HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1923-12-06, Page 7Thursdri;
ember 6; 1123.:
l,andt ms Ancient Stalls
Vanishing.
The ancient stall -holders of Lennon
are fast disappearing. One by one
flower, girls' (a ,wonman of anY'age up
to four score who cells flowers is a
girl) and various street, venclore who
have lield advantageous places; for a
longer time than Any, one remembers
dig and anis no successors are named.
There is hot roomfor them ie the
bustle and, harry of present-day Lon-
don lace.:.'
But London is the Riser by the pass-
ing of "these picturesque characters.
Mother Kitchen and Mother Bury, the
old Milkmaids of the Mall, have van-
ished, and "Fanny," a i lower, girl who
sold fragrant blooms for more than '-a
teneration under the shadow of St.
Paul's Cathedral, was borne . to her
long rest not long since,, after services
in 1)r. Samuel Johnson's old' parish
church in' the Strand.
A. tiny apple stall -beside theturret-
ed
gateway o; Lincoln's Inn, the haunt
of barristers in Chancery Lane, is the
latest to .disappear, The Inn has just
celebrated the 500th anniversary of its`
foundation and the apple 'stall: may
well have been as venerable an 'insti
tution in point oftime., Old Mrs. ,Wise,
who kept: it, as her mother and grand
mother before her did, has died and
she left no descendant •`to come for-
ward and claim
orward"and.:claimia privilege granted by
the benchers of the Inn for some rea-
son' long' ago .forgotten.' Her • mother
was there in Dickens' time assisting
her mother.
Dickens was a frequenter of this
quarter ce London and gave the nar-
row, dingy alley on -Chichester- Rents
as well as other streets and alleys
leading cut of -Fleet Street and the
Strand, close by, suck interesting as-
sociations that "every week scores of`
pilgrims pass in and out searching for
the originals of places, made immortal
by the novelist in his works.
New Safety Device for
Miners,.
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A "singing" lamp is the latest in-
vontion to aid miners to detect fire-
damp, which they fear more than any
other hazard of their calling.
Canaries and .animals sensitive 'to
Flight atmospheric changes have' been
g 1
long used • for this purpose, but' now a
safety lamp has been : invented that
combines''the necessary' light for the
underground workers and thegiving
of ample warning of the approach of
tale dreaded firedamp,Firedamp "'leads • to explosions;
breathing it is dangerous, and its ap-
proach is so insidious that the damage
may *bedone before it is discovered
by
the • men, if they are not warned.
A -British: engineer hag improved the
Davy safety lamp by adding a peculiar
frame like a bunch of tuning forks, so"
sensitive that even two per cent.. of
firedamp' in the air will cause them to
vibrate and sing.
A.s the percentage of -.
the lamp sings more . loudly,
affording ample warning.
The' device has been tried in some
of the deepest anthrocite mines, and
practical' mining engineers of long ex-
' perience say that it le the best warn-
ing ever devised.
Pleasant.
Here is niy "little piece of land
,That I've dug, every inch by hand,
'Annelle 1 nursed, haggled, sweat, and
prayed. period for southern migration nearing
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' Effort to Learn' Flight
Lane of Geese.
An .interesting experiment with 'wild
Canada geese is being carried out at
the Central Experimental Farm, Ot-
tawa, by' officers of the Poultry Divi-
sion of the Department of Agriculture
and of the°Canadian National Parks
Branch of the Department of the In-
terior. This
nterior.:This experiment is carried^ on
to secure valuable information- con-
cerning the habits of these birds and
it is hoped that it will result in hav-
ing large flocks of these. geese rest on
Dow's lake, an expansion of the Ri-
deau canal near.the Farm dura_, their
migrations north and south next, year.
"Tack", Miner,,, the well known and
original', investigator of . wild_ goose
life, is assisting' the Government of-
ficials iu the experiment. Four. wild
Canada geese caught onhis sanctuary
at Kingsville, Ontario, early in May,
werewing-clipped
a ant' to' Cen-
tral
and s t
Experimental Farm, and these, to-
gether with five goslings 'raised this
year by four captive Canada geese at.
the Farr,',are :being :used in the - ex-
periment. Each of the geese caught
by Mr. Miner wears one of his bands;
These bands bear a scriptural text and
his address, the . inscription on one of
these reading" `The word of the Lord
endureth forever,' 1 Peter, 1.25. Write
Box 46, Kingsville, Ont:" The other
bands bear different pabsages;and the
address. •The birds have also been
banded with the. official numbered
band of the •series in use by both the
Canadian and'::United States: authori
ties ,for marking wild birds.
Iansects as Policemen!
The world's most; novel police .force.
is probably that which is being trained
by a London -scientist.
It consists .of insects! They are
bred and trained in a laboratory at
Balham, to fight' against and kill other
insects which destroy or harm crops.
For instance, caterpillars can be pre-
vented from ruining trees and so on
by turning against 'them hordes 'of
other caterpillars, trained to have can
nibal-instincts, so that" they will fight
and eat- pests.
• The inventor of this aid to' farmers
and gardeners is Mr. Orabbe. One of
his. greatest successes is the- produc-
tion of a slug -tiger. This '. creature,
called` a testocella, has ;very sharp
jaws, with which it pierces' the slugs
and eats them.
Almost any kind of.insect pest can.
be fought by other insects, and as time:
goes on it maybe possible to make the
pro'cess-of destruction'; absolutely na-
tural. - That is to say, the insect=killers.
will breed without any assistance from
science.
Russian Horse .Hair Best for
Violin`< Bow Strings.
Horses are bred• in Russia for the
Purpose of using their hair for violin
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bows,':acoording to aa interesting ate
l in a recent issue of the Scientific
tic e
American. The finest bows are con-
structed with hair from white horses
and special ranches` are maintained
for breeding th e horses. whose hair is
of' this.color.
Tho goslings, which are. now gull The primary sorting of the hair'
grown, have been placed with the
Miner geese, and the flock makes re-
peated trips to Dow's lake. With the
takes place at the' ranch, from which
it goes to the bleacher, who'bieachee
the hair with sulphur. It is bound up
in hanks of 100 to 150 hairs, and the
1 '; • th t hanks are then ready for export. One
i welching the birds to see whether the
There 11 have to be tali talking, sir, w g
_�. _._ - -r .-al .es..tl., bow f torn r the.opnir
To prove to me that I should stir Younger geese will follow their older::
room of the large dealer the hair is
One inch from' my two -acre plot companions '. or will remain at the
'To'.fight -old Have for young Have -Not.. Farm with their parents, lt,s hoped` .combed out and fixed on the end; with
shellac.'
The hair is straightened out by
Some bitterthings
s so ows.aeou er
Suller.;,pinched possessiveness, into the' frog at the lower:end of the
Absorption in my own distress,
• Finders is keepers, and I've found they will go south and. return in the ••
• in this good spring with.. more of 'their kind pos
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means of a special 'comb and fastened
;giourid. ; ibIy tostop at D 1 k their northern
journey, i f
One danger is that these birds may stick.
Conservatism that won't; budge: ' drop In with domestic ducks and geese
l as I'm deft free to drudge urs us ectin anydanger. If wild, Church ;,' hilt From One,
'So, _ong t; S P g g .
On any'own dirt -heap, and to spit goose bearing bands as described join Tree.-
-On my own hands while working it. any domestic flocks between Ottawa
=-Robert Louis Burgess. .and the South Atlantic coast or: be- Banta: Rosa, in California, has aBap-
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cvbeu Ottawa and tist church which seats 200 people,
the mouth of the lit entireli • d°
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The Talking Ray. Missis-sippi river , (depending upon buhiclr, whilst standing, was 18ft, in
At is he annual;assembly of the I3ri- that they will: not be killed but allow- diameter.
which route they follow) it is hopedo
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tisk Association, a demonstra lieu ties :ed to resume their journey. It' is de This :giant. tree produced 78,000ft. of.
given in connection with the talking sired to-1'aa*n..,as nuch as possible °P;,ltimber, besides Tnany thousands of
ray of the wonderftil photopLone th•t ' 1 If tl f shingles with which the church was
ors rano .: sere ore, }i.ersons
The greatest advantage of. dila ap who hear of any of these birds, or roofed. After the blinding was coni-
paratus is its secrecy: only persons to hunters who happen to` shoot one, will pieta(' 60,000 shingles Were.left oyer,.
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