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you do not get a customer. We can't guarantee
that you will soil because you may ask mor e
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THE WOMAN AT HOME.
Mice are very fond of pnmpkin'6eeds,
which may therefore be used as bait in
monse-traps with satisfactory results.
For glace kid shoes- that have become
sunburned and parched, cold cream `off
the dressing table will prove a restorer.
A cracked egg 'may be boiled by plan.
ing a teaspoonful of salt in the water.
Tnis prevents any of the white ,from
boiling out of the crack.
It is poesible to freshen stale cake by
steaming it for about an hour and then
leaving it in a hot oven for a few min-
utes. Yesterday's rolls may be made
palatable by heating in the oven until
they become quite hot.
A good way to olean hairbrushes is
with spirits of ammonia and warm
water. Take a teaspoonful of nm•
monia to a quart of water, dip the brie.
tles up and down in. the water without
wetting the back, rinse in clean, warm
water; shake well anis dry in the air,
but not in the sun. Soap and soda soften
the bristles, and will turn an ivory
baoked brash yellow. ,
When using fly ,paper, it is quite apt
to fall or come in contact with some
article of furniture, flror, eto. After re•
moving the paper apply a generous
amount of kerosene to the article of fur-
niture cr clothing, and it will quickly
remove the stinky aubetanoe. It does
not i ijnre clothing and readily evapor
Mee. Try this, and yon will be pleased
with results.
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THE WINGHAM TIMES, MAY 1.4, 1908
TO MOVE OUR PLANET
Power It Would ,Take to Raise
the Earth One Foot.
THE WEIGHT OF THE GLOBE.
It Has Been Calculated to Be Some
Six Million Million Tons -What
Would Happen if the Earth Should
Come to a Sudden Standstill.
1t is not generally known that the
rotundity of the earth and its move-
meut were known long before Coper-
nicus and Galilee. 'J'hus, Aristotle
says, "almost all those who claim to
have studied heaveu in its uniformity
declare that the earth is in the center,
but the philosophers of the Italiau
school, otherwise the Pythagoreans,
tenet eutirely the contrary. In this
opiulou the center is occupied by tire
and the earth is only a star, which by
a circular movemeut round the same
Center produces night and day,"
The following Greek philosophers be-
lieved in the rotundity of the earth:
Pythagoras of Samos, Annximander,
Nicetas of Syracuse, Heraelides of
Pontus, Aristarchus of Samos, Sele-
nens and Ecphturtus. Lieraclides and
Eculiantus admitted that the earth
moved only upon its own axis, the
diurnal movement. The Pythagoreans
held that each star was a world, hav-
ing its own atmosphere, with an im-
mense extent of ether surrounding it.
Many centuries before Coperuicus
wrote his work on "The Revolution, of
the IIeavenly Bodies," which was
about 1542 A, D., the Jewish cabalistic
book, called "Zohar," stated as to the
cosmography of the universe:
"lu the book of Uammannunh the
0141 we learn through extended expla-
nation tbat the earth turns upon itself
in the form of a circle; that some are
on top, the others below; that all crea-
tures change in aspect, following the
manner of each place, keeping, how-
ever, in the same position. But there
are some countries of the earth that
are lightened while others are in dark-
ness. These have the day when for
the former it is ulght, and there are
countries lu which it is coastautly day
or in whirl, at least the night contin-
ues only softie instants. These secrets
were made known to the men of the
seeret science, but not to the geogra-
phers."
Maimonides (1190 A. D.) held that
the earth had the form of a globe; that
it was inhabited at both extremities of
a certain diameter; that the inhabit-
ants had their beads toward heaven
and their feet toward each other, yet
they did not fall off.
In India at a very early period the
astronomer Arya-bhata (born A. D.
476) held to the opinion that the earth
revolved upon its own axis. It is
known that the Cbaldeans at a very
ancient period calculated with certain-
ty eclipses of the moon and closely ap-
proximated the time of eclipses of the
sun. Dr. Schlegel gives the great an-
tiquity of 18.000 years to the Chinese
astronomical sphere.
Though astronomy affords the means
of determining with great precision
the relative masses of the ear{h, the
moon and all the planets, it does not
enable us to determine the absolute
mass of any heavenly body in units of
the weights used on earth. To doter•
mine the absolute mass of the globe its
mean density must be known, and this
is something about which direct obser-
vation can give no information, as we
cannot penetrate more than an insig-
nificant distance Into the earth's inte-
rior. The most probable mean density
of the earth is 5.G -that is, the earth is
5.6 finies as heavy as a ball of pure
Water 4f the same size. From this and
similar estimates the weight of the
globe has been calculated to be six mil -
ion million tons.
Archimedes. the greatest ancient ge
oweter, is accredited with the saying,
"Give me where I may stand, and I
will inove the world!" With a lever of
sutlieient length this task might possi-
bly be accomplished. But let us see
what it would require to accomplish it
with the forces at our command. The
weight of the globe has been calculat-
ed to be six million million tons.
To move this Weight one foot a steam
engine of 10,000 horsepower would
have to work incessantly for a period
of seventy thousand millions of years.
During this time the engine would use
up forty wiliion million quarts of wa-
ter, a quantity sufficient to cover the
whole globe 300 feet high. Now, as to
the fuel consumed by the engine, if its
boiler was good and working econom-
ically, It would require four thousand
million tons of coal to feed It during
the seventy thousand million years.
To ship such a quantity of coal by rail-
way it would take two hundred thou-
sand millIon cars of n capacity of
twenty tons each. These cars, when
placed In a line, would form a train so
long as to encompass the earth forty-
five times, and if this train should
move with a velocity of twenty-five
miles an hour it would take it five mil-
lion years before It could traverse the
distance of its own length.
This calculation shows that the globe
rests pretty firmly In the place assign-
ed
teeth
nature and dhow difficult
would be the task 'suggested by the
great mathematician.
1t is known what happens wIien a
rapidly running train comes to a sad.
den standstill. =We aro thrown for-
ward in the direction of its motion.
The same result Would follow the dud -
den stopping of the earth's motion,
only on a much larger scale. Every-
thing on its surface would be hurled
Into apace with a velocity hundreds of
times as great as that of the swiftest
express train.
But we should heave hardly the time
"Life in Every Dose'?
"I cannot speak too highly of Puy -
chine, for it is the greatest medicine I
ever used, 1 was just about 'all in'
when 1 began the treatment, and is 3
months I was as well as ever. It is a
great tonic for weak and run down peo-
ple. There i9 new life in every dose,"
JAS. STOLIKER.
Bidgetown, Ont., Dee. 19 1900,
It is a sin not to tell your sick friends
about this wonderful prescription,
Throat, lung and stomach troubles, and
all run down conditions quickly eared
by its use. At all drugglsts, 50e and
$1.004 or Dr. T, A. Slocum, Ltd., Toronto
to realize this somersault into settee be-
cause of the other immediate result -
viz, the transformation of the earth's
motion lute a hent so luteusc' as to
raise the temperature of the air by
hundreds of degrees, turn setts, lakes
and rivers into steam nnti instantly
consume forests, Intildings and cities.
And loon Hud animals would lustun-
taneously perish from the mere breath-
ing of the hot air. and their corpses
would be iueinetaled In the ge.u,'t 1
contittgraltou. In short, tie result
wouId he 11 tragedy sorb as is depleted
by St. Peter for the judgiuent Clay.
Sareuti is have given the tempera-
ture which one would feel when pene-
trating to the center of the globe. '1'o
obtain this estimate or heat they had
to confine themselves to simple ob-
servations on the rise of .temperature
In mine shafts. Geologists believed
that the mean temperature of the
earth increased by 1 degree with
every hundred feet of descent. With
these figures for a basis they calculated
that the menu heat of the central nu -
Ileus must be 4,320 degrees F.
This was good mathematics, but in-
correct, for observations made in Ne-
vada with instruments of great pre-
cision showed that the heat of the
central nucleus was much greater.
For the experiment of 1397 a silver
mine was selected, and there they
found that at 2,500 feet under the
earth's surface the air showed a tem-
perature of 94 degrees F. and the wa-
ter of 120 degrees. In the vicinity, at
Yellow Jack shaft, the mbae reaches a
depth of 3,000 feet, and the thermome-
ter shows constantly 139 degrees F., so
that miners cannot work there for'
more than fifteen minutes at a stretch.
The works in the Simplon showed like-
wise an uncommon subterranean heat,
and'the calculations justify an assump-
tion for the central nucleus of a tem-
peraturelif 680,000 to 700,000 degrees,
the same as is assumed of the sun.- ; t
Leon Landsberg in Chicago Record -
Herald.
BRITISH NAVY MYSTERY.
Tradition; Regarding the Death of air
Gioudesley Shovel,
Of the almost complete wreck oL a
equatlron under Sir Cloudesley Shovel
on the rocks of the Scilly Isles, togeth-
er with the death or its gallant coot.
mender, the greatest seaman of the
age, a number of curious traditions
are associated both with the events
leading up to the catastrophe and the
fate of the celebrated admiral,
'The outstanding feature of the catas.
tropho is the mystery of Shovel's
(leant, which will probably never be
:solved, and the latter turns upon the
admiral's emerald ring. One story goes
teat the body was picked up ou the
shore by a soldier and his wife and
buried by them on Porth licence.
sands. A spot Is 5(111 shown at Porth
Hollick as being the burial place of the
admiral, and, according to tradition,
grass has never growu upon it. Subse-
quently the identity of the corpse was
discovered. The remains were exhum-
ed and conveyed to London via Plym-
outh, where they were embalmed. La-
dy Shovel rewarded the soldier with a
pension for life and received from blue
the ring found on her husband's finger.
Another story is that Paxton, the
purser of the Arundel, discovered two
St. Mary men quarreling over the pos-
session of n ring. He at ouce recog-
nized it as Shovel's ring and inquired
from which body it had been taken,
and when that was found he kuew
and claimed the body. Lastly, there is
the' startling narrative of foul play -
viz, that many years after the wreck
an aged woman confessed to the par-
ish minister on her deathbed that, ex-
hausted with fatigue, one man who
had been washed ashore on a hatch
reached her hut and that she had mut..
dered him to secure the valuable prop-
erty on his person. She then produced
a splendid emerald ring taken from
the finger of her victim and identified
as the gift of Lord Berkeley to Shovel,
The responsibility for this story rests
upon the admiral's grandson, the Earl
of Romney. Modern research reports
rather in favor of the murder theory.
The ring was eventually recovered, and
altered into the form of a locket and
set with diamouds it is a precious relic
of the Berkeley family.
The theory as to how it passed into
the possession of the family of the
original donor is that Lady Shovel re-
ceived it from the murderess, as stated,
and bequeathed it at her death to Lord
Berkeley. Several old works of refer-
ence contain the baseless story that
Lady Shovel was aboard the Associa-
lon and was drowned. along with her
husband. By the way, her ladyship's
ghost is supposed to -vatic at midnight
n the avenue of Arad place, Dartford,
Kent, once -the home of the Shovels. -
London Globe.
When Women Meet. - '
Two cups of flour, N +
Leave off the slegves,
Boil for an hour,
Some autumn leaves;
Then get a willow plume, you know,
Frappe it well and serve it so.
Some pretty lace.
Beat to a froth,
Of salt a trace.
I sponge the cloth.
What is this stuff the paper prints?
Just cooking mixed with fashion hints.
Useless Sacrifice.
Edyth-It's too bad that Cara watt
in love with Jack wheu he proposed to
me. I feel sorry for the poor girl.
Maykle•-Why, she- is in love with
Tom. She never even cared for Jack.
1J'dyth-Oh, clear, 1 never would have
accepted him had I known that.
A Spring Hint.
How beautiful is nature in the early days
of spring,
When buds are all a -budding and ib,'
bluebirds sweetly sing!
And if you would enjoy it in the linty,.
way by far
Just sample all its beauties from y,nn
neighbor's touring car.
-Clivelancl Plain neater.
H o w . I
Your Cold?
Every place you go you hear the same
question asked.
Do0 know u ku w that there is nothing as
dangerous as a neglected cold ?
Do you know that a neglected cold will
tarn into Chronic Bronchitis, Pneumonia,
disgusting Catarrh and the most deadly of
all, the "White Plague," Coneumpp'tion.
Many a life history would read different
if, on the first appearance of a cough, it
had been remedied with
Dr. Wood's
Norway
Pine Syrup
This wonderful cough and cold medicine
eontsini all those very pine principles
which make the pine woodsyso valuable in
the treatment of lung affections.
Combined with this are Wild Cherry
Bark and the soothing, healing and ex-
pao� t properties of other pectoral
kerbs and becks.
For Coughs,Colds,Bronchitis,Pgi. n
in
the Chest, Asthma
Croup, Whooping '
Cough, Hoarseness or any affection of the
throat or Lungs. You will find a Imre
cure
in Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup.
Mrs. 'C. N. Loonier, Berwick, N.S.,
writes : "I hove used Dr. Wood's Norway I
Pine Syrup for coughs and colds, and have
slwayi found it to give instant relief. I
alta recornnnonded it to ene of my neigh -
ba -s and she was mora that pleased with
ahs results."
De 'Wood's Norway Pine Syrup i15 ate.
per boat° at ill d'iaiora. Pmt up in yellow
wrapper and throe pine trees the trade
mark. Refuse substitutes. There is oe 1y
On a Norway Pine Syrup and that out► ie
Zoo's Oldest Inhabitant.
The oldest inhabi4ant of the Zoo is
dead. Guy Fawkes, the famous hippo-
potamus who obtained her name, in
defiance of her sex, from the fact that
her birthday was Nov. 5, has died of
senile decay in her indoor tank. Mr.
R. J. Pocock, the superintendent of
the Gardens, stated that Guy Fawkes
died of old age, after seeming out of
sorts and neglecting her meals for
about a week. The cause of death was
determilleF1 by a post-mortem exam-
ination, and now- all that remains of
her is in the hands of a taxidermist.
Guy Fawkes' almost submerged form
in slumbrous ease in her pond was a
familiar spectacle during the hot sum-
mer days, and not at first sight to be
easily recognized as an animal at all.
Only the flat of her armor -plated back,
her warty snout, and her globular
eyes, showed above the water for
hours together. It only needed the
addition of a periscope to complete
her resemblance to a submarine.
She was born in the Zoo on Nov. 5,
1872, and was thus in her 36th year.
The Viceroy of Egypt presented a
male hippo to the Zoological Society
in the year 1x50, and augmented his
gift with a female three years later.
Both of them lived at Regent's Park
for 23 years, and there they became
the parents of Guy Fawkes. Neither
parent lived as long as the venerab_o
Guy Fawkes, over whose baby days
there was trouble and anxiety, and it 1.
was p'trtly to commemmorate the sue- 1
cessful rearing of the baby hippo that,
in December, 1372, Mr. A. D. Ilaetlett,
the late superintendent of the Gar-
dens, was presented with the Zoologi-
cal Society's silver medal. Guy
Fawkes' place in the Zoo will be hard
to fill. There are three young hippos
there at present, but two of them are
not in robust health. The oldest in-
habitant now in
theGardens G < n
e s isoff
S a
Culli, the Indian elephant brought
home by King Edward in 1876. The 14,
next oldest -there being only a few i 4..
months' difference between the two- +i+
is an alligator in the Reptile House. ,4.
FLUE -CLEANING •
' -1x dirty, trait -breaking lob.
AND.
FLUE -CLEANING
-a clean, record-breaking job,
THE FLUE DOORS
Situated " singly " over feed door
-on some furnaces.
Situated "doubly," same distance from
each other, same distance from feed
door --on "Sunshine" Furnace.
"SUNSHINE" ADVANTAGE:
Operator can easily clean every
bit of soot out of radiator.
THE OPERATION
Fire put out, smokelpipe pulled
down -ori so m e furnaces,
Fire stays in, smoke -pipe stays up - on
"Sunshine" Furnace.
"SUNSHINE" ADVANTAGE : Furnace can
be cleaned out any time in season without trouble,
dirt, or " fear of chilling the house."
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Mysterious Picture In Church.
The worshippers at Babraham
Church, Cambridgeshire, on a recent
Sunday were astonished to see a
shadowy -looking figure facing them
on the north wall, where no such ob-
ject had been known to exist before.
It would appear that the picture had
been covered by a thin layer of plass
ter, and that the damp had caused it
, to show darkly through the coloring
above.
The face of the figure Is in three-
quarter or profile, with a beard and
curly hair. The head-dress was ap-
' patently a crown. The left hand
grasped a wand 15 1-2 inches long,
surmounted with a fleur-de-lys. The
clothing, in a long robe of ermine,
over which was a cloak, was open in
front.
The wall is of the fifteenth century,
and the figure is believed to represent
either Edward the Confessor or Henry
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Just That.
"Were the amateur theatricals
COM?"
"Spl"endidl 1 never law anything
worse,
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