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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1909-07-29, Page 34 GANAQIAN NATIONAL EXHIBIT1QN --TORONTO August 2811b p 1909 w September f 31b Greatest Live Stock Exhibit on the Continent. Forty industries in active operation. ADMIRAL LORD CHARLES BERESFORD will officia;;e at opening ceremonies on Tuesday, August 31st, MILITARY YEAR AT THE FAIR Model Camp -Victoria Cross and Wrestling on Horseback Competitions be- tween teams from Dragoons and Artillery -Artillery Drive --Musical Ride, etc. Dreadnoughts in Naval Battle GREAT DOUBLE BILL OF FIREWORKS THE SIEGE OF KANDAHAR RATTLE OF THE NORTH SEA WATCH FOR REDUCED RATES AND EXCURSIONS, For all information write Manager J. 0, ORR, City $all, Toronto, 1000 Men ~ in Uniform Western Fair LONDON Open to the world. Athletic Day Monday ,u DOG SHOW Ontario's Popu1 r Exhibition Sept. 10 -18 Increased Prize List ! Speed Events Daily CAT SHOW wirognisatommanteramsersanam THE CREAT LIVE STOCK EXHIBITION ! MUSIC- 91st Highlanders ; 7th Fusiliers. 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Write fore Question Lig !'. for Home Treatment ENE Y&KENNEDY Cor, Michigan Ave. and Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. THE WINGHA•M TIMES, JULY 29, 1909 ANCIENT BALLS. They Were Often Quadrangular and Made of Thin iron Plates, There are several old bells in Scot- land, Ireland and Wales. The oldest are often quadrangular, being made of thin iron plates which bare been ham- mered and riveted together. At the monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland the four sided ben of the Irish mission - try St. Gall, who lived in the seventh century, is still preserved, but more ancieut still is the bell of St. Patrick in Belfast, which is ornamented with, gold and gems and silver filigree work. The curfew bell is that about which most has been written; and said. It has been thought that it was only used in England, but it was quite common on the continent in the ]riddle ages. The ringing of bells by rope is still very popular in England, especially in the country, where almost every ham- let, however small, has its church with its peal of bells, which are often re- markably web Tung. The first real peal of belts in England was sent by Pope Cnlixtus III. to King's college, Cambridge, and was for 300 years the largest peal in England. About the beginning of the year 1500 sets of eight bells were hung in a few of the ]urge churches. In the middle of the seventeenth cen, tury a man named White wrote a fa- mous work on bells in which he intro- duced the system of numbering them 1, 2, 3, 4, ete., on slips of paper in dif- ferent orders, according to the changes intended to be rung. It is calculated that to ring all the changes upon twen- ty -foto' bells at two strokes a second would take 117 billion years. One of the most famous bells in the world Is the first great bell of Moscow, which uow stands in the middle of a square in that city and is used as a chapel. This bell was cast in 1733, but was in the earth tor over a hundred years, being raised in 1836 by the Bin- peror Nicholas. It is nearly twenty feet high, has a circumference of sixty feet, is two feet thick and weighs al- most 200 tons. The second Moscow bell, which is the largest bell in the world that is actually in use, weighs 128 tons. There are several bells ex- tant which weigh ten tons and over, of which Big Ben. the largest bell in Eng- lund; weighing between thirteen and fourteen tons, is one, Big Ben is un- fortunately cracked. -London Globe. HISTORY ON A TUSK. Picture Made by a Cave Man Millions of Years Ago. Long ago, so long that even a scien- tist would hardly dare venture a guess as to the date. a man clad with only a wild beast's skin about bis loins was sitting at the mouth of a cave in one of the rocky highlands in what is now southern France. lae was scratching with a sharp flint on the fragments of an ivory tusk, perhaps picturing for some youthful admirers adventures through which he bad passed or ani- mals he bad slain. That ivory chip was stored away as a treasure, to be lost and forgottep after the cave man's death. One day a man named Lartet, digging in the cavern floor, found it. On it was scratched a very fair rep- resentation of the hairy elephant, probably at once the oldest picture and the oldest human record in ex- istence. 'Rre know the cave man was a faith- ful workman, for the melting ice fields of Siberia have yielded a perfect speci- men of this extinct mammal, and the paleolithic picture is a true copy. Not only has this ancient sculptor given us a sample of the earliest art, but he has left us, more valuablethan all, a his- torical record of his time, for this rude picture is simply a page from the cave man's history which, translated lnt) twentieth century English, says, "Men, thinking men, were contempo- raneous with the hairy elephant." No record that any of humankind have ever left is half so ancient as this. The oldest Egyptian papyrus is a thing of yesterday compared to this paleolithic sculpture. While the cave man was living in Europe the valley of the Nile was yet only a wild waste. Egypt was not yet Egypt, and civiliza- tion as we know it bad scarcely made a beginning.-Lippincott's. Shy on the Son. "But I do not know the candidate," said an old' Yorkshire farmer who was appealed to for his vote. "Bit yeti know his father?" "Yes, I know him, and he's a grand man." "Then you veil surely vote for his son, won't you?" But the old farmer was still. donbt- fuL "I'm no so sure abut that," he re, plied; "it's no every coo that has a caufr like hersel'.'--Liverpool Mercury. Queer, but Expressive. A Danish girl who has recently some to this country to take a course in, trained ntiesing teas complaining to s friend the other' morning of having overslept herself. "Anti no reason why such 4 thing should befall me, for I had -what do you call it in English? I know, a sleep watch -all set." --Wash- ington Stat. A Quiet Spot In the Suburbs. "c ayboy has given up horses and drink and all hie bad habits and bas settled down in a quiet little place in the suburbs." '"Where?" "the Cemetery; "-Illustrated Bits. kind Hearted. "And did you enjoy your African trip, major? Ilow did you like the savages?" "Oh, they Woo extremely kt h ftrt- "d. they 'Wanted' to keep crit t M 101 6• kbit ... 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The engi- neering skill and constructive capacity to control the annual floods from the poles, store the waters and build the thousands of miles of huge canals would require scientific knowledge be- yond that possessed by us at the pres- ent time and financial resources in ex- cess of those we have yet accumulat- ed, The nation that Suds the digging of a iittle ditch at Panama so great a task would be helpless in the face of such a problem as these thousands of miles of Martian canals, if, indeed, ca- nals they be. Yet, in view of the greater life age of Mars, such higher intelligence would be natural in the regular process of development, as- suming that it has ever been the abode of intellectual life. Scientists are in the main in a re- ceptive state on this subject. They are not ready to admit that the exist- ence of life on that planet bas been proved. They do not deny it, but call for greater proof than a plausible the- ory. Among others than scientists there is in the main a disposition not to accept the Martian human life theory or the theory of life on any of the thousands of spheres that wheel and glisten in illimitable space. They seem to think that such a theory con- flicts with religion and dwarfs man and his importance in the scheme of creation. This seems to be a very narrow view to take, since it appears to set bounds upon the infinite power and creative desires of the Almighty, whose great scheme of mortal and immortal life is not necessarily confined to a single planet or the few billions of human beings who are born and die upon IL As to dwarfing the importance of man, a few billions more added to the bil- lions on earth would make little differ- ence. Man is at best a small and in- significant creature, but if all embrac- ing wisdom, power and lave takes so- licitous note of him it would be limit- ing those infinite qualties to say that one planet must be his abiding place. Therefore the question of human in- telligence on Mars or any other planet of the solar system or the other great systems in remote space should be purely and simply a scientific one, to be accepted as true only when proved, but not to be rejected through senti- ment or for any other reason whatever except lack of proof. -St. Louis Star. mak HEADACHE. In all cases of headache the first thing to tlo is to unload the bowels and thus relieve the afflicted organs or the over - full blood vessels of the brain; and at the same time to restore tone to the system, te-establish the appetite, pro- mote digestion and invigorate the entire body. svili remove the cause of the trouble and restore the system to healthy action and buoyant vigor, - Mesa'. Priest, Aspdin, Ont., writes: - "l tuns ttoubled with heal the for several years And tried almost a erything with- out results, until -a friend advised me to try lltlydoek Bleed Bitters. I got two l>atviles, but before I had finished one I was cotnpletehy cured. I tan never say fob touch for II.Ii.13." For sale at all cleatere. Manufactured ottiy by 'Thi; '1'. Milburn Co,, Limited, Toronto, Ont. This Curiouet Animal is Like Two Half Creatures Joined. The chameleon] is not allied closely to any other animal. It stands as a geuus by itself. The nervous centers in one lateral half operate independ- eptly of those in the other. This seems outrageous, and it is, but it is true. The chameleon has two lateral centers of perception --of sensation and of motion. There exists also a third confer --that common one in which abides the power of concentration by means of which the two sides of the creature may be forced to work itt harmony with each other. But this center of concentration does not al- ways dominate the situation. Not- withstanding the strictly symmetrical structure of the animal's two halves, the eyes move quite independently, and they convey distinct and separate impressions tO their respective centers of perception. As of the eyes, so of the other members -each reports to til is controlled by its own center. The result is that when the faculty of concentration becomes disturbed everything is jumbled. Let the chame- leon be much agitated and its move - merits grow erratic. They are those of two creatures fastened together, or, rather, of two half creatures joined. Eaeb half exhibits its intention of go- ing its separate way, The result is a pitiable confusion of movement. There is no concordance of action. A curi- ous example of the chameleon's help- lessness when unduly excited is found In the fact that it cannot swim. The shock of being plunged into water up- sets the poise of its faculty for concen- tration, Forthwith each side strikes out wildly for itself, to its own undo- ing. The chameleon is the only four legged vertebrate that cannot swim, When the creature is calm every im- pulse to motion is referred to the com- mon ceuter of concentration, and the entire organism nets in fitting accord with the commands issued by that fac- ulty. Thus, while totally different im- pressions from the two eyes are trans- Initted from their centers to the com- mon one, that concentrating power de- cides as to which scene is the more important and then directs the eye otherwise engaged also to regard it. The same principle applies in the eon- trol of all the members -so long as the animal remains unexcited. Any ob- server may easily verify the existence of this dual nature in a superficial way by some experiments with a sleeping chameleon. A touch on one side of the animal will wake that side up, while the other side sleeps calmly on. FLINT AND TINDER. Making Fire In the Days Before We Had Matches. A friend of mine of just my age used to laugh about his own boyhood and tell the story of his mother shaking him in bed and bidding him put on his boots when he dressed and his over- coat and wade through the snow to the next neighbor's to get a pan of hot coals with which to make the tire. I suppose Joe's mother had lost her flint. We kept our flint and what was called "the steel" in a round tin box such as would bold a quart of straw- berries now, and it was on the man- telpiece in the kitchen. It was half full of tinder. Half the boys and girls of today do not know what tinder is or was. Now, whoever was in the kitchen in the morning and found that the last hot coal of the wood fire had gone out took down the tinder box and struck the steel with the flint smartly and of- ten until a redhot spark fell on the tinder; then very carefully she blew with her breath on any flakes of the tinder which had lighted until she had quite a little cove of lighted tinder. Then she took what we called a brine - stone match and put that very care- fully in the little hot hole. If all things worked web, the brimstone lighted and the wood of the match lighted, and she lighted the candle, which made a part of the tinder box. Oh, dear! There were thousands of tinder boxes in little Boston the day I was born, and a few years ago 1 tried to buy one as a curiosity, and I could not find one in any of the junksbops. In those days old women would stop at the door and ask you to buy some bundles of matches. They had made these themselves of pine wood four inches long, which they had dipped in hot brimstone at both ends. And those were the only matches that anybody ever heard of. --Woman's Home Com- panion. Always Dreaded the 14th. Most dismal of ail men ot! the stage Was Grimaldi, the clown, and his father fathered him. He had that carious dread of a certain date which assails so many. The eider Grimaldi hated the 14th of the month, and when it Was passed he regarded bimeelf its safe until the next. He was born, christened and married on the 14th of the month, and, being discontented with all three events, we will hope his death on March 14, 1788, satisfied him, -Loddon 'Tatler. 4uttinq Humor. With eap and bells jangling, he but011 into the king's presence. "Dave you heard my last joke, your majesty?" he cried. "1 have," was the'reply agthe royal. ax descended. on the neck of the totirt jester. -Life, Real it►tsm. The Author-47*A, bow aid you AU TO plan The t tiro~ -(1k it out *0 nickel The Antlsot-Dert tett hila' the ehttrild't tee i -brow* so. 't, > net acts .*t oai-011109•114,1raiiikk LONDON, ONTARIO Business &Shorthand SUBJECTS Resident and Mail Course* Catalogues Free J. W. Westervelt, J. W. Westervelt, Jr„ C,A., Principal. 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