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DAYS EPITAPH
An Australian judge quoted Day's epitaph in reproving a motorist for keeping his right of way and there- by causing an accident. The judge appears to have misquoied, and as it is said that judges’ mistakes eventually become precedents, it is as well to put the correct version 0n record:
"Rare lies the body of William
Day his predilection roi- the: natural
Who died defending his right of sciences, and after studying at Al-
way- ' tons, and Copenhagen he at length
He was right-dead right-as he travelled to Upsala lb attend the
sped along, . lectures of Linnaeus at the Univer-
lBut now he's as dead as if he'd sity there. Curiously chouglfhe been wrong." also mastered the prlnciplesof po- '
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thousands, of plants. The science of ‘ ‘v islu’”“ iuiiks
very little is to be gleaned.
born in 1745. at Tondeifi; in Schles-
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manner in one Johann Christian Fabriclus, the friend and-rdisciplc of Linnaeus, under whose lectures his future destiny appear! M have been laid out. _
or Fabrlciusul personal history
The son of a physician,
wig. His father encoursgcdiilm in.
litical economy, afivery “dissimilar '
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_ (British United Press) PARIS, October 2I—(British United Brew-Paris is the largest wwn ‘ " ths British lhlpire. That seems a curious statement; but census figures show that the British population hero l! 11°" 15.745. while the total num- ber of British residents in all France is 02.298. And in 100 yes-rs the British population o! Paris has increased. according to pollcg n“- BUB. by 0H1? l.000- The police re- cmds show that in i820 14.500 peo- ple of British nationality lived in Paris.
, - An odd fact revealed in the cen- sus is that British women predom- ililte men. Apart from the prov- inccs, there are 2,000 more British women than men living in Paris
A SCRIPTURAL REBUKE
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A paragraph is going the rounds I the press, to the eflect that somewhere in the States there is a road which pedestrians may use on payment of a. dime but which has been circumvented by vehicles that now carry a number of passengers at a nickel apiece. There is a tone of elation in the account, as if this were a new device: but in truth it is as old-I was going to say-as the hlllsl And so to an anecdote-
Somewhere about forty years ago there lived in Newcastle-upon- fryne a worthy whose name and title was Sir Charles Hammond. He had been 9, lawyer but as he was wealthy he no longer practised. He however took his turn on the magistrates bench and thereby be- came the idol of the populace, and especially those of the poor class: he was strict in deaing with their crimes but lenient to the peccadil- oes, tempering the severity of his brother magistrates by reminding them of the ‘hard lives and general ignorance of the poor. Sir char- les was an aristocrat; he had the bearing of a grand seigneur, and also possessed a ready wit which he exercised on all occasions. He sat as member for Newcastle for many years; in one of the contests he defeated the famous John Mor- ley by hundreds of votes.
At that time the foot-passenger over the High Level Bridge paid a penny toll to the Railway Com- pany, for the privilege of crossing; the toll for a. horse-drawn vehicle iwas two-pence. Some wizard of fln- ance put on s. fleet of horse-drawn busses by which the passenger was taken across for a halfpenny. Sir Charles, though he kept his own carriage and pair, one day took ad- vantage of the plebian conveyance. '.As he climbed aboard, a. “ilsh-wife" ‘(woman who peddled ‘fish, carrying them in a creel on her back) ex- claimed: "Eh, lyuk! (look) There's Charlie Hammond, ridin‘ in a ha.’- penny busl" Sir Charles paused. drew himself up to his full height. and pointing at her with a min- atory finger, thundered, “Woman! Go and sin no more!" In those days everybody understood the al- ludon and hence a. Gargantuan roar of laughter while the poor flshwlfe fled.
FABRICIUS
Botanical classification is might- ily indebted to Linnaeus, both for his inception 01' the binominal designation, and for his researches and naming of hundreds, if not‘
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HOW frequently we hear people com laln of‘ _‘igestlon. ' And liow sol therc-is-aciually any- thing wrong with the digestive organs!
What most people call indigestion is usually excess acid in ihe stomach. The food has soured. The insiani. remedy is an alkali lo neutralize‘ tlio acids. But don't use any crude helps. Use what most doctors would advise] use what our own doctor
ribcs in his ally practice for ust that condition.
Tho vs best liel is Phillips’ Milk of Hagneslu. ou will find nothing else so quick in eilecl so harmless, so ciliciant. One insie ess monful in water neutralizes many
salts volulrieiil acid. Results are immediate, with no harmful after
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_' domestic anlmab- in the same
subject, but all in the"good: for he began w lecture on it in 1m and after a few years was appointed professor of natural hlsicryfpollti-
cal economy, and finance, atvKieli '
surely a strange mixture‘ of talents! The professorlal stipend ‘small, yet he managed to visit every-unus- eum of natural history 1m northern and Western Europe. Bdpassed an uneventful life, which tennlnated in 1808. l " rubricius often visited Britain and maintained cordial relations with the English naturalists‘. sir Joseph Bank's collection bflnsecfs, now one of the treasures ofVthe British Museum, was ‘flamed vby~ Fabriclus. and the labels whichhe wrote are still retainedfThe Coleop- tera of Indiana is one of the finest textbooks on the subject in America with descriptions of” over 2,500 beetles. and a good number of them have Fab. after the name, thus showing that that naturalist was the first to describe them. - ' Fabriclus had a keen eye. for differences in species ofhlnseizts and has never been excelled. irrconciso- ness of description: it was unfort- unate that he took the mouth-parts of insects in building his system of classflcation, instead of the structure of their wlngsas ‘modern entomologists have, perforcehdone; This is a matter however that we can readily excuse, for the science in his day was new andtentative.
DISPERSION or snaps
In the summer of 1930i observ- ed, growing on a piece or wild or waste land, a speciesflof, grass which puzzled me. a foot high, wide in the leaf and at last bore a. panicle of seeds on many long thread-like stems or pedicels. I was so intrigued that I sent some of the seed to Ottawa, and the reply_._was, that it was millet. I had retained a dew seeds which were planted. this swirls. and Produced abQuthalf-a- Pfilllld 01 EOOd-looking _seédt;_»fl‘om plants almost three feet lhigh.
How did the orignal millet seed flnd its way lo the waste grouhd? I never heard of l~.-.;Ll.‘. “"11; grown on the Island, so my coujectm: iitat it had been carried by a blrdfiriot’
in its crop, but in the mud on its‘
feet, from some distant place. ‘There is nothing improbable .in such a
conjecture, for an English spdrls- '
marl; who had shot a- pheasant,-
washed the mud_ from its feet, and
found in it eleven different species
of weed seeds. That is one method . .
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effects to follow your relief.’ l“ _ l '_ This pleasant way to. fillralinizc your system is so much. better-so. much ulcke than atiem ' to , accom lsh the some» tliifi y_ a diet! ut you cannot do iliiwltli’ any form of magnesia. Pliilli _ r iVlllk of Magnesia ls ills formula: l- ls the one preparation that giv oil magnesia in paged sus tis alkaline, its ac on ls lboro and thyre is nothing more to an ailing stomach or more
. ~19! 1 lo sluggish bowels. Drugg s s
throughout. the vminiorr \~ Ehldiips‘ Milk of Magnesia in. _ , o es. . . . The best wa to whiten teeth is with Phllllps'_ ' ntal Mandala- the ideal dentllnce. it and . for yourself how wli to your legal become. At drug stores everywhere. \
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MAGN ESIA‘ ‘
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and district. In the Canadian and American colony likewise there is a feminine surplus. The explana-
by which plants emigrate to new homes.
i But many plants are more in- telligent (if Lmay use the term) in their methods of dispersion. Thu composites. as instahced by the dandelion and sow-thistle, have de- veloped feathery appendages to their" seeds, which catch the wind and transport the seeds to fresh fields and pasturw new-literally. The samara or wings of the maple seeds". and the "keys" of the ash also" bear theiseeds away from‘ the neighborhood of the parent tree. and thereby multiply their chance oi producing other trees. _ ‘The jewel-weed Jmpatiens) of our brooksides adopts another plan.‘ Whenthe capsule is ripe the least touch causes it to "explode" scat- tering the seeds to some distance. The sweet-pea is not so violent, yet when thoroughly dry the pod parts at the suture and the two‘ halves twist into a spiral form ejecting the seeds- ' '
‘Others takeadvantage of the do- mestic gnimals or of man in aid in their dispersal. Who has not had the trouble of removing the fruit cf the burdock from his or her gar- ments? The burr is armed with a series of little hooks well adapted .to catch in the fleece of the sheep or the woollen clothes of its‘ ‘ . The "beggar-ticks" of which we have three species, bear seeds each terminatng in two little horns which easily ‘take hold of one's gar- ments for transport. The seeds of
n‘ w” ‘hut’ many of the umbellifers-like the
wild‘ carrot-have spine-like projec- tions, for the some purpose.
Water plants have seeds modified to eflect their dispersal in that element. The best example of this is the water chest-nut, Traps. bi- cornis and T. bispinosa, which is harvested from the rivers of China in hundreds- ot. ions and forms a staple food of the people in that unhappy land. The seed of '1‘. bicor- nls has s. hard woody shell, shaped exactly like a. cow's head in min- iature. Bcingwroody it floats read- ily to a new locality nu the horns catch in the muddy bands or the yegetatl ,' and ‘anchor it till 1t germinates.
Some years ago I noticed, under the spruce hedges near Sherwood Cemetery, hundreds of young row- an trees, or as they are known to botanists, mountain ash. How did they get there? The birds had eat- en the fruit for "supper," and as
_ they roostcd in the hedges at night,
_had_ digested the pulp 5nd voided the‘, hard woody seeds unchanged and viable. The mistletoe of Britain ls so dependent on this method of propagation, that unless it has first passed through the alimentary can- al of a bird, the seed will not ger- minate. Many of our weed seeds are carried to new locations by the
fashion, _ “trbqpburvcr will riots that field
_ and garden be»: l," seneral have
none of these means of dispersal. It is sail, from long associations with mam they had come in depend on him. for their transport to places most suitable for their growth.
rue CHARLOTTETOWN cusnolsn
tiou tori-his. I am wid- B lhli. thousands of British women are emu“ u English governesses in Preach families. Wealthy French you in 1m as in 1931 consider their children ought to have Eng- lish nurses and governs-ins. lust as the opposite is the rule on the oth- gr 51¢, 0g the chanhel. Scores or British and Canadian banks also ' women of British nation- ality, lesving the executive jobs to the men.
Still another curiosity-more than 4,000 British ell-combatants are domiciled in the reslon between Abbeville and Calais mainly em- ployed in the automobile business. They are garage proprietors, much- anlcs and taxi-drivers. A French official report says these British ear-service men monopolise this trade in that area.
When those 4.000 members of the British armies-and this includes numerous Canadians-decided they liked France well enough to re- main behind, history repeated it- self. Ailcr the battle of Waterloo and the end o! the three years" oc- cupation of France by the British armies, several thousand ofiicers and men elected to adopt France as a second motherland. They set- tled down, many with French wives. but more with their wives of their own grace whom they had brought from across the Channel before or who came over to get married.
From that time, France became a fashionable resort for British peo- ple, both as playground and place of permanent residence. In this WW by the end. of 1830 the total 0f "British noses" that could have been counted in France was just
they had no English language newspapers to be delivered to the breakfast table. In these modern tims you may take your choice of any one of three up-to-dute news- papers in English hot from the Dresses in Paris.
The, soldier-settlers plned for some of the amenities of home. ‘they longed for the kind of dis- tractions to which they had always been accustomed, horse-racing most o! all- The wish did not remain unfulfilled T01‘ long. Ellgllsh horses and Iinglish jockeys came over and raced. The events attracted the multitude, both French and Brit- ish. So the military colonies were
outside Paris where horse-racing is king-towns like Chantilly Maisons-Laffitte-every fifth per- son is British and probably con- nected with a racing establishment at that. -
After a number of years ab- sence from Paris, a Canadian busi- ness man whom I have met in dif- ferent parts of Europe during the past years greeted me in a night- club in Montmartre, a boite de nuit as the‘ French call them.
"What changed clays!" he be- moaned. “The fun has all gone out of Paris. Where is the gaiety oi the days after the war when Mont- martrc seriously challenged Mont- parnasse as the world's play- ground?"
On every hand the same wail ls heard. Paris is becoming a, French city at last. The people wlio live in it, whether they be Anglo-Saxons or Armenians, Prussians or Poles. are s duced now to living mainly as the French do-in the little cafes where drinks are clieanand you pass half the night plflyinll 8 harmless game of cards. The pace of Montmartre was too swift. 011i of breath, the foreigners-and mainly the Anglo-Saxons—have been unable to keep up with it. They have been forced to so native and forsake the expensive pleasure places. These have, therefore, had to close down. To pnss throliBh Montmartrek bright light district is like passing through any sub- urban area on a quiet week-night. Montparnasse and its cafe ter- races still flourishes in appearance, although the money does not flow as once it did. The artists and writers sre still there, scattered amongst the cafe tables. But they were always the poorest clients, al- though they stayed in the cafes longest, and the pool-est clients
on the 40.000 mark. In those days 1
followed by the sporting colonies. .. That explains why. today, towns‘
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original bright ilglit district, until Montmartre stepped in and tried to steal the glory and the gold. Montmartrds bis‘ has failed, lifter a fight between the two hills that has gone on for ycllrs.
Montmartrc may come back again to popularity. It is doubtful. Its downfall began when Hr Moulin Rouge was forsaken ‘ Wiinsuett and transformed into .9 house. Movies and MontmnrLr, did not seem to go together. So the fun- seekers went back lo Montpsi-nasse. Speaking of Montparnasse, pic- turesque personalities abound in its glare and gloom as of yore. There is Flljita, the eye. Fujita, whom I lost saw in the group oi Canadian,
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Van Dongen. the Dutch portrait painter, is another indefatigable Montparnassian. Van Dongen is now a Frenchman. having been naturalised not long alter he came to Paris in 1897- He used to be one of the wild men of the Latin quar- tet. where he gave the gayest of gay parties at which literary, ar- tistic and social lights representing half the countries on the globe were usually represented. Re has painted much of the country around Paris and a good deal of Normandy,
American and British art students.
Holland and Egypt. in later years
they remain, Montparnasse was thel has a style of attire particularly he turned to plotrait painting, in
‘Whistling Abilities Are Questioned
(By Canadian Press» EDMONTON, Alta., Oct. 23.-
which he scored hk greatest suc- ceases.
Some little while ago, Van Don- gen, who is, of course, heavily bearded, duericd the Olympian heights of Paris to reside in a sel- ect district of the town facing the Boise dc Boulogne.
He lives there still, but most nights he is to be seen along the boulevards of Montparrlasse- It was Junes Joyce who once declared that once one has livcd in Montparnnssc
one must come back to it again.
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has been quaiioriing citizens here as to their whistling abilities. "I would whistle but my wife won't let me." wlstfully confessed Rev. Canon Comyn- Ching, rector oi Christ Church. Dr. R. C. Wallace, M. A, Ph. D., D. 50., Li. D., F‘. G. S., F‘. R. S.,O-, president of the university of Al- bert». was asked the fateful quest- ion. "I would if I could" replied the head of Alberta's highest in- ‘stltution of learning.
' On the Provincial Eugenics Board whisiers were strong. Mrs."J.
W. Field. third member of the board. did not deny her weakness for whistling" although she re- fused to make an open confession. "Nobody has ever heard mo whistling; they can't prove I do," she declared.
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