When the second contingent of 15,000 to 17,000 men leaves for Europe in January, a further enlistment of 17,000 will take place immediately. It is believed that mounted Canadians will be sent to the Suez region of Egypt.
With a contingent being sent to England every two months, together with reënforcements, Canada expects to have placed between 200,000 and 250,000 men at the disposal of Great Britain by next autumn.
Interesting Facts.
The old belief that the age of a rattlesnake can be told by the number of his rattles is wrong, as also is the belief that a deer’s span of life is accurately recounted by the number of points on his antlers. Scientists have found that the largest rattler may have few rattles and a small snake twice the number of the big one. Careful study has shown that the points on a deer’s antlers have no bearing whatever on his age.
Portable wireless apparatus adopted by the United States army and carried on an automobile of special design has a sending radius of 800 miles and has received messages from points 2,500 miles away.
A telegraph wire in the open country lasts four times as long as one in a city.
In Korea, widows never remarry. Even though they have been married only a month, they must not take a second husband.
The visitors at the Panama-Pacific Exposition are not to be annoyed by any realization of the flight of time. Clocks are not to enter into the architecture of any of the buildings.
Rare Gift for Fatherland.
Showing a love of country that could not be more self-sacrificing, Carl Barwieck, an aged resident of Davenport, Iowa, has given to the German war relief fund committee his most treasured family heirloom, a rare German Bible, 311 years old. The book has been in the possession of the Barwieck family for over 300 years. It was printed in Wittenberg in 1603 by Lorenz Seuberlich.