HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-12-02, Page 3NOTES AND COMMENTS BO51 AN JUSTICE.
Fresh foods by virtue of vapors
is the new ideu of Brussels, Bel
gium. The comestible is inserted
in an airtight chamber into which
is passed tho vapor from a secret
ly prepared pastille, and the food
in immersed in this atmosphere for
a certain period. Its surface be
comes coated with an invisible film
or sheathing, permeating to a slight
depth from the surface, of the gas
which effectually preserves the
article -from the oxidization of the
air, and thus arrests putrifaction.
On being withdrawn from the cham
ber the article of food can be ex
posed to the ordinary atmosphere
for almost an indefinite period with-
■out any apprehensions concerning
, its wholesomeness and purity, since
the gas deposit upon the surface
does not evaporate1 until brought
■into contact with heat.
THRILLING ADVENTURES OF
DARING BALLOONISTS,
They Have Hairbreadth 'Escapes
and Terrible Experiences
in Mid-Air.
Last summer Miss Viola Spencer
had a very thrilling adventure
after an ascent from Heanor, Der
byshire, says London Tit-Bits. ‘Af
ter rising to an altitude of 3,000
feet, she found her parachute would
not release, and while she essayed
to loosen it she was carried up to
10,000 feet. Passing close to Not
tingham, the balloon descended at
Rearsby, Leicester, when Miss
Spencer slipped safely off her seat,
after seventy-five minutes in the
air.
Then the balloon rose again and
disappeared, but next morning both
it and the parachute were found in
the back-yard of a dwelling-house
undamaged.
TWO LADIES, ONE PARACHUTE
Miss Daisy Shepherd and Miss
Louie May will probably never for
get their thrilling experience in the
air. For the entertainment of a
Bank Holiday crowd of spectators
they7 had arranged an ascent from
Longton Park, Staffordshire, and
as a special attraction one descent
was to be a double one.
Had they known what kind of ex
perience was in store for them, and
how and where they would descend,
they would in all probability have
given up the idea of such a perform
ance. But they could not foresee
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balloon ascent, any more than couldOfficers of the Egypt .Exploration
NOTES OF SCIENCE.FAMOUS TEA DRINKERS.
Johnson Heads the List WHh a Ca- {How Technicalities Were Avoided in Niagara Fulls Saves Coal—Britain's
I New Gun.
I A thin sheet of lead is sufficient
to bar the emanations of radium
and other radioactive substances.
The mills of the United States
every year export more flour than
all the rest of the mills in the world
produce,
The Chilian Government has ap
pointed a commission to study the
question of the electrification • of
the state railways,
The hydro-electric plants supplied
with power by Niagara Falls are'
estimated to save about 1,000,000
tons of coal a year.
Within a year
SAVED HER FINGERS,
An American parachutist, Miss
Belle Lockhart, not long since had
a terrible experience in mid-air.
Tho ascent was made from Bing-
hampton, New York, and for me
space of twenty minutes only the
strength of her slender fingers was ...
between her and certain death. ' I tea between midnight and in the
When the balloon left the ground morning than any other member
she was thrown from her seat on' of the House of Commons, and that ...... „„
the car, and wont a mile and a half the strongest brew7 of it never in- Greeks ip literature and art, tho
jn J-.ho n.iv hn.TTWinnp A’nlv 'hv Kai’ xxrrfEi Es t« I T» A..,.
hands, After the balloon had par
tially emptied and commenced to
descend her hand caught the cut
off rope and let the parachute
loose. Thon a life-preserver about
her waist caught in the gear and
slipped up over her head, cutting
off her vision. Small wonder, there- , . „
fore, that v'licn she landed she be- their best to gratify his amiable
came unconscious, or that many ivo- weakness,
men amongst the spectators fainted
at: the sight. - .
JUST ESCAPED DEATH.
Some readers will perhaps remem- comply with. On Sir Joshua hey-
I ” ' ... . .
Charles Woolcot,
pacify of 25 Cups at » Sitling.
Napoleon, like Johnson, was a
hardened tea drinker, and so, a
century later, was Mr. Gladstone,
who confessed that "he drank more
the Courts,
The bar was an open profession
in ancient Home; the litigant enjoy
ed the utmost latitude in the choice
of an advocate, whose right to re
present his client in court was ful
ly conceded, says the Westminster
Review. Slavish, imitators of the
BALANCED BY THE GYRO-
SCOPE MIRACLE.
Car Weighing 22 'Tons and Carry*
ing Passengers Run on
Single Rail.
Demonstrations conducted in
London, England, by Louis Bren
nan have demonstrated conclusively
that the gyroscope can be practical,
ly applied to railroad operation on
a single track.
| Romans asserted their entire inde
pendence in the domain of law.
Their innovations had the stamp of
originality, but these did not •com
prise any close connection between
bar and bench. It is noteworthy
that during a very long period in
the history of Roman law there was
no exact counterpart of our Judge.
The inagistratus was a public offi-
vry;—, , 1 eial charged with the adminisiration
,, d>1®bai’d Cumberland tells us,,says of jaw. |>jje judex Was a species
pine Gentlewoman, that his inordin- ; referee appointed bv the mag-
i ate demands for his favorite bev- 1 istrato to heai. and rep0l.t upon a
,wei-ft occasw”an); difficnlt^0 particular case. Then there was an
» TIT - -----x— arbiter who acted alone, or withber the extraordinary case of Mr. nolds reminding him that he had others, in arbitration cases (arbi-
y when making a already consumed eleven cups he tria)„ Finally, there were recuper-
parachute descent in Venezuela, replied: Sir, I did not count vour atOres who assisted in international
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number my cups of tea?” adding; ^he hearing before these various ' British military7 authorities are ex-
laughingly and in perfect good liu- types of judex was called the judi- perimenting can throw 250 tliree-
mor: "Sir, I should have released cum> ag distinguisbed from jus, the P«™d shells 3% miles each
our hostess from any further trou- i10arjng before the magistrates pro- ute. P- ■ .......1 .........x-
ble, but you have reminded me that f)er]y gQ cal]ed_ 7htj uiijut.s viw. ------, .......... .........
want one more cup to make up ng quaij£ed f01. serving as jucli- ro£® 25 miles an hour.
| ces were inscribed in a public re-1
cord known as the album. More
over, litigants had the rig-u of ob
jection to a particular judex. 1’
only so, but this right was extend- j
ed during many centuries to crim-',
inals, who were tried before cen- i
in the air, hanging only by her terfored with his sleep "
..................................... -I The dish of tea was one of the
most important factors in Johnson’s
life. Profici ancy in the gentle art
of tea brewing was regarded by
him as an essential attribute of the
perfect woman, and there can be
110 doubt that his female friends
(and their name was legion) did
Within a year the number of Abus the inono-rail, which it is
horse-drawn cabs in London has T eventually revolution^
arbiter who acted alone, or with
decreased 1,679 and the number of
taxicabs has increased 1,886.
Mines of the United States yield
ed 35,983,336 long tons of iron ore
Ia.st year. Minnesota, Michigan
and Alabama leading in that order.
ize the railway system of the world,
seems brought within tho bounds
of practicability.
SCIENTISTS ASTONISHED.
Mr. Brennan had previously giv
en demonstrations with a small
. Members of the Royal
As ill-luck would have it, his para
chute refused to open as ho was
dropping from a height of some
3.000 feet. To the spectotors he
seemed to drop like ,a stone until
within about 150 feet of the ground
Then strange to say, the apparatus
opened, though only to split, the
parachutist receiving fearful injur
ies, though he escaped with his life.
BOWL 7,000 YEARS OLD.
Collection of Antiquities to be Seen
on Strand, London.
There is a most fascinating col
lection of antiquities found by the
When the edible is placed in the
oven or boiled upon the fire the gas
is liberated, leaving the article
precisely in the same condition as
it was before treatment. No traces
■of the vapor can be detected ei-
'•ther by the palate or smell. The
tablets are composed of some ten
ingredients. They are white in
•color, about the size of a silver
-quarter, and approximately four
times as thick. The chemical com
position of the vapor generated may
be best described as the purest form
•of carbon. Its presence can be de
tected easily by its pungent odor.
'The process is fundamentally the
same whether used in the home or
on board ship, and it is supposed
to solve the oft vexed problem of
keping for an indefinite period per
ishable foods, such as butter, meat,
poultry, fish, eggs, and milk. Af- al Longton were not again seen. It So they moved their camp to the
'ter being sterilized these articles ' afterwards transpired that they nad spot and dug there for about a
• - had an experience that would have • month ru*k —
glasses of wine; why should .you questions.
the dozen, and I must request Mrs. I
Cumberland to round up my score." (
When he saw the complacency j
with which the lady of the house ,
obeyed his behests he said cheer-1
ilj7: "Madam, I must tell you -or !
your comfort, you have escaped;
much better than a certain lady I
did a while ago, upon whose pati- {
ence I intruded greatly more than
I have yours. She asked me for no
other purpose than to make a zany
will retain their purity and full
flavor for weeks without the slight
est deterioration.
With the exception of about 120 jnodeJ oar Ke„bers of r -
miles, there is a chain of automatic , aocifit were astouighed some
block signals from the Atlantic to; to gee thig del .
the Pacific on American railroads, I a f wire balanc> itsJ
I A new automatic gun which the ]•’ ■ 1 - °
i min
ute. It is carried on an automobilej, . UlrtJ, AM ID UOI.LI.1VM. Ull CL 11 CL U UU HIV Ml IV
The names of ciu- {truck, .with a crew of ten men, at a
The use of iron has been traced
back to the ninth century B. G.,
at which period the Egyptians made
weapons from meteorites.
- 1 The world’s largest cast-steel
wheel recently was turned out at a
t Pittsburg foundry. It was 13% feet
tumvirs’and dVcemvRs/Vitting^mi {in diameter and weighed 8,700 lbs.
the permanent tribunals. If the I Scientists have figured out that
Roman Bill Sykes never thought of fche P«at Sweden alone are
putting forward the demand of his capable of producing 10,000,000,000
English congener that "we all ought i'0”8 dried peat, suitable for fuel,
to have a voice in making the laws national ^German dental com
as wc suffer by," yet wc may be eress recently in session at Berlin
well assured that he would not fail ■ attributed the softness of the teeth
to take a sporting- chance, make a, °' , e present generation to the
prime favorite of the Judge who ea1W of to° much "’heafc bread and
sumewuiig iiact gone wrong. xne matron wias a pre-ayuasne cemetery i .. ,, , .. , . , j was most reversed on appeal, and ca»dy.
young ladies vanished in the clouds about eight miles away was being . T v , ®,a ? iav “ace ea strenuously object to the others. ----------------------
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miuivuu iwceiiq any more inan cowa omcers oi rue j’jgvpu JCixp.ioraw.on . tt.v .■be sightseers .who had. assembled. Fund, now on vi^ut King, Col-. “ “XTnf^ng ?
I madam, I had my revenge on her,
for I swallowed five and twenty
to witness the fair parachutists’ re-j lege in the Strand, London. I'
While engaged on excavations at
a great Abydos Messrs. E. Naville, E. 11.;
turn to mother, earth.
The balloon rose to a great ADyaos iviessrs, ji. i\avine, n.. xi. > . . > . ,,
height, when it became apparent Ayrton and L. Loat received infor-°i <?a’ , , t .something had gone wrong. The mation that a prh-dynastic cemetery I .9umberland. declared that Ins
in a south-easterly direction, and plundered in an unorthodox way. ba^
' water,” for it was then, and then
(only, he was seen at his happiest
moments.
, On his Scottish tour his inexor-
'. able demands for tea sorely tried J
i the patience of Lady7 Macleod of
i Dun vegan, who after giving him his
| sixteenth cup suggested that fur-
’ ther supplies in a small basin might
be agreeable to him.
j “I wonder, madam,” he answered
’ j roughly, “why all the ladies ask
j me such questions. It is to save,
yourself trouble, madam, and not
me.”
The lady7 was discreetly7 silent,
and
about a
i month with splendid resums, as;
(the exhibition proves. I
Among the finds is a unique bpwl1
’■with four hippopotami on the’rim, (
j a triumph of pottery work for the ’
11,006 feet the period.
had an experience that would have
thrilled the bravest man.
One of the parachutes became en
tangled in the cording of the bal
loon and consequently failed to act. ,
Ar an. altitude of 11,006 feet the period. The animals are beauti-
young lady involved took the only fully molded, and are in a wonder
course open to save her life. She ful state of preservation. Yet the
made a flying leap for her compan-j bowl was made nearly 7,000 years i
ion, both descending on the one (ago. There are beads in plenty, a
parachute. The double weight, how- ‘ few of gold and silver, some of am-
ever, caused the descent to be very ber and many of carelian. One
rapid, and Miss Shepherd was seri-jloug string of the last named would (
ously injured, while her coinpan-1 be. quite fashionable now. From)
ion fortunately escaped. The scene the grave of a hunter were taken I
of their descent was Uttoxeter, , several weapons, mostly of stone
some eleven miles from Longton, land flint, but also a copper har-
r A-v-rxT'-r, nw « at , i- Spoon, which is of the greatest in-LANDED ON AN OAK. i ’ercsfc A clay gamingfaboard wifch
A couple of years ago Mlle Nellie ' 18 squares find 12 men show that'
Neille, another fair parachutist, "draughts" is a very ancient in-j
If the I Scientists have figured out that
J/XUMV. 4 f* 1| WlAW V* iJllv U TV X1.V ; —
was most reversed on appeal, and canc*y-
The point which calls for our spe
cial attention is that none of the
men who discharged the various jit-
HE KNEW HIS WORTH.
Self-confidence is one of the most
Moreover, the carbon is an excel
lent germicide. Meat treated by it
it becomes immune from its ravages
of flics and other insects. The
carbon’in vapor completely kills
all organisms ivithin fifteen min
utes, whether typhoid or cholera
bacilli or less dread forms of life.
The food is said to remain as di
gestible as ever with the same
taste, precisely as before treatment.
Milk can be treated with this va
por by passing it in the form of a
spray through a carbon atmosphere 'provided some thousands of specta-i stitution
for the fraction of a second. AHU-; tors at Pontypool with a thrilling. Of a later period, 3500 B. C., is
so treated is rendered germ proof i Ascending by means of a the-skull of a long-horned ox found «, a.iunuivx, «uU,
for a lone neriod irresnective of ( CaP^lv® balloon, she proceededto , al. the bottom of a shaft of a grave, ; balloonist, reached London after an
climnlir rmwb'finnc Vni- Fhorn , 'come down on tier paracliute. _Bub wliere it had been placed with one extraordinarily adventurous bal-' ,climatic conditions, let there is I an oaic tree, standing in the Qua-J of the haunches as an offering. The h>on journey, during part of which' -‘
only one part carbon to one thou- jkers’ burial ground at Penygarn, 'central teeth of both sides of the the car was dragged along- the sur-;
cnnrl nni.|.. mill.- T, airrrs ii^on+n/l obstructed her T>assa£>'e. and she!lnwer inw are worn down, n.s 1-iv a' r.,jCe the sea I
She had as companion M Gar-' nd''aculous is reported from Sleek
This caused tremendous excitement that period. There is quite a quan-! nior, a neighbor of hers ’at Nancy. !Thn
.......... . +K" tity of haii; on the skull showing The’pair intended to take a trip :
n E fit a nminfll wo c n. XT-It____i 1___j. .... *i.i. ii. . . •. A
resumed her task.
DRAGGED IN THE SEA.
j like a tight-rope dancer on two
| wheels, in apparent defiance of the
laws of gravitation, and from time
! to time since then visitors to Mr.
■:Brennan’s house in Kent, have wit-
i nessed the same apparent miracle,
(The secret was to be found in the
i application of that gyroscopic force
which keeps a spinning top from
. falling over on its side, Within the
j little model car was a gyroscope,
which maintained its equilibrium.
FULL-SIZED CAR.
The inventor has now completed a
full-sized car and fitted it with gy
roscopes, and at Cuttingham hr has
given a demonstration which vias
■entirely successful. Forty persons
■ were carried in the car up and down
• a straight single rail track and
round and round a circular track
220 yards in length.
The car is 40 feet in length, ten
feet wide, and 13 feet in height to
the top of the cabin in which tne
machinery7 is contained. It weighs
22 tons empty7 and would carry7 a
load of upward of ten tons. The
I two gyroscopes which balanced il>
on the single rail were three feet
six inches in diameter, weighing to
gether 1% tons, and spinning at the
rate of 3,000 revolutions a minute.
RUN BY PETROL ENGINE.
A petrol engine on the car itself
generated the electric power by
which the gyroscopes were rotated
and the running wheels driven. The
can ran backward and forward, and
negotiated with perfect ease the
sharp curve of an eighth of a mile
circle, which would be impossible
for a railway carriage running on
double rails.
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i
dicial or semi-judicial functions de-; valuable qualities to one who would
scribed were drawn, except in most
exceptional cases, from the advo
cate class. Nor is it possible to con
ceive any arrangement better cal
culated than that in force in Rome
to exclude their narrow, profession
al technicality from the settlement
of civil cases. The presiding mag
istrates of the great criminal tri
bunals were seldom or never men
who practised at the bar. Even in
later times, when the distinction
between jus and judicum had dis
appeared, and the functions of mag
istrates and judex were merged in
one official, there, is i
that the
the bar
fore
! rise quickly, No doubt the young-
i ster who figures m this story7 from
I the London Daily Mail is already
I well on the way7 up.
I A g7 • tieman calling on a mem-
; ber of Parliament one day, while
j waiting in the reception-room, was
i attracted by the manner of the
Ismail attendant, and started
• random conversation.
"And how much do you earn
week, me boy?” he inquired.
“Ten pounds,” said the young-
i ster, with avidity.
j Being shown into the member's
no 'evTdenee I P’dvate office- just then, the. visi-
bench was recruited from'*"””
more frequently7 than be-
a
a
j tor’s surprise found vent in words.
! "Mighty7 bright youth you have,
{to be getting ten pounds a week,”
!ho remarked.
j “Why," said the member of Par-
piament, "he gets only twenty-two
| shillings.’’
| "But he told me just now you
were giving him ten pounds a
week," persisted the gentleman.
"Nonsense I" said the member of
’ Parliament-, and he touched the
{beil.
j “Billy,"" he said, "did you tell this
| gentleman I was paying you ten
( pounds a week ?"
• "No, sir."
j "You didn't? Well, what did vou
(say?"
"I said I earned it," was
prompt and stout rejoinder. '
SOME STARTLING FACTS.A Woman Aeronaut’s Thrilling Ad
ventures.
Mlle Marviugt, a French lady Jiv
ing at Nancy (France), who is well
known as a swimmer, fencer, and i The Eyes of the Blind Opened Mira-
I cnlously.
i A sudden recovery7 of sigh i.iat
rJ after 11 years of darkness came
" back in a manner little, short of
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(burn, Northumberland. The blind
; man to whom the precious gift of
vision has been again vouchsafed is
i Mr. Robert Holland, who is 82 years
of age. When 11 years ago he be
came blind the doctors told him he
i would never see again, and he ac
cepted their vedict with whirl resig
nation he could.iiu contact with the lighthouse,) A few days ago the miracle hap-
Mulai Hafid, Sultan and Shereef. struck some telephone wires. Mlle. Iper?? ,, ia', <, *} ~.0T a
of Morocco, is gifted with a grim! M'arvingt jumped out and sprain-1, k\ , e,,s , ’ aaa y101 , rS‘
humor that keeps his courtiers 1 ed her ankle. (turned to the house. I put my hands ,
trembling on the razor-edge of ex-1 Released of hp.r weight, the hnl-i’1!7 raY aead- As soon as I took,
pectancy. (loon immediately7 rose again, tais-
Ilis latest victim is the Kaid of ing M. Garnier about two miles in-
Larache, who has been on a visit land, where it caught in a tree,
to his Majesty. Certain of his po-'rT'1”"-- K~ --------------1 -... ... ...
sand part milk. In eggs treated obstructed her passage, and she jlower jaw are worn down, as by a'face of the” sea?
with carbon vapor the albumen re- • ^on its most ^branch. , Uib.^ The horse was unknown at [ f
mains perfectly clear, while the I
yolk retains its original bright hue,
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OLDEST LAND IN WORLD.
First Spot io Peep Above Walers been firmly
Was in Canada.
Stretching across Canada north
of the St. Laurence and ending in
the regions about the source of tme
Mississippi is a range of low gran
ite hills called the Laurentifin
Highlands, These hills are really
mountains that are almost worn
out, for they are the oldest land on
American soil, and, according to
Agassiz, the oldest in the world. In
the days when there was nothing
bub water on the face of the globe
these mountains came up—a long
island of primitive rock with uni
versal ocean chafing against its
shores.
None of the other continents had
put in an appearance at the time
America was thus looking up. The
United States began to come to
tight by the gradual uplifting of this
land to the north and the appear
ance of the tops of the Alleghenies,
Which were tho next in order. Lat
er the Rockies started up. The
United States grew southward.from
Wisconsin and. westward from the
Blue Ridge.
An early view of the country
would have showed a large island
which is now northern Wisconsin ;
and a long thin tongue of this pri
mitive rock sticking down from Ca
nada into Minnesota, and these
two growing states looking out over
(lie waters at the more beginning of
mountain ranges east and west.
They wore waiting for the rest of
(lie country to appear.
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Magistnito—-"What is your occu
pation I" Prisoner—"I am an em
ployer of labor, your honor." Mag
istrate—"Well, what do you do?"
Prisoner—"1 find employment for
such gentlemen <s yourself and pri-' was then driven into Mellon Mow-
iwn ollv'lals.” Sentence — Six bray, and was able, to proceed to
Months’ hard. J Derby next morning.
amongst the crowd, and as quickly
as possible attendants from the
park from which the ascent had been
made, went to the rescue with a
number of ladders. These having
(_ roped together and
raised to the. tree, the lady was suc
cessfully brought to terra firma;
but not before she had passed a
full hour in her perilous situation.
12,000 FEET IN THE AIR.
Miss Maud Brooks had at least
two thrilling escapes -while paracliu !
ting. On one occasion she made an i
ascent from Trafford Park, Man
chester, only to find herself being ' _... _____
carried away from the neighbor-1 gitiou on the coast and uncertain
hood at a high altitude by strong I of his Sovereign, the Kaid of Lar-
currents. Soaring higher to avoid;ache had heretofore refused all in-
these, she passed through a. hail- i vitations to pay his respects to the
’{new Sultan of Fez. What caused
him to relent is not known, but he
came, and with him came a peace
offering of 5,000 and a bale of. silk.
Mulai Hafid gave orders that his
visitor should be lodged sumptu
ously and fed at his own table. Each
night the Kaid of Earache was con
vinced that he had won the confi
dence and affection of his Sover
eign, and boosted to his companions
that he had never been asked to
give an account of the revenues of
his office.
At last the day camo when the
Kaid of Earache decided to return
to his home. The caravan was ac
cordingly7 prepared, and the Kaid
went to the palace to take leave of
the Sultan.
His Majesty condoled with tho.
Kaid for "having to return to an of
fice so unprofitable that it had ceas
ed to yield any revenue," and
'warmly congratulated him on "his
devotion in offering liis own head
in place of the. missing revenue."
There would be added the Sultan,
a collection of dollars or of heads
at dawn next day.
Eighteen mules laden with $100,-
000 have arrived from Earache, and
the Kaid of that port is talking of
tho risk that attends on the friend
ship of kings.
j that the animal was a blonde.
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I
jMnlai Halid, of Morocco, is a Grim
I Tax Collector.
into Holland, but, with the wind
in their favor, they decided to con-.
tinue the journey across the Eng-i
lish Channel to England, and arriv- (
ed after a stormy journey at South- ;
wold. |
The balloon, after nearly coming i
"i contact with the lighthouse", I
AS
the
a msi- auKie. t ,— , ~ *------1 ......-,-iTho.v Keep a Lookout for a SchoolReleased of her weight, the bal-{fco ™‘V head'f As soon as I took ()f Fisll.
• | them down I found that I could j
s*in-!see- I called out to my7 wife. ‘I It is common enough to sec a boy7
'■can see,’ but she. would not believe watching cattle to keep them from
me at first. Llx.-; th.-.; I L„.\. Lc;„" .......' out every day rejoicing in the sight | long gone by it
! i" " ' ' ‘1
storm, which absolutely precluded {
any attempt at descent. After a1
lapse of twenty minutes she left the
balloon for the parachute, which
carried her still farther along. Ul
timately it collided with a ware
house at Oldham, nine miles away,
but the lady had the good fortune
to be rescued without having sus
tained more than trifling injury.
In some respects a still more
alarming experience befell Miss
Brooks, at Derby. Before she. at
tempted to descend her balloon had
reached an altitude of 12,000ft. Then
she discovered that the parachute '
would not work, and she hung to it
while, the balloon covered several ,
miles. By dint of great exertion
she climbed back into the car, where i
she held fast until the balloon itself
descended at Stonesby, near Mcl- '
ton Mowbray. j
The descent proved a rather pain- i
till experience for her, for she was 'i
dragged through a hedge and bad- <
]y scratched about the arms, though i
otherwise uninjured. Some cyclists,
seeing her predicament, ran to her ;
assistance, one of them procuring t
her a cloak, she being clad only in
gymnast’s costume. Miss Brooks (
There he also managed to jump out.
"We passed Metz and Luxemburg
without any trouble," said the lady
in telling of her trip, "but soon be
gan to ascend very high. At one
time wc reached a height of.,8,000
feet. We travelled very fast’, and
found ourselves over Holland. . ... - - ____
the wind was still blowing hard, 1 i from a mere subsistence ration. It
s---1 ......y ** -y...\ .... Y _ L. ’ •> ■.. .
spiration had suddenly come to!
me. ‘Let’s go to England.’ He)
was delighted with the idea, and so i
we kept on. j
"We came to the sea, and then it
, began to snow and hail, and we
j got quite, numbed. For about an
hour the balloon dragged in the*
sea, and we began to be fearful for j
lour safety. But I could still keep J
[ our bearings.
I "By throwing out ballast and c.v- j
orything we could spare we got the
balloon to rise again, and, the wind ■
still keeping southeast, wc camo to;
land."
Since then I have been ; straying, and in days not so very
................... ........... ... .... .. „ ’. i was no unusual
of the sky and the houses and : thing for a boy to he set to keep the
fields."..................................................(birds off the. crops. But a watch-birds off the crops. But a watch
boy whose duty it is to keep a look
out for a school of fish, and who
monetary and Mortality Fire Losses
in the United States.
Five hundred dollars worth of pro
perty has been destroyed by fire
every minute in the past six years
in tlic United States.
> One thousand companies, or three
limes the existing number, have
been forced to the wall in tho past
six years.
In the last ten years insurance
business Jias suffered an underwrit
ing loss of 4)2 per cent., or over
$86,000,000.
A fire in the congested portion of
New York city covering an area as
large as San Francisco would put
every fire insurance company in the
U. S. out of business.
Over 50 per cent, of present fire
waste is easily7 preventible.
The eighty million people in Am
erica use. as many matches as the
eight hundred million in the rest of
the world.
The average- pet capita property
loss by fire, in Central, Western and
Southern Europe is 33 cents ; in the
United States the average is $3%02.
In Massachusetts in 1907 there
were 5,794 fires, 1,230 of which, en
tailing a loss of $658,346, were caus
ed by7 matches.
Within 60 days 25 fires, involving
a loss of $106,327, were traceable
directly to the parlor match.
In one year 446 fires from matches
in Ohio. 122 were caused bv cliil-1 .1__ .-.nn ___1_____ _ 1.1, .
LIVE STOCK NOTES. j ,.............
Feed is too expensive to use ’ " s‘'ntD”box set, upon stilts,
Asl sparingly. You got no real returns ? SU^-
> ■ .- - . t.. ' Ibis particular kind of watch-boy
said to my companion, as if an in- i is wliat you feed above that that! >’s ^<>1’ ".e=?ai,1’ scene of his la-
................... " ' >! really makes money for you. pmrs b«ng the shores of some fiord
I Select long, broad, roomy sows1 ° tA145e a’K’i ■ , , i , ' , ■'
G... i......n-." short thiol- 1 •K,s sentvy-box is made of dron, 298 by carelessness of adults,
' ’ ’ •wood, and perched high upon posts. '26 by7 rats and mice—also earelcss-
|Here the lad sits, gazing out across j ncss of adults.
( the arm. of the sea, using his ke.cn j The number of persons burned to
i eyes for the benefit of the farmers j death in the United States each
who are depending upon him to give ' year by the parlor match is between
1 the alarm when a school of fish shall j eight and nine hundred, and the
'appear. They work contentedly property loss more than two mil-
| enough in their fields, secure in the pion,
jbelief that their watch-boy will lot; A new law has ben passed in Bri-
• them know when if. is limo to reap pailn prohibiting the. use of any
ja harvest from file sea instead of'but "safety" matches.
• It costs no more to make (ho
given they I "safety’’ match than it doee to
. I-*—{uiakc tho. deadly variety, and it is
| ordinarily sold as cheaply,
iI
Select long,
for breeders,
, will not give as largo litters nor
I suckle as many pigs. Young sows
that are selected for breeders
| should be from large litters. These
i arc more likely to give large, even
j litters, than sows fr .uu small, in-
Iferior ones.
I Ground bone is a splendid win-
■ ler substitute for the insects eaten
'during summer. Nothing will par
; or of a large flock better than ai wu'L' m' ■ i • bone-mill. It is a question, lmw- " 1C ' ,1 • w
ever, whether it will pay the aver-{ a\' 1 ”'ow
age farmer to invest in one. Thoy J’olsj.ier then;.shouklers, and hur-
turn too hard for women to operate j
'and few men and boys will do the!
! work regularly. This is an itn-
jportant point, as the bones should
| be used fresh and not allowed to
'. Fouls need grass
I in the summer the same as other
! !•!■»» A c.EaaV ikrt ...Lvt., 41.
the professional poultryman or own-1 i„ , n ' . ‘‘I11M. ,.f „ 1,1TO„ h kJh... n............'”L'!a l)1« land.
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EVERY WAGE-EARNER KNOWB
That he is not getting enough 1
money. I
That the man next to him is get-'
ting too much. j
That lie is more popular before , become tainted,
election than after. ' ’ .. .. . ......................That an increase in the family is I live stock, and in the winter the
equivalent to a decrease in wages, best substitute for this green food
That he would be able, to save is clover meal. Scalded and mixed
money if it didn’t cost so much to with grain meal, it makes an ideal
live. I poultry food.
off to their boats.
Scntinel-boxcs similar to those
employed in Norway were in use
among the fishermen on the shor'es
of the. Mediterranean, and it is sup
posed that the vikings brought back
with them from some of their pirati
cal ''aid::: the idea that 1ms boon put
in practise ever since.
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A woman is known by the com
pany she has sometimes.
TWO ITEMS.
"I suppose with all this modern
prison philanthrophy, abolishing
stripes and convict uniforms gen
erally. they will soon introduce
dress suits for tho well-behaved
prisoners in our penal institutions."
"Well, you know, they already
give convicts watches ami chains."1