize ‘the possibility: of: grain car congestion on Can-=.

other rytloads”” and: “empties” “both” gaat and west ‘and thus. further, pape’

ott “hump.” — Loo

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THE DROUTH
SPOT OF APPLE

een

fruit a most unsightly appearance.
While the immediate cause of the

is quite generally accepted that it is
due to inadequate water supply. Yet

Prouth Spot of Apple is now, be-

cause of its appearance year after) orchards where spring moisture con-
year, well known in those orchard) ditions have been excellent, Exam-
districts of British Columbia with | ination of the root system has shown
soils of poor molkture retaining Ca-| that the fine feeder roots are dead,
pieity; or wherever irrigation is fm- pho killing of the root halr system

| properly applied, elther because of might be, and no doubt is, brought

insuffielent water supply, or too 1ons | apout by a combination of cireum-
Intervals between appientions. When | stances, all of which, however, point
severe it eauses an nimost completely the direction of an inadequate
loss of the crop, supply of water at somo period
The through the year.
Heawen mth orpet ha: nebo heen
known toa occur where soll moisture
conditions are uniformly good, it fs
sugrested that, as far as possible,

faeeenenmne)

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trouble
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the

small,
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often ooving 2 drop ef sap; at other
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B.C. Coast Service . . am
VANCOUVER—At 2,15 p.m..and 11.45 p.m. daily. : 7 -
SRATTLE—At 4.30, p.m, dally.
OOCRAN FALLS—lFrom Vancouver every Wednesday at 9 pm.

POWELL RIVER-UNION BAY-COMOX ROUTE—From Vancouver
every Tuesday and Saturday at 11.45 p.m. .

UNION BAY-COMOX-POWELL RIVER ROUTE—From Vancouver
every Thursday at 8.30 a.m.

WREST COAST VANCOUVER ISLAND ROUTH-—From Victoria on
the Ist, 10th, 20th each month, at 11 p.m.

GULF ISLANDS ROUTE—Leaves Wharf, Belleville
dava at 714 am.

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Mon- ,
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