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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-11-07, Page 7ENGLAND HAS ITS RAT WEEK England went after the rat last week. Rat week was from October 20th to 27th, when, with traps and terriers and ferrets, poison and poison gas, she hoped, if lucky, to destroy one-half or two-thirds of her large and unwelcome rat population. Whatever it is now, it was about 40,000,000 ten years ago; just about one rat for every man, woman and child in the country except the babies under a year old. " And they cost about $5 a head every year. England may have been rich enough in 1909 topend, all that on rats, but she cant afford it. They eat a great deal; they spoil more.. than they eat, and they destroy buildings and all kinds of valuables that are not edible. No very serious attempt to kill them off in towns, country or seaports .has been undertaken recently except at London and Liverpool and one or two other places where the extermina- tion of rats was attempted as a safe- guard to public health. The London port authorities accounted for 1,000,- 000 ,000;000 or so in sixteen years, including those destroyed by fumigating ships entering the Thames and those killed in docks and warehouses. This is but a poor showing against the estimates of possible increase during the years when the nation had mobilized almost fall its grown men for fighting and making munitions, the ratcatchers among them. Some naturalists think England may well have 160,000,000 rats at present. And those who are not so cautious point to the -calcula- tion of the American expert, David Lanz, which shows that asngle pair of rats night have 20,000,000 descend- ants•in nine generations, or two years. There are ,-people who talk about destroying nature's balance and argue that even rats are good for something. Nature's balance was destroyed when LIFE CORNS OR ' • CALLUSES OFF Doesn't hurt! Lift any corn or callus off with fingers . 4 11 Don't suffer! 'A tiny bottle - of Freezone costs but a few cents at any arug store. Apply a few drops on the orns, calluses and "hard skin" on bot- tom of feet, then lift them off. When Freezane removes corns from the toes or cs(lluszs from the bottom of feet, the skin beneath is left pink and healthy and never sore, tender or irritated, those aliens, the black rats, were im- ported from the East at the time of the Crusaders, and the larger, `fiercer brown rat from Sweden in the eight- eenth century. The United States, re- ceived this latter immigrant about 1775, and now he is doing $200,000,000 worth of damage per year, despite the fact that America took serious steps to exterminate rats while Britain was still only grumbling at thein. ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN Servants girls in Japan earn on an average of $1.50 per month. Of 40,000 hotel employees in the United States only 16,000 are women. Wives are granted twice as many divorces as are granted to husbands. A new law in England allows vvo- men to serve as members of juries in all cases. There are more than 375 women's clubs in the Philippine islands. Nearly every woman in Japan shaves but never brush their hair, al- ways using a comb. Nineteen out of every 100 women between the ages of 24 and 35 work for a living. , Between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 -wo- men are eligible to vote at the coin- ing election in England. Saskatchewan, Canada, has for the first time elected a woman to its pro- vincial rovincial legislature:, r - In Rhodesia and British East India "women have recently won their elec- toral rights, which gives them the suffrage. right of ff g London policewomen work seven hours per day and receive at the rate of $10 per week. The avergae daily wage of women workers in Germany has increased 263 per cent. since 1914. Esther Devilin and Alice Troski, two Wilkes-Barre (Pa). girls, have accepted jobs as hodcarriers. ` Mrs. Margaret A. Walston., of Jack- sonville, Fla., is -the only woman in the world who makes rosin types. Mrs. Melvin A. Paterson, the only` woman justice of peace in Michigan, has just disposed of her 50th case, Of the 40,000,000 women in Italy, 3,000,000 are in agriculture, 3,000 in mines and 200,000 in industries. Since the war ended, Sweden, Ger- many, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia have extended the franchise to wo- men. In Groversville,' N. Y., where 97 per cent. of the total output of gloves for the United States is manufactured, one-half of the employees are women. Lady " MacKenzie is now in this country making arrangements for an expedition to East Africa, - where she will explore the Tana river. Miss C. P. Disney, claimed to be the fastest female swimmer in Great Britain, is now in this country, where she expects to compete in swimming contests. Emma R. Steiner is the only woman in the world who has successfully adopted as a profession the direction of opera, handling orchestras com- posed of men in the entirely. The first woman to ascend in a heavier than air machine was Mme. Serch Poltier, a French sculptress, who made an ascent at Turin in 1906. Mrs. Cornelia Adair, who owns a 500,000 acre ranch in Texas, is rated as the world's greatest ranchwoman. She is now past 82 years of age, but still maintains all her business facul- ties. . Miss Ethel Terrell, recently ap- pointed country -superintendent of RV PURIFYiW4 TF E EiLoQD TREAM If You Have High Brood Pressure You Must be Careful ! When the Blood Pressure is much above normal, there is always the danger of the rupture of a blood vessel, most frequently in the Brain and pro- ducing a stroke, or in the S,idneys, producing Bright's Disease. Don't worry about it, just be careful and guard against over-exertion and excite- ment, take-. 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Stones are often caused by Gall Stones, and mislead people until those bad attacks of Gall Stone Colic appear. Not one : in ten Gall Stone Sufferers knows what is the trouble. Marlatt's Specific will cure 'without pain or open. ation. For ale at all druggists. Reco mended by E. Umbach ruggiat, $eaf,.rth, Ont J.W. MARLATT&iO 561 ONTARIO ST, TORONTO a ONT. public instruction in Buncombe county, N. Ci ' the first woman inthat state e to hold -'such a position.. - Two-thirds of the police force in Petrograd arewomen, allof whom g wear long blue coats and dresses with a badge on the right arm showing the letter G, patrols in couples and carry loaded rifles. A Swiss milkmaid with a musical singing voice obtains better wages than one who gannot sing, as the cow that is soothed with a pleasing melody /during milking, it is' said, yield one- fifth more milk. In New Zealand, one of the oldest full suffrage countries in the world, women are not yet after 26 years eli- gible for parliament, although they are now pressing a bill to give them parliamentary eligibility. - Invitation to attend the first inter- national congress of working women ever held have been cabled by the woman's Trade Union League of America to 34 similar organization throughout the world. Nearly seven per cent. of all Ger- many's legislators are women. " One hundred and fifty-three women are sitting in German parliaments. The heaviest representation is thirty-seven in the national assembly and there are twenty-one in the Prussian as- sembly. - The women• brought into German's industrial life as war workers have been returning so rapidly to domestic- ity that the ration between the num- ber of women and the number of men now employed is nearly normal. Mrs. E. M. 1Pridmore, of Chicago, was the only 'woman among the 2.000 executives of foundries, engineers and representatives of metal indus- tries, who took part in the 24th an- nual convention of the American Foundrymen's assocaition. She runs a large foundry, equipment plant in Chicago and employes hundreds of men. Miss Mary B. Jenkin , of Bath, Me., is getting ready to gather the first crop of cotton ever grown in Maine. Miss Jenkins planted the cotton as an experiment to find out whether cotton could be grown in New England. The Woman's Medical college . of Philadelphia, the first institution of its kind in the world for women and still the only one in the United States, is again a pioneer in the new work it is taking up this fall in offering a course in preventive medicine. According to reports' of an American officer just arrived at Paris from 'Archangel chemist shops at that city are openly selling poison to many young women who declare that they would rather die than fall into the hands of the Bolsheviks. The British Ministry of Labor has established a free training school for girls who have been dispossessed of lucrative positions in munitions .fac- tories. The length -Of the course varies from two to six months, according to the trade or business which the girls select. Miss Hannah J. Patterson, of Pitts- burgh, Pa., who achieved a national reputation for her organizations of the women's activities of the Council of National Defense during the war, has been appointed assistant to the secretary of war. Miss Patterson- is the first woman to hold this position. Miss Josephine C. McCracken is the oldest newspaper woman in the United States. At the age of '.eighty she still gathers news for a daily newspaper at Santa Cruz, Cal. She has also gained a national reputation for her untiring efforts in the protection of birds. Miss May Pershing, sister of Gen- eral John J. Pershing, has been nam- ed sponsor for the Capitol of Nebras- ka 5,000 ton steel steamer 'which will be launched by the Mobile Shipbuild- ing Company late this month. The total number of women work- ing °on railroads on July lst was 82,294, most of them in clerical posi- tions, as compared with 86,519 on April 1st and 99,700 at the beginning of the year. The Southern Rice Growers' As- sociation has sent Mrs. Mary A. Hayes to London to take charge of its office there. Miss Hayes is thoroughly .con- versant with every phase of rice grow- ing. NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE Some of Poland's coal mines have been worked for more than a century. Corks steeped in vaseline can be use 1 in many cases where glass ones 'ones are desired." Germany has more than 500 music ORM WINDOWS &DOORS CVFS to snit your !J opt. Flues with plass. Safe do- livery guaranteed. 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British patents cover a new process for making seamless metal boats at less costs than, wooden ones. All but ten states in the United States have laws controlling the " fit- ting of glasses for- the eyes. Mail is being carried regularly by areoplane between the Swiss cities of Berne, Zurich and Lausanne. A clockwork motor inside a new decoy duck makes it1 swim slowly a- bout and emit the call of living birds. The South African government is considering the establishment of uni- versities at Cape Town and Pretoria. Its inventor has patented a billiard cue contained an a short tube, from which it is propelled by a spring. The apple is Finland's only impor- e NOVEMBER 7, 919 tent fruit tree, but pears, cherries and plums are also grown in the open, To welcome persons entering busi- ness offices, a Chicago inventor has patented a doorlob formed like a hand. Wireless stations powerful enozgh to communicate with points 3,000 miles distant will be erected in Indo- China. For thawing coal frozen in steel cars a kerosene burner that cart be placed directly under a ear has been invented. Deposits of lignite,. similar to the brown coal of Germany, but of less heating value, have been discovered in Denmark, An inventor has patented an office chair on wheels that ' can be moved with- a slight push and stopped with a foot brake. In Mount Sangary, South America, has the most active volcano in the world, as it has been in constant er- uption since 1728. • A removable automobile seat has been patented to enable touring mo - torists to rest outside their cars when they stop en route. Potassium salts have been found in the brine of certain Chinese salt wells, of which they are more than 1,000 in one locality. Added to the list of motor farm implements is a tractor binder, the motor that moves it about also operat- ing the binding machinery. An .irrigation dam being built on the Murray river in Australia will be 94 feet high and will impound 1,000,- 000 ,000;000 acre-feet of water. An indexed case designed for cheeks or papers of similar form has- hinged ends that are lifted to afford easy access to its contents. Hydroplanes will be used in a pro- posed passenger service that will link INCORP0RPTED 1855 MOLSONS BANK CAPITAL AND RESERVE $8,800,000 OVER 100 BRANCHES The Molsons Bank is ,ready to advise merchants, manufacturers and farmers how to finance their requirements. SAVINGS DEPARTMENTS AT EVERY BRANCH. BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT Brucefield St. Marys Kirkton Exeter Clinton Eensall Zurich several Swiss cities that are located on the sourceof lakes. Brazil has appointed a commission ta study and recommend uniform types of equipment and material to be used on the government owned railways. ° Oraaolaie yelids; Y our Eras inflamedby expo- sure to Oak Dot sad inad quickly relieved by Marla E es a►•n..ay. 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