Main Surnames: KOOL This is the last newspaper clipping in the Thistle Mission Band notebook. There is no date except the month and day, and no real genealogical information. It does have some interesting tidbits about New Brunswick. I hope the rest of you have enjoyed these clippings as much as I have, and that someone has found some help with their family's history. Cleadie Barnet is in the process of putting all the Thistle Mission Band submissions, plus pictures and other information, on a web page at <http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~cannbfam/tmb>. Unusual Features In New Brunswick Make Varied List [The Canadian Press] Saint John, N. B. July 15 -- Oddities and unusual features are numerous in New Brunswick. At Kouchibouguac the steeples and belfries of two churches stand separately instead of on top of the churches. Demoiselle Creek in Albert County has an underground lake in a vast cave where there is ice throughout the year. A one-tree orchard exists near Fredericton, where a horticultural enthusiastic has grafted dozens of fruit varieties to an old apple tree. Fredericton also has: the only golf course on the continent with a periscope enabling the driver to see from tee to hole; the first Church of England cathedral on North American soil; a house with the back door facing the street and the front door facing the backyard. At Grand Falls a cataract, exceeded in magnitude on the eastern part of this continent only by Niagara and the grand Falls of Labrador, roars over a mighty rock gorge. Near Penobsquis a stream rushes out of a hill. The biggest fox ranch in the Empire is situated at Salisbury. A mill at Edmundston manufactures pulp in Canada and pumps it to a paper mill in the United States. Pipes also cross the international boundary line at St. Stephen, where the water supply of Calais and Milltown, in Maine, is pumped across from Canada. A museum on Grand Manan Island has a whale's jawbone for a doorway. Coal washed up from a submarine seam is picked on the beach of Shippegan Island by people with dog carts and ox teams. The largest sardine packing plant in the Empire is at Black's Harbor. A dog in the village of Richibucto seems able to add and subtract. Stranded when a river course changed, a wharf is high and dry in the middle of a field near Sackville. Also nearby are the remains of a railway built to carry ships, and the abutments of a bridge moved downstream because it was the scene of an Indian massacre and superstitious folk in the old days refused to cross if for fear of seeing ghosts. Nor far from Campbellton there is a "Millionaires' Row" in the heart of the talltimbers - luxurious homes which their wealthy owners call "salmon camps." More than 100 years old, a mill at Reed's Point is owned by a family who have never carried any insurance, never had a fire and who have always allowed their employees to smoke. On an island in Grand Lake birds perform the function of a foghorn when the cries of nesting gulls in heavy mists warn steamboats away from an adjacent reef. Moncton has the famous tidal bore of the Petticodiac river; a wall of water rushes upstream twice every 24 hours. Near Moncton is an upside-down hill where, due to an optical illusion, a car out of gear seems to coast up it instead of down. At Doaktown an ingenious farmer has invented something akin to perpetual motion - a "hydraulic fish" built of old tin cans and junk. The contraption ceaselessly raises water from a stream to supply his house and barns. One of the most valuable farms in New Brunswick is under water. It's an oyster farm at Buctouche - a 10- acre plot where oysters are planted and grown. King street, Saint John, is the shortest and, for its length, hilliest and wildest main street in Canada. Saint John has the Mahaney children, only guadruplets in the Dominion. The Reversing Falls at the mouth of the Saint John River are rapids which flow backwards, or upstream, twice a day when the Bay of Fundy tide is high. The court house at Saint John has a circular staircase with each step supporting the next in a manner baffling to architects. Hartland boasts the longest covered bridge in the world. The world's largest lobster pound is at Northern Harbor, Deer Island. Welch-pool, on Campobello Island, in Canada, is the summer home of President Roosevelt of the United States. Albert County has the only known deposits of solidified oil. Baie Verte's altitude is the lowest of any village in Canada. Alma is the home of Captain Molly Kool, believed to be the only woman master mariner.