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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-01-25, Page 6About the House Useful Hints and General inforrna- tion for the Betsy Housewife Selected Recipes. Cocoanut Cookies—Take ono cup un¢ -rials 0111) of nutter, teaspoonful of cream tartar, one -hal teaspoonful of soda, pinch of salt, on egg, one-third cup of milk, three quarters eup cocoanut, flour enough t roll, one teaspoonful of vanilla, Eggiess Plum Pudding—One cup£u bread crumbs, two cupfuls flour, one cupful chopped suet, ane eupf raisins, one cupful molasses, one cup fel milk, ono chopped apple, one tea spoonful soda in little hot water, on teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoonfa cinnamon. Steam two and one -hal hours. Serve with hard sauce. Cleaning Copper and Brass—Bras and copper can be brightened by wash ing in salt and strong vinegar, rubbin until bright, then rinsing in clear, very hot water, and while still bot polish ing with a clean chamois skin dipped in sweet oil and a pinch of whiting or very fine sand. Vaseline on Linen.—Stains on white line can easily be removed by wash- ing In hot water and ammonia or hot soapsuds. If the linen is colored ap- ply magnesia or Fre +ch chalk to the spots, allowing it to remain on a day, then brushing off.. Roiled Oats Bread—Put two cups rolled coats into mixing pan, add evert mixing spoonful of lard, one cup mo- lasses, ane tablespoon salt and four cups boiling water. When lukewarm add one yeast cake and flour enough to mix quite stiff. Let rise over- night and put in pans in the morn- ing. Bake in slow oven. Buckwheat Cakes.—Mix two cupfuls of buckwheat flour, half a cup of white flour or corn meal, half a tea- spoonful of salt, two cupfuls of boil- ing water, half a yeast cake. Let stand over night, In the morning, add half a cupful of milk in which a quar- ter teaspoonful of soda is dissolved. A tablespoonful of molasses may be added before cooking, Date Cake.—Three eggs beaten well, one cupful sugar, one cupful flour (rounded), one teaspoonful bak- ing powder, one teaspoonful vanilla, one package dates, stoned and quarter- ed. One-quarter of a pound pecan nuts, quartered. Mix in order given and bake in a low tin (7 by 4 inches) in moderate oven for twenty-five min- utes. Excellent /Cake.—One-half cup of granulated sugar, one-half cup corm syrup, one tablespoon butter, one egg, one-half teaspoon lemon, three-quar- ter cup milk, one and one-half cups flotu', two level teaspoons baking pow- der, one-half teaspoon salt, three-quar- ter cup chopped raisins may be added.; Mix in order named and cook thirty-' five or forty minutes in moderately; hot oven. Boston Brownies.—One cup of su-' • gar, one-third cup of butter, two eggs, well beaten, two squares of bitter chocolate, ane tespeonful of baking, powder, one cup of nut meats broken. in pieces (English walnuts), one-half cup of raisins. one scant cup of flour, Drop by the teaspoonful on waxed paper twn inches apart. You can bake them in tiny cup cake tins, placing an English walnut et, each before putting in oven. Hake in a moderate oven: Hot Potain salad—Fi'ash and cook six medium-sized potatoes without paring; eool, peel, and rut in thin slices. Arrange a layer of potatoes in' the bottom of a dish, season with salt' and peppers and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and eelery1 :nix to- gether four tablespoonfuls each of vinegar and olive oil, add a little lemon Juice and heat just to the boiling point.' Pour over the potattnee and rover, tightly. Stand in a warm place un- til wanted, then servo with t•risp fried bacon or cold sliced meat, An Eggiess Recipe.—Put one quart' milk, after cream has leen taken, into double boiler. Mix five even table. spoonfuls of cornstarch with four'; tablespoonfuls of sugar, This may be: put into the milk without blending.' Add very slowly, stirring all the time. When it begins to thicken add one-half teaspoonful of malt and either a piece of stick cinnamon 00 a strip of orange or lemon peel. This should cook— , not rapidly—for half an hour. Stir often to avoid a skim forming on the. top. Pour into molsdthat have been wet with cold water. Set aside to; r cool gradually. May he served with any fruit juice lir "ream. t Winter Soups. I t Some ane has +aid that th,.ce are as!n many soaps as there. are day.: it, the year. Probably there are mole+, but ! only a very small number of the ap_ , pear on the dining tabu o1 the (.003' age fancily, Among the following t receipts are some that are little f known, but they ars especially' 0p. petizing on cold winte_ evenings, when a hot, rick soup seems the most appropriate beginning for a meal. French Onion Soup. --Chop two uteri- ium-sized onions, and fry then to a rich brown in two ounces of butter over o.moderato are, for onions burn quick- ly, To them add a quart of boiling soup steal( of any kind, or simply 'water or milk, and cubes of lightly toasted bread. When the soup is ready to serve, add a little grated cheese, and season it with salt and white pepper. A Menem Scup.—Tia two pounds t of washed and picked Brussels eprou of add ten potatoes, two onions, tw $25.00 'OR A LEITER CAN YOU WRITE,, ON[:? es Thirteen, Prizes to be Award leeks, salt and pepper. Cook r 1 '1 e t gently until the vegetables are tende e then pass them through a sieve, Fore AS moth of the vegetable pulp throug Q as' possible. Add one quart of bee stock and serve the soup very hot. I Cream of Potato and Chestnu Soup,—Boil one cupful of diced pots til toes and one half cupful of chest mute in salted water until they ar te'lder, Drain them and add one quar of scalded milk; season the mixtur with a clash of nutmeg, salt an Cayenne pepper; thicken it slightl with a tablespoonful of cornstarc s!moistened with a little cold milk, an s add one tablespoonful of minced pars - ley when it is ready to serve. g Pot -au -Fete --Choose a good -size beef bone that has plenty of meat on it, cover it with water and .boil it fo three hours. Remove the hone an cut the neat into bits. Let the stock cool, then remove the fat, add the mea to the stock, return it to the fire, add one large onion that has had ten whole cloves imbedded in it and has then been roasted until it is brown, add ono pint of cooked tomatoes, one half cup- ful of rico, and one quarter cupful each of chopped potatoes, carrots and cabbage. Cook the whole until the vegetables are tender, and add salt and pepper. Just before you serve the soup, add one teaspoonful of white sugar burned to a good brown color. That adds to the flavor of the soup and gives a rich color. in 0 Letter' WritingCompetition. h Some years ago the 1' WilbInm Medicine C a, of Brockville, Out, of fermi a series of prizes io residents t of Ontario for the beet letters dee - rribing cures wrought by the flee of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills for `Pale e People, Hundreds of lel:Lure were submitted in dila colnpetiti...., and .e yet there must have been thousands d of other users of the pine who did not avail t'hencselees of the oppor- tunity to win a prize, To all these another letter writing competition is -I offered, Thousands of ewes through d the use of Dr. William' Pink Pills have never been reported. These will furnish the material for the letter to dbe written in this contact. There is . no demand upon. the imagination; t every letter must deal with facts and filets only. THE PRIZES.: The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co,, of Brockville, Ont., will award a prize 'of $25,00 for the best letter received on or before the 17th day of Fele u- . 1917, from residents of Ontario, n the subject, "Why I Recommend !Dr. Williams' Pink Pills," A prize 1 of $10.00 will be awarded for the ;second best letter received; a prize sof $5.00 for the third best letter, and !ten prizes of $2A0 each for the next best ten letters, THE CONDITIONS: The cure or benefit from the use of Dr, William' Pink Pills described ill the letter may be in the writer's own ease, or one that has come tun - der his or her persenl11 observation. More than one cure may be de- scribed in the letter, but every state- ment must be literally and absolutely tYUe. The letter should be not longer than Is necessary to relate the bene- fit obtained from the remedy in the case described. Every letter must be signed by the full name and correct address of the person sending it. If it describes the cure of some person other than the writer of the letter, it must also be signed by the person whose cure is, described as a guarantee of the truth of the statement made, The writer of each letter must state the name end date of the paper in which he or she saw this announce-! ment, Fine writing will ;tot win the prize unless you have a good case to de- scribe. The strength of the recom- mendation and not the style of the letter will be the basis of the award.' It is understood that The Dr, Wil -j liams' Medicine Co. shall have the right to publish any letter entered in this contest 1f they desire to do so whether it wins a prize or not. The contest will close ohs February 17th, 1917, and the prizes will be awarded as soon as possible there- after. Do not delay. If you know of a cure write your letter Now. Ob- serve the above conditions carefully or. your letter may be thrown out. Address all letters as follows: The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Letter ('nntest Department, DREAMS. Height dreams of the past leave relics of joy That time in its flight can neved de- stroy; Like a vial Attar of Roses contains, Though shattered to fragments, the pet fume remains, Kingdoms may flourish in brightest array And vanish again e'er the light of the day, No rule 0911 he macre, no bound can be set— Dreams have no limit, hi any reaped, Then let our dreams, in the stillness of night, Fly swiftlight; to the realms of endless de - ,et the pain and the 119ro each day brings to view, Ile cancelled ie sleep, when visions come true, EXPERT WRITES OF MACHINE GUNS INTERESTING Sitl',"T(111 OF TIM HISTORY OF MODERN (TUNS. How the Various Models In Preset Use Vary in Points of !excellence. s' One of the things which German y knew before the war and which th Apace. did not know was the part the - nutehine guns would play in the strug gee, Therefore the Germans !hail twenty times its many machine guns ou the front as their enemies, and the mae111310 guns dill more for their early 50041058es than the famous howitzers which battered dower the Belgian forts j In the early days of their advance. Fortunately, machine guns were ea3- ily made; the Allies learned the les- son, and now are supposed to have as many machine guns, If not more, than Germany. Perhaps the bravest men in the German army are the nta- chine gunners. Whether loading an advance or defending a retreat they 'are a veritable forlorn hope, and time and time again inatancee have been reported of German machine gunners refusing to surrender evert though they saw certain death awaiting them. They are as savage as they are des- perate, and have been known again and again to turn their fire on their own wounded, and also to sweep with murderous blasts those of their' com- rades who held their halide up shout- ing "kamarad." The Early Mitrsflleuses, In La Revue des Deux Mendes Cap- tain Henri Caere, of the French army, had written an article upon German and French machine guns, which is translated in Current History. He points out that the mitrailleus0, which is the common name of the ma- chete gun in Franco, is really a mis- nomer, because the word designates grape shot, by which was meant the scraps of iron with which cannon were formerly charged. The first weapon with several barrels -and it was from a multi -barreled weapon that the machine gun Was evolved—was thought of in the fourteenth century, and was mads by the simple expedi- ent of fastening several light guns to- gether parallel to each other. It was not until the nineteenth century, however, that any marked progress was made along this line, and then by a Belgian, who devised a weapon of fifty barrels, each about the size of a rifle barrel, assembled parallel to each other in a prismatic bundle. This gun could fire one hundred bullets a minute, and its range wee about a Health • heart Strain. By heart strain WO 1110(111 a Wilmer. ary (lilatlon of the heart amused by 10 some excessive muscular effort---usu- !habits unused to !lard labor. The heart, may have been already in ti e x t ii Q.z ra, d t weakened state through disease of one of its valves or fatty degenera- tion of its muscular v,all, although it may !ar nave been apparently healthy; or, although not actually cllseaeocl, it may have been weakened and made irrit- able by excessive tobacco smoking. The dilation is brought about by a sudden increase of blood pressure in the heart cavities, which is in turn the result of the obstruction to the flow of blood through the tissues or in the lungs that attends the strong con- traction of the muscles and the hold- ing of the breath. Lifting a very heavy weight, running after a ear, or any other sudden increase in muscular effort may be enough to strain the heart. The affection is not tweeze - mot in boys who return to school or college after the summer vacation and resume their athletic contests before they leave got hack into training; sometimes it occurs in the well trained when they are temporarily run down with a "cold" er a. billows attack, The signs of heart strain are great shortness of breath, pain or distress in the region of the heart, and a:nark- ed feeling of weakness or faintness. The .front of the chest, where the beat ofthe heart is to be seen, is usually tender to the touch, although steady pressure with the flat of the hand is grateful. The pulse is irregular and rapid. It is not possible to say !low long such a condition will last., for its duration depends on the intensity of the strain, the state of the heart be. fore the strain and the treatment the condition receives, Generally, corn - pike rest in bed for 11 day or two and staying quietly at home for another day or two will bring back tone to a normal heart; but if the strain was very severe, a heart tunic may be nee.ssa0'y to help the organ to recover its strength and poise. Since n strain untreated 01' wrongly treated may result 10 a permanently injured heart, or even fn death, it is advisable to sock medical advice im- mediatelymin all euch cases.—Youth's Companion. Things to Remember.1 Bread not thoroughly baked is very indigestible, Corn bread with raisins in it is an agreeable change. Remove rust front garments by boiling in cream of tartar water. Keep the fat hot if you would have the whites of fried eggs fluffy. IHousehold refuse is better cremated than disposed of in any other way. Save candle ends and melt together to use as paraffin covers for jelly. 1 Raisins will be easy to stone if they stand in hot wated a minute or two before stoning. Economical frying is possible only I when the frit is carefully saved after I use. Whenever soup is an important part of a meal, as a luncheon, it should be thick and nourishing, Brown bread can be used for bread pudding ,just as white can, but it should be flavored with spices. Stale bread will make good hot cakes if it is soaked soft in milk and merle up as you would muffins. If the cookies are not very rich, cut them in animal shapes and the children will be just as well pleased, Plain boiled rice, liberally sprink- led with raisins and served with hard sauce, makes a nourishing des- sert. Don't imagine you're the most un- lucky person that ever lived. Other people have had troubles and setbacks to overcome that the world never knew about, You Can do as well as they. Keep on trying. Soap and water rubbed on zinc only make a bad matter worse. First wipe off the zinc with a dry cloth. Next rub with kerosene. Let that stay a few.hours. Go over it then with a cloth! wet with kerosene, and polish with a dry cloth. Seems natural to leave the wet um- bre110 wide open till it dries. It isn't the beet way, though. First thing; you know the covering will be stretch- ed all out of shape. Shut it and 1 stand it up, knob down, till the water runs off and it dries out. See if the wood above the furnace or behind the stove is charred. If it is, a sheet of zinc or tin should be put there, rot in contact. with the wood; a sheet of asbestus is better yet, Clean the pipes and look for cracks. Make a list of all the spring sewing, yea must do, then check off each garment as it is made and put away. There is no time to stop and make a forgotten garment after house- cleaning and other spring work has eommerr0(1. Didn't Know His Onat Mind. A sergeant ems drilling some very a.w recruits, and felt the great im- portance of hie position until "Right urn!" he thundered, "As you were," 'Left turn," ' As you were." "About uric." Ile was about to give another corn- land wiles ha nota ed Lane of the ra- ruits walking away. "Here, you, where. are yeti going h, shouted, "(711, Pili oft', I've had enough of his; you don't. !know your awn mind wn minutes together," answered the 'cermet. Sweet ,breams of the past --some never fulfilled; 'et :.west as the breath of roses dime tilled, With faith, !tope and trust, then look to the light And dream golden dream.; in the dark. tires of slight, le, TALLING, Vancouver, IC.Awl'td Good Time, The children returned from the arty, where they bad been the guests of Johnny and Susie Wilkins, "Diel you behave yourselves 01(31)y?" mother asked. "Sure we did." "'Then you had a good Lime, didn't you?" "We l:ael an awful good time," they answered, "Johnny end. Susie both got iickinge," Many a man who pretends le be looking for work boles the wrong way. Conscientious. p MIs. Jonas had a now maid, who appeared at the door of the library one afternoon, where her mieerless was reacting. "There's no C.011 1. mum," said the domestic, "an' the firms are goial' out," "No coal!" cried the mistress, sur'pt•ise. "Why didn't you teal me before?" "I couldn't tell you there watt no coal, mum," reviled the. girl, "when here wasreal.' quarter, Maxine the Real Inventor, The next step was the invention of the Gatling gun, with six or ten bar- rels, a crank turned by hand provid- ing the motive power, and another development was the so-called "bullet cannon" of France, a bundle of 25 barrels containing twenty-five cart- ridges and capable of discharging 160 bullets a minute to a range of a mile and a half. None of the weapons mentioned was automatic. All were operated by hand power. The honor of inventing the modern machine gun must bo awarded to Sir Hiram Maxim, who produced his first practicable model in 1882 after having spent a tremendous sum in experiments. All modern machine guns have taken the Maxim as a model, The French army has three types of machine gun, and It is that called the Saint -Etienne that Capt. Carre describes. The power to explode the bullets and move the cartridge -belt is obtained by drawing gas from the barrel through a hole 4,8 millimetres in diameter, the gas entering a cylinder called the gas ehamber and later escaping to the air by appropriate apertures. The piston at the end of its movement is driven back by 0 spring. It is a to-and-fro movement, which brings about the complete action of the weapon. It can be fired at any rate, either at rapid fire or at a speed regulated be• a epe- cial apparatus which permits all rates ! from ten to 500 shots a minute, French v. German Guns. In one notable respect does this gun differ from the popular German ma-; chine gun. it has no water -jacket for 11 cooling purposes, with the result that ! the barrel gets exceedingly hot when 1 fired at a high rate. But since the.I barye! is made of special manganese t steel, the ballistic properties of the' gun are not impaired even when the) barrel le glowing red. The gun is a t nllY ade by a person of sedentary Switzerland's President and Vice -President, Left, Edmund Schubthess, new .President of Switzerland; right, Felix Calendar, now Vice -President. Should n peace conference be held in Swit- zerland or one be held in which Switzerland would take part, the two men pictured above will play prominent Parts. Mr, Schultheee, President of Switzerland, has just affirmed the intention of his country to maintain strict neutrality'. A peculiar law of succession obtains in Switserland. To -day's President was Vice -President last year. Felix Calonder, who is now Vice-Preeident, will next year automatically step into the Presidency, The term of office is for one year only, and to become President a matt must first sit as Vice -!'resident, fixed on a tripod and can be fired with the gunner either sitting on a saddle or lying on his back, Tho French gun is carried in parts and on the road is conveyed 08 pack saddles or in carts. At the front it is carried by soldiers, The barrel of the German gun Is o'.;rrounded by a metal sleeve filled with water for cooling purposes; but when the gun becomes hot the water begins to boil, steam escapes, and the aim of the gunner is obscured. The steam also betrays the presence of the gun, and Capt. Carre says that on many occasions the Germans have eought to draw away enemy fire by generating steam by moans of damp grass to imitate the boiling machine gun. The German gun can fire 400 shots a minute. It can be carried either on a man's back, or by cart or automobile. It is not, packed by horses or mules, Capt. Carre says that in the German Mercedes auto- mobiles manufactured in time of peace there were certain nuts fixed in the chasis, the purpose of which no- body could explain. rt has been learned since that the cars were con- structed so that they might be fitted with Maxim guns. How the Bullets Fly, It is probable that of all the various models of machine gun now being used at the front one does not stand out. One excels in one point; one in another. For instance, the cooling jacket of the German gun, as said, discloses its presence when the gun gets hot. One fires faster than an- other, but after a certain point this expert says, nothing is gained by ex- treme speed, since there is rarely jus- tification for firing for more than a minute at one target. Theoretically a weapon on a fixed support should send all its shots along the same path. In practice this is not so, because of the concussions of the gun. Each bullet takes its own curve, and the ensemble makes a sheaf, closely pack- ed but very narrow, which is properly compared to the stream of water dis- charged from a hose. In the mowing fire, which is the normal fire, a cer- tain number of sheaves is juxtaposed along the whole front of the objee- . tive. From this it results that at the paint at which they strike the earth, the density of bullets is terrible, and t an extraordinary effect of destruction on unsheltered men is produced. FOOTPRINT IDENTITY. tion of printer's ink by meant( of a roller, and a transfer is then taken on to a sheet of paper. The ink is clean- ed off the foot with alcohol, and care is taken not todisturb the impression made by the foot. on the paper until quite dry. A definite record of the child's identity is thus obtained, for the prints of no two feet are ever identical, and, If necessary, the record will hold good in any court of law, RESTORE ALSACE-LOR1)AWE. This and Belgian Deliverance De - mended by France. Paul Deschanel, in addressing the French Chamber of Deputies after his re-election as president of that body, said: "Tia first articles of our pro- gramme remain the deliverance of Belgium and the restoration of Al- sace-Lorraine. This is the only pro- gramme that can recompense us for our sacrifices and to assure to our children a durable peace worthy of France and the Republic.' In apparent allusion to the request of the Government far authority to issue decrees in anticipation of legis- lation on urgent questions, Mr. Des- ehanel said: "Since the war is prolonged, it is our duty to adapt our methods and accelerate our procedure. To main- tain order and discipline in our de- bates also is a form of patriotism, but to that end it is not necessary to throw our institutions into confusion. It will be to the eternal honor of our country to have faced the greatest up. heaval of all the ages without chang- ing 01/1 laws." le— THE LORD MAYOIR'S CHAIN. Holder Must Enter Bond for Its Safe- , keepina', The Lord Mayor of the City of London wears the moat costly badge of office in the country. It contains diamonds to the value of x120,000, and each holder of it during his term of office is called upon to enter into n bond for its safe euctady before he is sworn in, and thus becomes entitled o its possession. The jeweled collar worn by the Lord Mayor of London is of pure gold, composed of 0 aeries of links, each formed of the letter "8," a united York and Lancaster rose, and a massive knot The ends of the chain re joined by the portculils, hem the oints of which, suspended by a ring f diamonds, hangs the jewel. The centre collar contains 28 "S's," 4 roses, 13 knots, and measures ea aches. The jewel contains in the met- re the City Arms cut in cameo of a cacao hue, on an olive ground; sur- ounding this a garter of blue, edged with white and gold, bearing the City motto in gold letters. The whole is encircled with a cost - y border of gold "S's," alternating with rosettes of diamonds set in silver, he jewel is suspmlded from the: vol- ar by a portcullis, but when worn without the collar is hung by a broad blue ribbon London Tit-BIts. The System May be Introduced in a English Police Courts. 'There will be no more confusion re- garding the identity of Tom, Dick, or 1 Harry if the footprint system is intro- i duced into our police -courts, says. London Answers. d Partleularly in the case of young r children and babies has this method proved most successful, It is diffi- cult to obtain a firm imprint of a baby's hand, but no difficulty exists in 1 obtaining impression of, a baby's foot, and the lines of the latter never alter, T ncreasing gradually with the child's 1 growth, The method is being applied in many foreign hospitals to -day, especially in he maternity wards, where confusion of identity is much greater than the public ever imagine. The sole of he child's foot is covered with a solu- u An old Tapanese prophecy says: When men fly like hh'ds, ten great kings will go to war against one an- other," they 50e111, sink into insignificance Expert Explains Values of boodle In a recent address, W. Earl Flynn told his audience that the body con- tained sixteen elements, the seme as those of the soil, and that it shared the need of the soil for scientific treat- ment, For anaemia, especially in chil- dren, he prescribed foods rich in cal- cium and potassium, whole wheat bread, rye bread, fruits, vegetables, dates, figs and raisirl,9. For nervous irritability, magnes- iumm fs the proper salt. Eat apples, oranges, grapes, 10m0ns, grapefruit, tomatoes, onions and lettuce. For htsomina, eat onions, cabbage, lettuce and celery. For skin dis- eases and boils, oat strawberries, prunes, spinach, 'omens and green vegetables. If your stair is falling out, you need sulphur, silicon and flom'ine, Eat green vegetables and fruits. For heat energy eat butter, cream, basion, nuts, olive oil and ripe olives. Olemargarine can be substituted for butter, but it is harder to digest, ac- cording to Mr, Flynn. For iron eat spinach, strawberries and prunes. hear :aeon and sulphur eat grains and green vegetables. For phosphorus and chlorine eat beans, peas, lentils, For iodine eat all sorts of green '500 tables. LIVE'S LONG JOURNEY.In Seventy Years One '!'ravels an Amazing Distance, There is a man in London at pyre cent lvho has traveled from Vaocuuvor to London 61 times. As it i.e upward.; of 10,000 miles 'there and back, this man has traveled over half 11 million miles in thie way, or to the moon and back and then round the world, nye Land;m Tit -Bits, But though this seems n hag feat for one lifetime, there is a sauced com- mander of the Conary Line who has crossed the Atlantic no fewer than 550 times, making 1.,876,000 miles, or four times to the moon and 011013! Or, to put it another way, 78 bines round the world at the equator! Yet these records, wonderful though when eomnared With the journeys human being on the globe. takes in the span of threescore year'% end len, The globe travels around the salt 01100 a year, a j0ur110y roughly of 5.10,- 1)00,000 milds --as the crow flies! To this yearly journey add the daily jetty - nes: on the spinning globe of 2.1,000 nlultipliei! by 305, 11 total of 8,760,000, and we get the stupendous but un- doubted journey per annum of 454,- 760,000 miles, or as many Haien as there are sovereigns In oto' present war expenditure every hundred days, When this is multiplied by the years of life ---say, 70 --we got the amazing mileage of 88,41;3,200,000, or over 200 times to the sun and back! No won- der the old num of 70 eometim05 feels Heed! The longest telephone wire In the world rune from New York to Sen I''reneiae, a tlh tetwe of 8,800 melee,