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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-11-12, Page 6`ORTUN -MADE l Y ACCJDENT 'When the Pril1&e or WOOvisited Kimberley.receiltly;;he was shown the grease ,s. of extracting the very last diturtostd from, the sticky tneee lzi which it .la hidden. This used to be a ho peT°se ob, but one morning an e Sine hand thrust his grease near fingers into the diamond paste, an time accideutnlly discovered .th a of grease caused' the dia- p- ed d admixttII at a monde to rera in behind when, the waterwashed away the waste material in which they were embedded. It is possible that more useful dis- coveries , and, invention, have been Made by accident than by design. The pointed spade or shovel was • the result of st workplan grinding off the.corners of his square spade when digging clay; It brought him a fortune. A Fortunate Fire, The burning of a starch factory on the banks of the Liffey flrst.revealed the adhesdve qualities of searched starch mixed with water,and intro- duced to the world a new and cheap guin. To the upsetting, by William Mine d aC h O t E , a tool chest, t we }{I , A ! for east-ironre indebtedj cement; ani file accident l of .a. child_ p19.xt�,'+„.-rr -- ..P` flask with his brother a 4•;i chanio named Argand, placed`ov8er the flame_ ofh is crude oil= the invention of the- later,p- resulted A Nuremberg himeant A let sem glassticu�tter accidenitaIi�n e aqua fortis drop on his, spec- d etching on glass quickly The -inventor of automatic eignalling on railways, got his idea of track -cir- cuiting from a spirieeapping seance: He of found d th e atthe table • stood on two brass rails running across the stage, and immediately suspected the use of electricity_ Taking a piece of insul- ated wire, the ends . of which were open, he laid it across the two rails and the spirit ceased to "rap." Years afterwards, when he was a signal engineer, this: early experiment recurred" to his mind, and he used the idea for .the protection of millions of railway passengers, The First Telescope: A traveller through the Yellowstone Park stumbled on a dead horse. The animal had been lying there for a long time, but: was wonderfully pre- Served, On examining the carcase it was found to be covered with borax, hitherto tired rnI i You do not love my tblrat for loveli- ness, • 'Me urge and eostacy of dancing blood. j You do not feel secure with me uhiess I cit and .line with, You on common food, • ,And l: am sorry for you, sincee i, too, Know hew Life's• wine is; bitter, drunk alone • Its •bread,°unshered, for ail the heart eau do, Tunas hard, upon the Tips es any stone. But be at zest. I will forswear delight, hape your, despite 1 bear the a Thayer. as Secret e. life is to; 0 poses; de• of Mel - (hese on . ineteenth &ye an Ai;seociated Pr soh Pa fr o• m C hic• �'q.. "Christ's cure for a worrie explained in His words: "See Deny the dreams that s mind's repose Sit soberly beside you, for All this, my wilderness s:ha1 rose! —Georgian Minister Calls Deli 'o Of Carefree Yui The secret of a carefree put. It in. line with God's pur tiered Dr Henry Howard. bourne, .Australia, in .an a "Don't. Worry," opening the n season of the Sunday Evening Club. Sas „ ass" d es. 1 d life is , the Kingdom of God and His righteous - ye ; nese and all these things : i + eat) and drink and wear) shall e• d to 0 u y D , r. Howard one who has stood ueo life its worry, stress' anal- strain Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral hone amPshire,'England of the Washington iam11 amps , which is to be built in replica at, Rrchmon d Va o pay: due respect to the Stories ' Ab u1 Well own People His "Poem," .... 1VIr. J. D. linin " were so' disgusted' .that, they left w 1 World'� richer,.t, man, has,�lately spent' o� So Youing any farther. mach of his leisure, it it is /sell, in will, when reletin observes or La writing verses. 1 g this story. 'Asked by a poetry soolety toattend 1?ieas• has its uses after all," a din;ier in honor of his eighty sixth A Wonderful Family, loud aline the fol- When 'Visc t birthday, he declined so , ecautlY too e ng lines in doing so: -- y aught to work as well asp. My life lhag been one long hap holt- - -, , PY i Fall o'iwork and full of ;allay, 1 dropped the worry on the way, And God was good to me every day, Child Understood. Like all people l p e whose al•$ prangs thelit �' i? ups Nerve_ Into Intl e human aide: of things SirHeated Bar - vast I Natural Resources Bulletin. The Natural la -sources 1'fl-t 1igenee flit- Set'vice of the Dept.'' of the Interior at Ottawa says:' • An area slightly lees titan two hun- ng- dyed million acres liesr the within the sur- veyed tract of the three FxAirfe I'ro- ,Yinces. What hoe been don° with this territory? Pwenty-five years outlza Duni 3O1l4coa visited ago Canada was call' f Ai-pton i•t .ee omeateads were,: Board oizicee his eN available to all. The Ca1.1 fpr settler les.; a.. W Produced amazing results, To -day e there are nearly ninety 'million, acres. her of the land in the three provhaces c The y,mate relation with th I I t incl n i g fl PNEUMONIAca nt co m mo A of o . d A "Catching" histories of patients with lab 9 Disease Spread monia show that about A. per From Dna Person to Another - By' Germs, cold, just before they,have pn Adapted frau to n a r ticl Stillman, e by till ma Pneumonia or inflammation of the n, M.D., Rockefeller In lungs is a germ disease spread. by per. '* ����.___-- sons who have pneumonia and some- times by these carrying Pneumonia - what you Berms. �^ Minks are cunning; they avo be add- A s each patientlas much .as possible: with ne As a rut p umoni Prefer F f Es er vei h rthe mai. m a sourceall • s ta• ea o t f d ins.` an la t e h danger to oth era the has telt should be taken to prevent the.cared is obvious.: ones. «The reason Por thi But th • of pneumonia byearlyspread' The former, as a along diagnosis and have the banks. overgrown e3 especially by careful isolation. A and brush; grown with weed vul far as •possible the patient should be the current is clogged, which i isolated front other arsons.. All wash here and with logs, limbs; ete. among i able articles. of clothing This protection from and lin I l. The ; should be collected in a separate linen of mean and sterilized by boiling before to bag f I g First of sent to the laundry. beich is will � Y Clothes which can not be: washed should be sterilized putting by steam whenever nethis ed will can not be done they should befthor- d rela- oughiy aired in the sunlight. The Lor dishes used by the patient should be boiled. Such articles as bed rubbers, ice calfs; hot water bags and •ther- Ilaubor. P n the n after performing e a dist nonce •t data, on his aunt, Mies,mo tb Jellico *the that rated lin 105th birthd'ay, day °elebrated Lord Jellicoe is a member of a ve langlived ,Ealutly: • An uncle of 111 died not long ago at thea a of nine t . h1s 'father Was ninety;ty °r's cousin while the la died in her 105th year. .A Pious Prince -Arthur Conn kited n; t of Connaught ha lnee t every country in the world, meeting with' many strange e erienees 3n the course of his A. story he is, s .ravels tb_nd o! telling- concern Journey he marde, on a special -liais- on to Japan during •' the war, He was, greeted eve.rYTvhere with e greete, enthusiasm; but the or- iels of ono loan he visited had ap- arutly not mastered English any too oro hoasetopsthat fr h int; rom •-t eupied as farm land. Undoubtedly rsthe beet . of the land open for home. ....steading has"been talc en u N I ker; the famono martipulativv 'surgeon, v it as a r e great liking "'called ; way i' h g. for children, and them II are about p o i "Daddy is today • little Willie:- - morrow?"asked: a °lumen "No my y son, of course to -day isn't t- 0 or #n ro w a , ns rnestG, „But veered his father. • - i Ins you said it wasj+' objected fi /flute. th "When did I ever say tha today day was th Careftil y ° . is best stories. r pneu• ' ere is one., . cent, of , o ay to e. PI the cases give` a. history of c than 72,131,000 acres havep' o less ' ed to been. grant- t settlers and •others in the form of homesteads, land sales, bounty. ra is g n , Italfbreed scrip, etc. Grants;!" to r' uSo ns Co, have absorbed 38,432,000 acres 0 railways wa s and , Y n to the e Hudson's B f th xo Q surveyed area, while 27422 000 acres have been set aside for forestry ' lands reserves, school parks, erasing leases, water - covered land,; and •road allowances ac- -c.0 � count for. 86,96.4,000 -acres, leaving a • total of 26,957,000 acres not ,, allocaC • ed at the comme'hcement of the r year. • present ' purposes Indian way out from worry the Iine of escape from work. Ile "Thee birds and Rowers to Christ referred as carefree, are the busiest of God's creature 'work translated "toil" does n 'work,' rk but t all stand right kw the Hire. Th swing life into harmony by way, and everything life come along the lines of fulfills tione. to Him as Master and Lo I' 1925 Rye Crop Exceeds That of the Previous Rye production in countries produce 78 per cent, of the crop, exclusive of Russia, is rep at 774,000,000 bushels this against 569,000,000 bushels in an increase of 86 per cent.. Germany's rye crop this year is the largest since the war, being estimated at 301,873,000 bushels, against 225,- 573,000 bushels last year. Pre-war action in the same territory was 00,000, bushels. Ise German wheat crop is pla 07,000,000 bushels, against 000 bushels. last year; barley, 1 000 bushels, against 110,00 Is, and oats,_ 378,000,00.0 bush t 389,000,00.0 bushels.. ' ough estimates for potatoes beets in Germany are . not able, increases in acreage of b and favorable conditions - are d to -morrow?" "Yesterday" answered Willie. Id man "Well it .was. To -day was e, they, row yesterday .but to-dayie'ta, er than es ye t . day -• p ughly, For the first. thing he Studied solely w:itii an eye to the saw • on entering the pI e $,(� . surveyed lanais still held:b ill._ 0 trlunphel arch was a vy uw tizown, be:. Ai . � 1 n t - 1 e. to g the e -mor- e it western r God help Prince Ae+thuri •' words. hook ver ell lansd'igfc tion might not just _.i, y promising for further large but settlement. Th S account.. s erday was• to -day yesterday s is yesterday to -day. And to=morrow e • I will be today to -morrow which makes $ f to -day Yesterday.and tomorrow all at once. Now run along and play." ` y Playwright Was Saved by Power - of the Press, . If you u should visit Mr. Israel Zang. will at hie London home do not be sur- prised to find the following no g 'notice oe We door; on. "To Buglars,—You are cheerfully in- vited to enter as• everything valuable has been; taken away!" - The origin of this notice Is ;a o•c casion • when burglars actually broke In—without•• receiving, •of course, the above invitation. He was insured; and the company -were -quite easy about heir responsibilities, for Mr. Zang - will's rooms were immediately above those of the then solicitor -general.. Despite this fact, 13111 Sikes, was not deterred. • • The burglars made straight Por a valuable old chest and broke it open in the expectation of a rich find of gold and silver. All they found. was_ a huge collation of press cuttings. They eyes, both fon; traveling and for lying dens and runways. Further, conceal- ment:Is offered in hu ni to g food, t and d shallow all 0 w 1 P aces in small streams. furnish food .in abundance, while larger ones do' not. Do not understand from this, however, that it is us to look for mink eterd catches are s along rivers. . Goon made along the banks, frequently, as they are near ponds and lakes. Marshes and swamps ought not be passed by, either, for the ani- yea. mometers;••should be soaked fir five per cent. carbolic acid. The sputum should that hA world orted year, 1924, y n glazing linen,. , prod but destined to . become one of the 1'17' 3"68 most useful chemical compounds in Industry through this accidental dis at 1 covert' of its, preservative qualities. 000, The placing together of 'two 000. thole glasses by -the eblldren f a I bushel Dutch optician led •to Ga•Iileo's con- struction of the agsiils aliere accident 8��t telescopes and a Alt: the invention of lithography. dp-der to avail One day, wires ot aa stone for etehinhe was polishing off •crops s' oto g, his mother asked' ports write out a list of the linen. thatrthe laundress was. waiting to car- i al,- away. No paper ,being available, At 1 he wrote the list on the stone in some printing ink. ° the wh to sw What a Leak Revealed. the Ca !for car only to pies wh ced 89,- 12e each wear a Dull 1 a tiny stream from gauge mask and gown.' a drain or spring, or a large lake or 0,000 Their hands should he_ thoroughly pond. Minks are extenrive travelers, els, washed after leaving the bedside. so far as the males are concerned, and Visitors should be provided with fresh i seem to roam_ herd and there, r nost and t gauze masks - and gowns and warned oleatehere as long as they yet 1 not to' come into too close contact I molested. are not oth I with the patient. These precautions re- I should be maintained during convales- cence and -until the patient is able to leave the hospital or his home. After I the patient has recovered, the mat - go .tress, pillows• and blankets should be pan , sterilized. If this is not possible they of should be given a thorough airing in way ! the sun. All room, utensils used in e the cere of the patient ld be .dis- o• !infected by oiling or with ua five per b cent. carbolic, or 1-1000 bichloride so.• 1 kation. The room should finally be Id given a thorough cleaning. e A heaith`y person may carry pneu- s monia germs. in the nose and throat e and pass them on to others, who may e catch the disease. mail frequent then gathered in covered Roo e' paper cups , is of old trees overhanging the not available th water 'deserve ,attention. These are (favorite places for dens. Stone bridges, especially if there is room be- tween the rocks .for the animals to enter, are excellent locations for dens. Look for" tracks under overhanging banks,. and runways near. rocks in the water. Examine all, hollow logs near streams" There are, in fact, so many likely spots to catch minks that one ought constantly to keep watch for them near water, no matter whether the place is but ere are a sputum should be disinfected with five per cent• carbolic in the bontainer and •the cup should be thoroughly boiled. Gauze should -be used for handker- chiefs and ,should be collected in paper bags 'and burned. Body,, wastes from the bowels and the bladder needsnot at be sterilized because the .germs of pneumonia - are spread in the secre- tions- of the mouth, nose and throat. While attending a case of pneu- monia the doctor and nurse sh A few days later, when he was about to rub the writs thought ng off the stone, he g he would try the effect of writing on stone bitten Via Caucasian Passes. east eight thousand years a ate nations of the earth be arm through the awful passes ucasians, stopping on their taxies, and arriving In Europ find other peoples there, pe o were there to subdue or d. Rome was not founded un B.0-, but two thousand year that year the shores of th swarmed with the million ce Italians who had com babe Caucasian passes. When me or what they expected to urope no one lcno Impossible, "Yes," said the second mate of the. tramp steamer, on his return home, was in the Mediterranean I through shoals of sardines." nse!" said his maiden aunt. Dull they possibly swim In all tins 7" undue fortis. He bit awayIn with aqua I one hundretb. til 753 of an inch. took several impressions of before t the Writing: and. discovered I of icer had invented the art of litho that he th ueh A luckyaphy. !through accident tail .the foundation t of •the Nobel fortune. Alfred Nobel i they ca was assisting his fattier in I find in E facture of nitro-glycerine, whethe n in 1867 he discovered a caek leakingn in some of the nitro-glycerine andg with the siliceousg' ycerine mingling with This trivial lsand used for pack- gested a method �r cumstance s�ug- ws. A 'Dangerous Habit.., So long as healthy carriers are known to exist, the public should be educated in an attempt to lessen the present universal traffic, in eali,' lati As saliva is not particularly abhorrent, there is not the sane disgust towards it as there is to other human excreta. Who has not seen the apple pedlar spit on his apples' before polishing them, or the street car conductor wet his fingers on. his tongue before Issu- ing transferee? In fact, as Chaplin re- , if saliva were of an indigo color our whole surroundings: would be stained blue. As the pneumenfa germ gains entrance by the mouth or e cautioned nd wasting it you are,. if you are not # © public t ---, - _ making the very most that you can ! against con out or ' spittin when I and manageable explosipreparing a safe 1 sailed suit was dynamite. and the re- - "Nonce A young Bolton engineer, "flow c evening ta out for an those sm g stroll, noticed that the seeds of a sycamore falling to the. ground asqufred a rotary motion as they fell. Time stir Be noticed, further, that the two of your o wings were turned in opposite diree you can ha tions. This provided the first idea of j endless air the screw -propeller. •-. .,_1t'__..._„ The Pacific cable is laid at an aver- age depth of 2,640 fathoms, oe three miles, Time and" You. at is measured by the years wn life is, the only Time that 1 ve for yourself out of all they etch of it. So waste. that Time and -you are wasting Yourself A nose,- th t o. It. And to make the most of it 1 g, especially in public places. takes• energy now and always, ' Possibly one of the most important means of prevention of pneumonia is l i7TT AND .TEFF ---By Bud Fisher. A!{ t A coJP1 -oF' La -areas rock Ma as Feeet S(Ne HA barsairiNG: - A CounLe- p1n Mollie FAN ADMICnc--RS• Learned Pat. n. Irishniaer his t to London, ondon, entdto:aRtheatre,fe, on a Thei wife noticed the word `_Asbestos" printed on the curtain.. - "Faith, Pat, and what does `Asbes- tos' on the curtain mean?" ' "Be still, Maggie; don't show your ignorance. That's Latin for 'Wel- come.' " - - Don't worry over tribes, u you must worry, pick out something worth worrying about and get busy. t ' Good`byo on a Country Line. "Good -Bye." "Good-bye. Come down and see us," `I will. Good-b:ye." - "Good-bye. Now don't' forget to Come down." - `No, I won't." "Be sure and bring Sarah Jane with you next tam@," "I wilt. I'd have, brought her this time, bat she wasn't very well. She wanted to come awful. "Did she now? That was -too bad. Be sure and bringher next time," "I will." - ba ad you .be sure and bring the It is extraordinary to me that no- body is ever taught to speak well. At the age of eighteen young people should be able to stand up in public without fear or nervousness.—Mr. Henry ,Ainley. Sitrveyo:a of the Topdaraphical Survey of Canada at worh in northern /3 tenc waterways of Maniloba. The instrument to tne left is a transit -theodolite i ' atilt • en . o e are, however, two Sentence Sermons. other- important teeters to take ke .into One B •th lJnou h• oY le wor —Enough to just! any father's personal sacrifice. —M'•ore than this year's profits o any business. ' • —The three it • be a big b takes, for any' man t g rother. ough to warrant:, the city buying -up same ground for playgrounds.. —Many times .more than the cost of any Sunday schol. —More than the furniture in any parlor. —So much that any business that debauches him becomes a total loss, rt' First, the surveyed area can d when the railwaynetworka enlarged end- ed into areas is ,extend- • to to o warrant surveys, let alone in time, will be somewhat , y. which are still too re- settlement. settlement. Secondly, there are the privately owned unoccupied lands within the , present sur-veyed areas—that is, -the lands held for sale -by individuals rued by the railways.,and the. Hudson's 139.y Co. It is -estimated that there arn- about 7.8,000,000 acres of such lands; When It is- borne in iniad that these' aro tart'ely .select lands, •wheieas,;0e surveyed lands still held by the public are the "marginal" lands in every s^a ense, one can realize how closely the titure progress of Western settle- ent is tied up not only to public poli- ies with respect to Crown lances but - o the' marketing and occupation of iivately owned Iands. Public. lands a longer dominate the situatio.t with spect to Western seiitlement,. Quite aside from the figures for the The bifferen.ce. "Rat ie. the difference between cider, wlaile with a nice -looking girl t you have to beside h.eir . to squeeze p What is it that &gentleman has not, never..can 12,aye," and yet can give to acreages which have been surveyed roach i pros„ d nates of;in ,different formas, : . lady? A husband. - an Doing! A. pennywarth of "doing" - Is worth poun.di of ,atalicing big' So if you can't paint pictures, Then Just take a spade and dig And if you taut sing aathems, Break the stones beside the wa And whistle as you break them just to show your heart 15 gay. We may not build cathedrals, But we all can use'seome thole VVith common sense and Judginent, For we needn't tlaink we're fools No—each of us, has something He can do if he but tries • let us get about it, For life's little work-lAir files! —Lillian -Gard. . Walking on Springs. Leaping through. the air like a, kan- garoo is the exciting sensation offend to ehildren jay the recent invention of shoes with springs. These novel exerciseng to s made with present information, indi- cate that there is a total af about 167,0'00,000 acres of land in the three for grazinge.or for agricealture. The • area at present occdpied as farm lands is rather less than 90,000,00.1.1k. y, 2 acres. Allowing liberally for the- a acreage now being used for grazing purposes, still leaves it amply evident ' that -the West has a long road to travel before its agricultural areas are anything like fully developed. To cite only one mare figure, it is worthy of notice that Dr. 0. E. Baker of the Unit -ed States Dept. of Agriculture eecently estimated that Canada is po- tentially capable of producing a wheat‘s crap exceeding 1,800 million bushels. Thus, tiewing the Western land situa- tion by and large it is fairly safe to say that"the unoccupied lands of the Prairie Provinces ate still the great- est single asset in sight for the Do- minion's future growth. A Pertinent Guerra e Admit:al Lord Beatty told an amus - ✓ Law naval: coxswain who, owing to • some Inexplicable mischance, man- aged to rue hie Ticket boat into a traxnwloewr iatngalinI:serif to be in. the wrong. -- he listened with dieelplined ,patience while the irate master expressed his views on royal naval pleket boats' in language the reverse of poitted.ectindofdaicyt. iyeejinsnagelu_.!orfewth:aist remarks. were crew leaning over the rail, and casual- 'Phen the silent coxswain pushed off, trawler he looked up at one of the. but paseing under the stern of the pointed I dP you feed YOar old man on? Acid drops?" .Prairle Provincee physically suitable y am straprgi. to the feet in the same man ner ae roller slcates, and the wean can walk, run, jump, or dance 011 thern Tbe steel springs, while of unusual strength, are extremely elastic. The effec.,,t produeed is said to he like walk- ing on air. Each shoe has two spiral,. springs (says a writer in "Popular Science"), and the lower end of each is fastened to a sole that prevents the springs from injuring carpets or polished floors. With a little practice, it is said, a child cs-n make enormous, leaps. Whence "Satiated." eactier--Mobeet, give me a san- e using the word 'satiate.' " teok Mamie Jones to a to last summer. and I'll satiate e a lot." Maas WONbereFUL--An46 WANT Me- ea sedate -n-keiv1/4 Au-soGRAPliefe„ PHOTOS OF IDOLtiheirs Me: Does Mutt Ao. Like a Bloenling Bounder? Wen Rawtheri Wald PLEAS Li Re AuroGRAPH 0N A. PHOTO? AHEM: Ai/To GRAPHS. Woutal \(0t.I MIND SLIPPING Nei n WANT tr LoANeD You CoNceiTeA .00 NUR N Why Excesive Speed is Called Scorching. Searching in this. sense is only an intensifica.tion of heat, as when we spelt of anyone gulps' at a "hot pace." Wb.ere this latter comes ,from is obvious. The mat who rune or walks fast literally doee get hot. And when with the coming of the cycle the pate got "hotter" still, the word edorcher for the very fast rider beparne quite Exactly the same idea is to be folind in the French expreseion which talks of "burning up the read." And even if the motive power ie purely median -id cal so that the ma,n,himself isn't get- ting 'heated at all, the same phrase aeplies, For whether to man or ma- chine, speed spells heat., To Prevent Child-IVIarriages. Attention is ellited to the amend- Iments added this year to tho Marriage Act in Ontario, requiring a lapse of three clear days between the issuance of it marriage license aad the per- i formahce of the ceremony, and requir. ihg that a copy of the regletratien of birth a the other pa.rty to the intehd. ed marring*, should be submitted to the license issuer.' ' •