Review of reviews and world's work . our rail-way across country (and allits branches: was operatedthe past winter on scheduletime. I came over the roadon the 18th of last April, onmy way to Xew York. Therewasnt a sign of snow alongthe whole railway line, andonly once or twice duringthe late winter was a snow-plough used. At St. John,the capital of Newfound-land, we usually have snowafter Christmas and up tothe end of March, but werarelv average more thanone snowfall a week for thethree months. Sometimes awhole month will pass without a snowstorm,winter from Christmas till April we hadone week
Review of reviews and world's work . our rail-way across country (and allits branches: was operatedthe past winter on scheduletime. I came over the roadon the 18th of last April, onmy way to Xew York. Therewasnt a sign of snow alongthe whole railway line, andonly once or twice duringthe late winter was a snow-plough used. At St. John,the capital of Newfound-land, we usually have snowafter Christmas and up tothe end of March, but werarelv average more thanone snowfall a week for thethree months. Sometimes awhole month will pass without a snowstorm,winter from Christmas till April we hadone weeks sleighing, and carriages were used•ad of sleighs all over the country. Thereis also a misconception about the fog. We havevery little fog in Newfoundland; but the un-fortunate thing about it is that we are identifiedwith the fog because the fog happens to be outon what is called the Banks of Newfound-land. These banks are situated 200 milesfrom the coa-t of Newfoundland, and it is asunjust to identify Newfoundland with that fog. A DAYS CATCH OFF THE NEWFOUNDLAND COAST as it would be to identify her with the frost andsnow of the far northern Labrador and Green-land, which lie thousands of miles away. Thevery best proof that the railway is a paying con-cern in Newfoundland as an industrial agentis that the Reid Newfoundland Company,operating the main trunk railway across thecountry, ha> made a contract with the New-foundland Government to operate these newbranches for forty years without any cash sub-sidy, and merely for grants of land of 5,000acre> for each mile of railway built. till OKI M ( >1>I r, VAI I I . CANCER AS KNOWN TO-DAY BY ISAAC LEVIN, ). < M the Department ( Pathology, Columbia University) TpHE history of human cancer is probably The development of the complex multicellu- * as old as the history of the human race. Lar organism also begins from one cell, the The famous Papyrus Ebers of the Egyptians or the so-called germ cell. This cell divides
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