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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-07-04, Page 7am. PLAYS ORGAN AT 75 YEARS dere.tior .Above M1 Things Takes irauschen to Keep Rheumatism Away Writingto tell hew she keeps her Activity, lis wonderful old woman states:— "My viands were becoming f•, o. crippled that I had to give up piano and organ playing.:: and almost en.. tirely- gave up knitting. I have been. tlsin:g Kruschen Salts for nearly twat years, and am very pleased with the lfesuit. Last August I played two `' !lurch services-. on the organ, and dope to do so again, this August. My riingers are nearly straight, and 'quite supple, and I am 75, I have recommended Kruschen Salts to rnany people."—A. A. C. ( The six mineral salts of Kruschen have a direct effect upon the whole bloodstream, neutralizing uric add, which is the recognised cause of rheumatism. They also restore the eliminating organs to proper work \ing order, and so ,prevent constipa- tion, thereby checking the further formation of uric acid and other body poisons which undermine the health. Gs Direct. From Coal Mine Experiments Made By Soviet Engineers ullY sixty years ago the Russian emist Mendelyev predicted the pining of the day when gas would e, generated at or in the coal mine nd piped hundreds of miles to cities. :ores of imaginative teohnicians re eated the proposal. Among them ire such lights as the late Sir Wil- lain Ramsay and Z, Ferranti, Undeterred by what they regard as technical bugaboos and unhampered by the vested interest of gas comp- anies (most Russian cities know notal- ing of coal gas as a domestic or in- dustrial fuel), the Soviet engineers are boldly` pioneering in a field in which there has been more talk than action. Experiments have been con - (meted since 1926 both in the Kusnetz region in Central . Russia and in the Vauseasus. So far as this commentator can gather from the available literature, the first efforts completely satisfied the "1 told you so" skeptics. Smoke came out of the mine, but even when it was cleaned, the product bore no reeemblance to coal gas. Then an engineer named Grindler appeared. For two years he has been at work in the Kusnetz area. To him must go the credit of having made the first promising experiments. W ti Y You golf my man You fish and hunt. Sport news you scan From back to front, You Iike this life With thrills so rife, Let's add iho strife; But why this. wife? * * * The theme song of the ambitious young man who marries a girl with a Ijob is: "It all depends on you." * • Barber:—Shall I go over it again? Victim: -No; I heard it all the first * * * more intelligent than soon as they land in they set up a howl. * 4* * Where are those pap- ` time. Babies are you think, as (this old world Hero:—Cur! ers? {Villian:—They smith's. Hero:—I-Ia! So you're having forged? Villian:—No, I'm ed. Robert A. Thieme, celebrates his 103rd birthday by looking over pictures and marriage licenses of the fifteen wives he outlived. He says he owes longevity to moderation. are at the black - RIPLEY ASTONISHES AN EDITOR. WITH TALE OF BOOK RETURNED - (From the Hamilton Spectator) The other day the encyclopaedic Ripley astonished his readers with an account of a borrowed book returned after 50 years. We all remember our school days when we used to write on the flyleaf of even detested vol- umes: "Steal not this book for fear of shame for here you see the own- er's name"—an impressive admoni- tion, not always effective. Book -lovers who read the Ripley item would be glad to get back books, even after 50 years. For they know from sad ex- perience how hard it is to lay hands on books loaned in weak or generous moments to certain individuals, What book -lover has not given a favorite volume to an acquaintance, never ti see it again! In his eager- ness to tlhare a treasure, the unso- phisticated bibliophile parts with it readily. He meets the acquaintance again and asks him how he likes it. "O.K.!" is the reply. `0I am just half way through the first chapter?' That,. indeed, is a as far as borrower and lender ever get. The book is always to be, but never is, read. The bor- rower is always so busy. The lender eventually comes to the conclusion that his enthusiasm for -a favorite author has cast a mo- mentary spell upon the borrower. And the possession of the book, alas, has broken it! So after several polite at- tempts to induce the borrower to re- turn the volume read or unread, pre- ferably read, the lender resigns him- self to fate. He gives up all thought of possessing his own copy, or goes out and buys another. Only the sec- ond never, somehow has the charm of the first. •It 'is not easy to deal with the would-be book borrower. If you put him off, he returns like a boomerang. Try to interest hint in something you do not greatly value and he sees through your subterfuge in a moment. He seems to have been brought up on these patent medicine advertise- ments which warn us to accept no substitutes. The only way to deal with these people — and the bibliophile, after bitter experience, gets to know them by instinct — is to tell them gently, but firmly, that you. are going to re -read the book—which is true, else there would be no sense in keep- ing it—and refer them to the admir- able facilities of the public library. They may be disappointed and even suspect you. for they cannot imagine any one wishing to re -read a book. them having them ill-. * * * Editing a paper without ruffling" anybody's feelings is like fishing with- out a hook on your line you get eta of recreation but no results. * * * Old Neighbor (ignorant of nation- ality of his neighbor) : A. deplorable ,sign of the' times is the way the Eng- ilish language is being polluted by the 'alarming inroads of American slang. iDo you not agree? His Neighbor:—You ed a bibful, mister. * * * Most of the girls are moved to !tears when the housemaid quits and their mother has to do all the work. * * * Wife (on honeymoon):—Do you re- member our first meeting? Hubby (a dentist) :—Shall I ever forget it? That heavenly afternoon (when we were together for two hours land I extracted two of your darling !little teeth! sure slobber- * * * Nothing makes a fellow feel so good as the nice things they say about him after he's dead and gene! * * * Sambo:—Liza, you remind me fo' all de world of brown sugar! Liza:—How come, Sambe? Sambo:—You am so' sweet 'unrefined, and so Which suggests why they do not re- turn the books they borrow. They do not value them! With the true book -lover as box rower, the case is different. He has a fellow -feeling for you. He kngws how he feels about his books. Be re- turns your volume promptly and in good condition. But it is not always easy to distinguish the Philistine. Hence ttbere is always a tendency for a literary group to become a secret society. * * * June:—Has she a perfectly good !husband? Bess: Yes; she is a widow. * * * Man is just like the old-fashioned hour-glass—he is no earthly good without some sand, * * * Frances:—That romantic Miss Pas- seigh says there is a secret connect- ed with her birth, Mabel:—That's true—it's. the date. * ** The only fellow sure these days of !the place he has to fill in the world is the dentist, Revenue For May Shows Decrease Ottawa. — Customs and excise. revenue was down $2,627,590 for May, as compared with. the corresponding month in 1934. The figures were re- leased recently by the Department of National Revenue. The totals were $19,915,361 for last month. and $22,542,952 in May, 1934. Against this decrease, however, was - an in- crease of $14,947,917 in income tax returns., The total increase in income tax revenue for the two months of the present fiscal year was $14,508,815, and the decrease in customs and ex- cise was $2,133,987. * * * ' Warden:—We must set you to work. What can you da? Forger: --Give me a week's pract- ice and I will sign your checks for you, AN= a FE end Falling Hair, neo Min- ard'e exactly as you would any hair tonic. Do this 4 9 flukes, a :week and the result will be Clem Head and Glossy Hair Diversion Of Thames River Is Approved London, Ont.. .Diversion.of, Thames River in the vicinity of Tra- falgar street to its old channel to eliminate the existing sharp curve and the erosion at the foot of Front street, has been approved by the un- employed relief branch as a relief work project. Official notice has been received from Toronto. The council must next obtain sanction of the On- tario Railway and Municipal Board to authorize the expenditure estima- ted at $26,000. The board will sit here shortly to validate other relief work costs totalling $700,000, and it is likely the diversion project will be brought up at the same time along with the new $20,000 program for storm sew- ers and street improvements. ;EXPERIMENTS IN KUSNETZ In Kusnetz, gas coal of high qual- ity is found at a depth of 90 to 100 feet, Grindler sankr;two shafts sixty feet apart to a seam seventeen feet thick. Then through the coal he dug a rectangular tunnel six and a half feet high and five feet wide to con- nect the two shafts. It was not a straight tunnel, but shaped like half a pentagon. Compressors forced air down one shaft and fang sucked out the products of combustion from the other. For a month Grindler saw only smoke coming out. But he let the coal burn. Eventually the tempera- ture rose so high that neighboring strata were heated. Just what he wanted, The tunneled vein and the surrounding rock and clay were now a gigantic underground retort, At last gas came off—real coal gas. It was poor. Only 600 to 1,500 cal- ories to the cubic meter. The next month its heating value rose to 2,- 000 ;000 to 2,400 calories to the cubic me- ter. Grindler piped it to the furnace of a boiler and raised steam with en- couraging results. As the steam con- tinued to burn, gas with a heat value of about 5,000 calories to the cubic meter' cameo out of the mine—good enough to burn in the kitchen. But t3 Ail' the quality be maintained? No ono- . ows as yet. A.L1T'e-oF_.THE.:.G11{S- 'Pour distinct zones' can be deline- ated in the underground retort, The first is a furnace. The products of combustion are carbon dioxide, car- bou monoxide and hydrogen—a sort of producer gas which has a temper- ature of about 1,000 degrees F. 1n the second zone coke is formed at a temperature of about 1,200 to 1,800 degree F. The gas generated is large- ly methane of high calorific value. From the third zone comes a gas poor in hydrogen. In the last zone the coal is simply dried, In the Caucasus entirely different experiments are being conducted. The coal is ground—an expensive pro- ceeding. To raise the tempef attire the air pumped into the seam is en- richedwith oxygen. Sometimes the oxygen is omitted• and the pressure increased. The Soviet engineers frankly ad- mit that they have by no means solv- ed a fascinating but exceedingly dif- ficult problem and that they have en- countered the predicted obstacles. It is hard, for example, to adjust pro- duction automatically to suit the de- mand, hard to evaluate the part play- ed by moisture in the nine, hard to 'purify wli.at gas is obtained, hard to Some men Iook their age, and some don't—but a woman almost always overlooks hers. Met IhIpers for. flooklet Jg.f�roA. ave. �t,�fk� FARM FLASHES Canada is one of the few countries which is in a position to increase her exports to Great Britain, owing in part to the quota of imports allotted to her, and the import quota and re- strictions applying to foreign coun- tries. Canada supplies New Zealand with some of the stoups used both for measuring the usual half -globe por- tions of ice cream and for rectangu- lar portions to be inserted between wafers. Canadian exports to the Irish Free State in 1934 showed an increase in 1933. In view of the recent legisla- tion of the Free State restricting the imports of flour and encouraging the home production of flour from Irish wheat, it is antipicated that there will be 'a substantial demand in the future for Canadian hard wheat for blending, A judicious use of flowers Is urg- ed by the Quebec Tourist Bureau to make rural hotels even more attrac- tive, since there is nothing so rest- ful as beds of flowers in front of and around buildings in both town 011147,and ulil'1''. Canada exported to all parts of the world during the month of March, 1935, farm machinery and implem- ents to the value of $412,199, Includ- ed in the exports were 1,859 dozen spades, shovels and parts; 8,933 disc harrows and parts; 3,434 disc har- rows; 656 cultivators; 529 harvesters and binders 216 mowing machines, and 81 hay rakes. The value of these exports for the 12 months ended March, 1935, amounted to $3,567,25S. A sharp reduction of eight per cent, in Canada in potato acreage for 1p35 ia indicated, according to el - dal estimates... This reduction would bring,the 1935 area in potatoes back: to the .0.493 level, The main re- duoti<hts• die In tl, provinces of Nova Scotia, Newgu • ns !ok, p, Prin Ed- ward ward Island; ebet3and Ontario. By way of ;trial and error the road to progress on sound lines would be found, he declared. "Whatever its faults and draw- backs, the present unplanned system represents the slow growth of human endeavor through the centuries, and under the impetus of personal initia- tive and personal freedom it has within a short space of human hist- ory made a four -fold increase in the standard of living," he said. Old Advertising Agency Makes Change In Name Announcement is made in the On- tario Gazette that the change of name of The Press Bureau Limited to The Ardiel Advertising Agency Lim- ited has been sanctioned by the Lieutenant -G overnor. Durnig the past five years Mr. Lorne Ardiel has been the President of the agency, utilizing his wide knowledge of Canadian markets, dis- tribution and business conditions to enhance the type of service given to the Company's clients. Gain is S Town y Holsteins More Exported This Year, Byron Jenvey Tells Breeders Sons Loquitoei e Suggestions For Control Much interesting information was given by Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomilogist, at the recent annual meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association on the notable work of the Entomological Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture in mosquito control in Canada, As in years past, the offi- cers of the entemological service have assisted materially in advertising and directing various eanp'7aignss in co-op- „eration. v +l ,,nnr'icipa1 ... o vie:. ander otkher authorities throughout Canada, These entomologists have not only evolved practical methods of control and extermination, but also numerous effective repellents for use under all sorts of conditions. Ten repellents which have proved their efficacy since their introduction a few years ago were mentioned by Mr. Gibson as having been again subjected to a series of comparative tests by offi- cers of the Branch. Following the tests the repellents were classified as follows: (1) Those which may be used on tender skin; (a) Dunn's No. 1-011 of citronella, 3 ounces; spirits of cam- phor, 1 ounce; oil of tar. 1 ounce; oil of pennyroyal, 3,4 ounce; castor on, 4 to 6 ounces. (b) Bacot and Talbot's No. 4 (fumes troublesome to eyes); oil of eucalyptus, 2 ounces; liquid carbolic acid, 4 drops; oil of citronella, 2 ounces; castor oil, 3 ounces, (c) Dunn's No. 4 (fumes trouble- some to eyes); gum camphor, 3 ounces; salol, 3 ounces; petrolatum, 4 ounces. (d) Howard's No. 2-011 of lavend- er 1 ounce; alcohol, 1 ounce; castor oil, 1 ounce. (2). Those which may be used on may bite: (a) Bacot and Talbot's NO, 1-011 of cassia, i. ounce; caenpho*, ated oll 2 ounces; vaseline, 3 ouneas, Farming denten A Just one hundred years ago the first drain -tile laid in North Ameri. can farmland was placed on a farm near the city of Geneva, N.Y. In 1821, for some unknown rea- son, a young Scot named John John- ston bought this cold, wet clay farm, which, tradition says, was worn and poor when he bought it. lois grand- father had taught him early that "all the airth needs draining," and he resolved to try tile drains known in the "Old Country" but not in the new. The neighbors laughed and pre - dieted his doom, . but Mr. Johnston ordered some tiles from Scotland, which reached New York harbor on the night of the memorable fire in 1835. A curious lot of onlookers came to see then!. Everyone was skeptical. How could water get into them? How could it overcome the pressure of air at the outlet?, They would freeze. They would crush. They night poison the land. But Mr. Johnston buried his crock- ery in the ground out of sight. The experiment was a success, and he sent to Scotland for patterns and had tiles made by hand. In 1848, a neighbor, John Delafield, imported a tile machine from Eng- land and from that time tile -drain- ing progressed rapidly. By 1851 Mr. Johnston had laid six- teen miles of tile on his own farm, and by 1856 more than fifty-one piles. He used the horseshoe tiles, the style at the time, to the last, and did not favor. deep ditches. Thereon G. Yoemans, of Walworth, in an ad- joining country^-- was- -soon attrseted by Mr. Johnston's success, and these three men zealously spread the gos- pel of tile drains, with the success that everyone today appreciates. — Brockville Recorder, get out the coke left in the mine. The the arms of where the skin is less nide control to which chemists of a tender—(a) Dunn, s No. 2-011 of cit - city gas plant are accustomed dis- cone!!(, 2 ounces; castor oil 2 ounces; apjiears. oil of pennyroyal 1-5 ounce; (b) How- ard's No. 1 (greasy)=oil of citron- ella, 1 ounce; oil of camphor, 1 ounce; spirits of camphor, 1 ounce; oil of cedar ?2 ounce; (c) Dunn's No. 3 (dirty)—oil of tar 2 ounces; castor oil, 2 ounces; oil of pennyroyal, 1-5 ounce. (3) TJiose which may be applied to clothing through which mosquitoes S es Ca nod Going Ahs -ad More Abiding Prosperity Forseen By C. M. A.'s New President Hamilton,—"A great advance has already been made from the depths of the depression and with the re- sources of Canada and the enterprise Windsor,—When the Essex Coun. and industry of her citizens, we have every reason to anticipate a contin- tY Holstein Breeders' Association held a field day at Walker Farm, Walkerville, Byron. Jenvey, of Inger- soll, Holstein fieldmatc for Ontario, announced that there was a decided increase .in the number of Holsteins registered this year, and also that more Holsteins had bedn exported this year than for some •t nie past, L. P. Wigle, 1VI.L.A., and prominent .,,, Holstein breeder in the'' county, also spoke. Other .speakers were; Angus MCKenney, agricultural represents.. tive, and S. Riddick, manager of Walker Farms. ued advance towards a more abiding Prosperity," declared Wilson S. Mor- den, K.C., Toronto, newly elected • pre.. sjdent of the Canadian Manufactur- es's' Association !hese recently, ..It to mechanical 'improve- 'nts, he said the remedy was not return to hand labor, Issue No. 26 ."—. Classified Advertising TIBE AND BICYCLE n,ARG,AINS 7 UP; BICYCLES $10 UP, TRANS - par to.tion RANS- parta.tion paid. Free catalogue. Toronto Tire, 155 Dundas West, To- ronto. THREE FREE PRIZES A framed landscape water color painting by Giff Baker. Valued at $10.00. 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