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James Barkley. a member of the crew of an English whaling vessel. was swallowed by a whale. The whale was harpooned and captur- ed, and twenty-four hours later larkiey was taken from the creat- ureta stomach, atill alye and un- harmedl

Columbus made four voyages to the New World without ever know- ing that he had discovered a new hemisphere. He died without knowing it. What's more. he died friendless end flat broke.

A map of'the world made by Henrecus M. Martellus in the year that Columbus disrovered America, proves that the only lands known to Europeans were pans oi Eur- ope, Asia and Africa. All the rest of the world was thought to be water.

Startling figures-in one Ameri- oan denominational college an in- terview. designed to discover what the students believed about the well-known denomination support- ing the school, revealed that "6 per cent do not believe in God and do not think they have to in order to be members in good standing; 34 per cent are convinced that at. death they will cease td exist; less than 50 per cent be- lieved Jesus to be God and Sav- iour; 30 per cent look on Him as merely a great ethical teacher; 48 per rent do not feel Christianity is superior to other religions; 55 per cent do not feel an effort should be made to convert Orientals to Christianity; 54 per cent said that God is syiionynious with all that exists: and 38 per cent said that the church does not preach that Jesus is divine."

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Besides resting between beats the, heart gets in a lot of extra rest while we are sleeping. For example, if one were slowly moving about the house the average pulse beat could be reckoned at about 14. Sit quietly in a chair for a few minutes and your pulse will have gone clown to '10. Now lie down and count again. Why it is only 64. you say; what an extra- ordinary thing! i '

so you see, when you lie down

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THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

at night. hat is be way nature gives your heart not. You know nothing about it, but one beating organ is resting to that extent: and if you ngure it up. it is a great deal of rest. because in lying down, the heart is doing ten strokes lua a minute. Multiply that by 60. and you get 600; again multiply by 8 hours, and within a fraction it is 5,000 strokes diner- ent and as the heart is throwing 60 ounces of blood at every stroke,

it makes a difference of 30.000' ouncee of lifting .dui;ing the night!

lit isn't the drop in wage! that hurts a man so much as the drop he taken after getting paid. That's what really drops him.

some men think its more be- coming to wear a big red nose than to wear e cu-nation on the lapel n! their coat.

God sends us nothing but what is naturally wholesome and fit to nourish our bodies. but if the devil has the cooking of it. wetch out.

The person who feels he has no reaponaibilities is pretty poor ma- terial for citizenship.

One can usually spot an Eng- iishman from a Canadian by the way he attacks a piece of pie; - given the choice of spoon or fork, he will use the spoon. The Can- adian will use the fork.

The fork was not used on the tables of English or French folk until the 11th century. An Eng- lish traveler, Thomas Coryat brought the fork from Ii.aiy,where it had been adopted as a sanitary

precaution against dirty fingers in a common platter. The British reacted scorniully. calling the new custom efferninate.

The ancestor of the modern T dinner plate was a slab of bread. I It was called a ”trencher". Later, : the trencher was made. of wood, I then of pewter. Finally porcelain ; or pottery came into general use. , And the trencher was responsible for the still-pro ailing customs oi , seating men an women at thei table alternately. Originally, a I married couple or A pair of lovers. I seated together shared one tren- J cher. :

Walter Naval: went into a bank in Rockford. Ill., to pay off a loan i on which he'd pledged his house trailer as security. While he was in the bank the trailer caught fire and was destroyed where it stood , outside the bank on the street.

As the result of it recent fall Betty Postema oi Toronto, is now walking after she fell six years ago and injured her spine. The last tumble removed a nerve block and so. Betty is out of her wheel chair. T strange but true! . T

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Man is at his best when he shows greatest chivalry in defense of the women and children.

During the morning of June 4th. last year. Marjorie Kurts, of Brooklyn, NY., awoke to find her- self famous throughout the USA.

Marjorie is the author of the

ipopular song "Snowflakes", and

strange but true, words and music came to her the night of June 3rd.

X in a dream.

The 9-year-old girl received 3200 for the bestrsong on "Song For. Sale”. She gets royalties on the sheet music too. Her ambition is 0 become a writer of popular songs. .

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