Strange but True

31 I’. II. MacArthur

Today we can boast of many types of Canadians. but the origin- al Canadian, the peasant of Nor- mandy and Brittany, is much the same as when he first landed on the shores of the St. Lawrence some 300 years ago; he has kept his customs with such extraord- inary fidelity that a French Can- adian travelling now in these parts of France finds himself right at home.

There are also many Canadians with Indian blood. You can quick- ly spot them by their high cheek bones. small dark eyes, and slight beard. And now and then

one meets fine looking half- breeds. with a swarthy complex- ion warmed with Saxon blood.

Some of the Scots and English engaged in the fur trade, married Indian women and founded legiti- mate families of half breeds. Travelling in the province of Que- bec it is not uncommon to meet Wrights, McPhersons and Browns. with blue eyes and red hair, who can't speak one word of English. and there are lrish tongues rol- ling off their brogue in French. Some of these are the descend- ants of English soldiers who mar- ried Canadians and settled here after the conquest. Others are orphans that were taken from some emigrant ship wrecked in the St. Lawrence ~ all absorbed in the remarkable homogeneous nationality of the French Cana- dian people.

O O I Among the oddities of the Mari- time Provinces are the little

known ice caves on the Chambers farm at Waterford in Kings (‘oiInt_v, New Brunswick. These natural caves of ice have existed as long as the oldest residents and their forefathers can remem- ber. Several in number, the open- ings leading to them are con- cealed by shrubbery. if. you wish to enter, you must bcnd low. Once inside, yoiI'il find the floor a smooth stretch of natural ice. The walls and ceilings are of ice too. No one knows just how deep thesc caves are for the simple reason no one dares venture be- yond in few feet of the entrance. Why’! Because the floor drops so sharply downward the explor- er would surely be killed. Sum- mer and Winter they never change. Even on the hottest days of July or August you‘d freeze to death in these amazing natural icn raves of our sister province. Strange but true!

The birth of ii daughter to Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Hungerford of Douglas, Michigan was a gala event because the. baby is the

first girl horn in the father's fam-

ily in 12.’! years. The Hunger- fords have 3 sons. e a e Lost in a blizzard near Nicho- las River, Canada, 70-year-old

Pat Whelan survived by using a trick early settlers learned from the Indians. Pat snuggled up to a hibernating bear. A search party found the old man, unharmed and suffering only is slight cold. Faith. Hope and Charity are small towns in Missouri. believe it or not, and the owners of a li- quor store in Baltimore are the Sober brothers. Sydney and Har-

old.

Now let us go bark to the Mid- die Ages to Europe and learn how the law courts of that day treated bugs. birds and ani-

mals. ln France. animals. fish, birds, reptiles and insects were the same as people in the eyes

of the law.

A porker bit a man in 1936 at Fnlais, France. When the pig ap- peared before a judge to grunt the charge it was charged with murder. The porker was indicted, prosecution and defense lawyers were appointed, and the trial got under way.

The best the pig's lawyer could do was to plead lack of malici- ous intent. A verdict of guilty was announced and the porker was hanged!

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Winemakers of St.

estered by vine destroying I etles in 1545 so they hired a lawyer to prosecute the case and

Julioan were

another to defend the bugs. The trial went on for a week. The bugs’ attorney said the insects

had rights in the vineyard which nobody could deny.

The judge ordered a com- promise. Namoly: that the beetles wing thcir way off the place. But

and there was it but, the wine- makers had to provide another field where the bugs might live mit their days undisturbed. The

judge. sent. it bailiff to notify the Up the

bugs of tho court's decision. and down the vieyard went crier bellowing the order:

"Bee\lr-si Take notice order of the court you

set aside for you."

Of course. the bugs didn't obey lawsuit was

the order and the Iropperi.

A rooster was Switzerland

in 1474 at Basic,

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that by are to vacate this vineyard at once and repair to the field which has been

arrested, tried, and found guilty of laying an egg

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clay. Parkdale, plans to continue her studies to- ward a degree in Nursing at Del-

Shirley Clayt

housie University.

Ottawa Report

By Patrick Nicholson Ottawa‘; second annual Tulip Festival will be opened by a ceremony on Parliament Hill at mid-day on Friday of this week. His Excellency A. H. J. Lovink, Ambassador of the Netherlands. will preside over the ceremony centered around two million tulip bulbs imported from his country; the band of the Dutch Royal Ma- rines will play; and Ottawa's famous Lady Mayor, Dr. Char- lotte Whitton, will present a spe- cially sclccted bouquet of prize tulip blooms to Miss Trans-Can- ada Air Lines, who will carry them to Queen Elizabeth at Buck- ingham Palace.

The Tulip Festival was origin- ally designed by Ottawa's Board of Trade to provide a focus to attract visitors from other parts of Canada and from the United States, to tour our national cap-

ital at the time of year when it looks it greenest and freshest best. With the abundance of tulips flowering in the public parks, along the scenic drive-

ways, and in the open-edged pri- vate gardens, backed by a million other spring bulbs and by the magnificent display of lilac blo_s- som. Canada‘s Capital now has a rival nf the Cherry Blossom Show in Washington and to the brilli- ance of the Chestnut blooms in Paris in the Spring. A National Festival

Ottawa however is not content that her fame should rest solely

Why? Well, a superstition of the time held that it a rooster laid an egg. the egg would hatch out a dragon. So, the poor rooster. whose only crime was laying an egg was burned at the stake a- long with the terrible eggl

Deep sea clams can attain the size of a football.

Whalebone has nothing to do with true bone. It is part of thc sldn lining of the whale's mouth.

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Blood is not always red nor purple either. The blood of oysters for example is colorless.

How would you like to have to furnish a home for 200 wives and then find a way to support them’.’ It's no easy job but the new king of Arabia, Abdul Aziz, 52, has taken over the 150 widows of his late father and 50 others tr bring the strength of his harem tip to 200.

A London firm got the order for 257 chairs. 124 tables. 37 sm- tees and a score or so of flower vases. King Abdul Aziz insists that all the furniture in the 1954 harem be right up to date.

“I fancy she was too young for me." sighed Charles Martell of Montreal and aged 90. after his 65-year-old wife left his bed

and board. The couple were married last June 3rd. Mrs. Martell broke

company with her aged husband the following day, strange but true.

Prince of Wales 4th Year Graduates

Ruth Currie: Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Currie, Hantsport, N. S., plans to complete her pre- mcd course at Columbia Uni- versity.

on imported bulbs. Civic officials are working towards fulfilment of a proposal made recently by the Governor-General, Rt. Hon. Vin- cent Masscy. Recalling the an- nual Edinburgh Festival, at which is displayed Scotland's modern achievements and past history in the arts, Mr. Massey suggested that Ottawa should stage each springtime a Canadian Festival of the arts, with drama. the ballet, literature, science and art all re- presented.

For full ﬂowering, this plan much wait upon the building of the much-discussed National The- atre here. Perhaps the finals of the annual drama festival would be chosen to highlight Canada's annual show, alternating with performances by Canadian ballet companies, while exhibitions in the National Gallery and Na- tional Museum would run though- out the festival.

Until that dream materialises. the prize Dutch tulip called the Darwin “Red Emperor" is prom- inent amid the rainbow-hued sea of blooms, to reign as the ap- propriately-named centerpiece of North America's only Tulip Fes- tival.

Mr. Wood. the ﬂoral expert in charge of all gardens in public parks and along Ottawa's scenic driveways maintained by the Fed- eral District Commission, has de- vised n special method oP plant- ing tulips which lcngthcus their season of colourful blooming and adds to their mass effect.

Flowing Mass Display

Much of their effect is lost to anyone. except a man in a balloon by the traditional method of planting them in S0l(‘llf‘l‘-llkt‘ ranks in flat beds, he believes. He has therefore arranged that the tulip beds should slope upwards to- wards the back. so that more blooms are visible at pt-dcslrains' eye level. By carefully arrang- ed planting nf the different vari- eties, mingling a selection of early-blooming varieties with mid- seasnn bulbs and late bloomers. the display in each bed is kept at its vivid best for more than three wcc-ks. Then he arranges the various sperics to give cyc- catching designs of colours in harmony and contrast. in rcpcli- tion and balance.

Visitors to the city may obtain specially printed “Tulip Maps." showing where the principle dis- plays are located. These maps are the most widely distributed piece of tourist literature coming from Ottawa. which is cvidcnce of the rapid prominence achieved throughout the north eastern part of the continent by Canada‘s own Tulip Festival.

The origin of this annual show of the imported Persian flower is a little piece of history of which Canada may justly be proud. it recalls the sanctuary which Ot- tawn accorded Juliana, Princess of the Netherlands, and her young family when }iitler’s army swarm- ed over her country 14 years ago. As a thank-you present, Juliana makes sin annual gift of many

thousand prize bulbs to her war-

lsland history.

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Mr. and Mrs. Everett Beagan. Charlottetown. plans to be a lab- oratory technician.

Craswell Photos

Railways Unable To Grant Premiums

MONTREAL, MAY 10 — Can- ada’: two major railways informed the Federal Department of Labor today that because of a continuing decline in their traffic and earn- ings they are unable to grant any of the requests of their non-opera- iiig employees for fringe benefits and additional overtime premiums. In a letter to M. M. MscLean, director of industrial relations, Ot- tawa. The Canadian Paclfic and Canadian National Railways report a drop of more than $32 million in their combined gross revenues for the first four months of 1954 .and add that the trend of both ciirloadlnga and earnings is con- tlnuing to worsen.

They cite these and other figures as evidence that "the railways have even more justification now than they had some months ago for declining all requests. The granting of which would increase their costs of operation."

Town Plannersllleet In Toronto

TORONTO, (CF) Delegates from every province. attended the second annual meeting of the Town Planning Institute of Canada here during the week-end.

The meeting discussed traffic problems affecting metropolitan areas, industrial developments for small and large communities and new trends in shopping centres and recreational areas.

Council members elected in- cludc: P. Dumarcsq of Halifax, E. Fiset and B. Pcllctler, both of Quebec City.

time home. In such volume. this is a very expensive present, "I. thriuizii the Red Emperors and Triumphs and other bcniitiful spe- cics no longer cost the $1.200 per bulb which the first prize speci- mens fctchctl when the Austrian Ambassador first introduced this cxntic Persian bloom into Europe just four centuries ago.

DISNT-IT'S DACGHTER WI-JD

SANTA BARBARA. Calif. tAl"> Diane Disney, 20, daughter of film produccr Walt Disney. was mar- ricd Sunday to Ron Miller, 21, formcr University of Southern Cal- ifornia football stai'.

ciiuiiciiiii wiii BE iioiiouiiui JUNE 14 III BRILLIANT CEREMONY .

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LONDON. (Reutera)—Slr Wins- ton Churchill will be installed as a knight of the Order of the Gar- ter June 14 in a solemn and bril- llant ceremony more than 600 years old.

It will be a day due him for more than a year and one brim- ming with appropriate pomp and circumstance.

On the day after St. George’s Day (patron saint of England and of the Order of the Garter) April 21 last year Queen Elizabeth cal- led Churchill to Windsor Castle and in a brief ceremony bestowed upon him the most exalted honor

his country can offer.

He knelt before her and she. taking a sword. touched him first on the right shoulder and then on the left. when he rose he was no longer “Mister" Churchill but Sir Winston Churchill. K.G.

HANDED INIIGNIA

The Queen handed him the in- slgnia of the order—-a collar of 24 gold pieces each in the shape of a garter; .the George. an ane- melleii figure of St. George on horseback encountering the dra- gon: the lesser George, a gold badge which bears the same fig-

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um the the velvet rrtar ea which is inscribed t e risotto "Hoiit loft Qui Mal y Penn (Shame to Him who Thinks Evil of it), and the broad blue ribbon.

He wore them proudly for the first time at the Coronation serv- fee. In June, however, he will in the star in his own right.

The ceremony consists of two parts:-the investment, when the Queen will once more present the prime minister with the insignia. and the installation, a religious service in St. George's chapel. Windsor. For the occasion all the knights of the garter are mustered from all parts of the world.

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