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Show Canadian Wheat Territory. Tho possibilities of wheal talBiiig iro much greater in the Cuiiudi u. provinces and territories than In tin United States. Tho urea suitable 1 : wheat cultuio is much Inigei and tin yield to the ncie is twenty -live l.tf-'i tls, while In the Culled States It t billy font teen and inn hull lui-ht-i-In Athaluihca and .Mail,'' 'o (-pi .-wheat .-wheat mntuioh in Inl to (.S i . Dvvlng to tlio length ot tin- suiiru . day In that latitude To Improve Fire Horses. Eloquent of tho stato ot affairs In London's lire dopnitment Is this notlco issued by tlio tiro chief: "I hnvo noticed no-ticed that, when turning out nt many stations, tho movements of tho horses nro vory slow. Instructions aro to bo given that tho horses aro to bo trained bo as to como up to tho nppllances smartly. I desiro that later on the t horses shall go to the machines without with-out being led." Valuable Aloes. Tho most valuable aloas come from tho island of Sokotrn, which lies just off tho Enst African coast from Capa Ouardaful. Tho drug Itself Is the bit-1 tor, resinous julco of tho nloo plant that has been hardened in tho sun. Those leuvos aro of n fibrous, fleshy nature and. In addition to tho Julco, the natives make this fiber Into rope, many Insisting that It makes a betteV rope than hcuiji Blindness Result of Destiny. Dllndness Is supposed, according to tho ancient Ciaelic beliefs, Invariably to lead to some strange and obscuro destiny, due to the fact that tho unfortunate un-fortunate person was born, under that dark star which may occasionally bo descried In 'he heavens on a particularly particu-larly brilliant moonlight nlgiu. Anent Cork. All the cork used In tlio world in a year weighs a little over one thousand thou-sand tons. |