The Toronto Globe makes a strong
plea for commercial union between
Canada and the United Stales. “A
customs union,” it says, “w-iuld give
tribe Canadian farmers, lurnbi rers
and manufacturers the markets of
(ifly or sixty unllioiss of the richest
people in the world, so that trade and
commerce would he as free bet imi
all parts of this country and all parts
of the United Slates a-s it now is be
tween Mass&ciiuseetts and New York,
and the values of all we produce and
of our lands and budding us much as
if we became a part of the United
States.”
So few facts are known concerning
earthquakes that scientists can neither
draw deductions nor even del rniine
this causes. It is r'ported, however,
that, earthquakes more cmunonly ocs
cur at night, and that they arc more
abundant in winter than in summer.
The only settled fae's about earth
quakes are, that they are the result of
some shock imparled to the rocks at a
considerable distunes beneath thesur
face, and that ttii i rock reaches the
surface in a sums of concintralid
rings.
< )n or about (>atober I the second
great explosion at Hell Gale is to lake
place. Motile U *ef o • KMood Hick,
covering nine acres ami lying from
four to twenty llvi fe-.l under water
in east river near the en'nnce to
i jony Island Bound, will, i 1 n, expect
ed, lie blown out at the < )c.obcr ex
plosion. At a former explosion 50,000
pounds of dynamite were used, and
three acres of reef was torn to atoms.
