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The Seaforth News, 1952-01-31, Page 3DogShoots Man A remarkable hole:411.-one was accomplished by a New York gol- fer recently. Driving from, the third tee, his ball brought down a low- flying Piper Cub 'plane, and then rani into the hole. Though the • ball- passe((through the fuselage, the pilot. was unhurt. 'Planes meet --with many tutex- perted ha/aids. Earlier this year an R.A,F. Canberra jet bomber's at tempt to fly the Atine tic non- stop - without refuelling had to be postponed because it. suet with -a collision. A hole eight inches by six Mehra WAS made m the leading edge of the starboard wing --by a -seagull! Quite small members of the anis mal (locum are capable of •causing the most freakish accidents. When live Buildings were razed to the ground in Pearl River Village, New York County, a crow was to blarne,. Someone took a pot allot at the bird, missed, but set off a series of explosions in a fire i;orks factory. Igniting guupowder caused exten- sive Carnage to four nearby build- ings, but the crow flapped off un- injured. A bee was recently responsible for blacking out, half a town in Pennsylvania, U,S,A. The bee stung a motorist's nose, the motorist crashed into a pole and broke all the power lines, Fish were indirectly to blame for another black -out, when the automatic control system of an American railway was short-circuite ed. An angler near Wellington cast his line into a creek beneath a railway bridge. It caught in some wiring and the result was that fourteen- freight trains and three passenger expresses were held. ftp two hours. A dog shot a man in Texas last year. Ile sniffed at his mas- ter's rifle, raised a paw and touched off the trigger. - In Cambridgeshire this year a cricketer went up in smoke and fled for the pavilion with fire licking at his trousers. A hall had hit a box of matches in his pocket which inunediately horst i n t o flames. A somewhat similar occurrence is reported from California, A far- ther had been working with a weed.. killer - made from sodiunm-chlorate. When he put his hands in his pockets, his trousers exploded, the chemicals used being highly in- flammable. An even less likely accident oc- curred in Indiana this May. A steeplejack, Jantes Swottan, was treated in hospital for considerable injuries. lie had fallen—front a stool l Yet an ex -paratrooper, Richard 13eck11any of Fairbanks, Alaska, fell from a kitchen shelf, then hit a tap and turned on the water. Soggy cake clogged up the 'sink waste -pipe, the water overflowed, short-circuited the electric wiring and set the house alight. In Appleton, Wisconsin, a man sneezed so hard that he fell out of bed and broke Itis toe. A severe sneezing attack caused another to crack his Adam's apple, and yet a third sneezes, a Sussex woman, dis- located her spine and had to spend several Weeks in plaster, A dislocated jaw was the lot of a Kidderminster girl whose fi- ance kissed her with too much verve. Kissing apparently needs a lot ,of care, for in • America an actor embraced his leading lady so thoroughly that he broke his nose, I'Ie has since been given compensation for injuries received in the course of duty! Yon never know what may cause an accident! Parlay. In Detroit, after Duane Hunter, 11, told how he had run a $30 stake up to $2,805 at the horse recce, the judges ordered hits to sink all his winnings in U.S. defense hon is, ls,erehing Pooch—This dog, "Mr, Nick," has different ideas on what to do with a fire hydrant. He likes to sit on this particular !hydrant and watch the world go by. He won't let other dogs near hers perch and when some paint ere turned up to paint it, they bad considerable trouble until Mr. Nick's owners called him off, A Few Odd Facts About Cook Books Cook -books are written just for bachelors, for two people, for hun- dreds, for third graders, for 'gout - Inks, for amateurs, for living alone whether you like it or not, and for men only. Special cooking equip- -meat end 'slmecific seasons inspire More boolts, while sometimes a book is dedicated exclusively to a single food. One, fur example, is about nothing but mushrooms. There is an "indispensable little cook -book on Eskimo cooking;' cook -books by opera singers, 'witty paper characters, mythical person- alitiem created by food comnpauies, and by church groups, Some slops are carrying as many as 125 titles lit cooking :done, Fatnnie Merrit Farmer started the deluge in 1896 when her faumus "T li e Boston Cooking - School Conk- Book" was published. One of her theories nearly knocked the cozy off great-grandmother's tea- pot. It was the decree that cooping measurements must be level and universally standar d.•'Sligl fly rounded dessert spoonfuls" were out, With mllmss Farmer, cooking ceased to be an individual, crea- tive art and became an exact sci- ence. Today there are two classes of cook -books --straight and specialty. Miss Farmer's comes under straight, as do other general vol. unmes which carry all-inclusive se- lections of recipes, menu arid diet suggestions, marketing, serving and like information. Specialty books deal with one type of food or cook- ing—such as time Sizzling Platter, Cooking Utidcr Pressure, Casserole Cooking, Chafing Dish Cookery, - S'amese Royal Wedding—After their wedding in the Siamese em- bassy in Paris, Prince Birabongse of Siam and his bride, Celita Howard, kneel an intricately fashioned pillows waiting for the guests to file past and spill a little "holy water" into their hands. Internationally famous as an auto racer, the Prince uses the name, P. Biro, in sporting events. scores of others. A Unique exam- ple- of slanting ie a cook -book for hunters. It includes deerburgers, armadillo sausage, muskrat meat loaf. beaver frieasse and wood - el tick pie. This is truly the Golden Age of cookbooks, In fact, people are al- tering time attested conversation wedge of "have you read any good books lately?" to "Have you read nus' gond- conic -books latch:" ' It will soon be seed -treating time and many farmers through- out Canada will be preparing their seed grains against attack by many seed and soil -borne diseases. I am reminded of this important fact by Canadian Industries Limited who also sent along the interesting pictures appearing herewith. These are from magnified photographs of two wheat kernels. The top one shows a healthy seedling that has been treated with a modern seed disinfectant, The untreated seedling below is heavily infected with root -rot and will either be killed outright or will develop into a retarded, weak plant. Nuff said? Feed your cattle on sawdust and have them thrive, is the latest from the scientists. Sounds almost too good to be true—but that's what the man said, During World War I sawdust was converted by German chemists into cattle fodder by means of sole furic acid. The acid broke down the lignin (stick stuff in woddy cells) so that the wood or cellulose could be digested in the rumen of a cow. A cow has four stomachs, of which the rumen is the first. Cows can eat cotton, which contains no lignin. In the laboratories of the General Electric Company Dr. 11. Dexter Bellamy Inas long been trying to make sawdust digestable without the aid of sulfuric. acid, He does this by turning electrons on sawdust, The electrons do sounething to the lignin so that bacterial action of rumen can convert the cellulose into acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid, All these volatile acids can he absorbed by a cow's intes- tines. Time electrons that Dr. Bellamy turns on the sawdust come from a modified X-ray tube. An X-ray tube glows in action. This visible glow consists of a stream of elect trots, ,''Vhen the stream strikes a tungsten target invisible X-rays shoot forth, Dr. Bellamy wants the electrons and not the X-rays, Accordingly, he applies a discovery made years ago by Philip Lenard. In other words, he eubstltntes a titin alumin- um window for the target, The electrons pass through the alumine tum into the open air and make a line miniature aurora. Dr. Bellmny could hardly turn the electrons directly on a cow without doing damage and probably killing the aninmal. Rabbits' ears are easily punctured by electrons, So an artificial rumen or stomach in the form of a test tube was used. In this test tube cultures of bac- teria from a cow's rumen were placed, for one or two days and kept at 100 degrees F„ which is the temperature of a cow. 5 * s: After the period of digestion ended steam was bubbled through the specimen, The volatile acids came off as vapors, which were then condensed. To the liquid thus ob- tained caustic soda of known streugtli was added. .The degree to which volatile acids were neu- tralized by the soda was a measure of their amount. to , When the stuff in the glaee -was exposed to electrons for only one minute there was no Lreat effect, But with an exposure of twelve minut s time bacteria digested the sawdust as readily as they lilt hay. As the period of exposure was in- creased digestibility was again re- duced, apparently because the cellu- lose was destroyed. Sawdust over, water, but ordimmary cellulose is in - exposed to electrous is soluble in- soluble, t All these experiments may be of commercial importance. Because human beings cannot live on cellu- lose, it does not mean that cattle cannot. And if cattle can be fed a nourishing sawdust, which has been made digestil.!e by simpler :weans than treating it with sulfuric acid, beef may be much cheaper :some day than it is. * e And for millions of beer -lovers, that day cannot come a minute 1 D soon, Wreckers Made Own "Power Cuts" As well as being famous for ha' cream and rugged coastline, Corn- wall is renowned for its "wreckers" —unscrupulous characters who used to lure ships to destruction by hang- ing out false lights, or dousiug ex- isting beacons, and seizing any cargo e'aslted ashore. There's the story of one Cornish parson who, although he always included in this service a prayer for those in peril on the sea, invariably addeil a rider to the effect that if the Almighty saw fit to wreck a particular vessel , . could 1 -le please arrange to du so 1.wa11y; 1''et .' . , "we are bound to con- clude that must tales of actual wrecking of ships are legendary. or to be found only •in romantic novels," says William hichee in his informative hook on one of the most fascinating of all subje,'ts, "The Law of the Sea", 1'lle only instance with historical backing slid not occur in Cornwall at all but on the Scilly Islands, writes the author, when in 168(1 the first lichtl•nse was erected there, "Unfortunately, the keepers at, - pointed appear to have been Scill- onians who used their lights to as- sist rather than hinder their rela- tives engaged in the family occupa- tion of wrecking, For over a cen- tury the St. Agnes light was a public scandal. Sometimes it shone brightly; sometimes so dimly that it could not be seen from Sr. Mary's (a, neighbouring island): Sometimes it was, put out altogether!" Turning to New England, 51r. McFee states that although the story, again of a parson, who spot- ted to wreck on the crocks through his church window and ordered the congregation to "wait for him," is probably founded on fact, there is little historical evidence to sup- port deliberate "wrecking" 01 ves- sels on Cape -Cod. • IF YOUR IRON STICKS If starch sticks to .your iron and scorches, making it hard to work and using up extra current and effort, let the iron cool, then rut it over a waxed paper *(paraffin dis- lodges starch); lastly, wipe .clean with a soft cloth. • If some starch still remains, soften it with beeswax, then scrub with soapsuds or very mnilcl scout- ing powder, using only a very little water,. Don't scrateh iron! "Bark -feeding" Trees in The Winter Because it has been discovered that trees aren't really as dormant as they spent hi winter iemontlt,-Tin fact, eau absorb fertilizer solutions through their bark - it may the pos. Bible to help trees to avoir( or re- cover more quickly from whiter injury by "hark feeding.' This is indicated by research work at the Michigan State. College horticultur- al department, header} by Dr. If. B. Tukey. Radioactive chemicals, plus fer- tilizer solutions, were time tools Tukey and his fellow researchers used in their tests. When they ap- plied a radlreactiee chemical to the brauchea of a u ru:ant tree, for itm- stamae, they found that it traveled. A Geiger.eoumer test on the trees a few days later shov.cd that the radioactive material had proved. The Sallie thing happened when radioactive chemicals were sprayed or painted on the trunk of the tree ---the Geiger counter clicked at a different spot on the tree a few days after. And these test s, thin I you. were made during' wueter weather at temperatures as low as fire de • - grecs below zero, The tirxt step in the. tests was a series of experiments with fer- tilizer solutions containing phos: phorus, potash and nitrogen, 'Che research uuu selected peach and apple trees in several commercial orchards in 'tliclmigau that 11x.1 lieett hard hit by winter freezing. Still during the trimer, they sprayed the fertilizers on the branches and trunks of the test trees. The pay-off came later. Trees that had been truulaand-branch- sprayed cuuhl easily be told from nearby trees which received no such treatment. For one thing, they showed more short growth aud bet- ter loaf color. Also, close examina- tion, including cruse sections taken of branches, revealed at least partial recovery -front the winter injury. Yet time untreated trees in the or- chards gave every indication of greater permanent damage. Tukey believes that the fertilizer solation absorbed by the branches gate the trees additional nutrients to speed recovery ---also acted as a substitute for the food that was blocked from normal channels by injured tissue. This "shot in the - arm" apparently gives the tree a chance to grow new wood and set up new channels fur flow of food from the roots, ":Actually," says Tukey, "we don't yet know how much practical value there is in this winter hark -feeding process. But at least we know that so-called 'dormant' trees will absorb liquid chemicals through the bark." - From "The Country Gentleman." BATTLE FOR HUMAN HEART For a great many years now, a strange nig-of-war has been going on between the French and Austrian gem :Intents over ---a Imc;mrt. It be- longs tie the former Fins of Route and I)tikc of Reirlatadt, .son of Napoleon, who died in Vienna early last centilry at the awe lir twenty- a1t c, :1t present the heart is in '\'ienna. t,',getluer -with the re- mains tit the Duke of Rome's mother and Napoleon's second wife. Maris Louise, The French mould like it to he buried with Napoleon's rentable in Pari.:, but the Austrian Government remains adamant, NEW and USEFUL Too New Children's Clothes. Washable Denim overalls IsbIt roomy pockets, co mme in bine, greets and brown. Available in sizes' 2-8, manufacturer paints child's name arc the garment for small extra charge. m * a Ironing Simplified 'New friuming pad with almmnmirnttn foil. cense is said to cut ironing time in half. Pad tits any board, irons underside of garment while • you iron topside. 1'erforati acs keep pad dry. 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