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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-01-01, Page 6PI', 4 • •X • Baby Eczema Mrs. Lois McKay, Tiverton, Digby County, N.S. writes:— "My children were taken with an itching, burning skin disease and tore their flesh until it was sore and their skirts would sometimes be Wet with blood. The doctor ilid not seem to know what ailed them, and could give no relief, so I began using Dr. Chase's Ointment. "Wherever it was applied it did its workewell, and has entirely cured thern of this horrible disease, They suffered so they could not sleep at nights, and rthink if it had lasted much longer I would have gone crazy from the anxiety and loss of sleep. I cannot find words to praise Dr. Chase's Ointment eneugh for the good it has done my children, and hope other sufferers will try it." Dr. Chase's Ointment is a necessity in any home where there are children. By curing irritation and chafing it prevents torturing skin disease. 60 cents a box, all dealers. Sample box mailed free, if you mention this paper. Edrnanson, Bates aa Co., Limited, Toronto. Maw I c ve MAKES HOME BRIGHTER AND LABOR- LIGHTER_ A PASTE ITHEF.F.DALLEYGtml No DUST NO WASTE I HAMILTON, CANADA! No RUST NEW LINES OF I FURNITURE sem atr We are receiving every week new lines in the latest designs of Furniture, such as: PARLOR SUITES, EASY CHAIRS, BEDROOM SUITES, DRESSERS, STANDS, COUCHES, DIN. ING ROOM FURNITURE, Etc. A number of Odd Chairs at Special Prices for the Christmas Trade. We are sole agents for "Osterrnoor Mattress" and "Nobrush Varnish." R. IA. cuRRIE , Night Phone, 155 - FUNERAL DIRECTOR Day 'Phone 51 J41 1 COAL Prompt delivery to any part of the town. Try our Hardwood and Kindling; the best and cheap- est in Wingham. Orders may be left at the store of R. R. Mooney R. J. Cantelon P. O. Box 127 H. DAVIS WINGFIA1V1,. ONTARIO Agent for Allan Lino Cunard Line Donaldson Lines. Canadian Northern LitiS Ocean Steamships. The Selection of the Cloth Rests with you; the cutting and making with us. If \ OU are as well pleased vtith your ch.)ice as you'il be with the St>IP, Fit and Finish of r ur work, mutual satisfaction. will result. Our HIGH GRADE TAILORING Meets with the approval of Stylish Dressers and oil- prics 'please the economical. Orval Taylor WINGHAM TIMES, JANUARY 1 191i • PISA'S LEANING TOWER. It Seems to Have Been Intentionaile iltillt Out of Plumb. That Immutable piece of aretia teeture, the leaning tower of l'1:44. hes always been a eubject for discue- 'idea an I conjectero, Many archi- tects have closely inepeeted foundations, measured its columns and theorized as to its strange de- parture from the perpendicular. lo 1773 Goethe explained it as intim. tionally so built for the purporie of attracting the spectator's attention Gout the ordinary straight simits of which Pisa in the twelfth century te said to terve had 10,000. The baptistry of the cathedral in Pisa, built also in the thirteenth cen- tury, leans seventeen ieches out of the perpendicular, and the plinth blocks of its foundations tilt doe 0 gradually and evenly for nine inches in the direction of this inclination. The Campanile of San Niccolo leans forward in the same way, as like- wise do the facades of the Cathe- dral of Pisa. It is worthy of note, too, that they curve back toward the perpendicular. In the leaning tower there is a de- liberate effort above the third floor to return to the perpend'cular. This is made by a.. delicate series of changes in the pitch of the columns on the lower side, evidence taken by some investigators as indication of an attempt to remedy an error made by the architects, the foundation according to one theory having sub- sided as the result of their inexperi- ence with the peculiar soil of Pisa. Careful measurements below the third floor show that the arches of the staircase were deliberately in- creased in height and that the down- ward dip was so arranged that the weight of the tower was thrown off the overhanging side, writes Mr. Isaac )3ickerstaffe in The London Field. This would have been quite unnecessary if the architect had meant the tower to rise straight up from its foundations. The Mysterious Gegenschein. There is visible in the night sky, under favorable circumstances, a faint light, rounded in outline and situated always exactly opposite, to the place of the sun. It is called the "gegenschein" and is one of the most inexplicable objects known to astronomers. According to a scien- tist, it may be a sort of cometary or meteoric satellite attending the earth. He supposes it to be com- posed of a cloud of meteors, situated about 1,000,000 miles from the earth and revolving around it in a period of just one year, so that the sun and the meteors are always on op- posite sides or the earth, Re esti- mates that the size of this ghostly satellite may be nearly the same as that of the plamet Jupiter—viz, about 86,000 miles la diameter. Professional Forging. Forging is generally quite an ama- teur affair in England, but in India where the professional forger flour- ishes, it is the business of a lifetime. A father, for instance, who thinks he detects in his son an aptitude for the occupation, apprentices him to one of its masters. He learns among other things, engravings, photo-: graphy, paper -making, chemistry, so as to deal with colored inks, and, above all, fine penmanship and deli- cate miniaturelike painting. After several years hard work is pronounc- ed proficient and sets up in business for himself, generally commencing by counterfeiting government stamps. b. Plague of Cats. The Australians, besides the plague of rabbits with which they have been afflicted for many years, are now obliged, it appears, to fight a plague of cats. The cats were introduced originally in the hope that they might take to killing off the rabbits, and now some planters are putting in dogs to kill off the cats. The canines having misbehaved in some instances, the victims are looking about for dog - killers, and apparently there is to be no end to this endless -chain game of The House that Jack Built. Functional Disease. Organic disease is so called in easels where the structure of the organ has become so affected as to alter its char- s ,iter. If the liver hardens or the kid- neys decay this is organic freebie. The doctors call it a functional die - ease when the functions of any organ are deranged --that is, do not work normally, when, for instance, the liv- er pours its secretions into the sys- tem too freely or the kidneys, through a cold, do not remove the im- purities from the system, The First Monotheists. So far as we are able to discover, the Egyptian priests were the first monotheists. Tlaere existed in Egypt two kinds of religious teaching, the "exoteric" and the "esoteric," that for the masses of the people and that for the seleet few, the little company of the "wise." The masses were poly- theists, believing in the multitude of gods, while the fees believed only hi one god, of whom Osiris, head of the popular deities, was but a weak res Election. Spoiled Children. The child that is constantly in- dulged, who Jute every wish gratified teg soon an expreseed, is sure to be a very miserable child and man. It thinks that the world revolves about it, and when at school or in the world It finds Data it must both give and take It lo made utterly wretched. The Wpo112d ehild is not only a terror to all other, hat most painful to itself. St. Peter's, Rome, St. Peter's, florae, was three and a half centuries in construction, and during this time forty-three pepea reigned. Huge Coral Reef. Ladies' and Gent's Tailor The largest coral reef in th world Is the Australian Barrier Reef, Wilson Block, Wingham which is eleven hundred miles; toss. MUSIC AS A PLAGUE. A German Seientist Sap; It May Act as a Nerve Destroyer. Professor Oppenheim, a great German nerve epecialist, finas that music has become the plague of mod- ern life, in his practice he has been struck by the fact that the largest percentege of eufferere come from the hotels where there is what he ealls a "perpetual plague of music." lie adds that U10 VODIII1011 1?101101/ Of going to a seaside or monntain resort for rest ana stopping at one cif the large hotels where the ramie tvges as badly as in the elites, miette see! rest frr the worn nervee ietroesial.i. Ile objects, too, to the OX' meet eating indulged in tes those affiliatel with nervous troubles. bui finds that murie, so called, le the were!. torture to jangled nerves. "Am inst title evil there cannot too one etitie proteet and action. I am not unmusical. I have haa nany enjoyable hours with music, and I have tie en written upon the healing value of music, but there is no long-. :t queztion of enjoyment and bene- fit, but 01 disorderly disturbance, whicb should be checked. "A benent that is forced upon us oecomee an agony and a burden and wrecks nerves, and that is what re- sults from hotel music, which you must bear whether you want to or not. "Enjoyment and the beneficial ef- fects of retsic are dependent upon the condition under which it is heard. There must be a free choice of where and when and what kind of music one wants in order that it be soothirg instead of irritating. Hotel music should be played in a special room with thick walls." If our hotels take the advice of Professor Oppenheim they will have music only in epecial dining rooms, uotifying their guests as to which are the silent and which the "musi- cal" dining rooms. Then we shall be able to eat in peace, if we wish to, or have all the noise we desire. What Professor Oppenheim would saer abont music as played at the "dancing teas" miglat add to the severity 01 his pronouncement. No one doubts that nervous persons at- tend these teas, but what will be the result? Hues of the Butterfly. It Is perhaps' not generally known that butterflies close their wings like a book, and the underside of the hinder pair is often colored so as to match the surroundings, but they are not quite so largo as the fore wings and therefore do not cover these up completely. The uncovered portion of the underside of the fore wings • repeats in a great number of instance% the pattern and coloring of the under surface of the hind wing and thus carrEL: out to perfection the conceal- ment, while the remainder of the un - tier surface of the fore wing, covered when at rest by the hind wing, has often quite different .coIoiciag and is in many cases of most brilliant and conspicuous hues. Old World Clartale. China has led the world in the mat- ter of canal making, and. to this clay stands first among the nations for the skillful utilization of her inland wat- erways. One great canal maintains communication between Peking and Canton, a distance of 1,200 miles, and the total extent of the canals of China is over 5,000 miles. Russia owns the longest canal in the world, extending from St. Petersburg to the Chinese frontier, a distance of 4,472 miles, and also the second longest, covering 1,434 miles, between Astra- khan and St. Petersburg. As regards numbers of separate canals, Holland claims precedence, but her total mile- age of inland waterways is only 930 miles. The Fez hi the Orient. The fez or tarbusb is limited by no considerations of nationality or faith. ft is the almost universal head cover - lug of the eastern and southern lands of the Mediterranean and has been widely distribuated in the still active dientsion of Mohammedanism. This type of felt hat withoet brim is of the utmost antiquity and seems to have undergone no marked change save the tassel from the eaely monu- mental record of the Euphrates val- ley. The designation fez, compara- tively modern in its application, de- rives from the oasis of that name, which was long considered the only eource of dyestuffs wlaich could give lie. peculiar shade of red moat eavored. Some Meteors. One of the earliest known meteors fell in 204 13, C. in Phrygia, where Lor a long time it was worshipped. It was carried to Rome and was suppos- ed to be a messenger from the gods. Livy describes a shower of meteorie stoaes. The people were greatly alarmed, and. the senators were de- moralized and declared a nine days' festival to propitiate the gods. There Is at Mecca a meteorite which fell in 600 A. D. and is still worshipped bY the faithfui, Where the Shoe Pinches. Every man will dispute with great good humor upon a subjeet in which be is not interested. I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man's son being 'hanged, but if a man zealously enforces the prob- ability that my Own son will be hang- ed I shall certainly not be in a very good humor with him.—Johnson, Thb Alternative. A Frenchman applied to a local of- ticial for a passport to visit Matter- wingschen, in Switzerland. The fune- ihinary, who was not a fellow of any geographical society, studied in vain with the spelling of the plate's name. rhen, unwilling to confess his dile- edity, he blandly asked, "Would you is lief visit twine °thee town?" „— Tiffin; rem- Red finite rc,c1 h lir is Po MIICh tul- t .that tnany women dye their ese ibis color. tFTL PCLITE ESS. -- El; 0 lerienelle Salntation May Scare a Stransem. In Sicily you muel not believe everything you think yen hear, and above all you must not, net rashly eigni nest impreselons. Wben a Is fooling well his "Good morning, sir!" sounds like "Spar- tacus to the gladiators." When any cno addresees you as if murder was contemplated, with yourself as tile vietna, be easy. Ile lo prointbly exe presaine a polite wish for a pleasant journey in "Vistas In Sicily" Mr, Atthur Stanley Riggs gives his own experlenco of this characteristic' Latin fervor and inflection: On our first morning in Taormina a wild looking peasant beauty, bear - hie upon her Shapely head a huge dripping amphora, stopped us with eneouth geetures and a laugh so eldritch that it startled us. ,Terking her finger at la signora, she poured forth a torrent of impassioned Sicilian dialect that we mad not understand, although I suspected she was saying that we were unfit to be In Taormina and had better leave immediately. Unpleasant thoughts of the Me- nus', the Black rand we loosely call them, swept through me. The girl's utterance was so fierce, her expres- sion so menacing, I wondered whether she might not be really an agent of the dreaded band. But be- fore my combined annoyance and alarm led me into difficulties, two Taorruinians came up and explained in Italian, "The signorina is afraid your signora will lose her handker- chief. It is falling out of her belt." I was glad I had not shouted for the police! When I asked the girl, who could understand Italian perfectly, al- though she spoke none herself, if I might photograph her, she consent- ed. and refused any gratuity. Then she wished us a torrential good day and vanished up the black and smoky stairs of a stone hut on one side of the side streets. When Hanging Pictures. An annoyance to all good house- keepers is the line of dirt on the wall that forms at the backs of all pictures at their :ower edges and requiree fre- quent dustings to prevent the paper or paint from being permanently mar- red by an ugly discoloration. To ob- viate this, take small nails, called brads, that are about the thickness of an ordinary pin and about half an inch long, and drive one in each lower corner of the !ram et where it touches the wall, leaving perhaps a quar- ter of an inch, • 111 prevent the picture from re best the wall; no dust can possibly tle there; it permits of a free cirmaittion of air, and the tiny heads of the nails will not mar the most richly -decorated wall. Reading Between the Lines. To get the good of the library in the school of life you must bring into It something better than ce mere book- ish taste. You must bring the power to read between the lines, behind the words, beyond the horizon of the printed page. Philip's question to the chamberlain of Ethiopia was crucial, "Understandeth thou what thou read - est?" I want books not to pass the time, but to 1111 it with beautiful thoughts and images, to enlarge my world, to give me new friends in the spirit, to purify my ideals and make them clear, to show me the local color of uuknown regions and the bright stars of universal truth.—Henry van Dyke'. Dew Point of Air. To determine the air's dew point, Heygendorff, a German roeterologist, fills with water a cup of silver or oth- er good heat conducting metal and introduces sal ammoniac, hypoeul- phite of soda or other salt that low- ers the temperature in dissolving. As the salt is slowly added the mixture Is gently stirred with a thermometer bulb. At the instant when the cool- ing causes a deposit of moisture to begin on the outside of the cup, the indication of the thermometer is taken and gives the desired dew point or temperature at which the moisture present in the air would become complete saturation or 100 per cent, of humidity. Mexico's Oldest Theatre, The oldest theatre in Mexico, an& indeed the oldest on this continent, is the Teatro Principal of the City of Mexico. There is nothing particular- ly distinetive about its architecture to testify as to its antiquity, however, for its two stories of repaired facade covered over with lurid posters cor- responds in general style to the other playhouses of the city. Then, too, there is a certain animation about the crowds that pass in and out the en- trance that is somewhat misleading to those on the outlook for the reilem of the past. Getting Back. "Why do you insist on trying to sell me beefsteak and beans and buckwheat cakes?" demanded • the barber, "I told you all I wanted was too fried eggs." "Well, 1 was in your shop yester- day," retorted the restaurant man. "All I wanted was a shave, but you bulldozed me into a shampoo, a foam fizz and a tonic rub." Broke It Gently. A railway man who was instructed to inforra a lady that her hushanii had been killed by a railway accident and was cautioned to break the nevi* gently is credited with writing the following letter: Dear Madarn--/ write to ow that your husband is unavoidably detain- ed, An Undertaker will call on you to -morrow with full po.rticula. Reason For Athletics? The increasean the practice df ath- letic sports is said to actouut for Rae fatt WA man and womett.of ts-dar are nearly two inches taller than their ancestors. • r • A Common Center. ' "it makes no difference how irregua larly objects are arranged, their cora- bined influence at their force center IS ephericel," This is a fundamental fact of the entire aidereal structure. Millions upon nralions of suns and worlds fly- ing in all directions as bees in a swarm Pr moving in cosmic streams and AS -.:urrent of stars, net by means of uni- versal gravitation precisely ad though they were all condensed into a gigan- tic globe at their common center of gravity.—Edgar Lucien Larkin in New rork American, All Alike, Miss Agnes Repplier tells in the At. lantle a story Mint a New York social worker, a woman of earnest character and intelligent methods, who bad worked hard to establish respectable dance halls for poor girls. The woman had delivered an address at a meeting. A young married woman of a wealthy and fashiohable set inquired whether the girls for whose welfare the work was being conducted never stayed at home. "Never," replied the speaker, "and you will pardou we for saying it, neither do you." Easy Bravery. .links—Prom what you told me ol your mother-in-law 1 shonld think you'd bare heard enough from her in person, without having cared to in- duce her to talk into your phonograph, Filkins—Oh, you can't imagine the pleasure it gives me to start the ma. chine going and then shut it off right In the midst of a sentence.—Puck. A Human Habit. "There is one paradoxical thing which we all do." "What is that?" "We long for things when we are short."—Baltimore American. London's Owners. London's 116 square miles are owned by 88,200 individuals. Only 700 people own flVe acres or mare, and 14,006 own only the houses in which they live. Industry supplies the want of part* patience and diligence, like faith, re: move mountains—William Penn. DR. A. W. CHASE'S CATARRH POWDER is sent direct to the diseased parts by the Improved Blower. Beals the ulcers, clears the air passages, stops drop. pings in the throat and permanent- iy cures Catarrh and Hay Fever. 2,5c. a box; blower free. AnnePt no substitutes. All dealers or Edmanson, Bates & Os., Limited, Toronto. 1••=miN••••=, atch Your Liver. If It Is Lazy, Slow or Torpid Stir H Up By the Use of Willburn's Laxa-Liver Pills. A lazy, slow or torpid liver is a terrible affliction, as it holds back the bile, which is required to move the bowels, and lets it into the blood instead, thus causing Constipation, Catarrh of the Stomach, Sick Headache, Langour, Pain tid.cler the: Right Shoulder, etc. Mrs. Wesley Estabreoks, Midgic Sta- tion, N.B., writes:—"Por several years I had been troubled with pains in the liver. I have had medicine from several )y lilen) doctors,1.su Lwalsenontlryiedivirelieviiebdurnfo,s r.aliatixinz I o Liver Pills, and I have had no troebk with my liver since. I can honestly !...rees°lniivneirtrou." endttleemto every person who n . 2,.111burit's Laxa-Liver Pills are 26e vial, or 5 vials for $1..00, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by 'r;,e T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Where George Eliot Went to School. , The ancient cottage at Griff, War- wickshire, In which nearly a century ago was held the first school attended by George Eliot, is situated two milee from Nuneaton, exactly opposite thid entrance gates of Grill House, whict$ for twenty years was the residence of George Eliot's father, Robert IllvanS, the original Adam Bede, and subse- quently tenanted by IsaacEvans, thd Tom Tulliver of "The MW on thd Floss."—London Times. Impostor and Malefactor. Carlyle used to tell of an old Scotch - woman who, speaking to her family, said: "There's twa sons, balth doint weel in Glasgle. T'a.ne's an impostor, and Vither's a malefactor." It wad found that she meant "upholsterers and "manufacturer." Where the Cost Comes. "Does it take much money to send a boy to college?" asked the boob. "No," replied the cheerful idiot "It's keeping him there that takes the Cincinnati Enquirer. Coral Tooth Powder. The debris left from coral made lute articles of jewelry, *etc., la crushed. scented and sold as tooth powder at a high price by east Indian perfumers. 41.11••••amaitilitallir PRINTING AND STATIONERY We have put in our office Stationery and can WRITING ..PADS ENVELOPES LEAD PENCILS BUTTER PA PER PAPETEMES, a a complete stock of Staple supply your wants in WRITING PAPER BLANK BOOKS PENS AND INK TOILET PAPER PLAYII,G CARDS, etc We will keep the best stock in the respective lines and sell at reasonable prices. 11111•11,1•11111•1•1111=11/11•1•••••••=•petlik .10.11•1=•11•111•••••=1••••1•M•01•111M.M.11 JOB PRINTING We are in a better position than ever before Co a to your wants in the Job Printing line and all orders will receive prompt attention. Leave your order with us who: in need of LETTER HEADS: BILL HEADS ENVELOPES CALLING CARDS CIRCULARS NOTE HEADS STATEMENTS WEDDING INVITATIONS POSTERS CATALOGUES Or anything you may require in the printing line. 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