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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 130, 4 June 1919, Page 8

A Yankee soldier boarded a London, tram car, "Where do you want to go to?" _aid the conductress. "I guess I want to go to heaven,", said the American, with a smile. She gave him a ticket and handed him his change, with the remark : "That will take you to Tooting— as far as we go; you must'walk the rest!" Early in September it was announced that potash deposits of great value had been discovered north of Maple Creek, Canada, and it is now reported that at Hardy, on tho Canadian Northern Railway, there has been discovered deposits of ixitash in tho bod of a lake to the extent of about 16,000 acres. It is well known that rapid cooling of hot metals hardens them. That the opposite is true has recontly been demonstrated in striking iashion by the General Electric Company. One of their scientists annealed American ingot iron surrounded by hydrogen gas for three hours at a temperature above 1600 degrees Fahrenheit. The product was very little harder than.tho softest copper, and can be whittled with a knife. Messrs. E. Johnston and Co. will soil furniture at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Moanaroad. Day's Bay. Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. will sell furniture and three pianos in their rooms on Monday, at 1.30 p.m. The lirst. musical evening in connection with tho Returned Soldiers' Clubhoueo Society will bo held to-morrow evening.