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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-3-18, Page 3Il it Get Acquainted With Your Car, Artiolo V. What do you ltnow about the tee, vouss ;,-- vou:r system of your car? Very little, You say, Mr. Novice, "and is there really a nervous system?" To be sure, for with the carburetor as the lungs -- breathing apparatus — the ignition, lighting, starting system surely fur- nishes the "nerves." Yes, and the auto somettince bas a case of "nerves," just like the human race. 'Pliere are motor nerves, to supply the starting motor from the battery, which might be called the brain. Other nerves convey pep and fire to the cylinders, and others supply the lamps, horn and other devices. Each of the wires and devices may have disorders like a man—or is it the female of the species' which has "nerves?" This side of the auto works seems to he the hardest for most pereons to understand. Many otherwise good auto mechanics fall down when it comes to its electrics. Originally there was only a battery to furnish ignition current, with a vibrating coil to produce a high voltage. Lamps were of oil or acetylene gas and the starter was the "arntstrong" variety; The electric outfit was exceedingly Mutts and would scarce scare the veriest novice or greenest greenhorn, Then came the demand for electric lights, self starter and other devices, calling for a storage batery and multi- plicity of wires and meters, with regu- lator and cutout and complicated switch, in place of the simple wiring of old days. Now it takes quite an electrician to care for this part of the car, but one may learn by study. As usual the start is with the mauufac• turer'e book, which has a wiring dia- gram and other data. If you followed the hint given in a previous article you havo been studying this, It long has been the practice to com- pare electricity to water in explaining its action, and this analogy may be carried out in the case of the car's electric system, so please forget the "nerves" for a while. First we have a tank for storing water; this compares with the storage battery of the car, in which it niay he assumed that we store electricity. From the tank we may have a pipe, with a valve in it, connected to a water motor. If the valve is opened the water turns the motor and if this be connected to machinery t will be operated. Likewise in tee electric system a wire may be r.el from the battery through a switch (valve) to an electric motor; closing the switch sets the electric current flowing, turns over the motor and if it be geared to a gas engine it will revolve the crank shaft. This is popularly called a self- starter; really it le an electric °rank- er. If the water motor were thus con- nected to a gas engem to start it and the engine operated a pump, it would ,pump water back into the tank. In the auto the engine, when started, operates an electric generator—elec- tricity pump—which replenishes the storage battery. Within limits this is n self-contained system. To prevent too much water going to the tank and overflowing lt, a float must wear a muzzle, nut, thanks to the bnmanitarlau efforts et the Bolgtun Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, the law forbids the whip. in Brussels and other cities of Ilet- glum dogs generally straw the delivery wagons of milk dealere, bakers, butrle ,:re and gropers. Sometimes the aril - male are hltched beneath the vehicle, and sometimes, in front. Four or even five of then are In some cases lbar- nosece+t abreast. Nearly always the drive, walks beside. the cart, Before the war it was estimated that, in Iirue- sefs Mono Utero were 00 fewer than ten thousand draft doge, One carious requirement of the law is that., when, the weather Is foggy, each dog shall perry a wanting belt, Stronger Than the Horse, In proportion to his size, the draft dog can pull a much greater load than a horse, and Ills endurance is superi- or. A good dog team in three hours and without fatigue covers the thirty four miles from Ghent to Brussels, Riding to town in their little carts, filled with vegetables, fruit or flowers, the peasants go about from door to door at a nturlt more rapid rate titan would be poss;ble with horses. So valuable are the dogs for par• poses of traction that attempts have been made to develop by breeding a typo cf animal that is specially adapt- ed to such use. With this idea In view the mastiff has been crossed with the Danish hound, and the latter— ecnnmonly known as the Great Dane -- with the St, Bernard and the New- foundland. But the doge bred in that way cost too much; mongrels, on the other hand, are cheap, and they satis- fy all reasonable demands. The use of dogs for traction is by no means peculiar to the European Continent. In eastern Siberia they haul canal boats and are said to do it much more cheaply and satisfactorily than horses'. The Kamchatkans are recognized roasters of the art of break- ing dogs to harness and driving them. They use only the males, for they con- sider the females inferior in strength and endurance. The average family in Kamchatka owns nine dogs and uses them chiefly for pulling sledges.. A peculiar kind of rattle serves to urge on the dog team, which, if It is a good one, can cover a distance 01 one hundred utiles In twenty-four hours, with an average load of thirty- six pounds for each dog. The dogs owned by the Eskimos of Greenland are described by explorers as the most serviceable traction ani- mals in the world. They haul one hun- dred pounds for each animal, and cover from twenty to forty miles a day. invaluable in the Aretics. It is puzzling to imagine how human existence could be maintained in Arc. tic, regions without the help of dogs. In Alaska the white man, no less than the Eskimo, depends on them for transportation. The Alaskan dog, known as Malemutes; somewhat re- semble collies in appearance, but are bigger, stronger and more sturdily built. The chief difficulty in handling them is their pugnacity; they are constantly fighting among themselves, and the leader of a team is always an animal that has whipped every one of his mates and has thus proved his superiority. In the Alps the working dog is used as a saver of human lives. The humane activities of the monks of St. Bernard, who train their animals to Rud and rescue travelers lost in the mountain snows, require no description here. The most admired of all dogs, for beauty as well as for nobility of char- acter, is undoubtedly the St. Bernard. But the stock the monks are breeding at present is not the same as that of half a century or more ago. An epi• donde of disease attacked their dogs and so nearly Wiped them out that they were obliged, in order to main- tain their numbers, to cross them with the Newfoundland. The dogs now kept at the famous hospice are as efficient life-savers as ever, but are equcil neither in size nor beauty to the St. Bernards that take prizes in dog shows here and abroad. The training for military service is now, of course, highly systematized. Necessarily, the object in view is to develop the dog's intelligence, and this Is accomplished step by step as the lessons pass gradually from the simple to the difficult Punishment is never inflicted unless the animal de- liberately disobeys. To punish a dog for failure to understand not only would be unjust bat would be likely to defeat the ends sought. Indeed, the whole course of instruction is based on patient kindness, rather than on severity. night be rigged to close the valve at a curtain tank level. To the eleetrlc syetern a current regulator usually 11 installed to precept overcharging the hattery, 1"'e might desire to take water Enos' Um t:ink to w'net:stand, bath, sink er (dee where, dung easily by spur pipes, each having a valve at the paint whose the water is to be used. In the auto when we desire current for the lights, ignition, horn and other devices, ',tires are attached to the battery through the switch to the devices. In practice one who runs, to the switch and branches run from there, just as in a water system a male pipe is run with spur pipes to the several outlets. In the auto the switchbox. carries all the wires for the entire electric system, except the starter wires which run to the pedal or starter button. If we desire to know bow much water is being pumped and the pres- sure a suitable meter is installed; in the auto there is usually an ammeter or ampere meter to show the amount of current passing and a volt meter to indicate the pressure. It is not wise to carry this analogy too far, as it might become confusing. In the electric system there must be a complete circuit, to have the current flow; if there is a wire to any device from the battery there must be a wire or other conductor leading back again, The necessity for the return circuit is not apparent in the case of water; however, there is a return water cir- cuit through the general supply, This night be compared to the grounded wire electric system, where the return currant in made through the auto frame to the battery. If you will take the diagram in your instruction book as a guide and trace each circait and then go out to the garage and find the wires on the car you will have a better working know- ledge of haw the thing works than from any other method. It is not to bo expected that the novice will mas- ter the starting motor and generator right off the bat, or the magneto or in- terrupter box, or coil with its compli- cations. Better let an expert attend to these. But if you familiarize yourself with the wiring system and realize that nine -tenths of the troubles come from loose connections at terminals, starved battery, broken wires or broken insulation that leaks current; and from dirty contact points in switch or distributor box, you will be able to run down most of your prob- able troubles. Remember that if there is no sup- ply in the storage battery you cannot get current to the lights or other de- vices. If everything goes wrong sus- pect the battery and its wiring, -but if the engine runs and the lights do not work, look between the switch and lamps. Dy elimination usually the trouble narrows down to a single wire, or perhaps to one loose connection. If ignition to irregular examine the spark plugs and see if they need cleaning, first of all, next, the wiring. Event' hour spent with your wiring diagram studying the system on your car, and in going over the car diagram in hand, will pay you well when tour- ing days come again. And remember that the diagram is a part of the ear equipment, always to be carried, DOCS THAT WORK FOR A LIVING FAITHFUL IN DUTY DUR- ING WAR TIME. Use of Dog For Draft Pur- poses is Common Through- out Europe. Dogs are usually willing to work, and when they have to earn their liv- ing they do it cheerfully enough. Fur- thermore, when the tasks demand the exercise of intelligence, they take both interest and pride in what they do, Each of the nations in the great war used dogs for ono or more kinds of army service, and many stories of their faithfulness to duty came in from the front, They acted as sentinels, as despatch bearers, as draft animals for the transport of ammunition and light guns, and—most iniporant of all per- haps—as searchers for wounded on the battlefields In Canada a dog in harness is almost never seen, but in Europe the use of dogs for draft purposes has been com- mon for many years, In London the c0stermongers' carts used to be drawn by doge. Those animals were generally overworked, underfed, and sabre or less abused, and finally, about seventy years ago, publie sentiment on the subject forced the passage of a law that forbade the use of dogs for draft in Great Britain. Over a large part of the Continent, However, doge wont in harness: You fled them need as draft animals in Bwit:;or'land and in parts of Germany, but more commonly in Holland, and mott frequently of all in Belgium, 'Where he the towns there Are at least two or throe dogs in harness for every horse 'or donkey. AeIgiutu le tete most densely pont., latea country in Europe, and all the fanning is done on small patches of land that are usually rented by the occupants. Through the use of inten- sive methods tho tenant farmer makes his patch yield an almost incredible crop of garden vegetables, fruit and flowers and disposes of Itis product by carrying it to the nearest city to sell. He could not possibly afford to keep a horse; but, to pull his little cart, ha has several dogs. They re- quire no stable, do not have to be shod, and are fed at almost no cost on mash and the scraps from the family table, Useful Belgian Mongrel. Utilized In this way, the dog is the most economicab of all animals• that are used for power Purposes, Some- times also the farmer makes him churn the cream for butter by tying him in a sort of treadmill. An in- genious' apparatus has even been de- vised, on the model of alta revolving cylinder of a squirrel cage, in which the clog, substituted for the squirrel, keeps up a steady trot for hours to operate light machinery. Most of the Belgian dogs aro mon- grels, of no recognizable breed, about two feet high, dark gray or brown in color, strongly built, and short -haired. Their tails, are cut off in puppyhood because their owners believe that by this means the strength that would otherwise go to the,production and sup- port of the caudal appendage is con- eentrated in the body proper. It is also customary to clip their ears as a protection against files. Only the males are used for draft. The surplus' paps are reared for sale and at two years of age are worth about eighteen dollars apiece. Train- ing for work in harness is accomplish- ed' in a very brtof time by the simple method of putting the untaught beast in the traces. with one that is already well trained, The harness, 10 moth lino that of a horse in miniature and When made oe leather costs only about two dollars; usually, however, it le of nothing more elaborate or eepenaive than, pieced of old rope, Every dog Cat and Dog Life. Why does the dog, by nature, wage mortal warfare on the cat? A writer gives the following reason; He is, tolerant of other domestic- ani- mals. The cat is not a domestic ant - mal. When man conquered the world, he gave beasts the choice of serving him er of being driven to the jungle and desert. Such animals as refused to own man's sway were either exterminated or else banished to the uttermost Wilda. All except the cat. The Oat re- fused to be driven into the wilderness. Also she refused to serve mart, ex- cept by killing mice, Which is her sport, not her labor. Still unconquered, Loyal only to hers OW and scorning work or service, the cat chose the warmest corner et the hearth and proceeded t0 annex all the benefits of civilization without pay- ing any of its penalties or taxes. n Elbow grease is warranted net to soil the hands, Walt Masan "��' °' �i �! Great Times.. 11 t1+;,,:1 1111) grand and gorgeous times, and every fellow has the dimes! I work four hours and draw more pay than father pulled down for a day, and he was doing things at dawn, and busy till the light was gone. But father, Iil:o a lot of dads, somehow arranged to save some scads; he always paid up what he owed, and had a Package safely stowed where. he could reacili it un the day when bleak misfortune came his way. I often wonder how our dads, those provident, hard- working lads, could, front the meagre wage they drew, save dines, il:e way they used to do. Ok, many roubles I have earned, and many roubles I have burned; I blow in more to buy a Lire than was my daddy's monthly hire; I wear silk shirts and calf- skin aces, and dodge the tailor with his dues, and when I see the grocer's face I feel that I am in disgrace, And if the panic seers foresee should conte along and land on me, I wonder what will happen then, since I have never saved a yen? Such doubts as these swing through my heats, sometimes when I am snug in bed; then chills go up and down my spine, and sad and sleep- less hours are mine, SWITZERLAND HAVEN OF ROYALTY EX -KINGS AND PRINCES IN LITTLE REPUBLIC. Harbors More Royal Exiles Than Any Other Country in the World. Switzerland has become, since the armistice, the refuge of royalty. There are probably more ex -kings and ex - princes and ex -nobility in Switzerland than in any other country in the world. Former Emperor Carl, of Austria- Ilungary, has been residing at the beautiful chateau of Prangins, near officers, since a few days after the armistice when, accompanied by Bri- tish officers, he was rushed across the frontier. The lives of the imperial family were believed to be in danger in Vienna at the time. Karl spends most of his time shoot- ing, fishing and boating. His wife, the former Empress Zlla, has much to do looking after the welfare of her five children, one of the young archdukes being in rather feeble health. The Associated Press correspondent met the former imperial couple a few days ago. Dressed as ordinary tour- ists, they had come up from Pran- gins on a shopping tour when the cor- respondent ran across them in the flower market. They were unaccom- panied and Karl was loaded with par- cels: No one tools any notice of the couple. Swiss President Embarrassed. Karl greatly embarrassed the Swiss President a few months ago by send- ing a message announcing the birth of a son, adding, "He was happy and proud to feel that he had a son born in Switzerland, the cradle of the House of Hapsburgs." The ruins of the original chateau of the Hapsburgs, built in 1020, still exist in the Canton of Argovie, but it is said that, owing to the fact that for more than a cen- tury the Austrians have been cons sidered as hereditary enemies of the Swiss, the Swiss President thought the message from the former emperor was in doubtful taste. The former King of Bavaria, Lud- wig III., who celebrated his seventy- fifth birthday a few days ago with all the members of his family, resides at Loearno. He crossed the Swiss bor- der a few days after the armistice and has not returned to Germany since. He spends most of his time reading books on the late war and motoring around the beautiful Lake of Lugano, It has been stated that he has shown signs of insanity, hereditary in his family, and he is always accompanied by a Munich mental expert. Isis nephew, former Crown Prince Rupprecht, of Bavaria, makes fre- quent visits to Davos, travelling more or less incognito. His name was on the list of Germans wanted by the Al- lies for war crimes, and he is report- ed to be preparing his case in the event of extradition being granted. CROSBY'S RIDS MAMA! WILL YOU BRIiiG UP MY l.UTTIE RuRBER BALL W ITH ...THE HOLE r r IN IT? 11 He is charged with being the first German general to employ poisonous gas. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse came to Switzerland during the German revolution and have been residing here ever since. The Grand Duchess of Plerklen- burg-Schwerin, who has spent most of her time in Geneva since the begin- ning of the war, recently told the cor- respondent that, in the last five years, she had received very few letters from her daughter, the former Crown Princess Cecilie of Germany, and at- tributed the fact to the influence of the former German Emperor, with whom the grand duchess smilingly ac- knowledged she was "persona non grata." She denied, however, the re- port that her daughter intended to seek a separation from the former Crown Prince Frederick. There are several other ex -princes in Switzerland whose chief preoccupa- tion is the depreciation of the mark and calculation how to make both ends meet. All of the foregoing have been living end threatening the lives of every one quietly and have not attempted to break the rule of the Swiss govern- ment, conveyed to them in diplomatic language at the time they took up their residence in Switzerland, to the effect that no political propaganda of any sort would be tolerated. ORIGIN OF CURRENT PHRASES MEANING OF " PIDGIN " ENGLISH. Interesting History of Several Expressions in Common Use To -day, When yon say that you have es- caped by the skin of your teeth, do you know you are quoting Scripture? Look in the twentieth verse of the nine- teenth chapter of Job and you will And the line: "My bone cleaveth to my skin and my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth' And do not think you are profane when you say that you "don't care a Rapping its wings and swinging its dam,' The truth is that a dans was long, thin tall from side to side as 11 flew slowly along. Capt. Thompson let fly with his heaviest harpoon, and then, as the little boy said when he droppedthe cat into the pall of stewed tomatoes, "the fun began." The devilfish rose as though hurled upward by a submarine explosion, One of its great fins broke above the Burs fare, sending gallons of water over us and splintering the harpoon pole as if it bad been a match stem; then its HARPOONING A MONSTER. If anyone is in search of real ex citement, let him eschew the purse; of bass or salmon, let him even de cline to be allured by the never hare poo, end let hint Beek the great devil. Ash that Min ea the Gulf Stream. Buell at least is the conclusion that he mint reach after reading Mr. John 0, Lee Goroe'a description of a bout with le two -ton devllflse. All at once, he says, Capt. Thomp• - son suddenly exclaimed, "Stand by, men; it's the biggest devllitsh I haver ever seen!" As we drew near it seemed to ole that the bottom of the ocean was sud- denly dark and slowly moving off, and I discerned in the translucent depths a gigantic shadow like a huge bird the smallest Hindu coin at a time when the English were invading In- dia, and the expression that one "didn't give a dam" naturally sprang up to mean that a matter was of next to no importance, Of similar origin is the phrase that a thing is "not worth a rap," for a rap was an Irish copper coin issued early In the eighteenth century to supply a long felt need for small money. Nom- inally it was worth a halfpenny, but ten -foot pectoral wing struck the water its metal was so thin and base that it with a noise that could have been Nom - never Passed for more than a farth- Ing, Sources Ancient and Modern. In fact, current expressions to -day can be traced back to all parts of the globe. The ancient Egyptians believed the spine. Away it started to sea, that the souls of men were weighed taking our hareems lino with it. All after death. From it has arisen the hands put their weight against tee phrase that a man is tried in the bal• line, and as the boat wcs move+±g un ansa and found wanting. an even keel we took a 11110 round 4 The shibboleth of the Chinaman is bow cleat and started semwar'd - zi,et,t the word "bnsineete" which he seems feel; boat ane crew. • uuuble to pronounce. In trying to do Now the dcvilRsh would. themes, se :le mattes a sound which resembles hurl itself several feet Drat of the "Pidgin." Thus the business English water, and its huge body would come he picks up in the open port, which is down with a crash like the expleelen a jargon of the many languages he of a 4:', centimeter shell! Now it hears, has come to be known as ped- would sound for deep water. Several gin > nglish, times it went down " so far Olio, era If. is the Malays who, when under steed by wit!, het:.t,-r-ts ea cut the tines the influence of opium, rush through if the bow shenla be drawn complete - the streets with drawn daggers cry- ty under the water.All of a sudden the lines :Optioned, aind we 110111i ally hauled in as the monster turned aril dashed tcwarit Les boot. it carte up almost, but rot quite, under our craft; its gigareet hulk lifted one side of the hear, launch well out of the water. With his usual presence of meed, Capt. Thompson let drive anmeer her poen, which lodged in the aeviliis^'9 head, and away it dashed again. e nth two harpcen lines, one to eases :side of it body. we were actually able to drive the monster as if it 'were a run- away horse, by selling first an ,-•rte line and then ou the other. By this time the devilfish 11(:11 towed us for about ten utiles, but aithengh it was losing mu" ii blued it Rae sell going strong; so our neer experi- ment was to throw out our anchor and let it drag. But the giant celn`.need to pull us aleng quite easily, After an hour or so, howeser, the anchor began to catch bold bete'', and a number of times R e weir ai 'e to haul in sleek and get up Ariih:n tee-011- ty or thirty fret of the fish as it is t'er- ed along five or sin; feet bel< r- the sur- face of the water. Lnekile, about this time a fast -sailing tittle ielami sponge boat approached, and we sew the spongers back to the yacht for the rifles, which we lead forgotten 1,r (sur hurry to get started. The native marine;rt mode all hula possible; 30 after nuether halt! hour the ship's motor.driven dory veme ,t:ar- ing out with ten express rifle. etre we were able to give our giant a•, ap 110 grace By a h, eavy block and tar];ie liars rowed from the lslandet3 wh tib was used for lifting and weighing reseoes of sisal fibre, we fleetly euevocded in getting most of the fish's hotly cut of the water, so that it could be eho o - graphed and weighed en a lanae.• rlsal scale. The utmost caitaolt,,' of the scale was three thousand pomade, sand this is all that we ',taloa for tee iisb, although we judged that it weethod lour thousand, or pos'slbly Ilse teems• and pounds, • heard several miles away. Fur a moment the neanstec tennis(' bewildered, and that lost moment ea- ebied us to throw another harpoon, which struck deep into lis body near Constantine Has Suite of Thirty. ExKing Constantine and the former Queen Sophie of Greece, however, have been much more prominent, and, in fact, the present Greek Minister at Berne publicly accused them, in the Swiss press, of being the instigators and accorpplices in the plot against Mr. Venizelos, which was redently dis- covered in Athens. Constantine and his family and suite, consistlug of about thirty per- sons, stayed for some months at a hotel in Lucerne, but recently the ex - King removed to St. Moritz, where, it is said, lower rates were granted the e -royalists, who were commencing to feel the pinch of funds. They spend moat of their time motoring. Jewellers have profited by the ad- vent of these erstwhile royalties in Switzerland- A diadem, belonging to ex -Empress Zita, valued at 200,000 francs, was recently sold at Berne, A lot of very high-class jewels from Aus- trian and Hungarian royalties and aristocracies has been purchased by Swiss dealers and much is Lying as pledged in the safes of the banks, His "First Footing!' Nearly forty years have gone by since Mr. Lloyd George first set foot in the House of Commons, Under the date Nov, 12th, 1181, we read in his diary: "Went to Houses of Parliament. Very much disappointed with them. Grand buildings outside, but inside they are crabbed, small, and suffocating, especially the House of Commons, I will not say but that i eyed the assembly in a spirit similar to that in which William the Conquer- or eyed England on his vieft to Ed- ward the Confessor—as the region of his future domain. Oh, vanity!" On tho same day the raw Welsh boy—he was only eighteen at the tine --wrote: "Called at the Law Courts, Q,C.'s are not perfect. Very garrulous, but they have a despic- able cant" Three years later the future Pre- mier, who had come to London for hls Final Solicitor's Examination, paid Ids second visit to Westminster, and thoroughly enjoyed orte of Lord Ran- dolph Churchill's attacks on Mr. Glad: stone. "It was," he says, "a clever piece of comedy. I thought Churchill an impertinent puppy, as every Liberal was bound to do; but I thoroughly en- joyed his spirit." Didn't Like Walking Alone, Ono Sunday morning quite recently a collier, going up a street in the North of England, met another pitman dress- ed in his "Sunday suit" of black, but pushing in front of him a very dirty, heavy wheelbarrow, though it eon. tatted nothing in the shape of a load. "Hello, Aoki" said the first. "What are ye' dein' wi' tic' barrow?" "Well," was the reply, "I've lost t' dog, and my chum Bill's away, and a chap looks such a fool walking out by hisses!':' • Buy thrift stamps, they encounter, Tho word has beeu translated in English as "amuck" and it is easy to see the beginning of, the expression to run amuck. Two words which had their origin in Ialy are gazette and ball. An the six- teenth century a small hand-written sheet was circulated in Venice con- taining news of the war with Soliman II. It was, not sold outright, but each one who read it was charged a gazette, the Venetiau coin valued at three- quarters of a cent of Canadian money. Hence comes the word "gazette," used commonly as the name of a news- paper. Ball play in church by the dean and choir boys of Naples was a curious old custom during the "Feast of Fools" at Easter. The boys danced around the dean singing an antiphon. The clean had a ball which he Threw to them, and they caught it while dane- ing. Later at private dancing parties the dancers threw a ball to each other as, to the sound of their own voices, they whirled around in sets. The pastime consisted in loosening hands in time to catch the ball. Dancing has long survived this strange game, but a dancing party is still called a ball. Incidents in British History. At the time when the Plantagenets held possession of the Basque pro- vinces in 'Spain, Edward I. brought over to England troops of Basque mountaineers to aid him in the sub- jection of Wales. The ruling deity of these people was called Jainko, and from them the Englishman caught the expression "By Jingo!" An incident of interest in English and French history occurred in the year 1514, The French fleet ravaged the coast of Sussex and burned Brighthelstone, now Brighton, where- upon Sir John Wallow, one of the best naval commanders of hie time, was sent by Henry VIII. to make reprisals, In this he succeeded only too well; he burned twenty-one French villages, demolished several harbors, and thrashed the enemy to his heart's con- tent. His men, however, proud of his achievement, declared that they bad walloped the French. Thus there came into the English language as a synonym for thrash the new word wallop, Water on the Brain, To many people it will come as w surprise to learn that our brains coils tato from eighty to Ninety per cent, of water, the remaining ten or twenty per cent. being a masa of white and grey matter, to which scientists have given various impressive names. Incidentally it might be mentioned that the average weight of a man's brain is about 48 oz,, and a woman's, 48 oz. The brain of a man is heavier than that of all animals except the elephant, which weighs about 9 Ib, The next heaviest in that of the whale• --•G lb. Real Irish. Irtah. Officer, nova Irish --"Why were you late in returning to barracks last night, Private Atkins t" Atkins=-.'1%in from London was very lata air." O>llcer-•-"v'ery good? Next thee the thraln's late, take care ye come by an earlier one," Sky Le There is a law for 'ewe Why not a law for the a;r: Vsrions sug- gestions have been put forward for aerial trade routes, postal and passen- ger routes, etc., and with traffic on the increase, jurisdiction may shortly be necessary, Collisions and accidents will have to be reckoned with, add compensation duly provided for untartunate travel- lers. The contort and security oil land dwellers will have to bo looked after, and the law of trespass safe. guarded,. This tatter will be a diflloult one to define, but it is safe to assume that certain air spaces will be "roped off," se far as the general air traffle is concerned. As it becomes customary to travel by air, freight and passenger charges) may possibly be regulated by Aot oe Parliament, Our vehicles will have to be safeguarded from robbery, pillk, age and other crimes. In view of ear• twin aviators' complete mastery Over the aerial region, what is to prevent unscrupulous aeronauts from playing the highwayman role a thousand or so feet from tors firma? 'The nearer you come into relati1x with a person, the more necessary del tact and courtesy become."-O11vt9! Wendell hoboes.