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Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 8

Thn Royal Commission on ir.lf. •>vau j rvay.s .and canals have rofomrm'ndoa that the control of these means of inland communication .should be verted in tin* ApriciiJtur.il Department. The number of tons carried per mile in Ireland during ] 905 averaged 1.709, w-b.ilr> in England ;md Wales it was 15,387. The. Irish waterways, however, compare favorably with th r >se of Emrla.nd in respect to dimensions, natural supplies, and gradients to be overcome. The Commissioners advise, thai where the. waterways are. not already undei State control the existing owners should lx? bought out, as the drainage works, lock's, weirs, dredging, and other parts of the system necessary to improve and extend inland water transit would \rj this means be more economically manafcied for the good of the public. They do not recommend a very large expenditure, a* they believe that extension is not much needed now. Only as industrial development goes on will more waterway facilities for transit be needed ; so far they are sufficient. Lord Fairer is the only one of the Commissioners who does not endcree the report. "We have our faith too much to a bookish education in the past, and have failed to realise the essential relationship between efficiency and soundness of body," says Dt Morrison, the medical officer for school* in Cumberland (Eng.) Phosphorefienoe of the aea L« nearly always dtie to living agencies in the w^ter — a microscopic thing in millions called pyrocoma or rioctiiuca.. There are, of course, many other fish which emit phosphoric light, and putrescent fish, as is well-known, will do go freely. Mr Hall Caino makes a practice of visiting every place ho intends to describe in a novel. W&en engaged on a story he •writes on, an average 1,600 words a day.