When the Civil War was ended and Laurentine F. Higby failed to return to his home in Exeter, members of his family finally decided he had been laid away in one of the many battlefield graves filled with unidentified dead. Higby, however, was not dead. He had been wounded in action, and when he recovered, he forgot his past, and, after the war, went to Kansas, married, and reared a family, later going to Wilmington, Ill. He remembered only that he had served in the army and applied for a pension under the name of Lauren F. Higby. Government pension-office agents identified him through communication with relatives in Exeter, and now they are on the way to Wilmington for a reunion with the man they had thought dead for fifty years. Higby served with Battery A, First New York Volunteers. 250,000 Canadians at Front by Next Fall. The second Canadian contingent will comprise 15,270 officers and men, 4,765 horses, fifty-eight guns, and sixteen machine guns, and will be ready to sail from Canada in January. A third Canadian contingent of approximately 25,000 men will be ready to leave for England early in March. Including the first contingent of 33,000 men, the Dominion by spring will have sent more than 70,000 men to the firing line. The military authorities also have decided to keep 40,000 men under arms in Canada to serve as a base of supply for the contingent at the front. As the British war office has informed the Dominion that reënforcements should be provided for at the rate of twenty-five per cent per month, instead of on the smaller basis of seventy per cent per annum, as at first anticipated, it will mean a drain or the numbers recruited for reënforcing purposes of from 6,000 to 8,000 a month, with increases in proportion as the strength of the Canadian forces in the field is enlarged. When the second contingent of 15,000 to 17,000 men leaves for Europe in January, a further enlistment of 17,000 will take place immediately. It is believed that mounted Canadians will be sent to the Suez region of Egypt. With a contingent being sent to England every two months, together with reënforcements, Canada expects to have placed between 200,000 and 250,000 men at the disposal of Great Britain by next autumn. Interesting Facts. The old belief that the age of a rattlesnake can be told by the number of his rattles is wrong, as also is the belief that a deer’s span of life is accurately recounted by the number of points on his antlers. Scientists have found that the largest rattler may have few rattles and a small snake twice the number of the big one. Careful study has shown that the points on a deer’s antlers have no bearing whatever on his age. Portable wireless apparatus adopted by the United States army and carried on an automobile of special design has a sending radius of 800 miles and has received messages from points 2,500 miles away. A telegraph wire in the open country lasts four times as long as one in a city.