LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11, 13 September 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

High speed is being added to luxury as a feature of Canadian travel. Tin Canadian-Pacific Railway is planning to run what will bo the fastest trails contiunental train on the American continent. With an average speed o 50 miles an hour for 60 hours, and It hours allowed for stops, the new train will cover the 300 miles between Mont real and Vancouver in 72, hours—-a saving of 23 hours on the fastest train on this system now running.

It is a neual thing to refer to the House of Representatives as “the hotwind factory,” as if it were the only one in the country; but dairy-farmers when they get together usually make a good show in the role of hot-wind artists. It is not suggested that tin dairy farmer does wrong in following in a moderate way the example o the professional wind-heaters . On the other hand his action in doing all his draining, stumping, ploughing, fencing and milking on 36-1 days of the year and all his talking on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day has much to commend it. Thursday was Rowgarth’s three hundred and sixty-fifth, or wind-heating, day, and the Dairy Co. shareholders talked every known subject to a yvin, tie or wrangle, and did it all in the time between 11 a.m. and 3.30 p.m., with time off for lunch..

Stratford’s' forthcoming Daffodil Show will probably eclipse all previous efforts in this direction so far as the local Society is concerned, as the blooms in most of the gardens of those who intend to exhibit, were never finer. Mr E. A. Osmond, has. it is understood, expressed his intention of putting np the finest exhibit he has ever placed in a show, for exhibition only. He will stage about sixty vases of narcissi, including many new and rare blooms, lb lovers of the beautiful daffodil this exhibit alone will be a great attraction. This year the Society is showing in the Town Hall, and their enterprise in so doing is attracting exhibitors who otherwise would not have shown their, blooms. It is to be hoped the general public will lend the help they can by at- least attending the Show in better force, than ever before.