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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12497, 25 March 1909, Page 3

Sir W. Ramsay, speaking at University College, London, urges that the present generation .■. should ; exercise thought for the generations to come by conserving the stores of coal existing in. England, otherwise in two hundred years he foresaw, a ge,neral emigration from England to other countries. .""' - ' . - ■'.''. ■■'-■' ;". ; '-I-

v .From forty to?, fifty # thousand pep-, pie a day jhave, been visiting the first' exhibition'of ' : fl^tug'machihes : yet held. Itis part of the Automobile Salon in Paris. The Wright aeroplane is the; great attraction of the show. "Where is the Vrichte?" is one of the first; questions asked, that being as near as a Frenchman can get to pronounc-. ing Wright. "Four .- policemen we're neededto keep the crowd moving before the stand.- Under the cupola is a tiny /aeroplane built by Santos-Du-mont arid called tho Demoiselle; It is so sriiall that it looks like a toy. The stretch of its wings is ljut six and a quarter yards, and its total surface is not ten '.".''yards '• square. .The ' 'total' weight in working -order is only 440 •pounds, allowing 110 pounds for the pilot. : Santos-Dumont '■- ' does pot v esceed that weight. -"•■'■■ •"- .-■"■''■■ ■■■*■,-.