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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-06
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They still possessed enough remnants Of prestige and vestlee Of authority to Impose thelF ignominy upon other people, Gen. Charles do 0aulle, head of the French refugee gevefns meDt ln Rnglapd, on the present French leaders,
 
 We're teaching eo-oDefatlon over here, we're explaining how dem0e- Taey g0fks and way C is the Ideal E0rln of government Why its the best way af Aylne ,~ Richard c, Wlls son, adult citizenship training teaehef at the University 0f Wlss o0nsln.
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Therefore, Mrs. Wheeler was amazed when she heard from the radio that Senator Clark intended to come out for Roosevelt. With fire in her eyes, she turned upon her husband.
 q don't believe it." she cried. i, T'm going to call Miriam Mrs. Clark and get her to deny it. And if you ever do such a thing, Burton, I'll walk out of the house and leave you!"
 By this time the radio was say ing, And now I have an even greater surprise" Here Fulton Lewis paused for suspense. "Still another isolationist Senator" he said, lis coming out for Roose- welt. namely, Burton K. Wheeler of Montana!" .. .,.. ...,
 What happened in the Wheeler household at that point is not rec orded, but some days later it was observed that Wheeler's 'indOrse- ment" of Roosevelt was very mild nothing stronger than: From the information available, I under stand that the Democratic ticket will be successful"
 The Capital had once again seen the truth of the Kipling refrain, "The female of the species is mere deadly than the male."
 William Knudsen, husky pro- duction wizard of the Defense Commission, is a man of very sim pie tastes, but he has one weak ness. The former General Motors boss loves to drive fast.
 After completing some labor negotiations in Lansing, Mich, Knudsen invited frienos to drive back with him to Detroit in his Cadillac. One of the guests sat in front with the chauffeur, and shortly noticed that telegraph
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poles were fitting by with unusual

poles were fitting by with unusual speed.
 Glancing at the speedometer, he nearly tainted to see the needle pointing at 107 miles an hour.
 Knudsen was chatting calmly in the back seat, and the front-seat guest, although scared out of his wits, hesitated to show his alarm. Finally, he made this very casual observation: Bill, are the speed Ometers on these cars accurate?"
 Knudsen leaned forward, studied the meter intently, then settling back in his seat replied: "Yes, they're accurate, but not so re- liable over 95."
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Several outstanding British la- bor leaders soon will come to the United States at the invitation of American labor leaders. to give first hand accounts of British La- bor's role in the war It costs $l to turn out 40 greenback bills at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, biggest money factory in the world. Daily average output is 3,30o000 notes of various de- nominations. The Bureau also averages 460oO,oo0 postage stamps daily, plus large quantities of Treasury warrants, revenue and customs stamps, and patent cer- tificates Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones is planning to reor- ganize the Business Advisory Council he inherited from Harry Hopkins and make it more fortnight outfit. Jesse plans to add a number of small business men to the group. There is none on 1t now.
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STATE BIRD
(Boston Post)

The next Legislature will be asked by the Massachusetts, Audubon So- ciety and the Massachusetts Forest and Park Association to name an official state bird and an official State tree. It will not be the most important business to come before the General Court but for every na- ture lover 1t will hold more than passing interest.
 Strange as 1t may seem, Massachu- setts and Connecticut are the only States that do not have an officially
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Selected Poem
so AUTUMN WENT

(Pearl Strachan in the New York Times) So autumn went. And now I stare Across the yard. The trees are bare. When gold and crimson must depart The silent gnawing at the heart Feels each drop of color dripped, Till the limbs are stark and stripped. Brief the spell they burned on high, Red flowers on a sapphire sky. They burned as if they would burn on Till ice and sleet and snow were gone. one red lull-and then the wind Tore the tender thing, and skinned Tn one afternoon the whole, so the branches and the bole, Naked as the heart in grief, Stood fofsaken, without leaf, As stand and lock know
 How the gold and red must go; Coughs be gray, toFl0Fn, RusteTei That new glory may appear
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D Q s Q s which W ere recently acquired from the British. It is not at all loath, however, to remark that getting { h e m fixed up prop erly is going to take a lot of t 1 m e a n d money.
 So far, secre- tary Knox has admitted that work is under way on three
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in his elected officials. But more than this now is the necessity of making them selves and their party the real instru- ment Of progressive, humanitarian, democratic government. We know they will not disappoint us in this respect.
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once aOQreSSeQ Dy 8 grandchild as follows: Grand ma, I don't SUD- pose you ever said a mean thing about anyone in your life. I be- lieve you'd even have a good word to say for the devil"
 Well" replied grandma after a moment of sil-
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Daily AlmaRae
q lli2a b. n.

Moon sets iii23 D, n,
 Sun rises e;2s a, n; sets lit3 D. n1,
 Al vehicles must be lighted thirty min' uies after sunset thls afternoon a few minutes after { o'clock, s0 according lO thls slgn ln the heavens faiF weaiheF ean De aniielpiaed for the nest several days.
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THE FEATHER IM YOUR HAT
lprlaaeport Telaeranl

Just when lt was thought that the onallme cruel slaughter 0f kiFd llfe foF the purpose el feminine adoFnmenl waa ended forever, we learn that the worst threat ln lhFee
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Whats s Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven Of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Were U. s. gold coins made of solid gold, or gold alloy?
 2. New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusett is nicknamed Granite State?
 3. What are the names for male and female sheep?
 4. Name the capital of British India.
 s. What were the magic words that opened the cave in the story of Ali Baba, and The Forty Thieves?
 6. The Gota canal is in Norway, Sweden or Denmark?
 2. A native agent of foreign business house in China is eRlled a -?
 8. Was Vilhajalmur Stefansson an Arctic explorer. author or com. poser?
 9. Is there Q post office named Santa Claus in the United States?
 10, Who was called the Angelic Doctor?"
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Questions
 and Answers
BY rREDERIO M. KERRY

| WK ke4WGMeA0 NAs AAAAAADA
 Enclose three.cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques. ton of fact or information Co Che waterbury Democrats Service Sue reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research Do un- taken. Be sure all mail is ad. dressed to The WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street. Washington, Q. O.
 THE EDTTOR.
 e. Do automobile manufacturers provide optional gear ratios to deal- CTS in different parts of the country?
 A. Yes. Dealers in hilly sections can order cars with gear ratios 10 give more power with less speed, and for level sections cars can be equip- ped with less power and more speed. For cars that are to be used in ex- trenely high attitudes, special car- buretor jets are substituted for the regular ones.
 Q. Did all Norsemen come from Norway?
 A. The term means north men," and applies to adventurers from the l three Scandinavian countries, Nor- way, Sweden and Denmark.
 e. Who assassinated President James A. Garfield?
 A. Charles J. Guiteau, shot him in the Baltimore and Potomac Rail- way depot, Washington, D. O., July 2, 1881. Garfield died at Elberon, N. J., September 19, 1881.
 o. How did the famous Treaty Oak in Texas get it's name? A. The tree, a mammoth live oak estimated to be 500 years old, is located in Austin, near the west bank of the Colorado River. The Comanche and Tejas Indians often met near the tree for featS of skill and endurance and for religious rites. They called it "The Father of the Forst," and regarded 1t with superstitious reverence. There is 8 tradition that Stephen P. Austin signed the first boundary line treaty between the settlers and the In- dians under this tree, and that the line was established to place 1t with in the settlers lands.
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Election is over. The poles are being erected in the streets for the Christmas decorating ThanksgivingS are not far off. Do your holiday shopping early, as usual
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

JEALOUS FOR EVIL ENDS
 A good woman who throughout her long life had gained a reputa- ton among her loved ones for al- ways speaking well of people was
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Washington Merry Go-Round
DREW PIE A R $ 0 N
 ROBERT s. ALLEN

 men pretty far pesung the Wchy Government surrender the planes diplomatic relations the French were
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If you want copy of the book let HOUSE PLANTS" send to The Waterbury Democrats Wash ingtOn Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c. Enclose ten cents in postage.
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o. When and where did the first Parliament meet?
 A. The first parliamentary body, as the term is now commonly used, was summoned to meet November 1, l295, by Edward of England.
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named State bird. The Bay State is one of a dozen States that have not adopted 2 State tree. The coming year, no doubt, viii see the situation corrected.
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National Spotlight
BY BRUCE CAPTION Waterbury Democrat WashlngtO

Washington, Nov. = The U. S. Navy is prety cagey when 1t comes to telling about the progress of construction work on the new ad- vanced-post submarine and airplane
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TODAY's COMMON ERROR Do not say, T seldom ever read a book; omit lever" or say, hardly ever."
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O. Please name the pianist who played part of the American Rhap- sody" in the short film subject, Somewhere Door Will Open"
 A. Dalies Frantz.
 @. When war was declared in April, 1917, how many serviceable military airplanes did the United States have?
 A. Fifty-five.
 o. What is the enrolment of the largest high school in the United States? Is 1t co-educational?
 A. De Witt Clinton High School New York City, with an enrolment of approximately 13,500 Is the lar- gest. It is for boys only.
 e. How much is Japans public debt?
 A. At the end of August. l940, 1t was 25,218, 100000 yen, an increase of 5,870,000 900 yen over the same date in 1899. The par value of the yen is approximately 84 l-2 cents.
 c. How are states admitted to the Union?
 A. By act of Congress, after ap- proval of their Constitution by that body.
 o. How should plaster wall with fine hair cracks be prepared for painting?
 A. Apply size coat consisting of equal parts of varn!sh and tur- pentine. and a little white lead or flat wall paint and handful or two of dry, fine pumice stone. When 1t is dry, any wall paint can be applied.
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Q. How should plaster wall with fine hair cracks be prepared for painting?
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THE EDTTOR.

Q. Did all Norsemen come from Norway?
 A. The term means north men" ," and applies to adventurers from the three Scandinavian countries, Nor- way, Sweden and Denmark.
Evening star., 1940-01-04
Daily Oil Production
Registers Decline
During Week
Refining Operations
Show Advance to
8O.2 Per Cent
Py the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. 24-Daily av-
erage crude oil production in the
United States declined during the
week ended December 80 to 3,545 900
barrels compared with 1857 900 bar
rels the previous week and 3,204 $50
a year ago, the American Petroleum
Institute reported.
Daily production during the four
weeks Of December averaged 3,776,-
500 barrels, approximately $4,000
barrels more than the Bureau of
Mines estimated requirements.
Refining activity halted its down.
ward trend, reporting refineries op-
Grating at 80.2 per cent of capacity
against 1873 the week before. Runs
of crude to stills for the industry
as a whole were estimated at g.
AS 900 barrels day compared with
1895 900 barrels the previous week
and 100000 a year ago.
The institute placed stocks of fin
ished and unfinished gasoline at
80 ,985, 900 barrels at the end of the
week, up sharply from 78,707 900 bar
rels a week ago and 7l,542 900 last
year. Gasoline production totaled
II ,686, 900 barrels. against l1.494 900
the previous week.
Imports of crude and refined oils
at principal ports amounted to 979,-
600 barrels. compared with 949 900
barrels the week before.
Evening star., 1940-01-04
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO. Jan lP.-Poultry, live i
trucks. weak hens. Az pounds up, l5ia;
under Az pounds, 14l2: Leshorns, hens.
liz; springs. pounds up. colored' l3
Plymouth Rock, l5Ia under pounds
colored IA Plymouth Rock, Il; White
Rock. l5i2: ducks, "a pounds up, colored.
il; white II geese over II pounds. IL.
II pounds and down, 13: young tom tur-
keys, is pounds up. l2l2 capons., 7
pounds up. is: under 7 pounds, IS; other
~ Butter, 65S755; steady: prices un-
changed
EGGS 9,s94; unsettled current receipts,
:, Potatoes. l24: on track T 236; total ta
sets slightly weaker, Nebraska Triumphs
best stock steady, fair quality slightly
weaker Northern. all varieties about
mand far; supplies moderate: sacked per
y. s No. !, 1.55-92'a Nebraska Bliss
2.IO-15; 80 to 90 Der cent U. 8, No. /,
washed, 175-90, unwashed, ! .57l2-62l2:
North Dakota Red River Valley section
cobbiers, S5 20 80 per cent U. S. No. /,
few sales, 100 brushed, 1.35; Bliss Tri
umphs. IS to 80 Der cent U. s. No. /,
1890; Wisconsin Katahdins unclassi-
fed, 25: new stock. weaker, supplies
moderate, demand very. light stree; sales;
Florida Bliss Triumphs, bushel crates. U. s.
No. l. washed. very few sales. 2.00.05;
Texas bushel crates Bliss Triumphs, U. 8.
No. l. washed. few sales, 1.90 crate.
Evening star., 1940-01-04
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO. Jan. L4p UNITED States
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture> .-salable hogs:
2s,nO0; total 10000: generally 1O-15
lower than Wednesdays AVERAGE. fairly
active at decline: top. 5.s5: bulk good
and choice 16O-220 pounds |SO-s5: 900
o40 pounds 550-75: 24O-27O-pound
butchers mostly $1,000: o7O-32n pounds
largely 51O-4n; good 3fO-5OO- pound pack
Inc sows. 425-65; lighter weights around
AIS
snd ssIable cattle, $3.50, SaIsble calves:
fully steady: little done on medium to
early sales easier; some bids 1925 lover;
hefers steady: cows strong to Is higher:
bulls steady: vealers. $3.50 lower; early
top around ooO-pound yearlings, II so;
several loads 96o to 1125-pound AVERAGES.
11.5O; most early sales light and long
yearlings. 1n:50-1 90: medium to good
steers promising to sell. S.5O-950: best
heifers. 925: beef cows largely 6.00-7 90;
strong-weieht cutters 5.75; most Gamers,
425-S5; weighty sausage bulls to 1.65:
good to choice veaers. 1O.50-11 so: odd
head selects 1900; stockers and feeder
salabie sheep, 10000; total. 15.;5oo;
late "Wednesday fat lambs and yearlings,
l0-15 lower after 1926 lower start; top,
a.35 on several loads: bulk wooled lambs.
IS; sheep steady; native ewes, 4;oG;5o:
slow; undertone 10-1h lower; some bids
25 or more of: good to choice wooled
lambs bid !s.75-9.0O; best held g. 1919 %
and upwards; good yearlinss 700: sheep
about steady; native slaughter ewes.
4.00-26.
Evening star., 1940-01-04
Bank CIearings Lag
Moderately Behind
Level Year Ago
Show 4.6 Per Cent
Drop Despite Gain
Over Previous Week
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Bank clear
lngs for the country during the past
holiday week rose 89 per cent above
the volume for the preceding short
week. The total, however, went
under that for the corresponding
holiday week a year ago, due to
smaller transactions at New York.
Bank exchanges for % leading
cities for the five days ended jan
uary 8, amounted to SCOTT ,072 900,
according to Dun & Bradstreet.
This represented decrease of as
per cent under the $6,37l ,546 900 for
the same five-day week last year.
The aggregate for the latest week
rose S494, ,41800O above the total for
the week previous. This contrasted
with a much larger gain between
the two similar weeks of last year,
amounting to 1912 1850
ClearingS at New York totaled
s3,6O8, ,573 900, or 140 per cent less
llldll lllc 9f,loO,o1o,oOo ldoV SSdi =
while the 81 outside cities accounted
for s2468, ,499 600, against $2,176,-
236000 a year ago, or an increase
of 1874 per cent.
All of the outside centerS had
larger clearings than a year ago.
The more important advances were:
Cleveland, 35.5 per cent; Baltimore,
288 per cent; Pittsburgh, 281 per
cent; Richmond, 244 per cent; Gin
cinnati, 227 per cent; Buffalo, % A
per cent; Dallas, 205 per cent, and
Portland, Greg, 1872 per cent.
Bank clearings at leading cities,
together with percentage changes
from a year ago. follow; also the
daily average bank clearings for the
months Of October, November and
December:
Evening star., 1940-01-04
Foreign Exchange

3 NEW YORK Jan. 4 La1.-The British
pound broke away from q comparatively
steady recent course with drop of nearly
cents in terms of the doilar today
Foreign exchange experts said the de-
cline was natural reaction" as year-end
short covering operations were completed.
In the words Of one banker:
Sterling has merely reacted to more
normal level following the recent sustain
ing effect Of demand from short sellers
who were covering previous sales"
The guilder moved up .O5 OF cent and
the Swiss franc improved narrowly. on
.0l OF cent each were the French franc
and belga
Late rates follow:
Great Britain in dolalrs, others in cents.
Great Britain. demand 3 9212; Great Brit
ain. cables, 3.93A: 60-day bills, 3.90A:
9O-day bills. 3.S77s: Canada. Montreal in
New York Ss.O Canada, New York in
Montreal "a Belgium, 1852; Den-
mark. 1888; Finland. ! 90n; France. 223;
Germany. 40.23n: benevolent, 1850:
travel unquoted: Greece. .73n: Hungary.
17.6On Italy. sos: Netherlands. 53 80;
Norway 2273: Portugal 3 69n; Rumania.
.73n: Sweden. % 81: Switzerland. 22.43l7;
Argentina toff1ciaD 29.77; Argentina
freel. 90. .55: Brazil tof1iciaD. sos: Brazil
Cfree). 10; Mexico. 16.90n: Japan, % 40;
Hong Kong, "a SO; Shanghai 7,s5; Yugo-
slavia. 2.35n.
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
indicated. Nominal.
Evening star., 1940-01-04
Anthracite Boosted
By New Price Scale
Effective Today
Hord Coal Producers
To Seek Prorution
Of Output
BY the Associated Press.

.
SCRANTON, Pa, Jan. "A new
scale Of anthracite prices-boosting
large sizes so cents a ton and small
sizes Is cents ton-becomes edec-
tive today, it was learned from au-
thoritative sources in the industry
In addition, hard coal producers
will Immediately launch a plan for
ALLEGATION of tonnage with the big
"old line" companies producing 60
per cent of the market demand and
the independents the balance, or
40 per cent. according to the
Scranton Tribune
The newspaper said agreement on
new prices and tonnage ALLEGATION
was reached by producers and sale
representatives at meeting yester-
day in New York.
Trade circles said the current cold
snap was largely responsible for re-
ducing stocks of coal in cars on
breaker sidings around 100000 tons
the past week.
The new prices showing increases
Egg, stove and nut, $625 per ton
so cents increase; pea coal. $4.75;
buckwheat, $3.50, and rice, SITS, all
representing a 25-cent increase.
The quoted prices are for ship
ment, f. 0. b., from the mines to the
Eastern consuming area. Shipments
to tideWater for trans-shipment will
bear the following f. b. mines quo
tations in the new circular: Egg
stove and nut. $5.75; pea. $425;
buckwheat, 1925, and rice, $225. The
egg, stove and nut tidewater quota
tions represent an increase OF u
cents per ton with the other quota
tions approximately so cents higher
than the former circular prices.
Evening star., 1940-01-04
Power Output Dips
Sharply Because Of
Holiday Week
Production Remains
1874 Per Cent Aheud
Of Year Ago
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-The Christ
mas holiday industrial curtailment
bit sharply into recent record out
put OF electric energy, figures re-
leased by the Edison Electric Insti-
tute indicated today.
Power production during the week
ended December 80 totaled 2,404,-
$4,000 kilowatt hours, or 81 per
cent less than 2,64l. .458,000 in the
preceding week. This was still 1874
per cent ahead Of 2,12O, ,555 900 in the
comparable 1885 week.
The decline, slightly more than
seasonally expected, trimmed the
Associated Press power index to
1898 from 1925 a week earlier. A
year ago the index, adjusted for
seasonal and long-term trend, was
1863.
Range for recent years follows:
1899 1888 1887 1886 1934-5
High 1895 1172 1852 1913 los S
Low --1l23 1923 111.8 1920 sl.9
Percentage gains over year ago
according to major geographic areas
were reported as follows:
New England, 1912; Middle At
lantic, H.; Central industrial, 1863;
West Central, 1912; Southern States,
12.1; Rocky Mountain, 10; Pacific
Coast, 8.6.
Evening star., 1940-01-04
100000 Contract
For Atlantic Planes
Is Announced
United Aircraft Gets
Order for Non Stop
Flying Boots
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-American
Export Airlines announced last
night it had signed S2,000,00
contract with the Vought Sikorsky
Aircraft Division of the United Air
craft Corp. for initial work on
three large flying boats intended for
nonstop transatlantic service.
The carrier has applied to the
Federal Civil Aeronautics Authority
for permission to institute passenger,
mail and express service between
the United States and Europe late
this year.
The contract, signed by w. H.
Coverdale,, president of the airline,
covers engineering work and the
construction of certain important
structural members for the new
ships" Assembly work, the an
nouncement said, would start with
The receipt of a certificate of public
convenience and necessity from the
Aeronautics Authority.
If the Government approves the
proposed service, American export
will be the first air carrier to start
nonstop service to Europe, with
the four-motor Sikorsky flying boats.
it intends to carry a maximum of
16 passengers and crew of II be-
tween New York and Lisbon and
thence to Barcelona and Rome on
a schedule calling for an average
speed of ITS miles an hour.
In making the announcement, it
referred to a statement by Igor I.
Sikorsky, the airplane manufacturer,
that "one of the greatest advan-
tages of flying across the Atlantic
non stop is that it not only makes
for greater reliability of service, but
it also eliminates the hazards OF
landing in unprotected harbors."
Evening star., 1940-01-04
Newspaper Advertising
Continues to Gain
,pec,al Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, JAN 4-Volume of re-
tail advertising placed in newspapers
showed an increase of more than S
per cent over last year for the second
consecutive week, according to fig
ures reported by Advertising Age,
covering 78 cities for the week ended
December 23
During that week total retail ad-
vertising Image was 23.9O3,088, COM
pared with 22,636,9 during the
corresponding week of 1888. This is
an increase of 1886, 100 lines, or Sc
per cent.
For the entire year to date (5l
weeks volume for 1889 is 16 per
cent ahead of 1888 The 1899 total
is 955, 5,6O6,930 lines. an increase of
15,459.837 lines over the 1888 total
Of 940, ,147,093.