HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-9-6, Page 2Moving King Henry's
Wine Cellar
.An extremely tricky job of en-
gilleerieg has recently been com-
pieted in Great Britain, where King
Henry Mil's wine cellar has just
been moved in its entirety. The
cellar lay underneath a site which
used to be the oid Royal Palace
of Whitehall, a site on which a
Mem block of offices is now being
bnlit, The new building cottkl not
be erected without demolishing the
wine •cellar. This, scheduled as an
ancient monument, was built early
in the sixteenth century and its fine
•ribbed and vaulted ceiling in cut
brickwork spans from the side
•ovalis, which are up to five feet
thick, on to a central rosy of
columns.
Now the cellar was moved eves
told in a BBC broadcast by M. L.
Scott White, a member of the firm
of consulting engineers who were
responsible for the work. The only
way was to move, it in one piece
and lower it into the new building's
basement. As the cellar weighed
some twelve hundred tons this was
a very delicate operation. The job
was done by under -pinning the
upper, historic part of the crypt
with a series of brick piers. Steel
girders were threaded through these
piers and the whole construction
mounted on rollers; which Mr.
White described as "big cotton
reels resting on a track." The
foundations of the new offices were
laid and a recess to receive the
crypt was prepared in the base-
cryptreduced in
meat. The itself,
weight by four hundred tons now
u
that it was separated from its
foundations, was drawn over about
forty-five feet on its basement. Its
weight was transferred to two sets
of powerful screwjacks, working
it down in stages of one sixteenth
of an inch at a time, taking great
care not to strain it in any way by
unequal lowering. They dropped the
crypt nearly nineteen feet in all
and it was thea put back on its
track and rolled to a position that
lay almost directly below its ori-
ginal site. And there Henry VIII's
unique wine cellar now lies, its
antique beauties safely enclosed be-
neath a modern structure. So care-
fully was the operation performed
that not one of the cracks in the
old walls lias been extended.
Stinging Nettles
Have Their Uses
You may think there are few
plaints snore useless than the com-
mon stinging nettle, which seems
to thrive so fast you can almost
watch it growing. Yet even nettles
have their uses.
In spring nettle -shoots make a
valuable pot -herb, and a green
dye is obtained from the leaves.
Several species of the plant are
used for making textiles and ropes,
especially in China and Siam.
Strong fibre is obtained by strip-
ping off the outside of the stalks,
scraping these pieces and dividing
them in hot water.
Over' two hundred years ago
nettle -fibre cloth Was being made in
Shropshire and in certain parts of
France.
Cotton and flax killed this in-
dustry, but because the price of
both these materials lies soared, new
attempts to harness the nettle are
being made in Germany, where
several acres have been put under
the herb. Tests will be made of
the quality of nettle fibre produced
tinder the present conditions.
The "sting" of the nettle has
been frequently used in medicine
when it was necessary to produce
irritation on the surface of the
skin.
It has proved beneficial for allay-
ing rheumatic pains, though by
constant application the system be-
comes accustomed to it, just as we
find beekeepers who no longer ex-
perience pain from the sting of a
bee.
Countryfotk in Scotland have
long known that nettles boiled
down with salt form a kind of
rennet which curdles milk for mak-
ing cheese.
This method is now being used in
India, where common "rennet (a
. substance prepared from the inner
raleplhrane of a calf's stomach) is
rarely used liecatise of religious
reasons.
In Sweden large crops of one
species of nettle are grown as
green fodder, It is relished' by cat-
rane ;las --,.n--ge of being
ati early spring product, supplying
fresh green food when there is
no other to be had.
The Swedes get two er three
crops from the same land1V'Wliof
en
dried—thus losing its Per
Q
stinging—siheep and young oxen
thrive upon it.
"SAUCE FOR THE, GOOSE"
A husband drew up his chair be-
side his wife's sewing. machine.
"Don't you thinly you're running
too fast?" he asked.' "Look outl
'11 sew the wrong seam, Mittd
that c ester now! Slow down, watch
your fingers Steady!"
"What's the matter with you,
John?" asked his wife. "I've been
running this machine for years."
"Well, Clear, I thought you might
like inc to help you, since you help
foo (hive the ear,"
Streamliner Locomotive Nearing Completion at GM Plant—It weighs nearly 125 tons, but this
nearly finished FP7A (freight -passenger) locomotive is hoisted and moved easily by one of the
giant cranes at the multi-million dollar plant of General Motors Diesel, Limited, at London,
Ont., which was officially opened on August 11. The big, modern plant is geared to manufacture
one locomotive per day. Siict types, ranging from 600 to 1,500 horsepiwer, will be built.
POET
Ij�
,b'/ A S1X131TC't 'LC
Along about the end of Septene-
ber—and already the entire sports
world is fairly agog with apathy—
the lads are threatening to stage a
meeting between a fab flabby old
man and a character who would
find it quite a chore to punch his
way out of a bread -wrapper. What
.is more, they are going to bill this
Battle of the Stenchery as being for
the Heavyweight Championship of
the World.
* * *
We refer, of course to the pro-
posed foot-race'betweel Joe Louis
and Ezzard Charles, which will de-
cide whether Mr Charles can back-
pedal around a rope -girt square of
canvas for fifteen rounds faster than
Mr Louis can go forward.
* * *
Personally, we can hardly wait—
wait, that is, to find out if the sharp
ballyhoo boys will be able to smoke
up this sorry -appearing affair into
a money -making enterprise. And
with all due respect to the genius
of the modern publicity expert, we
have our doubts that they can put
this one over. Sports dollars aren't
as plentiful, and don't glide so
smoothly out of clutching palms,
as they did a year or so ago. And
unless the brawl over Korea -way
is settled by fight-time—which
looks improbable at this writing—
the fans will have something more
serious to think about than a Louis -
Charles affair.
* * *
When we describe Joe Louis as
fat, flabby and old, we are naturally
speaking of him from a pugilistic
standpoint. And Ezzard Charles,
despite . our slurs, may be a very
estimable gentleman; and his punch,
JOE LOUIS
which we refer to in such a deroga-
tory .manner, isn't one that we
would choose to view front the re-
ceiving end. But for all that, the
match entirely fails to rouse either
enthusiasm or expectation in even
the veriest sucker's breast; and if it
is true that Louis is only going
through with it because he is in
hock to Uncle Whiskers, all we
can do is paraphrase a famous crack
and say, "OH, Income 'raxcW,
what crimes are committed in thy
na1ne11"
In conclusion, it is our sincere
hope that after this one is over Jac
Louis ---for whom we have always
had the highest admiration both as
a fighter and as a man --won't pub-
licly promise his Mother• or any-
body else; than this is itis final fight.
Unwelcome Guest—Ginger, a homeless clog_ being sheltered by
the Animal Rescue League, barks ata new guest, a 30 -inch -long
alligator abandoned by a small boy. Officials are hoping that
the alligator will be -claimed by its owner soon as its diet
consists of hard -to -get -items and it -makes the other animals,
like Ginger, nervous. •
He's pulled that one too often for
it to be touching any more. So
often, in fact, that we are reminded
of the very ancient one about the
customer who brought back to a
clothing merchant a suit purchased
a couple of days before.
k * *
"One little sprinkle of rain, and
the pants shrink right up to above
my knees," said the angry customer.
"Didn't you give me your solemn
word that this snit was guaranteed
one hiindred per cen\ all -wool when
I bought it?"
* * *
"Sure thing I did," replied the
merchant calmly. "But I didn't say
"POSITIVELY" did I?"
* * *
So, for the sake of his millions of
fans and followers, when this one
is over Joe Louis won't forget to
say "POSITIVELY," we trust.
Now They're Saying
Bagpipes Not Scottish
Over the hills from Braemar
conies the skirl of the pipes for
Scotlands annual Highland Games,
and a sales boom begins in a minor
British industry that thrives all
the year round.. It's a bagpipes
boom!
Down Renfrew Street, Glasgow,
and off the High Street of Lon-
don's Camden Town, the sporran
and pipe workshops are putting
on a spurt to keep pace with ex-
port orders. Britain has already
told so many set to the U.S„ Can-
ada, South Africa and Australia
that you'll find more bagpipes there
than in Scotland,
Hoots, in fact, the bagpipes are
no longer Scottish . and they
never were. Even the sheepskin
bags are English or imported Aus-
tralian, The • hard black wood of
blowpipe and drones may be called
"Scottish -ebony," but it's either
blackwood from West Africa or
cocuswood front West Indies. The
real ivory mountings come from
the Congo, the imitation ivory are
mainly Welsh!
Even the sill: clan ribbon comes
from France. And though the tar-
tan that covers the bag ntay be
Scottish, it's usually backed with
Yorkshire flaunelettell 1
So what, Scots? Ever since Rus-
sian seal became fashionable for
sporrans historians have been dis-
persing a little more of the great
Scottish legend. A drone -pipe with
reed complete Inas been found in
all. ancient mummy -case. The Per-
sians and ancient Greeks had pipes
and the Romans introduced then
,into southern England before they
spread. to Ireland and Caledonia.
Traditional models crop up in
France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
.the Balkans;'not to mention Mala-
ya, Chaucer's merry miller led the
Canterbury Pilgrims with the bag-
pipes, though maybe he didn't play
a Pibroch. Shakespeare mentions•
the pipes and they were English
then.
But scholars say they're in the
Bible and that they were Baby-
lonian. Even the famous Scots
Guards are playing English -made
pipes today. It's shocking to Scots-
men, everywhere, but it's truel
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ISSUE 35 — 195'0
THE FARM FRONT
From far and near, the world
around, comes the cry for more,
better, and cheaper fertilizers. In
order to feed the rapidly soaring
world population the need for fer-
tilizers necessary for increased food
production has risen by some sixty
per cent since 1939.
* * *
Yet—largely because of whole-
sale destruction of fertilizer plants
in Europe and elsewhere during
World War II—it has been esti-
mated that today only around
eighty per cent of the pre-war
amount is being produced
The ironical thing is that all the
fertilizer we need is contained in
the atmosphere—if only it could be
persuaded to work. This element is
nitrogen, a million torts of which
press clown on every seven acres of
land and sea over the whole surface
of the earth.
•* * *
Nitrogen is esesential to life,
Pour-fiths of the air we breathe
consists of it. And no matter flow
many other elements a man may
consume through eating and drink-
ing, if . his diet does not contain
nitrogen he will surely die.
k * *
Although the supply of nitrogen
in the air is practically unlimited,
ran in i existsit is
' the form t whicht
11!
useless to living creatures. It trust
be trade available in the forst of
compounds' and we can produce
these compounds only with great
difficulty and at great expense.
* * *
Nature, however, performs the
feat with her usual efficiency. Plants
like the clover, pea, or bean, in
partnership with tiny nitrogen -fix-
ing bacteria in the soil, are able to
take nitrogen from the air for her
own use and to leave part of it
stored up in the soil for plants
of another season.
* *
Other plants have to take their
nitrogen from the soil in the form
of salts called nitrates. The bacteria
that help the clover, peas and beans
to produce this nitrate form little
nodules 011 the roofs, and these
nodules swarm with the useful bac-
teria. They can be seen on the roofs
of the red clover.
• * * *
To provide his soil with part of
the "fixed" nitrogen needed for his
crops, the fanner ,has only to
plough in his peas, clover or beans.
But this, unfortunately, does not
provide enough nitrogen to. cope
with the intensive farming of
modern times.
* * *
There is no doubt that when ni-
trogen is forced to work for its
living it almost achieves miracles.
An official comparison between two
equal areas of grassland' one with
nitrogenous fertilizer and the other
without, showed that the yield of
the first exceeded the second by
75 per cent
* k *
But what the world badly needs
is some permanent device for trans-
forming the nitrogen in the atmos-
phere into material crop 'fertilizer.
When that is done o1 a big enough
scale, many of our food problems
are likely to be solved,
* * *
So here's a chance for some
reader of this column to win him-
self—or herself—fame and fortune
in wholesale quantities. Just invent
some cheap and practical gadget
that will reach up into the atmos-
phere and pull down that essential
element for free. How to go about
it? Welt, you'd better ask somebody
else regarding that, for if 'I knew
—do you think I'd be putting to-
gether columns' like this for a
living?
Lord, grant that I tray always
desire more than I can accomplish.
—Michelangelo.,
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