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New Zealand Tablet, 2 December 1909, Page 1412

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The world is upheld by the -veracity of good men Tke'&Jrfipf Bft <fip m¥ a^ikW&TiJ ß^"^ particular Is B «KSS^aSS^S,f £ ™™ India. Bombay has 760 personsfperjaere in certaii areas. f ■ • to' that r of coming* Sown Invoke ' replied ■ the< aeronaut impressively.-:: i »• s'.ffM.ji"",*";"" ' Un Snft* 'n— !&s •^'\'¥^ g^^ ; ( %«^ lupbI upbn f th lemiwill1 emiwill fe onrT S f Ve^i hat eyi^ e Hbt *"*#&# a'nWerafele'for |the conduct of the universe, or at ( least not all the"tfn&. L. J o^,^' $ a X °,r, r antique candlesticks, an aucpioneer said': J-<J -< Gi^e 1 me 1 a start. ' ; < One'shiUineV'c'ami T ft l™^^ « crowds ■ r ' What!' ,&d«iSdffi\hS^ed j .V'S^kP^^'':-^^ the ' Sunday' school ,'supennWnden't !*W^ ( .^e Juvenile,' class, <I, want" you' tb P be .plrSly ■ Sti y—3O; still J^ v you can hear a , pin drop ' „, For a ii mm 9 m^^sfe e ,^e i gne,d ! supreme,' : then a small urchin- extclaimed,. f Le,t [cv drop,, mister!' ', '~'" ' *^"-°* Iwik^l^e^f^ 6^^ I (I ha^ becom^^nfatuated | ; -J Well,, .daughter, '...replied the papa, ,'if iyour?.'hear,t's iJ&E^^TStSJEE? : tO *? b . U * ,I, I » IW T ' d f h * 6 'tho^tethhikfr^ 0114 : men; . isn>t '!*■■■: r r a fK? ;i he 1 t d W^'* i9^ r-—r -— ? Ut >6 ™r askedf "the innocent '^by- - \;\ Why/J he replied; < a man will sit on a log- half a< day . waiting lorafishto bite, but he won't wait three minutea for 4ns wife' to get ready for church.' ''^ :> .««^a Dr. Cook and Commander Peary give no accounts of ■ dln g £ ai iy Irish at /the, North Pole, but- an exchange says- . One of the most experienced interpreters of the Eskimo " t 1 ' 1 £ es jlBj 18 of I i' ls . h descent - He was born on the coast of ;, Labrador, and is a son .of> one of the Hudson Bay Com- > panys employees. It is a peculiar fact that nearly all ■? the Eskimos you find .who speak English spealc with an . Irish accent They learned the language from the ' Hudson I Bay meii^ who" were nearly alllrish.' ' ,' '" ""•' I Whatsis r nibaht by ' the ' ' halcyon /days?' '" The 'seven days, precedmg. and, , the . seven days- "following the, shortest } da y O . r :>^ r w i^er.^olstic,e, were .called by ..the, ancientV,the ; Halcyon T>ays. ; , ( The phrase is derived, frdm\ a ,f able that - during this period, wliile the halcyon bird or kingfisher was < breeding, the sea was always calm, and might be navigated , in perfect, security by, the; mariner.. .v According fto/?the .( legend, ,^bfo bird,, was represented, as hatching. « her > eggs on a floating nest. ~ ' ~ • „-^Thej^argassqiSea isthe.name commonly x used,sfco designate a region occupying the interior of the great, circular . cu W e 3t of. Stream .in the North. Atlantic. It -is { so" named from the' abundance hr it of tHe 11 floating weed | Sargassum bacciferum It was-,at one, time supposed c Jhat . this fenorhiaus;;mas^-of"seaw^eds "on Bahama 1 and I F1 T d S or^; ai i d theiib^ by-'the l^ bwerful s curl renti/o* the/ GrulfcjStredmfj butiit seiins certaiftQithWt) if^'such ! was'sits orighlal isourcenthe* Gulfovee r donow liveff'andopropa- | gates while freely floating on the.iocean>-'suTface,.J'havme | a^ap J ted rc its.elf T,bj[[rY/»,rious,cmodificat.idhs R to -,its /.presehti ttode |. qf.i|xistgnce, / .,whiish bearsjithe We relation ] to. the North i Pa^ca.currents, that.thej one, mi jtherAtlantio ! f#y^teofe^mg Acs, jeady/^tp 1 *55 c™e ™- ? he , Gulf-weed is eaten in China/and in otheriartse T M^ W^^f* a r n A^B. a Pickle ;* *' • a \ >fO nd H ct^j Ht^ q #J said » Aa^ady fr gets^e/y^s^qf:^ovwrit'e. sometliing about it in a kind of autogfapX.album'/^e.fips' t a a n K^Sv^?J?^?rfi sho >y?\ the^cryp'tic^"liiie 'tij^'everv 1 eu'est the- g^est^ are aTwaysHoo polite^to 'tell Kerf 1 '" 1 They pretend they do not know. And hence, year after year, to &4?y , hSself lw a ay?'° meS ' P °° r with hh r album &™»