, 1924-11-12

masses of different sizes, ranging
from a quarter of an inch to two in
liches in diameter. The masses form
like white drops at the tips of the
single leaves of the fir growing in
the hottest and driest parts of the
interior of British Columbia.
Chang Tso-Lin the Manchurian
war lord, has decreed that each of
his Officers and men must memorize
the Thousand" Chinese characters
that makes the minimum requirement
of literary under the new standard of
the Chinese Republic.
A scientific expedition cruising the
South Seas reports the discovery of
an inhabited island the exact location
of which has not been revealed, near
Galapagos. Ancient s%culptured rock,
pottery, and stone implements have
been found. The island is covered
with dense jungle and in its center is
a mountain peak rising to an height
of 1926 feet. Three hundred years
ago it was the resort of Buccaneers.
There is a hotel in Asia Minor.
The travellers rest in a khan, or court
yard, inclosed by a mud wall, with a
two-story structure on INT side the
lower story being used as a stable.
An English astronomer states that
matter exists in some of the stars,
so heavy that a teaspoonful weighs
more than two ordinary men.
"Aviators are circling like vultures
over the great cities of Europe.
Civilians have no conception of the
effects of modern bombs. AS a man
who knows what war actually is l am
striving to promote a spirit of peace
and good will among nations. I'm
less, the people of the world come
to their senses, the Continent and
England will be devastated again
by a disaster one hundred times worse
than the Japan earthquake.,,-Gen-
eral Ian Hamilton.
AS a final precaution in supressing
the deadly foot-and-mouth disease in
California, deer on two ranges of the
Stanislaus National Forest are being
exterminated by means of rifles eq-
tipped with silencers and by poison
ing the salt ticks.
To kiss your sweetheart or your wife
in Japan you are risking social oscra-
cism. The ordinary method of sal
u~tation in Japan is by nodding the
head slowly and gravely. The great
est approach to familiarity ever seen
is a light patting on the back. Moth
ing resembling an embrace is ever
seen.
The system of central heating in
Korea is similar to that in ancient
Rome. A fire is built in a fire box
beneath the home, and the warm air
and the smoke are conducted under
the floor to a chimney on the opposite
side.
Due to the servere cold periods of
last winter in the South the en-
ergence of the boil weevil in the Cot
ton Belt this year was much lighter
than usual.
The next twenty-five years will de-
eide the question once and for all
weather the white race is to have any
part in the ultimate development of
South Africa or is to be crowded out
by the native Negro population, &C
cording to a statement in a govern
ment bluebook analysis of the 1921
census.
Nelson's flagship, the Victory, is
being restored.
Before the World War, Latvia
claims to have had within what are
now its national boundaries a larger
number of secondary schools in pro-
portion to its population than any
other country. Latvia is between
| Esthonia and Lithuania on the Bal
tic Sea.
In Korea, the sexes are rigidly Sc
parated within the family circle. Be
fore the Japanese came, and the new
era began, a lady Of rank in Korea
was more carefully guarded than ev-
en- n Mohammedan woman of similar