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HIPS BEING SCRAPPED.
Submarine E52 was recently. paid off at Devonport and placed. -on the disposal list. It is under- stood that altogether about 200 ships of all classes of pre-Dread- nought days are being sold for breaking up, including a large number of destroyers.
SMELLING MEDICINE That medicines for all diseases may be applied by inhalation is the conclusion of a New York medical authority, after many Hitherto years of experiment
this method has been chiefly con-. fined to ansesthetics and re-i medies for respiratory affections, but marked success is claimed for it in both digestive and nervous troubles. The medicine in liquid form is used to saturate a sponge, which is contained in a tube through which nitrous oxide gas as a "conveyor" is inhaled. Risk of chemical or other change from contact with food materials is avoided, and the medicine is absorbed into the circulation from the lungs even more readily than from the stomach, smaller doses sufficing.
BREATH-CATHING SALARIES. £30,000 a year -£2,500 a month for a boy of twenty-four! Such. it is said. is the stupendous salary Mr. Ensel Ford receives for man- aging the world-famous Ford Motor Company in the United States. To the average man who
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TIN HATS FOR SALE. Each every. twelve months.
Although the Army allowed earns in & year more
demobilized soldiers to retain their times than three
his weight in gold.
And even such fabu-steel helmets as trophies of war. the supply was far in excess of lous incomes seem trivial com-
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THE WAR'S EFFECT ON
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RISE IN US, TONNAGE,
TELEGRAPH.
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the demand, and now the Govern-outbreak of the war Lloyd's ment Disposal Board is seeking a Register of Shipping has been
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market for the surplus quantity issued entirely free from censor-position of the United Kingdom figures for Holland show an in- Schwab as president of the same which numbers many thousands ship. The 1919-20 edition has and the United States. In 1814 crease of 102,000 tons. company, within twenty years of
of new and second-hand helmets, been carefully revised earning his first daily dollar as with or without leather lining. brought up to date, and all camou
and 41.6 percent of the world's tonnage After estimating what would take driver in Mr. Carnegie's but all fit for further use. great works at Braddock. While dition to protecting the soldiers' was rendered necessary by war posed of seagoing tonnage of the 1919 had there been no war, the In ad-flage as regards losses, which was owned in the United King-have been the tonnage of the dom, and 4.46 per cent was com- principal maritime countries in still in the thirties this amazing heads, these helmets served many conditions has been eliminated. man had worked his way to another purposes in less exciting
United States. The "present Register gives the following income half as great again as times. They were frequently used statistical tables shows that in 34 per cent, United States 24.9 war upon shipping :-
An examination of the new figures are:--United Kingdom differences as the effect of the that of the British Cabinet of the as wash-basins, and in the trench July, 1914, time.
dug-outs they often served candlesticks.
there were
in per cent, including 20.4 per cent Decreases: United Kingdom, a the maritime countries about of the seagoing tonnage. MARSHAL FOCH'S WARNING.
By 5,003,000 tons : British Dominions. 45,404,000 tons gross of steamers, excluding wood tonnage, the 199,000; France, 536,000; Ger- "When I return to France.'
A "VISITOR'S MISCHIEF. and 3,686,000 tons net (approxi-American seagoing says Marshal Foch ja an inter
tonnage many, 3,582,000; Holland, 384.000; A labourer named Francis mately equal to 4,050,000 tons would be reduced to 8,426,000, Italy, 677,000; Norway, 1,025,000; view on Peace Day, I am going Hetry Smith, aged 17, of Wan-gross) of sailing vessels.
The against write a book and then shall atead, was rernanded resulty at present
16,267.000 tons for other countries. 2,816,000. figures are: Steam the United Kingdom. As Increases: United
States, take up my residence in a coun- Stratford Police Court on a charge tonnage 47,897,000 tons, and sail-regards the size of the vessels, it 6,729,000; Japan, 20.000. try house and occupy my remain of breaking into, 31, Gloucestering tonnage 3,022,000 tons, the is generally the accepted fact Summarising these totals the ing
years in the peaceful
road, Wanstead, and stealing two tonnage of steamers having thus that for ocean voyages large net result of the war on the occupation of a farmer." The Marshal sums up his person pack of cards, and a shillingtons, while the sail tonnage has economical than smaller vessels. would appear to be:
gold rings, two silver watches, a increased by nearly 214 million vessels are more efficient and world's merchant steam tonnage al view of the two campaigns, in coppers, the whole valued decreased by about 1,030,000 tons Vessels of less than 2,000 tons
Tons. 1870, and the Great War, in at £20, Ed in damaging TORS.
are usually employed in the home Loss of British tonnage 5,202,000 an epigram. "Time has its
goods to the value of £10, revenges." he said, but in my the property of Arthur John Ingle. United States he's increased by the foreign trade. For this ; ur- Loss of foreign tonnage
The seagoing tonnage of the trade or for short sea voyages in case it is the bitterness of youth It was stated that the cover about seven and three-quarter pose the geographical position of
(except U.S.A.) 9,000,000 that is sweetened in old age." In
ings of three chairs had been million tons-from 2,027,000 tons the United Kingdom is more! a previous interview on the way hacked in the dining-room, a tin to 9,773,000 tons equal to more favourable than the position of
14,202,000 of milk poured over the table than 382 per cent as compared the United States, as a larger Net gain to: United Ward Price of the Daily Mail: cloth, a quantity of black cur- with the 1914 totals. Japan has number of smaller vessele can be "The British army is a marvel." The military history of the world ants squashed and thrown with added 617,000 tons to her mer employed in the foreign trade of broken eggs on a dish of fruit, chant tonnage, equal to over 36 the United Kingdom than is contains no parallel to the pro-
the British possible in that of the United duction of such an army in such cake strewn about the floor, and per
a bottle of lemon squash poured Dominions have added 231,000 States. a way. In every respect the
over 14 British army has been superb.ver the drawing-room carpet tons, or
рет cent. countries There was no branch of all its The Bench ordered that the The
where the
over Marshal Foch said to Mr
cent,
and
LI
JAPAN IN THIRD PLACE:
Total
States tonnage
6,729.000
manifold departments in which it Prisoner should be medically greatest decrease has taken place the United States-and exclud-now in existence which under)
examined.
with no
ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE
are:-The
Net world's loss... 7,473,000 The question of efficiency of the present steam tonnage bas not been taken into account în these figures. There is no doubt After the United Kingdom and that a large amount of tonnage is was not fully up to its work.
United Kingdom, That for
showing a loss of more than two Germany Norway, France, and ordinary conditions would have obligatory military service and The missing link" between and a half million tons from Japan were the leading countries been broken up and replaced by no military tradition behind it is, human beings and apes has not-Greece 530,000 tons, Norway been reversed as regards Norway al vessels. This applies to the
18,892,000 tons to 16,345,000 tons, in 1914. The order, has now more modern and more economic I repeat, a marvellous accomplish- been discovered, but during your 360,000 tons, Italy 192,000 tons, ment, and that brings us to seashore wanderings you may another question. Next time? come upon one of the links the Spain 175,000 fons, and Denmark You can raise the men for an join the animal to the vegetable 139,000 tons. army in two or three months but world, or, at least, that stand
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and Japan, the latter country United Kingdom to a much now leading with 2,325,000 tons. greater extent than to other count- France, notwithstanding her los ries. During the three pre-wAT ses during the war, has actually years 1911-13 close on two million Enemy vessels which at the added 40,000 tons to the steam tons of steamers were sold foreign, it needs a year before they are almost midway between the two. date of the Armistice had not tonnage owned in 1914 Greece and of course replaced by better much good and next time This is the deep purple seaweed been captured or requisitioned by has suffered seriously owing to vessels, while during the three England will be in the same called coralline, found in nearly other countries are included in the war. In 1902 this country year 1916-18 probably less than situation as she was last time. every pool. Coralline is deep the 1919 figures as German had 288,000 tons of steam tonnage, 100,000 tons of steamera - were She won't be ready and we purple when it is alive, with and ex-Austro-Hungarian. The which in 1914 had grown to sold in this way, Moreover, a shall have to wait for her. There stony-coated joints which turn tonnage of enemy vessels taken 321,000 tons. The present total large proportion of the tonnage is at any rate an obvious and white when the plant dies. It over by the Allies since the 291,000 tons, is practically the built during the war is not equal indispensable precaution to take. may easily be recognised, and Armistice amounts to over obe You must have reserves of war when spread out, takes someth- and three-quarter million tons. country seventeen years ago. The nage which was built in the last as was owned in that in general efficiency to the ton- material. Look at the out-of-date ing the form of a small tree branch. Germany's total of 3,247,000 tons loss of tonnage as compared with few years before the way: Taking equipment with which we started Naturalists have now definitely indicates a loss of 1,888,000 tons 1914 of the Scandinavian countries these considerations into account 5,000 Copies this wer! The next war will be decided that it is vegetable, but at the date of the Atmistice, asNorway, Sweden, and Denm more than ever one of machinery, for many years they were puz compared with 1914, and the amounts to about 600,000 You should have laboratories of zled, and many learned folk figure will be considerably in-al to 16 per cent of the tot inventors always, at work keeping argued that coralline was animal creased.
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you abreast or ahead if possible because of the close resemblance One of the most striking resulta in 1911 of the othe of progress in the mechanical between its chalky joints and of the comparison of the 1919)
certain of the corals.
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