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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-10-31, Page 7HAPPY PAY-00 --- Roy Kimball. enthusiastic 4-H Club member, has a. happis giin as he bids farewell to the high-quality Here- ford steer he raised and sold for a record price. The average price for 4-H beef -at the Central Wyoming Fair was $30,31 per hundredweight. Roy's 916:pound steer brought $42.75 when bought by Caspar's Hotel Henning, So, with a deduction for shrinkage, the 16-year-old youngster pocketed a check for $372. 'RUE FRONT Jo SON World' Most Comic Railroad A. man in Zenzibals who eon- trailed the electric light plant also, tubed the world':; most COMIC railway fifteen miles of narrow guage, from Zanzibar to Bee 13ou Bou, with One tiny engine which pulled trucks filled, with laughing Swabille and goods, Very proud of le he had visiting Cards 'engraved "Direc- tor of Government Railways, Zanzibar." And when he went on leave to England, via Japan and the U,S,A,, he presented one to a railroad president in 'Salt Francisco, treatment WAS at once accorded him, free travel, a special coach placed at his dis- posal, Wherever he stayed of- ficials extended hospitality, In Chicago he was banqueted by the directors. In a speecb of thanks he compared U.S. travel "very favourably" with Zanzi- bar's, and granted them the freedom of the Bou Bou' Bou railway, Rex Tremlett, who no runs a farm guest-house and cara- van site in Cornwall, tells of other unusual people he met in a lively account of his gold- prospecting days in South, Central and East Africa, "Road -to Ophir". At. Brandt, a Tanganyika vil- lage hundreds of miles from any sizeable town, two Lupa River diggers `whom he knew drove up in a car. Although the -temperature was over- eighty, one wore a suit of loud check with "co - respondent" shoes, the other a striped flannel suit, flamboyant shirt and tie. They resembled a cartoonist's book- makers, In the back were two pow- dered, lipsticked, silk-stocking- ed young women in summer ,frocks: an unbelievable sight in that isolated spot. They got out, laughing shrilly, opened the car boot, and extracted numbers of bottles and a cocktail shaker. Just then a lion roared, quite close. With alarmed squeals, they clutched each other, jump- ed back into the car, • slammed the door and remained there all sight, fed occasionally with whiskey. The men said they'd had a wonderful time in England, thanks mainly to the girls they sad met. One had asked his girl so marry him; .she consented, srovided the other married her lriend, So they'd had a double Podding and honeymoon. Now t was time to return to the ',Alpe and make more money, MOON WITH IT, MAN—This eal cool daddy is gone, men— et least halfway gone—in a )ool at the Paris, France, Vin- termes Zoo. Elvis Presley fans should get so carried away. 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'Pry trr 4.1.TApestrp 11; Punishable (7, StiOptfiThzTOr Te43.4Mtti•ci' • '1,14. 1)4opto, CROSSWORD PUZZLE • 50. 11.14441. cymbals. .451, 11411( Mein firel DO1VN 1. Elmo^se notn9 2. :•;111144 3 Ow Idn 4. (1r10,11:11 ,cetirni r and for "they are very expensive," both husbands confided. One day, 'Mum t Wa3 in Soup, a native arrived car- rying in one hand a long stick wi'h a latter stuck in a cleft cut in the end, in the ether a bottle. The note was from an entertaining fellow, Wallis 1,5(1, Son, 'whom he had met not long before On a ship sailing from Durban, As a young man, Wilson made a fortune from Malayan rubber, Ue spent four months. of each year in England, the remainder abroad visiting friends, Passing through Kampala, and bearing that WWII et t: was miles away "in the blue", he'd bought the local. hotel's only bottle of Napoleon brandy as a present for him, then hired a local native, given him money,. and told him to travel until he found •Tremlett. He'd , hitch- hiked and walked nearly 300 miles: it had taken him a month,. Later that bottle saved Trem- lett's life. He was drinking with a mining manager. Howard, and his bookkeeper,-Hodd, when the latter picked up the rifle Treme lett had stood against the wall, opened the breech, glanced down the • empty barrel, then closed it, unaware that this ac- tion loaded it.fro.m the maga- zine. Suddenly there •was a crash,. The hurricane lamps blotted into darkness, the brandy bottle burst and drenched Tremlett, the siphon exploded, chairs crashed over as he and Howard ducked under the table—How- ard with. a bullet through his thighs. Hodd, for some reason, had pulled the trigger with the rifle pionted at Tremlett's chest. The bullet hit the bottle, ricncheted to the siphon, burst it, and ploughed through the three-ply table top to hit Howard in the legs, Tremlett had a lump of glass embedded in his chest, pieces' in his hair, and but for the bottle would instantly have been killed. Tremlett mentions an inter- esting South African Dutch custom. When the daughter of the house has a suitor, a candle was given her and placed in a candlestick on a table near the Bible. When the old folk. went to bed' the ladle was doused, the candle lit. By the time it had burned out, whether in two nights or twenty, the suitor was expected to declare him- self, and if not accented, depart. But there seemed no rule against blowing the 'candle out, which not only prolonged its life but "made the nights more cosy"! His description of mining life and the country is admirable. The book records a most un- usual. and interesting career. Rainy Records An all-time world record for rainfall issbeing claimed for July 10th, 1955, for a place near Jefferson, ,Iowa. In the early houie of that day, storm rainfall fell at a rate of 0.69 inches a minute, according to an official recording guage of the 1[J S:' Weather Bureau. For- tunately 'it did not fall at that rate for long, for , in an hour that would amount to nearly three and a half feet of water, A radar set fifty-five miles pick- ed up echoes of the storm. For a similarly high rate, weather experts have had to go back to 1926 when 0.65 inches o.f rain a minute were recorded in California, though in 1911 there was a doubtful claim for 0.82 inches a minute from. Pana- ma. But as the Panama claim w a s based upon unreliable methods of measurement, it cannot compete for the world record. 7, host lire rtuid ii. Ones work nuirk Fin te 33. Crinkt?d ,•loLlt 2 ,3. Point et4 • 57, nlig 25, charred 40. It, snalan ‘voril n C rc verc ti••14 4:: Illt hard. C slang '11 4 I. l'..verylnitt , in. rnmr :Les 0Oln I 4 Most Famous Clock Gets Face Lift The most famous clock in the world by which millions set their watches was stopped this sum- mer for a major overhaul and "face lift." For several weeps, listeners to the BSC would hear the boom of Big Tom from St, Paul's instead of the chimes of Big Ben announcing the hour, Big Ben's mom:* oVorhaul will give the clock a new lease on life, It will celebrate its one hundredth birthday on May 31st, 1959, in the best of, health and still the most reliable public clock of its size in the world. In the ninety-seven years since it started regular time-keeping, for Londoners the clock, which came to be 'called Big Ben after its largest bell, has-been stopped by bombs, by rats nesting in the works, by a painter leaving his ladder in the wrong place, by a workmaree hammer and by snow freezing on the hands. But only on very rare occasions has it gone wrong because of a me- chanical defect, When Queen Victoria's hus- band, the Prince. Consort, was on' his deathbed ninety-five years ago, the elock struck 100 times without stopping. No explana- lion was ever' found for this strange behaviour, or for the clock stopping twenty-five years later when. Gladstone was intro- ducing his Home Rule Bill in the Commons below. Some su- perstitious people said it fore- told disaster! But these incidents have been quite exceptional. Although the eleven-foot long minute hand has to travel a foot for every minute it records, which 'means the tip travels 100 miles a year, checks with Greenwich have shown it to be dead right most days and only a fraction of a second out on others. To correct it, the weight of the 600 lb. pendulum is altered_ It is not easy' to' etop a huge pen - dub= like this for adjustment. The last time 'the pendulum was allowed to Swing free, it went on for two days before, stopping. So a tray is fixed on the pens dulum to which small weights can be added or taken away to speedup or slow down the clock.. Pennies have proved the most convenient weights to use. Drop- ping a penny on the pendulum speeds up Big Ben exactly one second a day! Big Ben's trouble-free accur- acy is all the more remarkable when it is remembered how much trouble there was before it got going. The design for the clock on the new Houses'of Par- liament was approved in 1847, but many people declared it was impossible to get a clock of this size which would be accurate to one second a day. After many disputes, the clock was finished in 1854, But the tower was not ready to take it. The bell was the biggest evelecast in Britain. When it was hung on the ground for testing near the tow- er, SpeOple did net like its tone. So it as struck with heavier and heeeier hammers until a 1200- lb; haminer cracked it, A new bell was cast and at. last all was ready. The great clock was set going — but the hands did not move ! The architect had designed them o.f cast iron and the clock could not move them as they weighed 21/4 tons. New hands were made of gun-metal. They turned, but shook e great deal. A third set was made of hollow copper. And at last, on May 31st, 1859, the clock began to tell the time. Big. Ben, christened affection- ately after the Minister for Woods and FOrests who "father- ed" it, was meant to be heard thirteen miles atvay, When it was broadcast for the first time on New Year's Eve, 1923, it was heard hundreds of miles away and soon became the most res settler and reliable broadcast star, a link with home for millions of Britons all over the world. An oddity is that. Big Ben sounding the -hour is heard its Canada or Australia before it is heard. in Trafalgar Square, ball a mac -away, Anyone setting his watch by Big Ben from the direct sound must allow for the time the sound , takes to travel—one-filth of a second from the eloels to the ground, half-a-minute in Streat- ham, sit Miles away, where it can be heard in the still a the night. WIRY WORM TURNS in Australia they grow every- thing outsize, even the worms. For a long time professors have been studying the biggest earth- Werth in the Vvekid. measures tip to 11 feet long and had pores down both sides of its body through which It squirts a liquid, Now the worn ettleleete have come bp With the editstieb: the 'mita is oily and is squirted' out to ittbriCate the btirroWS: A variety of factors influence egg quality and many of these can be controlled by the pro- ducer. Strains of birds differ an their ability ,to produce eggs with good albumen, freedom from blood spots and good shells, so a strain of birds not c tpable of 'producing eggs of the desired quality should be replaced by a better strain. Good poultry management must be emphasized because good management is reflected in egg quality. Only healthy pul- lets in good condition should be 'hbused and confined throughout the laying period. Confinement assists in disease control and thus has an influ- ence on egg quality. Egg storage temperature must be checked closely as high temperatures reduce egg shell quality and change thick albu- men to thin watery albumen. If eggs are gathered three to four times daily and laying pens are properly ventilated this danger can be partially re- duced. Eggs, should be cooled as quickly as possible and this cooling process should be thor- ough before eggs are placed in cool egg cases. Storage tempera- tuee shOield from 50 to 60 de- greei F., and humidity 70 to 75 degrees, Eggs, take on "off" fla- vors readily so should not, be stored in the vicinity, of prOducts with strong odors such as•onions. Marketing eggs several times a week helps maintain high qual- ity. An ample supply of calcium must be made available for lay- ers es egg shell is about 95 per cent calcium carbonate, * In swine breeding work, the best possible parent material must be selected. The only method presently available whereby meat quality of differ- ent litters may be comparecl, requires the slaughter and car- cass measurement of a sample of pigs 'from each litter and appraisal of the different litters on the basis of the carcasses of -their slaughtered litter mates. By chance the samples' slaught- ered might include the best pigs of the litter, which not only represents a loss of breeding stock but also slows down an emprovement program. If it were possible to measure car- cass quality on, a - living pig, more pigs of the best litters would be available as breeding stock. Dr., H. T. Fredeen and other members of the Animal Husbandry staff at the Lacombe Expreimental Farm, Canada Department of Agriculture, are attempting to' determine carcass quality on live hogs through the use of X-ray and measurement of fat thicknese. Day old pigs are X-rayed and from the film, the vertebrae and number of ribs are counted. Eventually this information may give indications of the po- tential carcass quality of the animal. The hogs are X-rayed once again at 200 pounds weight and in addition to vertebrae and rib studies, fat thickness on the back of the hog is record- ed, This information is then re- lated to actual carcass quality after slaughter. * A more rapid and less' eXpen- sive measure of fat thickness on the live hog can be obtained'by the use of what is ktiOevri as a Lean Meter, This is a needle- like apparatus consisting of two electrodes insulated, from one another, The needle is intro- duced into the animal and the resistance of the flesh to a very small electrical current is measured on a meter. It is pow- ered by 2 pen-light batteries. Fat, due to its composition, has a greater resistance to electri- city than leers meat, so when the needle passes- from fat to lean it is indicated on the meter, and the depth of fat re- corded in this matinee, * * The Lean Meter was develop- ed by research men at Purdue Unirersity and i used la rly widely by research workers in the United States. It is grab,' 411v replacing ta earlier meth- od of fat measurement where the skin was slit with a scalpel and the Iwo of fat measured with a small Allen The Lean Meter Is practically painless and Can be used to measure the fat anywhere on the animal's .body, At present it is in use at several swine research units in Canada, * 4' The use of X-ray was pio- neered by German workers and their results were sufficiently encouraging so that Danish Swine Testing Stations have in- talled X-ray equipment in thei. test piggeries, No country as yet relies on this equipment as a measure of carcass quality IQ the point where the slaughter test is eliminated Work is progress- ing nicely at Lacombe and Dr, Fredeen is hopeful that he may come up with information which will eventually eliminate slaughter of potential breeding stock. X-ray equipment is cost- ly which, together with its size and weight, makes it of unlike-. ly use for other than research purposes. The Lean Meter, on the other hand, is a compara- tively cheap, uncomplicated in- strument weighing but a few pounds' and may prove of con- siderable practical value to swine breeders who wish to prove the carcass quality, spe- cifically fat content, of their, pigs, Pigs Arrested As Drunks The effect of alcohol on ani- mals was discussed recently at a meeting of veterinary surgeons in Germany. One vet mentioned the case of a young elephant which visited a Kaffir kraal in the Zambesi valley some time ago and emptied six out of eight large pots of beer which he found in a native hut. He then "staggered away" into t h e jungle. A New York animal expert revealed in 1949 that he had treated twenty-five cattle for drunkenness in a week while visiting a farming area. He blamed it all on a sudden gale which knocked down bushels of green apples. The cattle ate them and the apples fermented in their stomachs forming alco- hol, he explained. Snorting, hiccupping, swaying pigs flopped out of a railway truck at Sarreguemines, France, a week or two ago. "Blind drunk", was the verdict of a veterinary surgeon, after gen- darmes had arrested six of the disorderly characters—all ,pedi- gree pigs. It turned out that somewhere along the line the truck was shunted and lurched. Out of their cages tumbled the pigs. And out of two broken casks flowed fresh Bordeaux., wine. The pigs shank the lot! BY REV R BARCLAY WARREN B A. S.D. The $11 ,1:alit)eir203roank, Memory $eleetion: The Lord 11 my shepherd; shall not. want. The twenty-third Psalm b the best, known and the most loved passage in the Old Testament, carne h David, Shae$ph4det,sd thewsleio musings of a sheep. With deep meaning for us in our relation to God, Sheep instinctively know, when folded for the night that the One who cared for 'ihem that clay will guide them safely on the morrow, In the early morning he leads them first to the rough., er herbage and then to the richer grass. They lie down in green pastures about 10 alit to chew their cucls. They will not drink gurgling water, The shepherd o Vdwahi yl el re ne tdhs he ae ew: al place e sr Holy make sti l l. Land db leaves its place in this feeding line and has a few misstates come munion with the shepherd. The Valley of the Shadow 01 Death in Palestine is a narrov$ defile through a mountain range, Climatic and grazing condition: make it necessary -to take the sheep through this dangerous passage for season feeding each year. If a sheep slips from the narrow path the shepherd will raise him with his crook. If dogs come near the shepherd will hut.: his staff at them with accurate aim. In the Spring the shepherd goes before cutting out,the pois- onous plants. Each night as the sheep enter the fold the shep- herd applies the oil to any •cuti and presents the large overflow- ing cup of cold water for ,re- freshment, The sheep goei rest contented. As the shepherd cares for his sheep so the Lord cares for those who love him. At 2 a.m, we were called to mother's bedside in the hospital. I quoted this Psnern When I said, "Yea. though 3 walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear sic evil: for thou art willi me." she softly whispered her last words: "Yes, Jesus is with me." If we have fully committed our live: to Jesus Christ, the Good Shep- herd, we can enter in happiness and contentment into the fur rich living set forth in the twen- ty-third Psalm. Upsidedown to Prevent Peekini 331 1 S1N11dS 1V V d V N 011.1 3 N V n S 1 8 3 SS,V8 V8V Waddle he do with' thiti? S. 44ratO Allure 40. l're011,11441.0 1.1. Ilcachce. IS. Cage 17 11.4tIny 49.111;44 21. IleSt418s 22, 4"/thicu,141,1., ens c1411,1 e !timers, sets eels 2r, t9550.1: 214 Sow'rt •Ch cr. • r,nt 25' 01111tlitig 'I. OtigliVale, seees.,,es eesse.,, Se. es s4 Skunk helpi Silly taut tbfritiei'didir. HEAVEN'S A SKUNK IN THE REFRIGERATOR— Life is just a small boy's heaven for 10-year-old Billy Hoffman. You see, his daddy owns a pet shop stocked with all sorts of interesting beas ties. What's more, Billy has the privilege of taking home a different pet each day, if he wants to, from a waddling duck to baby alligator. Some of his unusual playtime friends are shown here. ltisf •tiiblikeyin9' With tilly'S .fidtiteWOHiif V.1. a N V N S S 8 N S 3 3 3 V W J. V N 3 3 3.1 a 3 WO 3M S 3.1 S S 3 a 3 a 3 V 3 S V NN 33 A J. N 3 11 O :1140447,4.104,,,, "leaesSeeteeetel•OeSeeteset IT RUNS ON PARAFFIN OR ANYTHIN' — The Rover T-3, Britain's latest gas-turbine car, goes on display, following tests by the British Motor Industry Research Association. Fuel consumption of the car, not yet in production, has been described as "reason- able". During tests at 40 miles per hour, the T-3 did 13.8 miles per gallon of "paraffin", British terminology for "kercrsene", On a high-speed test track, the Rover was timed at 102 miles per hour with plenty of power in reserve. The T-3 features a four-wheel drive and a glass reinforced plastic body.