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FEEDING FISH BY HAND.

Observer's Adventures Qu-

·Bed Of Ocean.

1925.

WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA? Norway's Ancient Claim Revived.

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No truo Norwegian doubts that "All round swam fshes-black the first white man to set foot on: and gold, red and blue, blue and the soll of America was "not yellow-brushing against my Christopher Columbus, but Leif fingers as they fugged at the de- Ericson, the hardy Norseman, lectable morsel that I held."

whose ship, the sagus rolate, was This is not fantasy, but fact, as in the ninth century, driven by. graphically described by Mr. storms to an unknown contry, on William Beebe in recording his which he and his companions experiences with a new diving landed and which, it is claimed device for studying undersea life, by Norwegian historians, was used by the Arcturus Oceangrep somewhere in the region hie Expedition, of which he was Massachusetts. leador during their cruise in the

A young Norwegian, Captain Pacific around Galapagos.

Folgero, now intends to emulate. "In the quiet waters of Darwin the feat of Ericson by sailing Bay, on April 16, 1925," he writes from Bergen to America, with in the Bulletin of the New York three companions, in a proper Zoological Society, "we used the Viking ship, built on the model diving helmet for the first time, of the famous Gokstad Viking "Instead of the huge, cumber-ship, which is preserved in an foue suit in which we see divera Osio museum. The ship will be encased, this outfit consists solely forty feet long and twelve fact of a copper helmet. In a bathing broad, and it is proposed to begin suit or, if you prefer, in your the venture-some trip across the usual clothes, you stop over the Atlantic from Bergen on May 17 stern, hoping that the man at the next. The course will be to pump is not absent-minded.

Dover and thence to Свре

last

"The denizens of the subma- Finisterre, Madeira, and Cape from rino world seem to have no fear Hatteras, oight miles of the phenomenon that decends Philadelphia. From the among them.

place Captain Folgore will sail to "I stood in a lays canyon hold-and next year he intends to con- New York, Boston, and Chiengo,! ing a fragment of crabin my hand, tinue through the Panama Canal and in two seconds was so surto San Francisco and Portland, rounded by clouds of fish that I Oregon, were he hopes to be able could scarcely soo through the to sell his ship and return to glass windows of the helmet.

Norway on a modern steamer,

"A few feet away an enormous having shown the world that it herd of Yellow-tailed sturgeon was quito possible for Leif fish browsed over the rocks, all Ericson to have crossed the facing one way and moving slow- Atlantic 500 years before ly together like a herd of grazing Columbus did.

cattle. Scattered among those

were black and white and orange, and purple angel fishes, also pull- ing at the algae that covered the rough, black rocks.

"Suddenly a large, dark form alid rapidly across my very re- stricted horizon. It looked alarm- ing.

"Just as it sheared off I BLW!

that it was a big, curious sea lion,

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TOREADOR'S DEATH.

Struck With Bottle:

A Madrid mossage says the

sorrow of bull-fighting fans there

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·JUST TO-DAY—when yon feel

shooting past, with folded flippers, has bean stirred to its depths by SCOTCH WHISKE fagged out-try a DON and

so close that it almost brushed the tragic death of a popular tore- my legs.

ador professionally known as Nacional II. Nacional was watch- "The development of work with ing a fight in which his friend's the diving helmet has opened an porformance displeased the public. entirely new field," adds Mr. Bee-Nacional jumped up on his seat be.. "I find I can descend from and loudly took up the case on 10 to 30 feet and remain as long behalf of his friend, but someone

about,Charpooning species of fish him at the base of his skull. UNE

as I wish, sitting or walking behind hurled a bottle striking

which no bait will attract, and withstanding his serious condi-

making notes on the habits of the tion, Nacional was arrested and UNALO BROS.

vast population."

BOOK THIEVES.

"Borrowing" By It's

Correct Name.

taken to prison and charged with exciting the populace. After a few hours in a cell, his condition! became so serious that he was removed to the hotel where het had been staying. A surgeon was Bummoned and he performed u trepanning operation, but Nacio nal died without rogaining con- sciousness.

On the occasion of his funeral, there was a big demonstration of Book borrowers are the book personal admiration, members of lovers' greatest pesti says J. Tall social classes following the Jackson, in an exchange. I have hearse.

The public have been a fine collection of books; it would very much moved by this incident have been much larger, and far and it has been suggested that more 'representative, but for the the urona should be torn down fact that I number many bor and workmen's quartere should rowers among my acquintances. be built on the site.

Normally honest persons are hopelessly immoral when they borrow books. A book lent is a book lust, and a book lent to a friend may mean a book and a friend lost, for no man can forgive another who robs him of a truly invaluable companion.

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CABINET CRITICISED.

Lassitude In Face Of Disorder.

People really intend to return | the books they borrow, but a bor- rower does not set the, true value on books; he does not "trouble": Criticising the Cabinet's ap- to return them, they pre so little parent lassitude in the face of the valuo, A man who appraises a prevailing industrial and political book at its true value 'will buy it. situation a leading article in the Times of Sopt. 24th., declares that The masterpieces ofthe world's it will be surprising if the echoes literaturo can be bought for a few do not reach the Government of pouco. They are cheap; that is the real anxiety existing among why many people undervalue its supporters everywhere. thein. The wit and wisdom of "That anxiety is entirely the world are preserved between the covers of books. Wit and guiltless of any desire to replace: wisdom may be bought cheaply; the present leaders nor does it that explains why the world is result from any sudden shock. It cursed with so many fools.

is really the impression, for which the, ministors themselves are to) Write your name in every book blame, that the size of the Parlia- you possess, give your address in montary majority has lulled them full, and imploro the borrower to to a false sense of security, and raturo, and still you will lose that while the forces of disruption thom. Hang insulting notices on and disorder are active and unro- your bookcase, but still you will mitting, there has been no strong, not daunt that hardened criminal, combined direction of affairs." the book borrower.

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