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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-11-10, Page 6SOURCES OF CAR NOISES SHOULD )3E LOCATED AT ONCE Cart the people in your neighbor hood tel when your car is passing their places, even in the might, by its various and sundry rattles? A dis- tinguishing rattle of a oar might be of value in locating the thief in case your machine is stolen. But the clat- tering noises that some autos give out certainly do not add to the pleas- ure an owner ought to get out of driv- ing and they do not make for peaee in the neighborhood. There is no end of noises which may develop from the chassis of a cat: and ni:ake it clank, clatter and click like a mowing machine as it goes over the higrhnvay. Often they are extremely difficult to locate. be- ing at times so, ebseuxe as to defy de- tection even by an expert automotive mechanic. Such was the trouble with a car which developed a sharp click when- ever it was started taiveaed or bank - ward. It ran quite a long time before it was possible to discover just wllsat and where it was. It -was somewhere in the back, but so hidden as to defy detection. The rear .axle was of the floating type, the construction in which the driving shaft ire •connected to the hub of the wheel by a number of flutings on the shaft, into which corresponding projections of the flange fitted, These had become worm and allowed sufficient play to cause a noise. Trouble Detected by Feeling. By walking alongside of the rear wheel while the ear was being started and stopped it was decided that the sound came from the hub of the wheel. The hub cap was removed, and by placing the finger an the hub flange and end of shaft at the same time the play was detected by the sense of feeling, though it was hardly visible to the eye. The trouble- was over- come by having the shaft welded to the flange. There 'have been cases where the wheels were keyed on and where the keys had acquired sufficient play to came a continuous knocking, especi .lily when the machine was being driven at law speed. This sort of lame -king is mere likely bo occur with the few -cylinder, slow -speed engine that with the high-speed, many cylin- dered type. A mysterious- knock may sometimes be traced to the torque `rod, when it becomes loose at tilie forward end, or to worn torque tube bearings, and in same cases the bolts fastening the torque rod to the rear axle become r -- An Odd Use for the Phonograph. rilany popular ideas regarding the cries of animals are altogether wrong. This is shown by experiments carriers out recently by means of phono- graphs to discover the sounds which creatures really Make, It is commonly supposed that sheep "Baa." What the animals really say, according to a phonographic record, is something like "Maa." A close ex- amination of the mouth of the sheep shows that the animal cannot form the letter "B" at all. llow .many people, if asked to imi- t.ato a dog barking, would say some- thing like "Bow -wow?" But the dog does not say this at all. On the phono- . graph the sound Is just like "Wow - wow." Most people refer to the growl of a loosened or "warns eauusthg a knock, especially.when gating over buinrps or dropping into holes.. The brake rode become worn and set up a continuous .clatter on rough roads; and this noise is accentuated if the tires are kept inflated at too hi+h pressure. As a matter of fact the car owner has the 'choice between the greatest life for his tires 'and ae- companying rattles and discomforts and riding ata sufficiently low pres- sure to subdue these noises and make life in a car worth living. Of course, there will be an attendant higher wear of tires. Where the wear cannot be taken up by adjustments or using new bolts oe pins, often the rattle may be ended by wiring a spinal spring to the frame and Tattling part. This keeps it taut. • Keep Bolts Lubricated. Worn sexing shackle belts will not ordinarily cause knocking Or rattling, but '.heti going over bumps or holes the rebound of the body is sufficient to make the looseness audible. It •can be overcome by having a new bolt put in, and prevented by keeping tihe bolts well lubricated. Worn steering -knuckle pines and tie - rod bolts will sometimes be found re- sponsible for knocks and rattles in the front end of the car. The remedy is obvious and the Potation of the noise not so hard to find. In addition to these we have rattles due to tools being thrown loosely into the tool box, and sometimes front the body bolts having beoome loosened. The lamps occasionally jolt loose and the license plate bracket is sometimes so loose that it is audible as well as visible. There are other knocks due to broken gear teeth and other broken parts, and sometimes these broken teeth, loose nuts, bolts or pins in gear or differential ease become wedged be- tween the gear teeth and cause a knocking that is not. hard to locate, albeit rather expensive to' repair. And then there are the knocks and rattles from the hundred or more accessories -which 'are attached to the chassis of many cars and which, soon- er or later, develop defects and noise. The up-to-date, well:designed oar in perfect shape is rpmaactically noiseless, and if a knock or rattle develops it indicates that something is worn or out of adjustment, .and needs atten- tion. The owner who takes care to have all parts properly imbricated and kept tight need fear none of these anuayances, andproper attention means lack of annoyance when out touring, while slovenly habits will ad- vertise themselves to everyone along the road. tiger. This creature does not growl. at all. Its cry has been shown to be a kind of cough. This resembles a sort of "Wouf-wouf," although, as a matter of fact, it is very difficult to put the noise into words. Two birds were tried in order to see what kind of a noise they make. Crows are said to "caw," but the I sound they actually make resembles haw." It was shown that pigeons do note "coo," the cry they utter being more like "hoo." Bamboo has been found successful as a reinforcement of concrete piles for use along a Chinese railway. Four strips of green ;bamboo, tied together at 1 -ft. intervals with square loops, also of bamboo, are placed at each corner of the pile and run lengthwise with it. Canada's Fur Auction Sales During the month of September the fourth sale of the Canadian Fur Auc- tion Sales Company took place at Montreal, when the same gratifying Indloatione of the successful building ass of a national fur market as have characterized the previous sales since their inauguration in the spring of 1920 were exhibited. More than one million dollars worth of furs, In the main the :product of Canadian traps and ranches, were disposed of, the high quality .of the product arousing much oomment, and the price% in the face of general conditions being Ceu. sidered very satisfactory. The significant feature of this sale, OS of past sales, most pleasing and enoouraging to the national movement to 'build up a Canadian fur market for Canadian furs, was tbe keen in. teenational interest evinced iu the pro- ceedinga, buyers having, arrived at Montreal from London, Paris, New: York and most of the fur centres on both oontinetate Skins, though in the main a Canadian product, had also axe rived from all parts of tate world, there being consignments from ;the Southern United States and seine hav- ing • evett travelled from far off ,fghaai&Mn by way of the Khyber Peas to .India on camels; •a distance of over 1,000 miles., and thence to Mont, real ,lay parcel post Thepone offered for emotion at the wile comprisedpractieaily :every ant. mat trapped or farmed for its fur. There Were 11.40 silver fox volts, niestl . 1) y front 1'?ritoe 1 ciwarcl lslirntl, seld at , plioes u- to the record aa+l�oatw 1a p rd trf g� entail g1'i.1,ilaiit a ext! seleotioii of White taXefil SOW rot figures ranging tonna • $40. A. total of 24,613 skunk skins, mostly of Canadian origin, found buy- ers at prices as high as $5.60, a big advance over the spring prices. Fif- teen thousand American opossum and 6,994 Persian Lamb skins were feat- ured in the sale; there was a large aggregation of otter and beaver, whilst 3,423 red fox skins brought an average of well over $30. A collection of mole skins totalled fifteen thousand. In the opinion of the management the proceedings of the auction were successful beyond expectation, Prices for tbe better grade of furs were con- siderably higher than in the spring whilst medium grades maintained their standard. Beaver, otter, fisher, marten, mink and lynx sold uniformly at twenty per cent. in advance of spring prices; racoon had advanced ten per cent., muskrat thirty per cent., and bear as High as 'fifty per cent. Otter sold for around ,$45, lynx $45, and bear $22. • The Montral and Winnipeg fur :tales, as periodical events of interna- tional interest, ana.y, now be considered to be firmly established, end in the secure standing she has achieved, the Dominion has assurance of perman- ence and increasing importance for her national fur market. As the world's premier fur producer, both in quality and quantity, Canada has• too long lost mach of the accruing revenue by permitting the fur crop to go to fo.rotgn markets for auction, and the ,iuceoss of herr, first fur sales evi- dencee that from the long established fainoof her produots she has no dif- ficulty in attracting to her taal:es the werld'a best buyers. liwomomand the worst is yet to co r e `& AN5 IM/4ISS FoR sALE. o THIS LIFE IS WHAT AVE MAKE OF IT THEREFORE AVOID IMI- TATION. Think and Create for Yourself. It Will Add Immeasurably to Your Enjoyment. "How little we make oaf life con- sidering onsidering what it offers," said a friend of mine recently. That is perfectly true writes Geof- frey Rhodes. Most of us pass sour; time in a mechanical round, of trivial interests that we magnify to fill our thoughts and days. The bigcrowd of. us liveaninvoluntary existence hardly requiring any original thought, sheep- ishly moving in a narrow rut of soul- destroying routine.; devoid of new ideas • or original thought.. Instead of:making '-life "a'joyous:.pil- grimage, we allow it to degenerate in- to a tedious journey, affording few in terests and little, experience. It may be a fact that there is noth- ing new in this old world of ours, but all the same the old truths have to be freshly explained to each generation as it comes along. And today we have so many toys with which to amuse ourselves that we have almost forgot- ten how to play. Play Is not the counterpart of work. It is the opposite of toil, and that is. quite another thing. The Way to Your Better Self. No one is expected to like toilsome labor. The only benefit we get from our elaborate machinery is that it takes the drudgery off one's_ shoulders. But work is what gives the zest to play. If all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, all play and no work is infinitely worse. We are surrounded by opportunities for enjoyment far ourselves and our fellows. All we have to do is to take advantage of them. We all cravefor the same thing, only some call it happiness, some health, some wealth. If we take the trouble to define our wants we shall find that they all come to the same thing. The millionaire only hangs on to his money -bags because be can use them to procure health and happiness, If he goes about the job intelligently he Is quite as sensibly employed as the poorer man saving a few dollars to take his family on a holiday. May they both be successful! After all, what does the magic word success itself mean? All these terms so much in. use are purely relative in bircir interpretation. 1 may be fairly successful at writing, an article for a newspaper, but I am sure that I should be a hopeless fail- ure on the Stook Exchange. I know a man with a big banking account who has been what is called successful in business; but he is herd put to it to express himself clearly in half a dozen lines on a postcard. He would cer- tainly not be a success as a journalist. We all have our little triumphs and our little failures; stepping -stories to our better selves. Indeed, what is sport but placing obstacles in our own path, just for the , sake of the fun of overcoming thein? That is the spirit to cultivate, lthiterprise, in.itiati.ve, will -power, re- solution, call it what you like, it is the same, the determination to face facts, boldly and not timidly like a child in the dark. A Heritage of Wisdom, Self-knowledgeand self-government are the two requisite qualifications for the enjoyment of lite on this planet, We have to remember that we live in. ran emotional world of opinions and not tit an Aladdin's cave,: And it is our personal .estimation of things that glees them their worth, nothing else. The old Duke of Argyll used to tell an anetsing story in this cottectlon, Iia was -once remarking in the High- lalids on the beauty of a copse of oaks on a mountain side. "Yes," said the laird, "but I think they would look prettier still in the corner of a banking account!" As the duke pointed out, he felt that if the question of intrinsic value of the timber was concerned., it seemed to him, that more real wealth was re- presented by the oaks standing on the landlord's land than a mere ink nark in an account -book. But the laird evi- dently thought otherwise. After all, everything Is useful to somebody somewhere. We, all know that even dirt is only matter in the wrong place. Our greatest treasure is undoubtedly the noble heritage sleeping in the very drops of our blood. Deep down in our heartsand minds, beneath the fleeting fancies and ideas of the hour, lies a wealth of wisdom and experience gathered by our parents and their parents again. before them, bequeathed:unconscious- ly ;1)y them to us, their children. A1I this eperience, and wisdom, is. there ready when- needed: but we must. give it ' an ,opportunity of rising to' "the ,surface before it can be avail- able for use.. That means we must' occasionally stand aside from the noise and the bustle of existence to give ourselves time for thought.. Feeling, thinking, doing. They must all."share our attention in turn if we wish, to make the most of our talents. Keep Moving Ali the Time. We must cease to accept our ideas. from our neighbor ready made. We must think things out for ourselves. It will add considerably to our enjoy- ment of life, and increase our mental powers to an extent almost beyond be- lief. To use our brains is to improve them. An old proverb says that "What wedon't use, we lose." So, on the con- verse, what we use to advantage, we improve immensely. • Get at the why and the wherefore of everything. Don't be satisfied with hearsay evidence. Follow the scientfic plan. It is the duly common-sense method of learning one's way about the world. • Sift all facts given you and eliminate the rubbish. When at last you have the pure metal refined from the alloy, study it well and see what you hake of it It will repay you. Weigh up evidence as the . baker weighs the loaf, and then you will have something definite, something useful added to your store of knowledge. Systematic thought Is a bracing pastime. A disorderly mind is like a stone in your shoe; it will give you no peace till, you put it right. When all is said and done, Life it- self is the supreme proof that with all its troubles it le a gift, worth hav- ing., Only don't mark time; always ad- vance! Clinched It, Aunt Jane, who was a spinster, came to visit her sister and family of four children. And from the very first auntie was very much given to offer- ing advice to her sister on the way to feed, dress and treat children 'gener- ally. The -,sister listened in pealed - good humor, but not so Sally, her ef- ileient helper, And frankly, 'Sally said no. "Look here, N,iiss Jane.," she be- gafi "What do old maids Like you and me know about raisin' children? We ain't never had none and a person !las to have children to know how to raise therm." Aunt Jane wailed a tolerant senile. "Oh, not always, Sally," she returned. "Nov' take thane little chickeris otit there, Don't you think• you know more than their mother? You feed--"" But Sally interrupted lair. ' "Yes, nia'ares I feed them, if that's what you mean, Put 1 hain't never yit taught any of thein" to scratch—have I?" . r The fastest tronas it the *Ad aye said to be two pan the 'Great Wdetern ItailWay, which ,at eertai.n stages orf: journeys ttrsvei at a speed. of 7t1,0 mules pear hour, Stories of Famous People One pt the most -travelled Hien in the world is Mr, 3, J. Virgo, the world representative of the Y;M.C.A. He has covered over half a millionmiles in every quarter of the globe, and it is bis boast that he has ridden in every type of vehicle known to man, from a motor -car to the primitive carts used in China. 'When I was' twenty-one," he, told the writer, "1 became the general sec- retary of the Y.M•,C.A„ refusing a part- nership in a good firm of accountants to do so. During the war I was na- tional secretary, visiting all the battle- fronts and speaking to two million soldiers. Now I' am going to Aus- tralia to begin another world tour," Mr. Virgo has been in shipwrecks and train smashes, and has had many other narrow escapes from death. * * * * A most nerve-racking journey has just been completed by Professor Sod- dy, of Oxford University, who brought $350,000 worth of radium from Czecho- Siovagia to England. There were two grammes., and dur- ing the journey they had to be guard- ed day and night against robbery. At Munich the train wasfired upon, and a bullet struck the Professor's couch. The largest quautity ever trafport- ed, the radium probably will be pranced temporarily in, Axford University. s * ' A good story is bald about himself by Sir' Arthur Conan Doyle, .the fa,. Maus author of the "Sherlock Hotnses" series of detective stories. "After lecturing in New York," Sir Arthur says, "I read in the papers that `as the author advanced to deliver his lecture, a thrill of disappointment ran through the assembly,' The audience had expected to see a cadaverous - looking person with marks of cocaine Fnjeetions all over him." * * * Just over eighty years ago James Brooke; a young Englishman, left his hone and went abroad. He arrived at Sarawak (Borneo), and in . course of time was proelainied Rajah. For twenty-eight years he.ruled over a ter- ritory comprising 45,000 square miles, and with more than 500,000 popula- tions. The present Rajah, Char•Ies Vyner Brooke, succeeded in 1917, and is worthily carrying on the traditions of the Brookes. He married in 1911 Sylvia, the younger daughter of Lord Fisher. Cured by Fruit. During the Seven Years' War only fifteen hundred sailors and, marines were killed in battle, but the loss from disease was close upon 134,000, and nearly all these died of scurvy. It is only by looking at records such aa these that we can realize what a terrible thing scurvy was to. our fore- fathers. From the sixteenth to the. eighteenth century it was killing its millions all through Europe. It was, indeed, a far greater scourge than yel- low fever or cholera to -day. Nowadays . 'scurvy is almost un- known. nknown. It exists only in very remote mining camps where men are cut off for many months at a time from zation and have to live entirely on tinned or meat food. Scurvy causes, bleeding of the gums and nose. The limbs swell, the teeth fall out, the sufferer collapses and dies. It is now known that scurvy is caused by being deprived of fresh vegetable food, but even people so situated that vegetables are beyond their reach need fear nothing so long as they have plenty of line -juice. I€ was the importation of the lime from the West'Indies into Europe that kilted scurvy. All ships likely to be a long time at sea have to carry lime juice and to allow the men a certain amount. . Indeed, on a whaling ship, or a seal- er, the skipper generally sees to it, personally; that each man takes his "whack" daily. The .lime which is a. small kind of demon, is medicinally the most valu- able fruit in existence. It not only prevents scurvy;. but, if taken in time, cures it; and it will also cure many forms of blood -poisoning, if taken in sufficient quantities. As many es twenty limes a day are sometimes prescribed, and the cures effected are einazing. Choosing Brides for Turks. Marriage in Turkey is a very pro- saic affair, it being in a majority of cases quite a business matter. When a man wishes to wed, his parents ob- tain a list of houses where eligible girls are to be found, aad the mother then calls at these. "What can your daughter do?" she asks., whereupon embroideries, car- pets, rugs, etc., are exhibited as evi- dence . of the girl's handiwork. If these are approved by the mother, she takes the goods home to her sou and induces him to marry the clever young wo- man. If, on the other hands she does not think much of the work, she makes some diplomatic excuse, and passes on to another house on the list. If, however, the young man is not liked by the girl's parents, the mother is advised to seek elsewhere. In Sweden. and Norway, a legal mar- riage at one time was not allowed to be solemnized until both parties had produced certificates stating that they bore genuine vaccination marks. Some of the older houses in Hol- land have two doors, which are used for marriages and deaths only. By. one door the bride and groom enter,.. and through the other they are carried out when dead. Ropes from Bananas. Though Manila rope is not so re- liable as hemp, it is much cheaper, and for certain purposes• it is better. It is used on board ship and in numerous other ways. The name comesfrom the chief town ofethe Philippine Is- lands, where it is made. ' The rope is inade entirely frons the stalks of the leaves of a species of banana These stems contain a coarse, tough fibre which native la- borers extract by hand. When they have been cleaned, dried, and sorted, the fibres are ready to be sent to the factory. It is the fittest of then that make the belt rope; Tho coarser fibres are not sufficiently flex- ible to stand the twisting and bench- ing that must be, endured, Machinery spirts, fTreni into •ti, kind of yarn not unlike coarse wools The neat process, is, to twist several: yawls luta a strand,. Three or four strands are then placed side by side, alid prise - ed through the laying machine, which twists them together into a great rope that will hold a battleship, Eye Items. Thousands can see the same object at the same time. That seems noth- ing extraordinary, yet really it is t miracle! It is only possible because in the wonderful •s`oheme of things an object throws. off from its surface mil- lions of rays in all directions; Each person, according to his position, seizes literally, on one of these rays, and travels along with it, ocularily, to the object. The eye is pained by a sudden light. Why? It is because the nerves• of the eye are hardened with rays before the pupils have had time to contract and- receive ndreceive them. Again, if we have a well -lighted room and go into the street, every- thing seems much .darker than it actually- is. That because the eye pupils, contracted indoors, have not had time to dilate and catch the lesser -rays outside. "Getting used to the dark" is merely waiting for the pupils to dilate. Cats, Owls, and Tigers see in the dark because they have the power of enlarging at will the pupils of their eyes,. and thus collect all the scattered rays of light there are, which are pre sent evenin "darkness." Do we know why we can see oun selves in a mirror? It is not because the mirror is a mirror, but because the rays sof light from our face, strife ing against the glass,, and unable to pass :through itbecause of the "back Mg," are thrown, back again to our eyes. They rebound, in short. Finally, with two eyes we apparent• ly ought to see double, and we do! But the two images fall on the two retinae simultaneously, and are combined in one. There's more in the eye than one would think!! ✓s Can Bees.Tel1 the Time? A French expert declares that bees are able to tell the time. This ingenious Frenchman conduct- ed an interesting experiment. He be. gen by breakfasting in the open-air at seven o'clock, partaking of light pre- serves. Precisely at ten o'clock the table was cleared. At the midday meal iso sweets were served; but at four o'clock in the afternoon there was a light lunch with sweets. Within a week all the bees, in the neighborhood seemed to get wind of what was going on, for they came iu such swarms that they covered the . table, and the meals• had to be served indoors. For weeks the visits of the be 's were as regular as clockwork. They omitted the midday meal because no sweets were served then. Subsequently a jar of jani wa; placed in a window for the first live minutes of every hour during the day, Within a short time 'the bees made hourly visits with such regularity that. the time of day could be judged with - cart reference to a clock. Barbers as "Best Men." In India haircutting seems- to be the least important of a barber's duties. Because of his numerous lines of trade he is in constant deanan.d. On the occasion of e birth the Hindu a barber is the man employed to carry the eventful news to relatives, and at a funeral he shaves the heads of the living—and the dead. The Hindu hairdresser has no shop; and, unlike our barbers, 'he 'displays be poles, signs, or symbols. Ht', can be seen strolling near the bazaars with a small bundle under his arum or carrying a little bag, Ile' bores the girls' ears and noses for the various rings• which are worn,, while he will undertake adniost any surgical operation, Besides births, •. and deaths., he attends marriages. At a wedding this busy barber acts as "best roan," New Canned Foot!. A newly patented kind of ford, put lie ready for the housewife's, instant use is prepared by mixing fine.citoppocl meat with milk end a little flour. The paste thus• formed is filled into melds and exposed to heat, whereby the oon- tents undergo slight ehrinkngo and ac - (Mire a sort of "skin." The an.oldecl masses are thee easily dropped occt, to be thereui3on put intocans, whiCit %re atorilised and set,led.