HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-10-01, Page 2The Automobile
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Now that the summer, sfeason is
MdT'ORISTS WARNED 0 MONOXIDE PERIL.
d awing to a close, with the nippy
days of fall at the threshold, thou-
sands of motorists will pause in their
aunkstings to give the ear a thorough
overhauling. This, in itcef, is a pru-
dent procedure, but duringthe time
spexit iii, the garage it is wefl'1 to keep
in a closed car with the engine run-
ning is dangerous; always have the
windows open.
Persons wishing to avoid this dan-
gerous
ang'erous gas must Epee to it that their
garages are well ventilated. They
should avoid exposure to carbon mon-
oxide and, where it is necessary to
in mind that there is an ever -lurking come into contact with it, protective
peril in carbon monoxide, which equipment should be provided.
escapes so stealthily from the motor Carbon monoxide is doubly danger -
exhaust. ons, the experts deolare, beeause it is
Experts have devoted much time hard to detect in the air: • It has no
and study to the dangers attendant to odor and is taste:fess. Symptolns are
these fumes and have warned the readily found, however. A slight case
public a number of times of the di-= finds the victim suffering from head-
estrous results which may occur un- ache. As the percentage of carbon
less due care is exercised. Do not monoxide in the .blood increases the
work under a machine with the motor headache becomes more severe, The
running, even though it is in the open victim's legs weaken and respiration
air, they say. Guard against running inereases. Then comes a collapse,
an automobile engine in a poorly followed by unconsciousness and frit
ventilated or closed garage. Sitting ally death.
Peat As An Aid in SolvingI Alfred. The company anticipates' the
retailing of peat at prices that will re
Fuel Problem. j sult in a saving of at least $6 in fuel'
In 1918 the Dominion and Ontario costs to each householder who uses
Governments jointly appointed a cow-! peat in place of imported anthracite
mittee to investigate whether or not: during the stages of the winter sea-
peat fuel could be produced commer-' son when the severity of the cold is
dally? This committee existed for less marked.
five years, by which time the invests-! The development of the Dominion's
gations bad been carried far enough resources for the .purpose of replacing
to point the way to .capitalists and imports is a matter that directly CT.'
industrialists- for the successful menu indirectly benefits every Canadian.
facture of a domestic and industrial Therefore the extraction of peat from
fuel from Canada's peat resources. i the bog at Alfred is a step in the right
That the work of the committee is 'direction, regardless of the fact that
being brought to a fruition cowmen-; the company's output can contribute
surate with the $350,000 governmental' in only a minor way to the solution. of
expenditure appears to be evident- Canada's fuel problem - this year.
from the present operations• of a cow-: Should the venture prove financially
pony formed with private capital to successful the way will be paved for
develop the peat bogs at Alfred, On- the commercial development of Hutu'-
tario, about forty miles east. of Ot- ; hers of bogs elsewhere: in Canada, par-
tawa. titularly in the acute fuel zone, and
On 15th July a visit was paid to " the resulting greatly increased output
Alfred by officials attached to the Do-; of peat will render Canada less de -
minion Fuel Board and in their opini- • pendent on imported fuels, which at
on the progress attained'• by the come present constitute the largest item on
pang, considering the delay in com- the wrong side of the Dominion's in-
mencing this summer's operations, far ternational trade account.
exceeded expectations. The machines,
all electrically driven, were running h Chicken.
smoothly. In the process in use an I Tough
excavator cuts the peat and scoops It 1 The minister had come to dinner,
up into a caries of moving buckets which necessitated the killing of a hen
which upturn into a trough that runs . on short notice. After dinner, while
the watery mass to a small mill; sitting on the lawn, a brood of chicks
there, it is macerated by a number -of kept coming up, cheeping plaintively,
rapidly moving, small hammers. From and time and again the small boy of the
the macerator the peat pulp emerges family drove them away. Finally, ex-
on a belt conveyer, 850 feet long, asperated, he gave them a big "shoo,"
which feedis it to a spreader. This and added: "You needn't come around
latter machine moves slowly, parallel me cheeping. There sets the man
to the continuously moving belt, cut- that et yer maw!"
ting the peat into briquets, and laying.—��_
them on the ground' to be :air-dried.
The •Right Idea.
- From the .excavation to the spreading
is one, uninterrupted, machine opera- The little -girl, was""taught to clone
tion. her evening prayer during the teni:por-
Notwithstanding that "'it requires at ary absence of her father with: "And.
least forty days for the briquets to dry please watch over my Daddy.
there were two to three thousand tons It sounded very sweet, but the moth -
of peat ready for harvesting and ship- er's• amazement may be imagined
ment to Montreal, Ottawa, and other when the child added: "And you'd bet -
centres within economic haulage of ter keep an eye on Mummy, too."
FLIMERICKS
Said an elephant unto a
(weasel-Iike animal)
"On a journey get rid of all
(scraps of trash)
It is easy for
(myself)
When traveling you
(observe)
For I put everything in my
(Lox for traveling)
"Upon the line write the word that is defined below it.7
MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher.
Difference in Brains.
The 'brain oke nienin.als, is 'ooirpofsed
of flue parts: the medulla oblonuruta,
Cereuglium, the eergbum visible,
fx ons "ali'ove, and the'li is bra,iu-, anti .in•
• 1,terberin !Angeltea-eaili'the cerebruni.
The .inteiligeneeof an animal seef's•
to depend largely :c n the size and
,r�tructure of the eerebruin.
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In the lower mammals the surface
is quite smooth, while in the rabbit
and eat it is somewhat convoluted,
and in ape and man the convolutions
become vevry numerous.
The avergae weight of the male
liuman brain is about three pounds; of
• a female about two and two -thirds -
pounds,
The human ,brain is one forty -forth
-the weight .of the body; the ape's one
twenty-ninth; •the rat's ''one eighty^
eecond; the sheep's One three hun-
dred and fifty-finst, and the elephant's
one five -hundredth.
The brain of man is larger than that
of any other animal except the whale
and elephant.
Tile brain of a large whale weighs,
over four pounds, while that of a large
elephant will weigh about ten pounds.
WILL GUIDE ;DESTINIES OF HYD -R0
Charles Alexander Magrath, who has been appointed chairman of the
Ontario Hydro -electric commission in succession to the late Sir Adam Beck.
Mr. Magrath is chairman of the Deep Waterway,a Commission' and was
former Dominion fuer controller. He is an engineer by training and drafted
the first Ontario good- roads report for Sir James Whitney. The Premier
says the appointment is decidedly non-political.
Caring for the Farm Tools.
The crop of 1925 will soon be secure
against weather conditions, Grains
and root crops, hay and ensilage wi1l
be ready to turn into money ,either by
means of feeding to live stock or di-
rect sale. The farmer can then com
menco to ease off slightly. 'There is
one thing, however, that should be
given attention. Have the plow, the
hayrake, the mower, or the many
other farm implements been put away
where they will be protected :rgainat
the rains and snows between now and
next spring, when they ' will be re-
quired again? The other day in a
short trip made by a Member of ,,the
staff of the. Department of the In-
terior, it hurt to see how many,iinple
ments that had cost the farmer good
money" were left in the corners .of .rhe
fields where they had been last" Se'.
Much of the farmers' hard worfMIT
represented in the value of the iniple-
ments, and it did seem a pity to see
so much human energy wasted. .Next
spring, when activity again reigns in
the development of Canada's, greatest
natural resource—the land—someone
may have to go without what he would
like to buy because the money is
needed to replace a neglected plow or
some other implement. It would be
much more ,satisfactory to have the
present plow in„good' -condition and
save regrets.
It is regrettable the waste 'that is
taking place in valuable farm imple-
ments, and it is suggested that each
and every farmer give this matter -at-
tention, and pass the word along to
"save the farm implements."
John's Taxi Bili.
A Chinese taxi driver, says anew*s-
paper, rendered . the following bin to
a customer:
"Bill for taxi ride-
Ten goes
Ten comes
At $0.50 a went, $5.00."
—L.
Accompanied by a suite of . more
than twenty people and two hundred
trunks, the Maharajah of Patiala ar-
rived recently in London, where a
whole wing of a famous hotel had been
reserved for him.
Mangrove Forests.,,. -
Many valuable products, come from
the mangrove forests of Siam, which
cover an estimated area of 320,000
acres.
"There is no standard pronunciation
Of English because the language is
constantly changing," said an expert
recently.
New Road Map of New
Brunswick.
"I was most delighted with the con-
dition of the •roads down in New
Brunswick," This was the way an
enthusiastic Ontario motorist express-
ed his appreciation of the 'touring
conditions in the province by the sea.
New Brunswick has good roads—
they are the result of long-time con-
struction and of efficient up -keep.
They are practically all hard gravel
roads, of which material New Bruns-
wick has an ample supply; the result
,is that even after a wet Period, the
drainage provided soon dries up the
surface.
The fact that . these good motor
roads are available has very material-
ly increased their use. Touring part-
ies prom' other portions of, Canada
and the neighboring states are visit-
ing the province in increasing num-
bers, to the benefit of both residents
and visitors.
The Natural Resources Intelligence
Service, recognizing this intensity of
?notoring ins the province, has just
issued= a most useful map, known as
the "New Brunswick Motor Roads and
Recreational Map." The map shows
at a glance the motor roads of the
province, segregating in colors the
trunk roads, secondary roads and
other roads. Tourist camp sites are
marked, as are also towns with hotel
accommodation. An interesting fea-
ture of the map is the indication of
the accessible points to hunting and
fishing resorts, while the areas where
game and fish are to be found are
shown in color. The map is on an easy
scale and will fill a pressing need
among those residents in the province
and others, who have in mind a visit
thereto. Copies of the map may be
obtained from the Director; Natural
Resources Intelligence Service of the
Dept of the Interior at Ottawa.
Answer to Last week's puzzle:
Banknotes recently circulated - in.
the "Republic" by the. Riffs were'
printed in three languages. - First
came, in English, "State Batik of the
Riffs"; . then an Arabic inscription,,.
followed by a statement of the note's
value in both Engliah and Trench..: I
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Treasure in :a Turban.
One pi the oddest .episodes is the
history of the Koh-i-uoor diamond :ie
the manner in Which Nadir, Shah, the
`Persian ean.queror, obtained , it 'from
Maliaiiimed 'Shah, the last iepresen.1&.
tive of the 1Viogal line,
The Persian, having Sought in vain
for the stone among the plunder, of
the 1Vi''ognl Court, learnt at last, from a
woman of Mohammed Shah's harem,
that the Emperor, wore it concealed
in his turban, w}lick he never, night
or day, removed Prom' his head.
Nadir Shah, deternitned on its pas.
session, devised a plan for securing it
which is not without a tinge .of humor.
Seated- in ceremonious "Dunbar; with
his host and prisoner, he suggested
the not unusual courtesy of.exchang-
ing turbans -as a sign of friendship,
and before the subjugated Emperor
had had time to protest or think of a
way out ' of the difficulty, his own
,simple muslin turban was on the head
of his aclversary, whohad presented
ham in exchange with Ms . national
headdress, ornamented with jewels.
Mohammed Sliah, it is said, pre=
served such a cool demanor over the
affair that the conqueror became tilled
with. anxiety lest afterallhe had not
succeeded in possessing himself of the
'stone. Dismissing the Dither as soon
as he .could, he retired in haste to hie
own apartments and tore the turban
from his head. In the process of un-
folding it a' little package fell out)
"Koh-i-noor! A .mountain of light,"
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exclaimed Nadir, and the . name has
clung to the diamond ever since.
CROSS -WORD PUZZLE
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD - PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably
sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them,
and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white
space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either
horizontally or vertically or both.
HORIZONTAL
1—Entertainer of guests
0—Bondage
11 -Possess as one's property
12—Stamina (slang)
14 --Largo -
15—A parent (abbr.)
17—A dart
19--A southern State (abbr.)
20—Lever
21—Doctored
22—A beetle
23—Printer's unit
25 --Discernment
27—Upon
28—Apex
30=Cali for ald at sea (abbr.)
32—Misfortunes
84—Kin to
86—Hetps
37 --One who uses
38 --Accosted
40—Getting the best of
42 Medlcal men (abbr.)
43—Aged pullet
44 --Included in
48--Trlais
49—Aecompllsh
60—Marry
61—More touchy
• 62—Bovine animal -
53—Man's name (familiar)
65-1n a state of exclusion
67—An Island on east Coast of U.
68—Southern State (abbr.)
60—Before
61 -Man's name (familia'r)
63—Representative of the whole
(p4)
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VERTICAL
1—Impedes
2—Thus
3—A number
4 -Printer's unit
5 -Broadcasts
6 -.Detective-
7—College degree (abbr.)
8—Strive for supremacy
9—For example (Latin-abbr.)
10—Longed for
13—Perloda
16—A limb
17—Skill
18—Very small
19—One of baby's words
24—Rims
26—Browned before the fire
28 --Attempted
29—Stakes
30—Wet mud and snow
31—A German mug
3a --Propeller
3t -Eagle
38 --Scowls
39—Gowns
40—Happens
41—Gaining in size
45—Gave food to
46—A beverage
47—Agitate •
48—Perceive
49—U. S. unit of money (abbr.)
54—High mountain peak '
56—Distant
5S—Part of verb "to be"
69—Aluminum (Chem. Sym.)
61—A continent (abbr.)
64 --Forbearing to injure 62—A note of the scale
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