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ATTEMPT TO, CONCEAL THE DISCOVERY.

BORING STOPPED.

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ANTI-SWEARING.

SCHOOL SKETCHES OF MANY SHIPS.

WOMEN AS BAD AS MEN.

ONLY ONE CANNON.

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A VICAR'S PROTEST.

Eleven school textbooks, which Immediately following the state-

A campaign against swearing Earl Haig used when he was a ten-land bad language has been start ment made at Frankfurt-am-Main | year-old boy at, Edinburgh College, led by the Rev. T. P. Stevens, vicar that huge volumes of natural have been stored in a New Oxford-of St. Matthew's New Kent-road, helium gas had been discovered in street bookshop for five years.

Mesars. R. Fletcher, Ltd., bought Kusselsheim, an Industrial town

"I am not a squeamish parson," them among other things, at a he writes in his parish magazine, situated between Frankfurt and Bayswater sale, and when Mr. "and I have not been brought up Mainz, the boring was suddenly Fletcher's son was looking the pur-in a hot-house, but I confess to stopped and the blast-holes cover- chase over, he was going to throw boing greatly distressed by the ed up. The whole affair has been away these books as worthless till language that is commonly used hushed with a denial of the dis-ho saw the childish signature, "D. all round us.” covery. At the same time geolog-Haig," liberally scattered about the "Swearing in the majority of ists employed in the search admit † pages, and amusing little sketches cases is simply carelessness. a possibility of a natural helium and boyish comments. gas find.

Studious Scholar. Excavations were being made by Douglas Halg as a a well-known moter firm when the seems to have been

People do not think what they are saying. It is not only in poor dis- schoolboytricts that one hears foul language. studious I have heard it in Throgmorton- moments,street (London) and well-dressed,

"I have heard quite decent young men in the street using most ob- jectionable language to young women, and the women themselves seem to be little better..

workmen came across an under-scholar with flippant ground current of hot waters, con- The margina of one of the English respectable people use it. nected with the thermal springs at | books are filled with written Wiesbaden. A little further on synonyms for the words in the text, they bored into a cavity of a depth and the Latin and French books are of nearly two thousand feet, which, all heavily scored. it was conjectured, contained no- tural helium gas. This unusual fissure is thought to be a part of the extensive volcanic formation of the Rhine basin.

Poetry, and poetic prose, how ever, were usually an excuse for letting his thoughts roam to his favourite subject-ships. The books are strewn with ships, particular-

many-oared galleys, "Lord Ullin's Daughter" rests in a frame- work of ships, from paddle canoes to galleys and sailing ships, with a Scotsman in a top corner.

The motor flrm concerned imme-ly diately sent for Herr Graeve-Gern- rode, who is one of the best known water diviners of the present day. Graeve is supposed to possess pecu- liar powers and to be able, through the medium of his Wunschelrute to divine streams of water, however deeply in the earth they are hidden, As an officer in the German Army Graeve was employed during the war in finding out springs of sound water in Turkey. Also in Alaska he has proved his capability as a

water diviner.

Trembling and Beating. Both before and after the war Graeve has been employed in Ger- many in discovering, not only water, but also coal, potash, and mineral ores. It is very seldom,

The

Washington Irving's "Grief for the Dead" inspired only the pic ture of a woman hanging, a sailor wielding a knife, and a man in a crown brandishing a knife. title page of Campbell's "Pleasure of Hope" is embellished with funny heads of a man and a woman, but Mrs. Hemang "England's Dead" appears to have touched some other chord in him, because the last words; "Wave may not foam, nor wild wind, sweep, where rest' not England's dead" are pencil marked.

Curious Comment.

The dignity of William Francis Collier's "History of the British

"The most unfortunate thing is that people swear indiscriminately in front of children."

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known to have made a mistake.

Graeve, a tall, bearded man of sixty years of age, arrived at Rus- selsheim early in the morning with his Wunschelrute, which is fork-

fed and made of metal. He stated that should the metal, during the test, "tremble upwards," there would be good water in the earth below; should the metal "tromble downwards," there would be a pos- sibility of a find of coal or minerals.

Together with three engineers, Graeve walked slowly over the site of the operations, holding the Wunschelrute out in front of him,

pressed itself on the boy. The author's name is blotted out, and the title page now reads: "History of the British Empire, by No One." A curious comment for a child is the sentence written after an essay on "The World Passeth Away." It runs "If any man lack wisdom let him ask of God."

A hint of the coming soldier is given only once. That ja on the back of Curtis" "Poctical Reader," where a cannon of the Crimean period is drawn in the act of firing.

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the forked end against his chest should be careful to avoid consti- Suddenly the metal began to trempation, for this condition lets loose ble violently and to beat wildly poisons into the blood which reb against his chest, so that it took

the baby's food of purity and the combined efforts of his three strength. The most efficient laxa- tive for woman's use is Pinkettes, companions to assist him in hold. ing the Wunschelrute. This trem. bling and beating recurred several times during the morning.

After about five hours the Wun-being purely

which het as gently as naturo, and vegetable cannot sehelrute leapt downwards with

harm even the most delicate. Of Bach force that Graeve was com-chemists, or post free, 60 cents the pelled to leave the spot. He devial, from Dr. Williams' Medicine clared immediately that the cause Co., 60, Kiangse Road, Shanghat: was a great fissure in the earth in Let Pinkettes which natural helium gas would in

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Upper Jaft-Min. Amery after an inspection of the C.P.R. engine. Uppur right-Diproving the belief that mountain air le colder than sitios. Lower right-Right Hon. Là C. M. 3. Amery driving the angles which tarzled him aurost the Dominion.

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