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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-05-15, Page 3This Was World's First Postage Stamp. Prior to 1840. the earriage of letters for private persons and firths was an expensive matter-- rates having been based upon dis- tance and weight -and 10051 mail took the form of folded sheets of letter -paper with a wax seal on the back, Agitation for ,-Universal fenny Postage was successful in 1840, and, within six days after the act providing for a reduced and uni- form rate of postage in Great Britain was set up, an advertise- ment seeking a "stamp" design appeared in the London 'Gimes. Designs submitted were not con- sidered satisfactory, and Sir Row- land Hill -appointed to the Trea- sury to assist in preparations to put penny postage into effect - went to a firth named Perkins, Bacon and Petclt. This firm pre- pared an engraved die of a head of Queen VIctoria, facing left, as taken from the "Guildhall" medal by William Wyon, The drawing for the head was done by Henry Cor- bould and the engraving of the stamp die was the work of either Charles Heath or his son, Fred- erick, The first die' proviug unsatis- factory, a second one was made, and the various process leading up to the accepted stamp design went on apace. Black was selected as the color for the 10 (one penny) value accounting for its familiar name of "Penny Black," and blue was selected fo rthe companion 2d de- nomination , . . The one great problem facing postal clerks was that the stamps did not have perforations or a means of separating them cleanly and easily. Scissors, knives and any form of straight -edged tool were used, many times with unfortunate effect, and it was not long before a perforating device, proposed by Henry Archer was adopted, In a sense, this "Pettey Black" affected all future British stamp issues. Being the world's first post• age stamp, and a British invention, it slid not occur to the authorities to put the name of he rnuutry on it, To his day British maxims do not have the name of the country of origin --although:' naturally the British Colonial issues do. Other countries, also aware of the treed of such a means of denoting the prepayment of postage, were quickly to follow the innovation of the British In all some ninety countrIes, colonies or other govern- mental units had followed Britain's lead by issuing postage stamps in the first twenty years -1840 to 1860. Officially the United States was seventh on the list, with its re- gular 5 -cent and 10 -cent stamps of 1847; but unofficially it was second, for there was a private letter pest operated in New York by Alex- ander M. Grieg and Henry Thomas Windsor. This was known as the City 'Despatch Post and commenc- ed operations Jan. 1, 1842, with its own stamps. The practical use of these first stamps', and other private and setni- official stamps which followed, was a motivating factor in persuading Congress to authorize the issuance of regular stamps - From "Fell's Profitable Stamp Guide," by Franklin R. Bruns, Jr. Aluminum Ships At Wallsend -on -Tyne, England, the yards are building aluminum ships. A 60 -foot launch made of aluminum for the Pakistan Govern- ment weighs about one-quarter as much as a similar vessel built of the usual materials and use only half the horsepower for the same speed. Many barges have been built of aluminum for service in the tropics. They carry more cargo than would ordinarily be possible in shallow waterways. Give your eggs a soft ride to town if you want top dollars for them. That's the advice handed out by a fatuous expert. * * * Ilere's what happened when three different lots of cased eggs were 'hauled over the same four miles of rough roads: 5 5 5 Those in a sedan carate through without damage.. * 5 a: Those hauled in the front of a truck showed that a dozen per case (30 dozen) had developed tremulous air cells. But those hauled in the back of tite truck! Half a dozen pet' case were broken; eight per case were cracked; and 76 -or more than six dozen -suffered tremulous air cells, One out of every four eggs was damaged in one way or another! . • * e: If you're shipping hatching eggs and getthtg'dockecl for low hatch- ability, some research by scientists gets right down to your pocket- book level. • * b They've been trying to find out whether you can candle eggs and find out what their chances of hatching are. They've discovered eight "ab- normalities" that can cut your hatch 'way down. These are cracks; poor shells (either thin or rough eltells, and all over or just in. spots); blood spots; utisplarcd air cells; loose air cells; oversize (2.3. ounces or larger); nndei'siee t L4 ounces or smaller). The scientists set 1.400 eggs that had one or another of these defects (only one defect per egg) and got a 45% hatch, against a 72% hatch for normal eggs. * * * - M'ost common defects w ere cracks, misplaced air cells, and oversize. But undersize eggs were the worst offenders. Less than half of them (only 39%) were fertile to begin with. * 1' * Plenty of eggs , on a small amount of feed plus a good market carcass, Frani` Moses has a White Leghorn -Barred Rock cross that is giving hint all that. o * * alloses mated White Leghorn roosters to Barred Rock hens to make hi, cross. IIe got both breeds front flocks bred for high produc- tion. roducttion. SALLY'S SALLIES 'Our flexible mike, Senator, is espeetally designed for states- men." BY e HAROLD ARtNETT READING. W17HOUr YOUR GLASSES IN AN EMERGENCY CAN Stn ACCOMPLISHED BY CADOg1NG THE FINGER AS SHOWN, AND READING THROUGH THE (HOLE, WHICH MAGNIFIES THE? PRINT Self -Help Gadget -Mrs, Pearl McMullen, suffering with rheumatoid arthritis, delightedly demonstrates usefulness of long -handled comb. With this self-help gadget, patients whose hands, arms and shoulders are stiffened can look after 'their own hair where Formerly they were dependent on others. Many other self-help devices of this nature are being demonstrated by the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, to help rehabilitate patients and restore morale. Society is campaigning this Inonth for funds to carry on its work. He's been getting 85 to 90 eggs a clay per 100 birds since they bit their stride. They eat 285. pounds of feed per 100 birds per day - about 10 pounds a day less than heavier birds would eat. • * * When he culls his hens, they weigh 5 to 5% pounds a weight that brings top fowl prices. * * * The birds lay tinted eggs. That's no handicap where Moses sells his eggs, although it might be in other places, * * * "Just like peas in a pod." Folks like a lot of things that way - no difference from time to another, or from week to week. * * * Walter A. Moore, who runs the Hollywood Poultry Farm aims to give his customers eggs just like that. * * * But some eggs come dirty. Clean 'ern and they look shirty. And everybody knows a fresh eggs has a dull finish to its shell. * - * * Well - not quite everybody. Moore shines all his eggs to get that "peas -in -a -ped" locitc to then. Result: his customers won't take anything else. So far as they're concerned, the shinier the egg, the fresher it is. Great Act Bobby Clark, one of the greatest comedians of our time, would like to revive the lion act he did in burlesque with his old partner Mc- Cullough. It is a project that should be encouraged, if necessary, by a special grant from Congress. The manager of a side-show offered Clark .a dollar to wrestle with a lion, When Clark demurred. the manager assured hien, "Our real lion has escaped. This fellow (McCullough) will wear a lion side and ttie suckers wilt never know the difference." Clark, of course, perk- ed up at once when he heard this. .And the real lion, of course, walk- ed into the cage behind his back while be told the audience what he was going to do to the "king of beasts." The next ten minutes provided more belly laughs than any other act of its kind. Clark whacked the lion with his cane, kicked it in the rump, played leap frog with it, and waved a flashlight in its eyes. When the lion roared, he would cry, "That's great! You sure are fooling the audience," Occasionally he'd sniff and declare, "What a performance! You even smell like a lion." Irof ttte pay-off, the lion would start chasing Clark around the cage. The manager yelled, "Hey, I've been trying to tell you! That's the real lion in there with you!" Clark's .final speech was, "Title is a hell of a time to tell mel" HELPFUL Ilka Chase tells of the day she was taken to Long Island by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the late General. 'rhe General had been briefed to meet the ladies at the Syosset station, but just before they reached it, they discovered the train was not scheduled to stop there. They proved equal to the emergency. As the train tootled by the station, they tossed a has- tily scribbled note to the startled General. He ran out on the track to retrieve it. It was most help- ful. It read, "This train does not stop at Syosset ADHESIVE A new British adhesive can he used as a cold solder for aluminum and other metals and to join china, glass, enamel -ware, leather, plas- tics, tiles and wood together. 'rhe new adhesive is transparent, water- proof, acid -proof and heat -proof. It can be smoothed down with sandpaper, filed, chiselled or plat- ed. Iy Gordon;It\a, Where Space Short Where space is limited one does not go in for big, bushy vegetables like potatoes, or for sprawly pump- kins which cover so much room. It is best to concentrate on those things which grow quickly and yield heavily in family meals aid take up a mittitnunt of space. In this cate- gory come lettuce, onions, radish, beets, carrots, beans, staked toma- toes, rate or two hills of cucumbers and, mostly because von can't hope to buy them really fresh, a few rows of small type garden peas. One ran get a little extra production by alternating rows of late and early kinds of vegetables, he planting the staked tomatoes around the edge of the garden. Practically all vegetables like fine, rich soil, frequent cultivation, a little commercial fertilizer to push growth and also watering when the weather is dry. To permit uniform develop- ment they should be thinned. The real secret of tender vegetables is to keep them growing quickly, to use just when they }tit their best. For most of them the season can be extended substantially by making a succession of sowings at two week intervals. Commonest Mistakes The two commonest mistakes of gardening are too thick and too deep in sowing flower and vegetable seed. One should remember that all these things require roost, even tiny things like alyssum or radish or onions. With big things like peas, beans, etc., it is not hard to space as we plant, but with tiny seeds it is more difficult and after the plants conte up they should be thinned. To spread very small seed more evenly some experts mix with a little sand or fine soil and sow the mixture, The general ruse for depth is three times the diameter. Now that does not mean getting out a ruler or calipers. It simply suggests that fine seed such as that of anion, poppy, portulaca and carrots should be merely pressed into the soil, large seed like beans and peas or corn covered about an inch, still larger such as potatoes and gladioli, three to six incites. If planted too deep, the tiny seed especially may not germinate at all. A Few Early Rows For the stain plantings of vege- tables it is not advisable to start too soon. With tender things little is to be gained by planting until both the soil and air have started to turn warm and spring has really arrived. Put this advice, of course, does not apply to very ]tardy flowers and vegetables nor to most nursery stock, grass seed, etc. And it doett not apply rigidly to a few extra earlq rows of almost anything in the vegetable line. If these conte along and escape The frost one gets a good deal of satisfaction in boasting to the neigh. burs. If they don't come, web one is out only a few cents worth of seed and in an hour's healthy exer- cise. Just as soon as the ground is fit to work, one can take a chance on a few feet of lettuce, sotlte radish, carrots, onions, spinach, and such things. Even a few hills of potatoes may be planted, Main plantings, however, of vegetables and flowere should wait until practically all clanger of frost has passed. INDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. 13 Warren, B.A.,13.D. Conserving The Family Heritage Exodus 20:12, Mar 7:9-13; John 19:25-27. Memory Selection: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may •be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12. At the convention of the Ontario Educational Association held in Toronto during the Easter holidays repeated reference was made to the fact that parents are failing to teach their children obedience. This increases the problems of the teach` -s. The child who doesn't honor his parents may readily come to resent his teacher's requirement of obedience. In some cases it goes farther and the grown child goes out to defy the nation's laws. Then it is called "juvenile delin- quency" but it would he more pro- perly called "parental delinquency." The command of the memory verse is tthe children. But par- ents have a responsibility in living so as to merit that honour. If the child wakes up to see his mother carried in in a drunlcen stupor while the baby-sitter prepares to leave, -well, it will be harder for him to honor his mother. The national tragedy of divorce is but a sympton of a greater na- tional tragedy -the increasing dis- integration and disorganization of family life. The broken family is not the result of divorce; divorce is the result of the broken family. A report from a midwestern city in the U.S showed that in the last 8000 divorces cases tried there, the spouses had already been separated an average of wcil aver two years before coming into court to get their divorces. Jesus set us an example of obe- dience and of consideration for his mother. While on the cross be arranged for his beloved John to care for his mother. ONTARIO FISHING REGULATIONS FOR 1952 FISH OPEN SEASON LIMIT MIN. LENGTH AREA BLACK BASS 1. Jury 1 -Oct. 15 2. Juno 25 -Dec. 15 3. July 1 -Dec, 15 6 per day 6 per clayof 6 per day 10 inches 10 inches 10 inches 1. All province, except as listed under 2 and 3. 2. River 5t. Clair, Lake St. Clair and Detroit River. Port Area A on map. 3. Lake Ede and Niagara River above falls. Part of Area A on map. MASKiNONGE 1, July 1 -Oct. 1 2, June 25 -Dec, 15 3, July 1 -Dec, 15 4. June 20-00, 1 14 per season 2 per clay 2 per day 14 per season 2 por day 14 per season 2 per day 14 per season 30 inches 30 inches 30 inches 30 Inches 1. Alt province, except as listed under 2, 3 and4. 2, River St. Clair, Lake 55. Clair and Detroit River. Part of Area A on map. 3. Lake Erie and Niagara River above falls. Past of Area A on map. 4. North and wast of French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing. Areas B and D on map. SPECKLED TROUT 1. May 1 -Sept. 15 2. May 1 -Sept. 15 15 per day or 10 lbs. 10 per day or 5 lbs. 7 inches 7 inches 1. All province except 2. 2. Norfolk County. RAINBOW, BROWN, AURORA and KAMLOOPS TROUT I. May 1 -Sept. 15 5 per day - 7 inches 1. All province. YELLOW PICKEREL 1. All year 2. May 15 -Doe. 31 3. May 15 -Apr, 14 4. May 1 -March 1 5. May 15 -Nov, 15 6 per day 6 per day 6 per day 6 per day 6 per day 13 inches 13 inches 13 inches 13 inches 13 inches 1. Great Lakes except Bay of Quince. Area B on map. 2. South of French and Maitawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing (all inclusive). Area C on map. 3. North and. West of French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing. Area D on map. 4. St, Lawrence River. 5. Lako St. Frances. PIKE 1. All year 2. May 12 -Mar, 31 3, April 28 -Mar. 1 pper 4. May 12 --Nov. 15 LAKE TROUT I. All year 2. Nov, 6-0c1 5 3. May1 •-- Oct. 5 4. All your 6 per day 6 por day 6 day 6 per day 5 per day 5 per cloy 5 per day 5 per day none none none none 1. Great Lakes and north and west of french and Mattawa Rivers, and Lake Nipissing. Areas B and 0 on map. 2. South of French and Mattawa Rivers, and Lake Nipissing (all Inclusive). Area C on map. 3, 5t. Lawrence - River. 4. Lake St. Francis, none novo none none 1. Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Piver. Area B on map. 2, South of French and Mottava Rivers and Lake Nipissing. Area C on asap. Except 3, 3. County of Haliburlon and that portion of country of Hastings north and including townships of Cashel, Limerick and Wollaston. 4. North of listing 2, Area D an map,