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GENERAL NEWS.

“What is a Sardine ? The appeal which was made by tha French Canners against

the rooous decision at the Guildhall has been abandoned.. This, says tho “Daily Nowa,", closes one of the most costly litigation cases in connection with foods over-under- taken in English law courts, und definitely establishes the sale of 'Skipper" Sardines under their usual trado description in Eng- lund.

Oil Discovery In Slam. It is announced that a gontle- man belonging to one of the oil companies whilst travelling up north, near Korat, struck an oil well, which seems to indicate a valuable oil-boaring district. It. is thought that the oil-bearing strata lio near the surface. Speci mens of the product have boon sooared, which are of undoubted commercial value, and further investigation may reveal a valu- able productive field of this pre- cious product. *

Prince Heinrich,

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THYROID MARVELS.

A Seoul dispatch to the " Asahi'?] states that Princo Heinrich of Can Short Peuple Bo Made Tall ? Germany, who has been travel-

|---all enormous man, seven' or

night feet high, with, as a rule, a deformed hond. Such non as the se have often been seen in shows.

take care of and teach two children. Reply giving reforoncos auð salary desired, J, G H.; co “Hong- kong Telegraph." Hongkong, 23rd Aug, 1912, 401K

TO LET.

There are also persons, in whom TO LET LARGE abstentially buil the thyroid gland is wanting, Godown situated un water frpl ling in the Orient, arrived in An experience quoted by Dr.

who do not show cretinism. If East Point. Forfuriber particulare apply Seoul on the 12th instant from G. A. Gibson, of Edinburgh, at Manchuria. After spending about the conference of the British grown-up. pereone, for example, Property Offiro, Jardins, Matheson & a month in Kores, the Prince will Modical Association, has sot short addod, the hair drops out, the Hongkong, 18th Ang., 1912.

lose this gland, Dr. Forbes Ross Co., Ltd. come over to Japan.

pouple wondering whether they hands grow. fat and blobby, and Cholera Suspected at Nagasaki. cannot grow tall, says the." Pall their speech and thought become

assaulted him..

Black for Farming. Owing to its scarcity, the fur of the binck fox is becoming very valuable, and farmers in Prince Edward Island, Canada, are pro- fitably breading the animale.

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Dr. Gibson related how he took dreadfully slow and tedious. The TO LET no 2nd Floor No. 2. Ped-

moment, however, you administer

der Street. One roound Office. Apply Property

the thyroid gland extract they bersama sharp and smart and well-Office, Jardine, Matboson & Co., Ltd. equipped with plenty of wits.

that it is taken to remedy.

FRENCH CANADIAN FAMILIES.

terview with a representative of the "Pall Mail Gazette" on the subject of Dr. Gibson' OX- porionco.

“Suppose you took a hundred Why Race-Suicide is not to be casos, he was asked, "und Feared Among Them. treated them in the same way,

Hace auicide, so often pointed

Hongkong. 22ad Mar. 1919, rast

this space

A call on

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will enlighten you on the subject

· Notices

TO KEEP

COOL

WEAR

THE

LIGHTEST

WEIGHT

Tho Russian Volunteer stoamor Mall Grizotle." Bonza, which arrived ut Nagasaki on the 11th inst. was ordered to a boy of oightoon, who had sot undergo 24 hours' detention at his mind on a military career, Nedzumijima, outside theharbour, but was only 4ft. Ilin, in height, ! a atoker having been attacked and made him grow seven inches with a diecause rosembling oholors. in six months. The secret of this markable uses of thyroid extract Such, then, are some of the re-

"The fear of God has actuated In consequence sea bathing near extraordinary growth was the use mentioned at the British Medionl them in their lives. The dread the island has been prohibited. of thyroid extract, the netive

Conference. But it must never of poverty, so frequently associat Attacked by a Pillar-Box. principle being taken from the A man fined 5s, at Lambeth thyroid gland of a sheep.

ba taken, Dr. Forbes Ross said, ed in the minds of some with the without a doctor's advice, for it in existence of a large family, has recently for drunkenness was A doctor in Kendal-Dr. W found by a constable swearing Broadbent, I think-did a similar inble to have an extraordinary not influenced them to thwart the vigorously at a pillar-box. Ho thing fifteen years ago," said Dr, effect on the nervous system, and laws of nature or to outrage the declared that the pillar-box had forbes Ross recently, in an into lead to ills worse than those laws of God. Their reward has been a progeny that is physically. mentally, and morally equal, if indeed not superior, to any people on the face of the earth. The boys are manly, the girls womanly; for the very existence of many child. ron in a family helps to develop The Commissioner of Agricul Lurs for Prince Edward Island,

traits and oharacteristics that raise them in many respects above to sa a grave peril for France, is the pampered children of the Mr. Murdoch MoKinnon, writing If you took dwarf orelias," invisibly romote iu French Cana- rich. Physically they are strong from Charlottetown, reports the he replied, "success would attend da, saya the "Literary Digest." and healthy. When the children sale of a pair of live black foxes every one of thou. There are a The province of Quebec 90 at the equivalent of £5,000 and

good many of these little crea abounds in large families that it are from nine to ten years old another pair for over £4,000. The tures in Cumberland and Darby is capable of supplying the they begin to help the parents to work. Work? shouts the hys- price of this spring's cabs was hire, and if you fod them on thy-deficiency of its mother-country terios sentimentalist. Torrible, over £2,000 a pair; and £1,000 roid extract they would grow Indeed, the late distinguished it is not, to put children of nine pair was being paid for fox cubs about oleven inches in a year. economist, Mr. Loros Beaulieu, due to be born next spring. Black

For short people in the ordi- recently said: "Give us 10,000 ten years to work! No, mon- aary way and in ordinary circum-French-Canadians and we will sieur or madame; it is not ter- rible. They work not beyond. stancos however, thyroid extract, re-people France. In 1754 the their strength; they are not over- it was gathered, is not likly to be last census under French regime taxed; it is a specios of play for generally prescribed. The only showed 65,000 French in Canada. them; they are out in field with who, an rale, This number has doubled every the father; his work is strenuous; could be successfully and safely twenty-five years, says Eugene theirs is light and invigorating. IN TENNIS, DAY, TUNIC and

Houillard, so

that now they The proof of this lies in the fact underabits. aggregate 3,300,000. Impressed" by these facts, the "Evening that they grow up into physically Sun" confirme this writer in the strong and healthy men and wo

mon. Nature seems to approve of

fur farming entails little expense in the fitting up of the ranchos, and it is stated that the foxes cost less to keep than a cow.

Japanese Imperial Edict on

Education.

The Japanese Department of

what percentage of succom might be expected?

persons

treated with it uro dwarfs.

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Restoring the Balance.

Education, which some yours ago prepared us. English translation of the Imperial Edict on Educa- The drawf crotins, to whom

weeks.

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tion, has now in hand the trausla-referenco was made, do not grow belief that a "very potent cause it, even though modern, sentimen- tion of the late Emperor's Edicts because of the inability of the regarding the Army and Navy, thyroid gland to cause their boues is the fact that the great and the Boshin Rescript of 1008 to grow. It is easy, therefore, for body of the people are still reli- urging the observance of thrift, the lay mind to see the principle gious, and have kept on in the It is not quite clear why those on which thyroid extract works. ancient Catholic faith of their translations are being made, but Persons. in whom the thyroid fathers." This spiritual fortifica

The percentage of literacy is us HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN. the work has already been started, gland is wanting can be given, tion, itis asserted, has amain share and will be completed in a few under certain conditions, thyroid in the result of doubling this po high as in any other part of North pulation every twenty-five years. America, we are told. All the extract to restore the balance.

Government Appreciation.

children can read and write, and Curiously enough, Dr. Forbes

A paternal government has not none is deprived of school advant- The Committee in charge of the Ross mentioned, in Derbyshire, been slow to reward the effort of ages. Farther proposed Yokohama Exhibition whore those little people are

its people in multiplying and "The French-Canadians have have held another meeting and found, there is also a disuse of replenishing" the earth. few millionaires among them, but have resolved to hold the exhibi- an opposite nature known as

**In 1890 the Government of there are a fow. On the other tion in September, or October, Derbyshire neck," or enlarged the Province of Quebec passed a band, they have no poor. Tho 1013, instead of next Spring, the thyroid gland-goitro. Somo postponement being due to the cases of cancer in women are also law granting a piece of land to poor, even in the great city of every head of a family that could Montreal, are not French-Cane- death of the Emperor.

subject to " Derbyshire neck." boast of twelve or more children. | dians.

The thyroid gland, it seems, This grant was later changed to a A foreign firm has arranged to exercises an extraordinary control cash premium. Until 1905 & Ruby Mining in Burma- the Chinese Government sight favor growth of all kinds in tho

total of 5,414 families received million marks in one year in re-body, evon malignant tumour,

the premium. tura for a concession of the right and it has an intimate relation-150 families had 14 to 18 living ground in Kathe, a valley situat to construct a tramway in Peking ship with potassium salts in the children; in some cases, where ed six miles from Mogok, where costing the same amount. It'ap body. If potassium salts are

one or the other of the parents there is a large area of ruby- pears that a Sino-foreign company administered in the cases of will be formed under the direc-" Derbyshire neck" and cancer of living children ranged from 18

was married twice, the number bearing ground.

More Anti-Vaccinationists. tion of prominent Chinose. It is the cancer gets better and the 27 children, Since the founda

e to

Mr. John Burns, President of understood that the Peking tram-"Derbyshire neck" disappears, tion of Quebec in 1880 there have the Local Government Board, in way scheme provides for the con- whilst if thyroid extract is ad- struction of lines outside Peking.ministered to the creting it makes been entered upon the parish re-a printed reply to Mr. Crawshay A scheme for the construction of them grow. Thyroid, gland ox-gisters, up to 1883, a total of Williams (L. Leicester), state that linos inside the city is under contract administered with potassium 2,900,000 birtlin, or 67.25 perone the total number of certificates or

thousand population.

Frouch-declarations of conscientious ob áideration.

salte is also a care for obronic Canadian families of sight and jection to vaccination received by Pumpe empty Dock la Another Doath among the diseases of the skin.

ten, children are not uncominion, vaccination officers from 1007 to K.O.Y.L.I. 'at Hankow.

How Staturo Is Controlled The stature of men and women five children an average that objections to births registerred lu is practically controlled, Dr. will be maintained, one would those years, were as follows:-- Forbes Rose explained, by two think, unless alcoholism, which

The Hankow Daily News" | announces another death in the

Yorkshire detachment stationed

died on the 15th inst, as the re- thyroid gland is wanting, persons

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