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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-7-7, Page 2•and the worst is yet to come • :•-• Proper 011hig i0. Essential, A low-grade oil mama meet the special requirerneilte of Fordtuba- end will eattee wear on the ae- ourattely made parte o 01181110, glutei) and teanseateatee In the I"oad engine etre all must' aelsrleate three entirely differeet Mealwras, One og must meet the requirements a the engine parts, the tavlakallia4ars geM'S and the OM For the ;engine, proper oil should be heavy enough to resist intense hetet and tame prevent heavy earbou de - Mite and event bailing the water. Fer the transmission gears the oil ilieuld be extra heevy to ouehion the gears and prevent noise and' wear. Fee the dare chit& the oil should be light enough to prevent danger to the Operator frem "dragging," especially, when starting the motor in eked weather. Thee three different ea:nations, &- mane a conarromisa in the body of the one oil used. Light oil carnet effi- ciently lubricate the Ford engine, tranamiseion and gears. Use of unsuitable oil will soon cause even the highly efficient engine to show -certain undesirable effects, Automobile engineers beuvo analyzed these restate as bucking or jerky en- gine, etebon and dirty spark plugs, engine knocks, overheating and Moose bearings. Each of these five operating eondis idora was further analyzed as follows: A bucking or jerky engine may are falai any one of six cauees—tur- ban deposits and dirty spank plogs, worn or leaky piston rings, pitted or sacking valves: engine worn by sedi- ment in the lubricating oil, uneven epark plugs or too lean or tee rich an explosive =bream. The first four of these causes no 'mealy bbs derect resul. of faulty labnication. How tc mrrest this dif- ficulty is expaaned further on in this twine] e. The fifth 0:.-.1Sa of bucking—uneven lark plug gaps—ix easily corrected by fitting a ameetIrr ten -cent piece be- tween the pante; 1915 and earlier models a trifle closer. See that all four plugs have the same gap. The eixth cause of a bucking engine ---the wrang =Zees-E.—can also be quickly corrected by folkswing this simple rule for oaxiserstar adJlaStment. Wean urp your engine With be ear stand,inft ane the engine retyping, ineasch the Inionuee and then eat dawn the entrant of gemaine fee ehe ter- buretor inilthe engine aegina to OW down, Then inereaele ehe ;supply garsoline sloWler, till the Vaal is ea- eterefloaat not 4 mit& berrod pant. nes etiarearneet gives tire, ideal taiXtere neither too "Ikea" norr too "rech." Oerbon, deposits and dirty spark Plugs are frequently due to Inefficient lueriention, also to wrong carburetor mixture and to Wore pistons end Tho earbureltor aeljestsrlegla Is elt- phrased above. bl'e4havical faults -can be remedied by installing gat -eight fasten rings, Too much ote or the wrong 001 gellees esebell derfits 434 dirty spark plugs. Oil that iss too thin worke 1.1P into the explosion cambers in large wan- tities. Oil &al is too heavy carbon. izes rapidly in the cylieder. Oil that' brake down under beet forms volume ineers bleak sediment. Any one of these three condition's ineereaseaebon deposits ani soots op the eiperk plugs. Eng.line kneeles are due to one or more el: the Meowing causes.: Pre- ignition due to carbon., wornconnect- ing rods, worn bearings, loose -fitting pieton rings, pistol). etniking a cyan - der -head gasket, too advanced! spark or ;wrong ca,rburetor adjustment. • Notice that the first four causes of kelocks u sunny remit from inefficient Tubrieation. The remedy of the last three muses &s otafrous. The commonest ;cause of irverheat- ing, and the one that is most often overlooked, is faulty lubrication—the tree a/ roar oil not suited to the en- gine or the use of too =Doh ed. To avthl overheating filet make sure that your engine is efficiently labricaUd. Then look for trouble aseeltere, Tice Ford engine runs at unusually high speed and high temperature. You tan noaday see that =Zees the luta,- eating oil maineains a durable, fric- tionless film between these metal sur- faces raeici wear will surely result. Loose ;bearings, one of the principal causes ce knselts endless of power, are the direct and inevitable resuit of using the wrong oil. Wisps of Wisdom. It doesn't take a botanist to dis- cover a blooming idiot. Jealousy Is the homage that inferi- ority pays to merit. The man who controls his temper governs his worst enemy. A delusion is our idea that our friends never waste about us. Be tvhat your friends think you are. Avoid being what your enemies say you are. Worry is a form of cowardice. It is kern of fear and comes from the con- eviousness that we are not equal to cope with the obstacles that confront Parents themselves must be taught the wave e an education. They are trona fit to have children if they db not event them to enjoy even greater and better privileges than their awn child - God knew. secret is Out. "Why does a woman's hat cost so much more than a man's? Surely, the trimming can't account for more than a fraction of the difference." "Certainly not. But you must re- member that it costs more to sell a hat to a woman. A man seldom takes up more than two minutes of the salesman's tinte, while a woman will keep the entire sales staff busy for half a The tailor of the future will take his measurements for a suit of clothes with the camera. A. special tape mea- sure marked with big figures is fitted from the neck to the feet, and three others round the back, waist, and hips. A photograph is then taken of the tailor's client from the front, side, and back. The tailor thus obtains a per- rnenent record with all the necessary measurements. What Did They Really Mean? Words are Indeed olemsy things with which to convey thought% and the most carefully constructed eeeeell can give to another only an approxi- mate idea or the originator's real meaning. It may be safely asserted that it would be impossible to make any statement of the simplest fact with certainty that the hearer would exactly comprehend the speaker's meaning. Even an apparently un- equivoisal "yes" or "no" may be mis- interpreted. • Not only le it difficult to the point et practical impassibility to surely un- derstand another, but, after a lapse of time, a. person will not airwave under- etand what his oven words were meant to convoy—ate a stenegraphe.r is some- times quite unable, to read his notes when they have become "cold." This may sametimes be due to the fat that an education end experience develop the mind, Words assume different meanings, the first meaning being for- gotten,. Famous authors. have not entrequene ly been unable to explain, the meaning of their earlier writings, For instate% , yrben Jacob Boehme was on hie death- bed, some reverent pupils came and begged thee/'before he died he would Explain to them difficult passages in fife works, "My dear children," the great mystic said, after vainly pus - sang' over the lines, "When I wrote Me enderstooe ate Meaning, and no doubt the omniscient God did, Ile may still remember it, but 1 have for - 'gotten," KlOpetociee admirers like- wise were baffled by one of his etan- zee• and appealed to him tor enlight- enment. The pathos reed and then slowly reread the worde in question, then shook hie head and eptate: "1 eaunat recollect Whet I meant when I Wrote If, but I do remember it was one • the afloat flange 1 ever Wrote, and tam eitioloe do better than to devote your llyee, to the discovery of its mean- ingla Cardinal Newman, in Lia old age, frankly acknowledged that he had no idea what he meant when he wrote in his famous hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light," the words: And with the morn those angel faces Which I have loved long aline and lost And yet, to many persons, those lines do not seem in the least ambiguous or susceptible of but one interpretation. Browning merely laughed when asked what certain passages in his poems; really meant, and (lettered, "Upon my word, I don't. know what it meane. I advise you to ask the Brovnaing Society; they'll tell you all about it. • And at that, there may have been more truth than jest in the suggestion—it is quite possible that careful students of the works of an author might came °loser to the true original Inert -fling or an obscure 90511 - ago then the author himself. Conterning "Mozees from en Old Manee," Hawthorne onto said: "Upon my honor, I am not quite sure that entirely comprehend my own meaning In some of these allegories; but I re- merabor that I always had a meaning, or at least thought I had." A difference of opinion by author and reader ars to the meaning of a phrase was evidenced once when Gold- smith was asked 11 110 meant tardiness of locomotion by the word "slow" hi the lint line of the "Traveler"— Remote, utertemily, melancholy, stove— Goldsmith replied, "Yes." Johnson immediately cried out, "No, sir, you do not mean tardiness of locomotion; you mean that stuggisnnese of mind which winos upon Ti man in. solitude." Certainly, in tbis ease, I1 was the trier; and not the author Who realized the true meaning of the ,word: PF 111 11 aes'aasea---. 11111119 41111 .31 :1111101 fp-14,1 4 41111111.111:7;144‘'A ' • 4,.•:=: ". • •••'' sea -e -see Water -Throwing in the Argentine The discomfiture of the pompous al- ways pleases unregenerate man. There is perhaps, a certain malice in the humor with which Lord Frederic Hamilton tells in his Vanished Ponape of Yesterday the following adventure of a too dignified British diplonutt. When Lord Frederic was a member of the British legation at Buenos Aires, In Queen Vlotoria's time, a new minis- ter, whom he calla Sir Edward, was sent out. On Shrove Tuesday, the last day of the 0/111111,51, Sir Edward start- ed to go as ;mai to the legation. From this point we quote Lord Frederic: I told my chief that it was water - throwing day and suggested that he wear his oldest clothes. Sir Edward gave me to understand that he iraag- In,ed few people would venture to throw water over Her Britannic Ma- jesty's representative, But I knew what was coming. In the first five minutes we got a bucket from the top of a house, and it soaked ua to the skin. Sir Edward was speechless with rage. Men were selling everywhere on the streets the largo squirts that are used on thoie occasiona I equipped my- self with a perfect arsenal of eomitos, as they are called, but Sir Edward waved them disdainfully away. Soon two girls, erased with pomace., darted out of ez open doorway and, caught us each fairly in the fare. Thee they gig- gled and ran into the house, leavieg the door open. Sir Edward fairly danced -with rage on the pavement; but, since the door W0.0 090E4 we were entitled by all the laws ot carnival time to pursue our fair assailants, and I did so. I finally- caught them in the dining room, where their venerable grandmother was reposing lu an arm- chair. I gave the girls a good soaking and bestowed a mild %winkle oa the old lady, who was immeneely gratified at the attention. Our progress was masked be several more interludes of similar character, 511d 011 reeehhig the shelter of aur of- ficial sanctuary I wars really pained to observe how Sir Edward's spotless garments had offered. Considerably ruffled, he sat down to continue an elaborate memorandum that he was drawing upon the new Argentine cue - tome tariff. Presently our hougekeep- er, a German, Frau Bauer, entered the room demurely and made her way to Sir Edward's table. 'VIII His Excel- lency be so kind—" she began; and then suddenly, with a discreet titter, she produced a large pomtto from un- der her apron and, secure in the license of carnival time, thrust It into his collar and proceeded to squirt half a pint of cold wate rdown hie back, returning swiftly with elderly coyness amid an exploeion of giggles. I tbink I have never seen a man in such a furious rage! Nevertheless, he was after all a good avert When he had eased his mind sufficiently he snapped out: "It is impossible to do any serious work to -day. Where can one buy the infernal squirts these idiots use?" "Shall I buy you some, Sir Edward?" "Yee, a lot, and the biggest you can find:" I did so; and we parte& Returning home hours later after a moist but en- joyable afternoon, I saw a great crowd gathered at the junction of two streets, engaged in a furious water fight. The central figure was a moat disreputable - looking man with a sodden wisp of linen where his collar should have been; remnants of a tie trailed dankly down, his soaked garmente were shape- lese, and his head was crowned with a sort ot dripping poultice. He was spanking water in all directions, like the Crystal Fleece fountains in their heyday. Every spurt was accompanied by shoute sucb as "Take that, you foolish female, and that, you fat feminine Argentine!" With grief I recognized 111 this demi) reveler Her Britannic Illajeety's minis- ter plenipotentlttrY. Balsa Wood. During the war "balsa" wood was the material used for the 70,000 mine buoys which, stretched across the North Sea, proved so effective a bar - bier against German submarines. When we wish to express the limit of lightness, we say that a thing is; 'flight as cork;" but balsa., which is the wood of a tree native to the trop- ics of America, is lighter by one-third than cork. It is not at all like any other kind ot wood. Instead f having a fibrous structure, it is composed of hollow, thin-walled cells containing nothing but air. To prevent it. from rotting, it has to be treated chemically by It process which, incidentally, renders it waterproof. This curious wood ie. used far :hydro- plane pontoons, for toy airplanes, tor surf -boards and for sportsmen's de- coys. Relatively to weight, it has far greater structural strength than any other kind of 'wood. It is corning into extensive use for refrigerator nom. eartments on ships, and 15 thought likely to prove equally serviceable in refrigerator cars and cold -storage warehouser). Alone. Why should we feint and fear to ilve alone, Since all alone, BO Heaven has wiliest, we die? Nor even the teed -et -eat heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons! why wo smile and sigh, ' --John Iteble. ...— She Should Worry. • lelivtresse "1 think you haedie thoso fine china dielles very easiest:lye' Jane- "Don t worry, 101 1101. They nre EC) light that; they wealdn't hurt me, even if I dropped 'en; oe lily tees." Taught by the Hornet. A hornet is said to have revolution- ized the whole of the paper trade. Making paper from wood was the dis- covery of a Dr. Hill, cif Augusta, Maine. One day the doctor found an old hor- nets' nest, which, he decided, had been made from pulped wood, which looked exactly like paper. Very much interested, Dr. Hill took the nest to his friend and neighbor, James G. Blaine. At this time paper was being sold at about one alining and threepence a pound. The -friends decided to take the nest to the superinteadent of a paper -fac- tory, and the, three set down together and carefully pulled the nest to pieces. De Hill was of the opinion that the only way the hornet could have manu- factured the wood into this pulp -like paper was by chewing it, so machinery was set to work and made to do, on a large scale, what the mouth of the hor- net had done on a small scale. Thus the wood -pule Industry was started. Men Who Must Marry. An Anti -Bachelor 111 II I introduced in- to the Turkish Parliament makes mar- riage compulsory for men over twenty- five. Defaulters will be fined a quarter of their earnings, which will bo deposited In Agricultural banks to help peasants to marry, No adult Civil Servant may be a bat.belor, Gifts of land, Iran, and Siete 0411 - cation for &Urn aro held out se re- wards for znerrtage, with a penalty of bard labor tor a confirmed baehelor. It is not by ()hang° of eireurn- "S: ea. but by fitting; our epirits to • e Meese that Ivo can be ra to life and anke.—F. W. Faber tsom "Dead for the Fatherlaild". The SOW that nrerofls la the no. suet ti ilieenorial jg Vet fl in Preece, Menlo alberisee elbeeated ilistrietea of FrePea,' OW Mr, Stephen, Owens.) al the Niseteesth Century, te gratitude; for VIckere, Although tleirit lg best ohne) le tile common every-daY lite, I felt i Olio ire ti eenotion Where Uti� exercesion of it was oolf-eoneelowsi aud eleallserete, though the commone Wee 50 011)1910 0114 naive as a eels Molly '1411 be. On the Ouriday that I spent wider ale iteepices, the soureeretet eves 011- u 'illetlfurate a memorial at one ot the little hamlets behind NO= les Meas. The °Melte funotiolt wars fled for three e'eloolt, and we were to have tier dejeuner with the inalre, wise ap- Reared le tall eat and 'troth coat, wee the trioolor easlt round his 'waist, yet, despite his costerne, looking the pros- perous termer tbet'he was. We Went out from our repast to the pletforra, *rem twolosel betide leered out the Merseilleise ip the village street all overarched enl hung witlt trloolors; wo got on the platform alma with the Socialist mayor of an adjoining raining vIllage—all very friendly together. M. le soue-protet made a pleasantly eloquent speech In good set phrassa-and so far it was a little like many other ceremonials. But it bad one incident new to ole that eillemse is reproduced whenever and that (teemed to Y the areetsch isietlitet; ter what a .cente Inenionalve and for what is amniotic, At the filet Of the Monument eteedahe vfllage eellooleriester, a tall Oda Man With long, drooping red mOtifituoireit, eine/fatally otalltin Is effirearfaieet bIlt he wen. usa Geetenee Ole ella Mem of the Legion of Honor end the ;Voile de Mimeo with bar, Standing Illaref thls rearseentettve of the 100,1 eoldiery called a roll—imay about 'a dozen eamee, or a ciatilletne tee. small pleas As each mime wee oelled Will hie to the saline cisme forward, and alleveyring, "Mart' pour heffilerte," laid a bouquetof et/we're to the eitiar• The rettear'slittle duushter, in her white dress mei red Goa, wa one of those who itnsvrered, and her brother bed a wonderful sheet er phlox finti Clohaelnute deletes, It was almeet started' by the 'fallow blear:ems; team droll to see bow small boys bustled up crying their "Mort pour la made" es 11 11 were the catchword In some game. Yet somehow the thing took Yoe by surprlee; I telt as if an unfair assault had been made on my emotions. But for all that it was a festival, not a funeral; the dominant note was given by the trumpeted learseillaise and the bright ateeemers; It was an expreseien of victory and of gratitude for victory, The Power of a Plant t A correspondent says that he put one of the growing pears on a tree In his garden into a. square glassbottle, which be fixed against the walli He than watched from day to day to see what would happeq. Gradually it filled the bottle, flatten- ing itself againet the square eides, and at last burst the glass walls of its prison. Some time ago a heavy peering -atone began to rise on a pathway in a coun- try town, and when it was Samoyed to see what had caused the disturbe.nee a muehroom was found growing under- neath. Soft and pliable asthe fungus might seem, it was more powerful than the dead weight of the stone, which must have been Milt a hundred- weight. • Enormous weighte have been lifted by vegetable marrows. ;some years ago one which was growing under an otd disused care from -which tee wheels had been removed, actually raised this from the ground. Cucura- bers, too, have pertormed prodigies of, valor. One young cucumber found its Way When very young and thin through the middle of a lerge marrow- bone, and as it gear" bagel' and larger the Inexhaustible feEce it exerted split the bone. At one place in the Tyrol the roots of a larch grew downward. through a cleft, and as the root thickened it split the *Mee and raised part of it, weigh- ing more than a ton, a distance of a foot. At Cambridge, in one of the main streets, there isan iron fence which has. been abriorbed by a growing tree, so that several of tbe -massive Iran uprights have disappeared inside the trunk. The only thing that some of these trees cannot resist is the strangle grip of another plant that encircles them. lo England honeysuckle often kill a tree like the beech, while In troplcal forests) many of the creepers kill the trees tte winch they climb, and then save themselves from falling by throw- ing out long branches, to neighboring trees, The tiny root hairs of our common wild plants, though. so fine as scarcely to be ;men, push the particles of earth and the stones on one side and pene- trate into the soil like a gimlet. Ex- periments have been made with beans which have been grown in water spread over quicksilver, and the roots have been found actually to force their way through thie heavy metal, Another wonderful instance Of the power of a growing plant is the way In which the sap is pumped up to the remotest leaves. The force of the ris- ing alp has been found to be equal to a preesure of twenty-two pounds. Making Yolks White. A scientific poultry breeder in Italy has racceeded in producing eggs with perfectly white yolks.. It appears that the yea/ow color of an ordinary egg -yolk, which is some- times intensified to a bright reddish hue, is due to a pigment called "caro- tin." The same pigment gives' to car- rots their familiar the, and heuce the name bestowed upon it. Thoyellow legs of Leghorn chick- ens, and. et some other breeds, owe their color to carotin, which, as it would seem, 10 5 rather common color- ing substance in nature. There Is much of it in corn and in the green teed supplied to poultry, The experimenter found that by ep- tirely eliminating carotin from the toed given to his chickens he was able to produce Leghorn hens of the white variety with white shanks and white beaks., and the yolks of the eggs they laid were white. Landon was the first city to use coaL Schoolin'. Never bad no education, Never studied 'rithtnatie, Have to do' bout all my fig'rin' gutter' notches in 0, stick. • Didn't study none e graramar Can't much more'n read and spell, But there's one thing thrill studied And flew:led it mighty well. When the sun is kinder misty An' the ripplee on tne rake 'Get to splosthire soft and sleepy, Then it's time to dig some bait. Dubious. "Mom, won't yer gimme candy, now?" Mae. Casey—laidn't 01 tell you 01 wouldn't give ye army at all if you didn't Items stili 1" "Yearn, but-----" "Well, the longer ye kape still tbe sooner yell get it." Be Conservative. Give a little more than your pro- mise, but don't promise too much. Lords of th e Near East ind...•••••••=0*.rom••• A world tired of the sounds and the scenes of war is paying little attention to the drama that is being played out in Asia 1V1inar. Tho Greats are malt- ing their last effort against the Turks, The Greek musewin, or the Greek will lose all he has gained in other wars King "Tino" is making the last throw and for high stakes. The 'Turk is between two forces. He is lacing his enemy the Greek, and the Soviets aro forcing their help up- on him. Russia is crowding dawn. again train beyond the Mack Sea.to help the Kemalleta, England is watch- ing, with ,more unetielness than Lon- don admits ,this Soviet -backed men- ace to Suez and to India. The Turke aro loath to necept Res- sler; help, and they aro wise In that reluotanee. They fear that if Russia ever comes to Asia Minor that ltussla wit atty. In stating that the Ituseiens are willing, nay eager, to give help, Giamy Bey, Turk Nationalist &pekoe - man In Italy, says "No Russians have tended so far, We do mot want Itirssiaa troops in An:atone, for we realize that if they over come it will be icestay and their presence would meneee our Warman& enee," When Moscow was 11(105C01# of the Kremlin end the old. Cram, 'Russia wanted a 1155 gale to warns water. When Ruseia became the Great Russia, of St. Petersburg, Russia moved to- ward the Golden Horn and Dardnuel- les. A people's rulers may change and 16 Government may change, but the old dreams and desires are likely to live on. The Russia of the Soviets fe as anxious- asany older ltussia to reach a great ice -free port. And the Russia, that comea utter the •Sovlete will strive and strain to get Or to keep an -outlet to the world through the warm Seas.• The Turks will accept Red help or it will be thrust upon them. L0111115 is emerging as the long-expe6ted Rua Men dictator. He know5 the read to Conetantinople. Russian. Instincts and Icoliales as old as the Romenoffe will pull him In that direction. A Soviet Turkey under a Lonine-ploaed tont maser Will put Lonine astride t110 $1165 Cd119.1 and cut Englund off from the Mist, The liemallets aro enraged that the Greeks, "our former slave5 and see. vents," simnel attack them, it past - ebb; Turk understanding that a "more deg ot an andel Greek" should dare tassel] those, under the great banners of the Cattier, The Turk seise himself becoming a sieve that ho may hurl back hie "form- er Mayes. and servants" Levine sees himself ast 'overlord of the Near East, keeper of the gates to Iedie and mock - or of nritain's eea-power, Per If and when Russia tomes,, Rus- s'It will slay. What need to Vireo the pusses' of the fllmalayae1 Oto Sulimane and the Hindi) Kush when you held the sea gatee? ' • Sia Dietalleees Hie xst1vo hetieWlielled tele Was • 0; 1:11;ee4r1; 51111 0n1 Unlike All 0110 more fair, SIMS as. the Make of %ping, Its tee Mlle me, • dellcate Mr° ring Crowned with Ulla finewet Atliilues,wkliaareee;:terelutinicgt,er • It beget/nod tim afar Set free trees smog, Not till old•ege dreW nigh He voyaged there. 100 saw the 001018 uj AP I11QW war. It towered him, Neale .And cold, death cold. From peak to Phantom peak ThAeng,:nYtilerr htle"a11:ed head/ From that bare shore, Back at his own dear land He gazed onto more. Clothed with the teas he knew Opal fuel rose and blue, Ile saw it amile— Hifi native Isle, --Alfred. Note& Styles in Headgear. Everybody agreesthat nothing in the way of dress is quite so ugly as the modern "plug" hat or the derby—both of whiz are so stilt ansi, black and In- euman in contour. It has been sug- gaited that the origin of these ieheive tances is to be found in the life of oer renameteeoamn,coesotootorse. to the hat we find that its'name to connected with the building of a primitive etature, a hut. Newcombe, theareliftect, pointed out some years ago the curious reseme- 10.408 whic'a has existed ana is still to be found in litany countries between tba headgear and the habitations or other buildings. It may bethat the same has given rise to the simfalaray of etyle. In the Ilawatien islande, long before the inhabitants troubled themselves about clothes, they built themselves grass houses., and at the present time the characteristic Hawaiian het is re- markably like the but. The turbans of the eastern: church • dignitaries aro atilt the same shape ,as tliose worn by the high priests among the Jews, and are remarkably like the characteristic dome which surmounts a mosque, Again going beck into European history wo find that the Ihigh, pointed spires or Gothic church- es were contemporaneous with the 'high, hornlike head-dress known as the lumen. It is believed, moreover, that like results will be found after a comparison of other styles of arcliftece turo with the costume of the period in. 'which they flourished. After 'Our Prince." Although there are two groups or is- lands and one otter Island named af- ter the -Prince. of Wales, yet in his re- cent tour round the world "our Prince" did not eee any of these, The most extensive group of Prince of Wales' islands are those off the coast of Alaelta, the largest of which is about 120 miles long, and 10 to 40 broad. This leg Island is covered with yellow ceder, a, most valuable timber, and providers also splendid salmon, "hinilegft Aer Royal archipelago is to be bound off Cape York, to the north of Queensland. The largest is Muralug, In this group are Thursday and Prides haands, the former hiving a fine han bour and being a great centre of the pearl -fishing ineustry. • In the yaw 1785 there was ceded 15 Britain by the Rajah of Kedah an is. land lying off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, and then known as Pulo-Penang, or Ardca Nut Island. This island was renamed Preece of Wales' Wand, ,aad though smaller • than the Isle of Wight,' has now a population of about 120,000, While George Town, the capital, has a fine harbor, and Is to -day, next to Singa- pore, the most important et the Straits Settlements. Besides Prince of Wales' Islands, there aro several named after Priem) Edward. Peace Edward Island in the St. Lawrence is a province of out own Dominion. Another Pane° EdWard Island is a volcanic peak more than 4,000 feet high in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. I suppose there is hardly any i)f us but what has a streak of pay ore in him, but if it's a bit refractory many of us lack the energy to work it. A pistol hos teen devised an Eng- land speciegy for killing trees with- out felling them. They site actually shot to death., lo place of a bullet, the pistol fires n eolid-steel bolt tlmough the tree trunk, in suoh a minter es to sever its life core, and tints leads to the early death of the tree. It ie a peculiar quality of the eye known as the persistence of vision that makes the moving pictures pos- sible, for it allows time for a separ- ate picture to pasa behind the lens of the •projecting machine, while the shutter is closed, before the imago of the proceeding picture has disap- peared. When sixteen pictures a sec - mut pass before the lens they appear to the, spectator as ono ,continuous picture'but thee is Melia an Inter. val of darkness one obira as long as the period of illamiration. • .i