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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15308, 23 February 1920, Page 2

Anti-aircraft gun defences employed 717 officers and 11,948 men at the signing of the armistice.

Every time you laugh it pubs a 3001b pressure on your liver. Therefore, if you want to ward off diseases of old age lanjgh heartily a.s often as you can. This is the prescription of Dr William Sadler, an eminent Chicago physician.

. Wheat wpjfshhig 671b to the bushel, believed to be the heaviest ever inspected in Alberta, has been examined by the Government grain .inspector at Calgary. It.was graded No. 1 hard.

in a growing city one of the. problems which beset all business men is that of securing central sites. The difficulties in regard to this increase year by year. As yet (states' the "Age")/ Melbourne cannot boast of her .skyscrapers, but'a somewhat novel metliod of-"surmounting the site di^cultv is now. being exhibited at the A.N.A. "Exhibition. It is ended the display block. The idea nf a buildinc constructed upon! this principTo is to devote the whole of the ground floor to window display, pmclv tenant boinjT allotted a section in. which to show his goods. The intend- j ins; purchaser, having; iT>°neoterl thes^i 'displays, conveyed by lift to the por-! t ion/of the building occupied by any of/ the. exhibitors • whom he may desire to ■■-sit. The whole object of the display1 block is to establish the shoplieepers in: the busiest centre, where fhev can bene-; fit by Concentration and pu*blicitv with-i ont adrlitional expenditure in ttie'way': of ndministvation. An^ eight-story l>nildinjj : on this Bi'inciple is to be erectod in Little Collins-street, between Rwanston and Elizaoetli-streets, ;and It is said that plready there-has Tieen a nreat demand for suites lb'y prospective tenants. '" " : ■