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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-03-22, Page 6- glan 1w 'Q • "i ''e' 1001111 �g1I. Itisitly` >kit'i assacsave btre Viler hGY Porpoises May Aid Scientists To Eradicate Caisson Illness Hatteras, N. G. whales and porpoises iiaY aid iza the solution ot caisson sickness, bane of the deep-sea diver, and other human ailments, It was with such an object in view that a group of scientists of the de- department of anatomy of the Johns Hopkins Medica]. School, tend Drs. Remington Kellogg, of the United Bra- zierStates Howell, Biological f thelSmithsonian Insti- tution, mantmalogist of the national museum, visited Cape Hatteras re- cently to conduct a series of experi- ments on porpoises. The scientists took back to their laboratotries specimens of all ofte organs of the porpoise's body, includ- ing six brains. Contrary to what might be expected, the porpoise .brain rfbe by t- " "of ail The study of cau Society of Mamntakogists, as "phenomenally developed an_ exceedingly high type." "Many of the problems involved in the study.of porpoises," he explained; "are distinctly applicable to human activities. If it could be ascertained bow porpoises and whales manage to survive at the depths to 'widish they go, Much probably would be learned in regard to caisson sickness. And ofPra. the the carbocal n erest dioxides given offstiou of by the body, through the lungs, during pro- longed submergence. Of no less in- terest are the physical adjustments to the denser aquatic environment which whales (once land animals) have made, involving blood pressure, pies - sure of spinal fluid and the mechan- ism of breathing, as wel as the great Lhanges in the muscle system as com- Where Crowds Are Crowds fa lase d i D • Howell who s pared til the typical land mammal. velopment near Bryson on the Ottawa . n ario ower un - In Canada Listed der aa? on the Riviera aux Outardes, --- Ontario Developments corresponding secretary of the Amen- WaterPower Gains Rivet The Ontario Paper Company plant of 40000 horsepower Secretary of the Interior Re- "In Ontario the outstanding w 2 { 000 Horsepow- of the year was the •commencement , Company c ` has under construction a ports 2 , I ofonstruction by the Ontario Hydro- I second hydro -electric plant at Avon er Increase in 1927 'Electric Power Commission of the' River Falls of 4,300 horsepower. 'l. R FOOTBALL SERIOUSLY AT 'OME some of the casualties during theoteat match d Ashton Villa. City Pawnshop of Paris Reaches Ripe Age of 154 THEY TAKE THEIR A glimpse of the crowd at a cup tie, Thepolicemenn are the dealing with th Visit to Medway Rivers. The Bridgetown Woman S Electric i ii horsepowerto itsplantat added B.loody Wilds of Abet Brook, while the Avon River Power 11.1.1.1114 Total Now is 4,778,900 The annual statement of Charles the Gatineau Power Company. A. Stewart, Minister of the Interior of ] tual installations during the year in- shore of Stave Lake, of a 12,500 l a journey of 1,200 miles from Kash - Canada, with regard to tdevelop- ln the eluded two plants at Sturgeon Falls horsepower plant. On Vancouver Is- ntir to Tibet and back across the' went .and use of water powerand Moose Lake on the Seine River. I( land the company pushed forward Himala3*ae and other mountain ranges. I Pwer1 220,000 -volt transmission line to carry British Ciumbia Enterprises the 260,000 horsepower which the coin "In British Columbia, the ritish mission has contracted to take from Columbia Electric Railway Company completed the construction, on the One of, the most remarkable shoot- ing hooting expeditions. in which a woman has taken part has just been safely ac- complished by Lieut -Col. S. Gordon; Johnson, late of the South Stafford- shire Regiment, and his wife. They have returned to London after Dominion, indicates that the great progress made during recent. years continued in 1927, and that with the now in prose undertakings of the Ontario and Minnesota o the reconstruction of the home carry Colonel and Mrs. Johnson, who were Company with 10,000 horsepower and t water to its Jordan River level accompanied by six native servants, 14,420 horsepower capacities respec- ongment. On the Bridge River, 10 trans:.ort mien with 15 yaks, a herd �� 7 s -sail p through a subsidiary, the Bridge River I,° f sheep for food, and a herd of goats Power Company, extensive prepare- to pro -side mills, secured a Tibetan tory work was carried on in comm.. 4 antelope at a height of 21,000 feet. tion with a project of 500,000 horse- ` Col. Johnson told a Daily Mail re - power ultimate 'capacity, and a con, porter: tract was let for the construction of My wife and I made the journey, a tunnel leading from Bridge River l which totalled 2,000 miles from �.vhcn to the power station site on Seton we left Kashmir on May 4 till we re- Lake. The West Kootenay f Powell' turned on November 4, because we are to help*her I sank just .as deep, and the capital of soon all our transport was in, Ittt� t ' velopment or in active prospect, the; horsepower at Calvi Lake on the same next few years will witues further y river will. be completed early in. 1928. growth ot very substantial propos'- I The G:ananoque Electric Light and tions. Water Supply Company added 1,500 In the last year, hydro -electric pow- ` horsepower to its Kingston Mills er equipment was installed ready for plant, and snialled installations in - operation to the extent of more than eluded 325 horsepower by the town of 221,000 horsepower, bringing the total Smiths Falls and 75 horsepower by dilation in Canada to 4,778,000 the town of Streetsville. under Inst un- ',, be developments horsepower. In addition, other Among t dertakings were advanced to 378,000 th Ontario Hydro- ae that t a further total of Hydro - stage g horsepower will be in place during the first six or seven months of 1928, thus bringing the total by the middle or the year to more than 5,100,000 horsepower. The latter figure is just double the total installation at the end of 1920. The report goes on: "0f the activities during 1927, the as the in- that otthe 'n Old Coin Discoveries Recent Finds in Britain of "Those Made by Romans , Roman coins stiiiek. in Great Brit- ain have Aiwa's held considerable, ins terest for collectors of early 'Roman,. coins. The great majority date from the later Itoinatt period, and recent finds of these 7r3rttisharanted coins have diseloeed the • fact that a large variety. �taute tram a number of mints In differealt parts of the British Isles, Most o4 them, however, bear the de- signating marks -of the.London mint from which came the largest propor- tion of the r-tomoda coins circulated in Great Britain, Thomas L. Elder, cola expert of New York, who hits devoted cousid- erable study to the coins of the Ro- man emperors, calls atteution to, one of the moat ianportaut discoveries• of these English -minted Roman coins made in 1907 at Little Orme Head, North Wales, A bronze vessel was unearthed there containing several hundred .coins of the Roman Emperor Carausius, and with it also was found a large pottery jar filled with more than 5,000 Roman middle and small sized bronze coins of British and O•aullsh mints. "Careful washing of these coins," said Mr. Elder, "left them in almost perfect mint state, although abort 1,600 years old. The location 'of the discovery showed Indications of Ro- man masonry work and this hoard is believed to have been a military chest, kept at a Roman station, from which the coins were ,distributed. The Roman emperors depicted on the coins included Aliectus, Maximilian Hercules, Maximinus Daze, Lieinius Pater, Quintillus, Aurelian, .Severina, Numerian, Diocletian, Carausius, Valera and Constantine I, The types of British mints numbered twenty- five and there were seventeen of Gaulish and other mints. About 3,500 of the coins were of Constantine I. "A more recent find was made near the British Museum in London which contained many of the 'tJrbs Roma' type with the helmeted head of Rome and the reverse showing the tradi- tional wolf suckling Romulus and Remus. Early in 1922 a number ot Roman -silver coins was found in a East Wood d ii;a t small cave in a cliff uea Ashover, De1•byshire, England, the colas rauging from the reigns of Septimius Severus to Gordian Ill, a • period of about fifty years. "The immense member of coins struck in England at the various mints, but chiefly in London, may be imagined from the fact that it is'al- most impossible to find of tbe thou- sands lately unearthed two coins from exactly the same die. The die - makers must have been kept busy with the immense difficulty of keeping the die sufficiently harder than the coin to prevent breakage." Mr. Elder says that the later rulers of Britain, following the method of the Romans, sometimes •copied Ro- man coin types. Coins ot St. Ether- bert, for instance, bear the design of the wolf and twins. Later followed a widely varied coinage imitating Gaulish types with heads, animals. dots, dashes and other curous sym- bols, These extended down to the be- ginning of the Anglo-Saxon era, when a new type appeared itt the English penny. Paris, -The Paris "Monte de Piete," or citY pawnshop, is 150 years old, but there evil be no birth- day party. . It is, officially, the Credit Muni- cipal and unofficially "My Aunt," merely a change in gender from the American appelation. Private pawnshops are forbidden in France and the public loan in- stitutions are supervised by the authorities to insure honest and efficient administration. Pension claims are accepted as collateral for loans at only 1 per cent. a year, but other loans are at 8 per cent. At Toulouse and other cities loans are made -with- out interest. The only innovation of recent years has been the acceptance of automobiles "in hock." and Light Company ,carried orw 1 both enthusiastic shots. the construction of its new 60,000 i both r; Srinagar, t 1 a�.n t g t. o construction is a horsepower development on t to .n Electric Power Commission's de 'Kashmir, we crossed the Himalayas at us from' ow a.m p velopment at Alexander Landing on' Kootenay River at South Blown. Zogi Pass (11,500 feet) . We went 240 ; of the sno�vfield, in which we m d h 1£ a mile the Nipigon River which, whep com- pleted in 1929, will have an installa- tion of 54,000 horsepower. The 56,250 horsepower plant of the Spruce I!`alls Company at Smoky Falls on the Mat- er station at Sentinel in the Crows - the to a year, to a stat tagami River was well advanced, and ,nest district as an auxiliary to its 'between India and Kashmir ,on the one' the International Nickgl Company oY� hydro -electric plants on the Bull and hand and Chinese Turkestan on the most significant feature R Canada is commencing the installs Elk Rivers in British Columbia, and , otltsr. the Calgary Power Company greatly Thirty miles front Leh is the moues - 000 -volt in electric transmission volt tion of 28,200 horsepower on the extended its transmission system. tory of Hemis, where we attended the, age above lines in the 110; :Spanish River. 000 -volt class which have been oiler• The Maritimes •_ n Saskatchewan the Provincial annual festival which attracts people atedn throughout the Dominion. for "In New Brunswick the St. John Government appointed a commission from all over Central Asia. Grotesque River Power Company made rapid 1 to inquire into the power resources l and brilliantly clad figures wearing l mane' years. In this regard the Shawinigan Water and Power Coo progress on the construction of its of the province and a'very active pro- ;great masks or huge black hats dance the pioneer in constructing 180 000 horsepower development at gram' of investigations' was cart -led "the dance of death" or "the dance I of the black hat;' or other eerie steps I Prairie Provinces miles without seeing a village, an i less than a "In Alberta the East Iioatenay, arrived at Leh, the chief village in the ---- Power Company completed the con-, Ladak Range, traction of a 13,000 1.,v, steam pow•' Leh, which sees perhaps 211 Euro - I kat of barter pant vas 135 miles in a line of 165.000 volts, length, through pract'cally% uniuhabit- .ed territory, to carry 100,0.00 horse - rower from the isle Maligns develop- ment re on the SaguettaY tion John River between Woodstock a of operation Unit 4 of 25,000 horsepower ncarnation of Buddha. When GrGand Falls on the St. John River. out, of ,dismal one -note music. The New Brunswick Power Commis- l "In Manitoba the Manitoba Power i During the festival you could go to' sion made an extensive investigation Company completed the supersti•ttc see the Shushak, who might b called of the forty -mile reach of the St, tuT a of its RGreat a adig broughtplant intoh He is supposed to be' River to Que- Imo City and vicinity Con5ttUC 1Hawkshaw which. gives promise of another line of seillg rester volt providiug a further development onl capacity: A prospective de a op age was begun during the year by the 1 that river of t ''c Power Com the re -t dying the Shushak has to call the lamas, the high priests, and tell them' where to find the newly born infant whom he knows, on the inspiration of Buddha, must be his successor. When the baby is found it is placed in the i monastery. The women wear head!dresses`that go down their back and bear tur- quoises. Mrs. Johnson, who bought splendid specimens of turquoises for less than a pound in rupees, pointed out that Inthese stones, carried on the head-dress were the banking accounts of the wo- men. The journey continued across the Chang Chen Me river to Tibet. Col. Johnson ,said: "We encountered a snow -field at 18;040 feet into which my wife sank almost to the s o 30;000 continuous horse -i went of great importance liar investigations were northern part of the province is n Ontario. }bale- .ti pea el. Sim j mission to transmit power more than ( made on the same river by the St.1 view at Wintemud Falls on the 200 miles from the Gatineau River In i John River Power Company, and on, son River, where an installation of 1 t?ucpec to the City of Toronto and 1 the Nipisiguit River the Bathurst`'i from 3.0,000 to 40,000 horsepower is t ; o commission's Niagara system. { Company, carried on investigations at I proposed to serve power over a trans- 'Thi; line ie designed to tarry2more 20 0001 the Rough Waters site near the' mission. line 170 miles lu length -to the mouth v o tfflal power projects are i Flin Flon mining district northwest of the Pas. "Numerous undertakings are in the initial stages of construction and Others, are about to be commenced which evil result in an addition to the Dominion total of more than 2; much of which, it is expected, will be in place before than 250;000 horsepower at , volts and is expected to be in opera - Lion in the Autumn of 1928. Quebec Took the Lead T ' also under investigation on the Bay of Fundy in•'Neve Brunswick. "In Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia "In instaIla tfotts added during 1927 y Power Commission completed the lead construction of the 8,000 horsepower the rrvitSce o4 p�teUec took the mait:i', due to the activities of the Sandy Lake .development of its St. Gatineau Power Company on the Margaret Bay system. Tho oommis- Gatinenu River. Hydro -electric cons siontia also i arried on numerous. g a project 'sfinves- c •ion v. as also active in Ontario, g Aio)ec in Cape0 sit n t horsepower at Lake in the Maritime Provinces and in . eritobe and British Columbia. Breton, a proposed tidal power prof- D1 Power ect a t Amherst Point on the Bay of „-Quebece Gatineau sn coeft Comiauv completed the construction � Fundy and investigations of the com- er and•' brought into operation the piste utilization of the Liverpool and initial installations of its Chelsea and Farmers Rapids developments, the first' of 102;003 horsepower capacity and the second 72,000 horsepower. The coutpany also vigorously carried forward the construction of a third development on. the Gatineau River at Panetta Falls, where 204,000 horse- . Power is being initially installed. For tbe benefit of these -three develop- ments. the itIcroler dam, creating a very e.;t.eseeiv storage reservoir of 9 i,00,1,0o0,1is() cubic feet, also was t o, il,leted and the reservoir filled early in the year under the direction of the. Quebec Streams Commission. "Other installations placed in oper- ation in Quebec during the year in- cluded a 2,000 horsepower unit it Point Rouge by the Donnacona Paper Company and the completion of a 2.000 lioreepower development by the town of Coat.icook. The largest proi- e,:t under construction is the 800,000 hor�sepoWer development of the Alcoa. Power Company at Chute a Caron on the Saguenay River. "Other projects or e%iensiotis under way are a 65,000 horsepower devetop• went by the Montreal Island Power Company on'`De Prairies. River near Montreal; the addition of two 10,000 horsepower "mike to, the Canada Northern l0W11? Company's plant ou Quinze River, the additton..o! unit 11 of 45,000 : horsepower to tbe Duke - Price development itn the Saguenay. River, anti a 300 Horsepower plant .lry the Cie d'lsnterprises Pttbllgttes treat Riviere a" Pierre: "Contracts have been let by the City of Sherbrooke- for a naw de- velopment of i5,800 borthe seDO Francis wer Westbury Rap River, and. tit.e Ottawa River Power (company has authorized the' addition Glia Of a 20,0(•0 hot'sepawer unit to its .de- 000 000 horsepower, the end of 1930. The capital required for this newt work will involve the direct investment of at least $00,000,- 000, 00,000, 000, and many times this amount in the application of power to ittdustdy and domestic and public rise." oved -9 Shy on the Rocks. "I don't believe you have grit enough to propose to a girl." "I've al the grit needed, my boy - I'm shy on the rocks." Barrister at Bow County Court: "awe you married?" East Ham Wo- man. "I am not. I have no desire to keep a husband." Clubman I've struck a parfait)? h alders. When I went The Prince of Wales Enjoys a Bout • priceless idea. I've arranged to give a man $10,000 on condition that he re-. Washington. -"Long distance flights; HTThs 's of all myworries. Friend , of birds are common," it is asserted ingwt's fine, the $10,000? -where are you go-' by the experts of the United States fag to get hefirst ' Clubman -j Biological Survey. The Survey has Ali, that will be his worry. - , conclusive evidence that some birds 'fly across the Atlantic, onew "To black headed galls bandedittthate -.,---• Rossltetl, Germany, were recaptured, at Bridgeton, , were oes, British West Indies, and the other oft '��'^"a the mainland of. Mexico, near Vera Cruz. Two kittiwakes, banded at tlto Farne Islands, Northumberland, Bng- land, were recovered almost directly across the Atlantic at points oa the coast of LabolirNewfoundland, commteradorn bandeandd at Biast.ertt 1;gg Rock, Maitre, crossed the Atlantic Ocean anti the :Equator and was re- covered from the Delta of the Niger River, British 'rest Africa. A. young Arctic tern, banded in Labrador, was recently found dead near La Rochelle, on. the coast pf France." The Survey has no • evidence that these birds littiade a non-stop "'flight, but tthat is the supposition. • It is ex- plained that many "species tItatesltend their - Summers in the pitted States land Canada fly almost • file length ,of tiro • western hemisphere and spend the northern Winter in the Summer of Argentina and Chile. Some Birds Can Fly Across Atlantic U.S. Biological Survey Cites Several Instances of - Flights P iNcl✓•Cl4ARN•IING AT"rH•E RUNG SID Lott Jnitt ;ct a,lttl' Tart: I1cc1d for le 'Prince of Wales is an ardent, "light fait." Ile is drown here watching the match b. ,ve cn . ioUsbipr' In the' circlua't the right, Hood is seen facing the fighting, ,•c,•, t ;1; The vicar was paying a visit to the homes of 'bus poorer parlsltioiters, and la the house of a certain caster- monger he asked' Many questions about the family. A very grubby, but very cheerful little lad attracted tho. ktndly cleric's attention, and lie ask- ed pita his name. "Reginald I)-d\rcy Stttif, sir," reliliea the lad. witii a grin. Tile vicar turned 'to the boy's father. "Whatever clad you give him a name like that for?" "'Cos;I want 9na ter be it pirtcsslnnal boxer.' ren - turned tixe parent "and ,Nils a noire be Ilriii h welterweight . like that he'll get a iter a,' lira mite at seltdoi."