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CHINA MAIL,
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Car Load of Live Muskrats.
TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929.
CANADIAN PACIFIC EXPRESS
This strange-looking animal is a Duck-billed Platypus. It originated in Australia and is thought to be the only specimen of its kind in Canada. Ita body is eighteen inches long and its head and feet, the latter being flat and webbed, greatly resemble thore of a duck. It has the tail of a heaver. Canadian Pacifc Express officials had no problem of feeding it as it has been stuffed for over a hundred years.
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CAR LOAD OF LIVE MUSKRAT EXPORTED BY FURS LIMITED.
OAK LAKE MAN
1-Freight ene that carried the consignment. 2--Large cage on board S. S. Beaverford where the rats had muTO SPRCU and liberty, a-Specimen of smuskrat enjoying a carrot,
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There were a thousand of them, all alive and Two attendants in charge of the rodenta were hungry, shipped by Canadian Pacific Express Com- kept moving twelve bours a day each feeding and pany from Oak Lake, Manitoba to Hamburg watering them. They travelled overland in specially Germany, via Canadian Pacific freighter Beaverford constructed galvanized iron cratea netted with wire Fluffy and friendly they went through the long trip and with an enclosed trough in each from which fresh water was available. On board the Beaverford, away from their native marshes in good shape and large cages were built as shown above in which the were never so tired that they couldn't put away their rats had more space to move around. carrot rationa. It took fifty men several weeks to capture the requisite number without damage and by the use of special traps.
This shipment which was made recently, consti- tutes's record for movement of muskrats or any other fur-bearing animal out of Canada overseas,
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Helen McGregor, of Winnipeg, "The Flying Planist" whose "flying fugers" earned her unofficial title, and Myrtle Cook, whose flying heels won her the official title of Amateur Lady Champion of the World at the Olympic Mect last year, take a lesson in navigation from Captain Dett of the Canadian Pacific "Montrose.'
-Miss Cook, who now covers women's sports for the Montreal Star is not unfamiliar with the air, having down the English Channel on Feveral occasions when on the other side at athletic events. Misa McGregor is one of the few women familiar with the controls of tri- motored 'planes. She travelled west as a passenger in the Junkers plane which was landed at Montreal from the Canadian Pacific freighter "Beaverbrae" for the Western Canada Airways, Limited, by whom it will be used in air mail and express services
This is how the Trans-Canada appears as she leaves Montreal sach evening. The all-steel equipment of this train, which was built at the Angus Shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway is epitomized in the Solarium car which is carried at the rear end. With a vita-glazed zolarium, two shower haths, men's and ladies' smoking-room and a large observation-lounge, this car is the most luxurious to operate over Canadian lines and is open in its entirety to patrons of the Trans-Canada limited.
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This is the crowning nehlevement of Casavant Frères whose plant la at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. The only organ in Canada equipped with five manuals, it consists of six organ-unita: Great, Swell, Chair, Oz- chestral, Bombards and Pedal: A list of its parts reads like a catalogue of the most complete of organs, which in truth it is. The Great Organ contains 20 stops and 1761 pipes; the Swell Organ contains 19 stops and 1761 pipes; the Choir Organ contains 17 stops and 1846 pipes; the Orchestral Organ contains 18 stops, 1088 pipes, 61 harp bars, 26 tubular chimes, 87 xylophone barn and castanets; the Bombardo Organ contains. 8 atopa and 952 pipes; and the Pedal Organ contains 26 stops, 896 pipes, drums, tympaní, ete.
Ath The Tonal Lay-out of the stops is arranged thus: 17 Diapason. Stops, 18 Flute Stops, 12 String Stops, 14 Mixture and Mutation Stops (41 ranks), 28 Reed Stops, 3 Percussion Stops, 16 Extended Borrowed Stops, 8. Tremulents.
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Inset. Captain J. M. Hewison of -10 Satvare King, which is seen above, left, the Canadian Factile 6.8. Emprem of Freed
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