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Show Not Darkest Before Dawn. The idea that the darkest hour Is Just before dawn Is poetical but Incorrect. In-correct. Tho darkest hour Is midway mid-way between sunset and dawn, and the legend Is of a piece with the statement often mado that tho hour preceding dawn is tho coldest. In many countrlos thc-o Is n fixed belief that Just before tho break of day thero comes an ebb when nature grows cold nnd pulseless and Hfo fluttering flut-tering In tho breast of tho dying man finally expires. According to sclcnco such dissolution dissolu-tion should occur between threo nnd four o'clock, Investigation extending over n period of several years having proved that tho temperaturo Is lowest then. Montreal Herald. |