HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-01-06, Page 5Man With X4Hay Eyes
David fa'i2eilly, of Winlatoh,
County Durham, has boon able to
,cad and *write upside down since
he learned the more normal
inothod at school.
New estle-on Tyne d o o i o r
were 'completely puzzled to ox
Wain away David's gift when he
east visited them, but they are
not the only members of the
medical profession to be Tett
wondering.
A 22-, t r -old Oltlahyma :nu
.lent, .lack Husband; licks like a
'dock, and until be was nine
Years old he thought that every-
one else did. A school chum was
the first to hear the slight tick
enuring from Jack's head when
he was wrestling with him rem
day.
He remarked on the noise, and
that was how Jack found out he
was far from normal with Itis
tick. Since then More than - 200
doctors have listened -in, but not
one of them has managed to ex
plain why it happens.
A few years ago a patient in a
Cleveland, Ohio, hospital claim-
ed to hear radio programmes
without having a set. What was
at first thought tobe hallucina-
tion was finally proved to he
true, and the' sufferer had to be
fitted with a steel headband to
combat his receptive brain,
Another ease of this kind
came to Light recently, but e
simpler cure, was found for the
patient, John Mogowsky. He was
a knife=grinder by trade, and
doctors discovered that small
particles of carborundurn were
lodging in his teeth and turning
him into a human crystal set.
They prescribed a toothbrush
and cured him. 0.f course, all
grinders are not siniilar suffer-
ers, John just happened to he
gifted that way,
The case of the luminous wo-
man was never cleared up 'by
Italian doctors. They took Anna
Monaro to hospital, but she was
still glowing with a blue light
at night when they discharged
her without discovering the rea-
son or a cure.
Pat Marquiss, of California,
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can play tennis and billiards with
his eyes bandaged. He has X-ray
eyes. So has Pieter van Jeers -
vel. of Bughersdorp, South Af-
rica, but he uses his talent to
search out deposits of gold and
diamonds, as well as under-
ground streams.
Another man who has turned
an abnormality to good use is
Jimmie Edmondson, of Atlanta,
Georgia.
He can read backwards with-
out any trouble, and earns a
good salary as a radio entertain-
er by specialising in singing pop-
ular songs in reverse.
There are times when it pays
to be different!
Here ark, some diversified
notes taken from the proceed-
ings of this year's Federal-Pro-
vinetai Agricultural Conference.
They'll give you an idea of
what the experts think the year
1954 , will bring to the Canadian
farmer,
And maybe, at that, their pre -
fictions will come true. Even
experts hit the bullseye occa-
sionally.
Prospei'ts for 1954 are that the
generally 'Orin trend of eco-
nomic activity during 1953 will
continue without serious inter-
ruption. Consumer purchases..
which showed a signifleant in-
crease early in 1953, are being
maintained. Though ealports de-
clined somewhat in the early
months of 1953 they . improved
later and held to levels of the
comparable period of 1952. Con-
tinuing firm demand for agri-
cultural products in the domes-
tic 0 orket can be expected
Prospects fur Wheat sales are
reasonably good even though
the world supply is larger. Sales
of other commodities in over-
seas markets have undergone
some adjustment but -generally
seem to be firmly based.
.
The `demand for farm workers
during 1954 is expected to be
about the same as in 1953 and
farm labour supply and demand
to be in better balance.
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Basic farm supplies, such as
machinery, fertilizers, pesticides,
twine and bags are expected to
be ample during 1954 with
prices about the same as those
of 1953. Ammonium nitrate is
the only material he short sup-
ply, but other nitrogen materials
are available, The trend toward
the increased use of higher ana-
lysis fertilizers is expected to
conthtue.
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Wgrld production of wheat
!% t4li
ljo.d. triit.'
1 l fit S' 04, t) a-pe.vt„.
Pct,PII(ot �•d.tl6tl
Ar Runs In The Family This sketch by Celina Tai, grand-
daughter of artist Paul Gauguin, was Inspired by the painter's
se f portrait, it is part of a Paris exposition of drawings by
ch !droll of the Oceania colonies. The 12•year-ofd girl, who
scribbled "My Grandfather Paul Gauguin" atop the drawing, is
the daughter of Tai, a son of Gauguin,
during the 1953-54 crop year is
forecast at about four per cent
below last year's record of 7.3
billion bushels, Basic to the cur
rent world wheat situation is
the fact that Canadian farmers
have harvested a total of 1,855
million bushels 5f wheat in the
past three years, an average of
618 million bushels per year.
This is nearly twice the prewar
(1935-39) average production of
312 million bushels.
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Total . supplies of Canadian
feed grains for 1953-54 are only
slightly below last year's 'rec-
ord. Decreases in production of
the chief feed grains from the
record or near -record levels,
were almost offset by increased
carryover stocks of all grains,
which reached new peaks for
both barley and rye and were
second highest for oats.
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Increased supplies of beef,
veal, mutton and lamb and
smaller supplies of pork are in
prospect for the marketing • year
ending September 14$4, Antici-
pated reduction in pork sup-
plies will be more than offset by'
greater production of other
meats and total supplies of all
meats will likely be about ,four
per cent above the 1952-53 fig-
ure, " . *
Anticipated high level of
domestic demand in 1954 Will
limit the surplus of cattle and
calves in spite of larger volume
of marketings. In 1953-54 Cana-
da's surplus of cattle and calves
may amount to about 230,000
head.
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Indications are that during
1954 there will be a continuing
strong domestic market for eggs
and poultry with an increase in
egg consumption comparable to
the increase in population and
an increase in consumption of
poultry greater than the relative
population rise.
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The outlook for 1954 is for a
sizeable increase in the produc-
tion of apples and grapes and
for a moderate increase in the
production of apricots, cherries,
pears, plums and prunes and
strawberries. This forecast is
contingent on weather, and fac-
tors such as insects and diseases.
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Combined production of Reg-
istered and Certified cereal, fax,
corn, bean, pea, and soybean
seeds in 1953 was a little larger
than. in 1952. Production of
wheat was - the highest in a
number of years and that of soy-
bean was much the largest ever
recorded. Supplies are adequate
for domestic needs.
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Seed supplies of alfalia, :il-
eac, red and sweet clover will
be more than adequate for do-
mestic needs in 1954, with the
possible exception of double cut
or early type of red clover. Any
shortage of this kind could be
met from carryover stocks and•
by a greater use of other kinds
such as Maitre, alfalfa and timo-
thy.
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JUST YOTl
IF you are an average ratan or
Woman, this is what happens to
you i0 twenty-four hours:
'Your heart beats 103,680 times.
You breathe 23,040 tfines,
You drink 2.9 pints of liquid.
You eat 3 lb. of food.
You speak 4,800 words,
You move 750 major muscles.
Your hair grows ,01714 in,
Your mails grow 000046 in,
You exercise 7,000,000 brain
cells,
You turn in sleep front 25 to 34
times.
Hangover—Quickly titled "Hang-
over" by locar wits is this new
hat designed by Sandy Pendery.
Even though it hides part of her
charms, she still commands ad-
miring attention as'she suns on
the beaches of southern Florida.
CROCODILES FOR
STEPPING STONES
High up on a rocky path of the
Magaliesberg Range, in the
Transvaal, a big -game hunter
rested, his 'rifle at his side.
A cliff dropped sheer before
him, and twenty feet below
spread the top of a moepel tree.
Chin on hands, elbows on knees,
he closed his eyes to listen to
thesplashing stream down
among the shadows.
Suddenly, from behind him,
carne the faint clatter of a roll-
ing pebble. He turned his head.
An old baboon mouth open,
fangs gleaning, hands outstret-
ched, was within inches of grab-
bing him by the head. Beyond,
squatted a score or more of its
silent fellows
Jerking forward, the hunter
kicked at.the cliffside with his
heels, launching himself into
space, turning"as he fell, Falling,
too, was the baboon twisting
frantically as it plunged over the
cliff.
Together they crashed through
the tree, below, the leafy bran-
ches saving them both from ser-
ious, injury. By the time the
dazed hunter reached the ground
the baboon had disappeared, but
above him the ugly, doglike,
grimacing faces of the rest of
the tribe leered at him from the
cliff edge. Had that brute got
him, he would have been torn
to pieces.
That wasn't the only chilling
p, experience Alexander Lake had,
for in his exciting new adven-
ture book, "Killer in Africa"' he
recounts another occasion when
he saw two heads leering at
him, this, time over a dwarfed
castor-oil bush.. Both instantly
disappeared. But glancing at flee
edge of rock above his head,
Lake was alarmed to find a
full-grown baboon staring at
him some fifty feet away,
The hunter let fly 'with his gun,
and the hill suddenly became
alive, Pandemonium broke loose,
as from behind rocks all around,
dark forms raced, shrieking,
bellowing and barking up the
hillside. While Lake had thought
lie was stalking them, the whole
troop had been stalking himl
With Col, Capel, of the Trans-
vaal Signal Corps, and a Zulu
tracker, the author was on a
trail skirting the Crocodile Riv-
er — a narrow cutting in the
cliff -face which ended abruptly
where a section of cliff had top-
pled into a gorge.
The party was in the- middle
of the pile of rock when, with
a ferocious roar, a large male
baboon shot out from behind a
boulder and faced them. He was
in a rage and, at his first bel-
low, baboon's sprang into view
on a hundred rocks — howling,
shrieking, and closing in with
short, threatening rushes. The
colonel aimed his rifle, but the
Zulu tracker knocked up the
barrel,
"I£ you shoot, Baas, we are
dead men!"
"He's right," Lake told Capel.
"Those baboons Ire , hysterical,
They might tear us to shreds."
As the troop crept closer, the
din was so great that Lake had
to shout. Behind, a group of
males barked and roared about
fifty feet away. The largest
moved slowly forward.
Y It was touch and go. A few
fast shots might panic the mob
— or might bring them down on
the party. Members of the main
troop were shifting their • posi-
tions, the females, babies and
young baboons moving back a
little, the older males moving
forward. It was formation for
an attack,
All the three men could do
was sit and. wait. The baboon
on the ledge was less than
twenty-five feet off, and the
hair on its shoulders stood up
like an angry dog's, Lake stared
straight into his eyes — yellow
and filled 'with hatred, Suddenly
it backed a couple of feet, loosed
three roaring barks, then slip-
ped behind a roZk. That must
have been a signal, for the
whole troop turned and ran.
Another time, an angry ba-
boon sprang at a young Kaffir,
holding hint with all four hands
and sinking his teeth in the
boy's upper arta. Lake's rifle
spat death to the animal, but
before anyone could help the
screaming Kaffir a second ba-
boon leapt on Lake's back and
knocked him over, ripping his
arm: No time to shoot. He swung
the rifle like a club. The baboon
crumpled.
Lake says, in this graphic ac-
count of his adventures, that ba-
boons are cunning, particularly
their leaders. Though the ani -
Pretty Pickpocket
Had Many Tricks
She had a figure which was
slim, shapely, alluring. She pos-
sessed dark, lustrous eyes and
auburn stair which many *nen
found irresistible. She talked in
a low, pleasant voice tinged with
an Irish accent, She dressed with
exquisite taste and walked like
a queen.
Who was .this young woman,
born just 250 years ago? An ex-
otic society beauty? A nobleman's
daughter?
Neither. She was the notorious
Jenny Diver, the loveliest pick-
pocket who ever operated in the
streets and pleasure haunts of
eigteenth-century London.
They called her Jenny Diver
because of the amazing dexterity
with which she dived her hands
into the capacious pockets of her
thousands of victims, Her real
name was Mary Young.
Before she was fourteen she
showed signs of rare beauty and
intelligence. Friends of her par-
ents forecast a wonderful career
for her. She certainly had a car-
eer . , , but it ended on the scaf-
fold.
She was only fifteen when a
youth employed by a rich Irish-
man fell for her allure and pro-
posed elopement to England, That
suited Jenny, for London had al-
ready excited her fancy and she
was lietermined to get there at
all costs.
Both were penniless, but the
youth robbed his employer of
£80 and a gold watch, and they
sailed for Liverpool.
There, they lived in a cheap
lodging for four days as man
and wife. Then they put ,their
luggage On a London -bound
coach and were about to leave
when the law caught up with
Jenny's "husband." He was col-
lared after a chase, taken back
to Ireland and hanged for his
theft.
Indifferent to his fate, Jenny
got to London with ten guineas
in her purse and wearing a rav-
ishing new dress of blue and
gold velvet, bought with some
of the stolen money.
mals have phenomenal eyesight,
they are emotionally unstable,
and two, driven by frenzy, can
tear even a leopard to pieces.
But the ugliest, cruellest, most
loathsome eaters of men and
beasts in Africa are crocodiles.
Once, in the Congo Basin coun-
try, Alexander Lake lay on a
rock, and 'in his sleep moved,
accidentally kicking his rifle
over the edge.
Sliding over to retrieve it, he
stepped on something soft and
wiggly that yelped . . - he tried
to jump ... slipped ... and sat
down hard on four newly hatch -
baby crocs. About sixty of the
ten -inch devils surrounded trim,
Their mother was up on her
toes, not twenty feet away, glar-
ing at hint.
Six of the yellow -eyed de-
mons attacked his toes, heels
and calves with their needle-
sharp teeth. Grabbing his rifle.
he regained the rock a second
before the mother swiped with
her tail, almost turning a back
somersault to get at him with
her jaws.
Camping' at night in another
place with companions, the au-
thor was trapped by a mass
croc migration. On they came,
in two files, skirting the wagon
tents and fire on both sides,
leaving him in a circular oasis
about eighty feet across. Ubusu-
ku, a Zulir, and Bill, a Bechuana
boy were outside the circle.
Picking Bill up, the Zulu used
the crocs' backs as stepping
stones, and in three hops set
hire down safely in the fire -lit
circle.
The book abounds in thrills
like these, packed with much
absorbing lore about wild crea-
tures,
She rolled her eyes at every'
personable man she encountered
directly she reached the , t~ity,
Some offered her gold for bee
favours, She scorned them *-µ
after taking the money.
Installed in a lodging house
near Charing Cross, Jenny fell
in with an Irish girl, Anne Mures
phy, who was picking pocket*
for;. a living and agreed 10 teach.
the pretty newcomer "the :secrets
of our art,
Anne was linked with a gang
Of pickpockets with headquarters
in an evil -smelling, dimly-lit
cellar in St. Giles, then the haunt
of cut-throats and crooks of all
kinds.
Night after night members Of
the gang—they numbered five —
mingled with wealthy, richly
dressed women in fashionable
parts of London, cutting off their
pockets with scissors or sharp
knives and making off with their
contents:
On Jenny's first aught out wifee
the gang, she stole 290 worth of
jewellery, displaying amazing
daring and fearlessness.
"My, you're wonderful!" ex-
claimed John Stower, a y0unrie
man who had helped Anne Mur*
phy train Jenny. Tier eyes spark..
led more brightly than ever at
such praise from an expert,
Within weeks, Jenny was lead-
er of the gang. Police issued des-
criptions of "Diving Jenny," thg
beautiful pickpocket who some-
how always eluded them.
She had two false arms, special-'-
ly made by one of her admirer8g
Then, dressed in the height 01
fashion, she went to a meeting
house just off the Strand and se
between the wives of two richt
citizens. They smiled graciously
at her and noted her demurely'
folded hands.
What they did not see wean
Jenny's slim, real hands, whictk
• crept from the folds of her silkess
dress and took their gold watehea
and all the money from their vol-
uminous pockets.
When the cry of "Thief! Thief!"
arose after the women had missed
their property, nobody thought
of suspecting the pretty young
girl whose "hands" had neve]''
moved from her lap throughout
the evening.
Jenny repeated this trick with
the artificial arms twenty times
before the law got wind of
Then she tried a new dodge.
Disguised, with the aid 01 a cush-
ion and more fine clothes, as ;c
wealthy expectant mother, she
was always acompanied by a
footman.
Wherever well- to - do crowd
crowds gathered there was Pick..
pocket Jenny—at the theatre,. M
Spring Gardens — plying her
"trade" and enlisting sympathy
by occasionally stumbling. Whet
a good-natured man or woman
went to her aid, Jenny's active
hands relieved him or her of
their valuables.
For twenty years Jenny flour-
ished as a pickpocket, never
"earning" less than 25,000 a year.
Once she lured' a young beau
into a temporarily unoccupied
London mansion, pretending to
be a rich, bored wife whose hus-
band was out of town for the
night. She conducted him to a
bedchamber and then suddenly
pretended she heard her husband
at the door.
When the scared beau asked
what he should do, she said:
"Undress, get into the bed, cover
yourself with the bedclothes and
I'll hide your clothes. Ile won't;
come into this room, but I will
lock the door, take away the key
and return when he is asleep."
The ruse succeeded, and Jenny
Diver was richer by 2150. Petri-
bution, however, was very near.
They hanged Jenny Diver,
with other pickpockets, at Ty-
burn when she was still only
thirty-six. People in what is to-
day Oxford Street booed. her and
threw bricks and mud as, sna
passed—hair awry but stall a very
lovely woman—in a wagon on
her way to Tyburn.
SKI -TIME IN CANADA. Nlllca of cross-country teens and thrilling downhill runs through thick powder
enow attract many thousands of winter vacatfonists each year to the winter sports area in the
Laurentian Mountains, about 40 miles north el Montreal. Sktcrs find facilities to accommodate all grades
of -skill, excellent instructors for those who want to improve their technique, and a large number
of rope tows as well as several types of lifts for their convenience. Many ski meets and carnivals
are scheduled at the various resort centers during the snow season, which lasts through March. At
left, above, snow enthusiasts check their skis at the Canadian National Railways baggage room in
the Central Station at Montreal. The couple in the rlghthand picture glide past snowleden evergreens
on a cross-country trail at Morin Heights, a popular resort in the heart of the Laurentian siding country,
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