The Brussels Post, 1960-03-17, Page 3Pet Monkey Made
Owner Live. In Cage
Tile ttledergrade gaped when
the new Man arrived, Yee out
Qt his coach were unloaded not
just a few suitcases but, cage af-
ter cage oe live animals, in fact,
a mall tool
seholar and animal
lover, Frank Buckland soon
found that his rooms at Oxford's
Christ Church were far too, em'aill
to house such a varied collection
so he took over half the court-
yard,
Apart from Jockq, his pet mon-
key, there were marmots, guinea
pigs, squirrels, dormice, n.umer-
ous snakes, tortoises, tree frogs,
a chameleon and an eagle. As a
treat these were all in turn
"invited up" to his rooms for
a few hours' freedom,
Had the cages been secure,
Oxford would probably have be-
come reconciled to its unusual
guests, but Frank's pets proved
extremely skillful at breaking
bounds and he soon got used to
receiving frantic messages beg-
ging him to collect one or an-
other of them from its latest es-
capade,
One morning the marmot had
taken possession of the Chapter
House just before the Chapter
was due to meet; and on another-
occasion the eagle stationed it-
self in the chapel doorway, at-
tackirg everyone who approach-
ed and preventing them from en-
tering.
Far 'from being embarrassed
by the notoriety which his ani-
mal friends brought him, that
autumn of 1844, Frank acquired
a young bear on which he be-
stowed the rather unusual name
Tiglath Pilesner — Tig for short.
Tig soon became one of Oxford's
great characters.
Everywhere Frank went Tig
went, too, correctly dressed in
cap and gown! He was to be seen
at parties as well as boating on
the river. When the British As-
sociation met in Oxford, Tig
went along in full academic dress
to see what he could make of
the learned debates.
Tig's popularity, however, did
not extend to the college authori-
ties who were not very happy
about the prospects of being
mauled by a now 'fast growing
and very powerful young bear.
So one morning Frank had an
urgent summons from the Dean.
"Mr. Buckland, " the Dean began,
"I hear you keep a bear in col-
lege. Well, either you or your
bear must go!"
And so the bear went, but not
too far away. Buckland had
friends at Islip, who rashly ag-
reed to take in Tig, not realizing
what a handful he was. With Tig
also went the eagle, which had
recently disgraced itself again by
suddenly appearing at morning
communion in the chapel.
Tig, however, had no intention
of submitting to complete cap-
tivity. All kinds of cages and the
most ingenious locks were tried,
but to keep him shut up seemed
virtually impossible. Within a
few clays each new cage or erten
new lock had been mastered, and
the whole surrounding country-
aide soon learned to fear his next
sudden appeararie
On one occasion he found his
way into a neighbour's stables
and panicked the horses, and on
another he appeared in the kit-
chen and ate a leg of lamib the
cook was roasting while she bar-
ricaded herself in the scullery
and •screamed for help.
At last Frank's frierids decided
they could no longer be held
responsible for Tig's behaviour,
so he reluctantly ageeed • that
Tig must go to the zoo where
there were cages strong enough
rito defeat even his ingenuity.
In later life Frank Buckland
became one of the most distin-
guished and best knoWn natural-
ists of his day, and built up a
great reputation as the Inspector
of Fisheries fot England and
NEW and used tractor parts, tractor.
tires. New-used Caterpillar parts. Low
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Tractor Supply, Lincoln, Nebraska.
TREES FOR SALE
PINE & SPRUCE SEEDLING
BEST quality seedlings, transplants,
ornamentals, shade trees Price list,
end Planting Guide on request, Miss
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Ontario,
ACAPULCO - MEXICO .
ECONOMICAL efficiency beach units,
bungalows, pool, shopping and house-
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Marbrisa, Box 345, Acapulco. Mexico,
ISSUE - 1960
SUMMER PROPERTIES FOR SALE
MUSKOKA Lakes, summer lodges Or
sale. $12,000 to $55,000 Inquiries in-
vited, Francis J. Day, matter, R. S.
Pfrumter, Port Carling, Ont Psh, 84.
VACATION RESORTS
PORT Elgin, Ont, 3-room housekeeping'
cottages, Mrs. Rowse, 170013 Dorchester'
Dr„ Cleveland 19, Ohio,
WINTER RESORTS
sees '
ryt.
PENSIONER with over ten years sere
ice in medical and administrative posi-
tions as a Staff Member of the United
Nations seeks light 5-day week em
ployment on reasonable minimum sal
ary as drug store clerk, or office clerk
drafting and typing routine corres-
pondence, or microscopist and clinical
laboratory assistant, or medical rec-ords librarian, Wining to Undertake
other ,iobs requiring high sense of res.
ponsibility and exactitude. Write Box
206, I21-10 Street„ New Toronto, Ont
that even "a small percentage"
of the pending $3 billion in road
money could do much to ease
the commuter problem if appli-
ed to rail transit,
The Philadelphia story on this
angle of the matter is of course
well past the talking stage. May-
or Dilworth and his associates
have worked out plans in which
two big railroads join to bring
commuters into town at easy
rates with the help of a city
subsidy. He cites studies, by both
the American Association of
Railroads and the American
Municipal Association which
provide arguments in behalf of
Federal subsidy for mass transit
in many metropolitan areas.
Now careful people will snap
at once to an on-guard posture
at any talk of new Federal sub-
sidies., Moreover, problems and
solutions in New York and Phil-
adelphia to some extent will be
peculiar to those areas and riot
applicable elsewhere. But on one
or two elementals there will be
general agreement and out of
these elomentals certain conclu-
sions inexorably proceed. One
such elemental is that to carry
one man downtown in a vehicle
built and costeci to carry six is
a highly uneconomic proposition,
Especially when you figure in
the damage to downtown and
countryside inflicted by build-
ing the super-highway which
the one man in the six-man car
requires.—Baltimore Sun,
"What's the use of a timetable
when the trains are always late?"
"What's the tise of Waiting
rooms if they're not?"
MERRY IVVENAGERIE
VIA It Ii IMO*
BABY CHICKS , .
LET Bray have your April broiler
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or write Bray Hatchery, 110 ,ioen
North, Hamilton, Ont,
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MOBILE refreshment service, 3 pan-
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etc, Servicing factories, garages, etc.
On established routes, Books open for
Inspection. Asking $13,500, half down.
O'Connor & O'Connor Realtors, 73A,
Lindsay St., South Lindsay, Ont.
TURKEYI The Near East! OPportuni-
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fields that are open. Please send $1,00
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BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR SALE
GROCERY business with residence at.
tached in village, 30 miles from. Kitch.
ener, Box 207, 123-18 Street, New Tor.
onto, Ont.
COINS
WE PAY MORE NOW!
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FARMS FOR SALE
100 acre farm near Russell. Good house
and buildings. Modern conveniences.
More acreage, convenient, to rent,
Priced right, Spring occupancy, Robt.
Morrice, R.R. 2, Russell, Ont.
oNE THOUSAND POUND -
MILK CONTRACT
GOES with this farm plus 50 head of
grade and pure bred holstein milking
cows; milking parlor with 6 stalls. This
select dairy farm has 175, workable
acres; is on a paved highway between
St. Thomas and London', has two mod-
ern houses with baths, basements, and
oil furnaces. It has two silos, two im-
plement sheds, chicken house, piggery,
surge milker, coolers, water bowls. The
barn will handle 90 head and is nearly
new. The price is only $75,000 with
$25,000 down and one mortgage for
the balance. It's the first time this
farm has been offered and it's exclu-
sive with Al Sinnott, 301 St. George
St., London; phone General 4-6819. Call
or write today for full particulars,
Brokers' cooperation invited.
EMPLOYMENT WANTED
SELF-.SERVE grocery a n d meats,
Brighton village, population 2300, Com.
letely equipped, Rent. $22.00 mo. Price
5,000 plus stock.
BEAUTY Parlour, town Trenton, point.
lation 13,000 plus Air Force. Ultra
modern equipment, apartment even
able. Price $2650, terms.
Collette & Whitley, Realtors,
Trenton, Ontario,
MODERN CHICKEN RANCH
MAIN building 130' x 36', completely
automatic feeding, watering and egg
gatherer, capacity 4,600 layers, range
houses, brooder house, small barn on
5 acres land, Comfortable 2-bedroom
house., 3-plece bath, ample water sup-
ply, between Essex and Leamington,
Reasonably priced for quick sale,
EARL BURSTYN, REALTOR
PRospect 6-6377 Essex, Ont. A Passion For
Pinhead Art
Except for a tiny spot of colour
on the head, the pin that Jules
Charbneau held up to the mag-
nifying glass looked like any
other he might have fished out
of the huge oak desk in his San
Francisco ofaic e.• B u t seen
through the glass, Charbneates
pin became transformed. There,
on the head, was a full-blown
portrait of Abraham Lincoln,
complete with wing collar, black
tie, beard, and mournful expres-
sion.
"This was done by an artist
in Ecuador," explained Charb-
neau last month. "To keep his.
arm and body steady, he prac-
ticed yoga and for a brush he
plucked a hair from his own
arm. However," continued the
76-year-old ant appraiser, "he's
not going to paint any more like
it because his eyes have gone
bad, Another miniaturist, a man
who lives in Buenos Aires, went
completely blind after doing
eight portraits on heads of
pins."
As he spoke, the paunchy
Charbneau, who owns one of the
world's outstanding collections
of miniature and subminiature
art, peon pulling Lilliputian
objects from his pockets. From
one came a seven-piece solid-
gold coffee service which he held
between the thumb and forefin-
ger of one hand. From another
came an exquisite French cameo
which showed a pastoral wood-
land scene no bigger than an
almond, and an ivory plaque
on which som e 800 Chinese
characters were engraved on a
11/2 by 3/4 -inch area
Among the other items in
Oharbneau's collection of 33,000
miscroscopic objects are an In-
dian basket a bit larger than a
grain of sand; pictures of Queen
Elizabeth, Pope Pius XII, and
Windsor Castle done on a sesame
seed; 200 elephants carved out
of ivory with a rat's tooth, so
small that they all fit into a'
cherry pit; a rifle and pistol
that fire minuscule ammunition;
and a 3 by 4-inch tortoise-shell
box. When the filigree lid is
opened, a bird with natural fea-
thers pops out and flaps its
wings while a ,miniature pipe
organ plays a little song.
Charbneau's favourite item;
however, is a tiny piece of
etched glass which contains his
name, address, and the Lord's
Prayer. "The 204 , letters cover
an area the size of a needle
point," said Charbneau. "Using
.the same ratio, you could put
the entire 3,566,480 letters of the
Bible into a space 1/49 of an,
inch square, I think it's the fin-
est example, of microscopic writ-
ing in the world."
Although he earns his living
as a professional appraiser,
Charbneau -refuses to be pinned
down on a value for his collec-
tion, Most of which is housed
iii an H-bomb-prod/ Vault that
he had. built in an unused fail
road tunnel near San Ftariciethe
beck in 1053. "Just say I've• got
the world'e largest," he coyly`
tells his questioners'.„ Whatever
value it inay have, hartinedifil
deflection Of microscopic tree--
itites *111 probably wind NO' sic
one al the main attractions in
San Francisco's PolaCe of Fin*
;Arts When that ugly old Wild-
ing ie. refierbisaied Wee yoaro
/aerie,.
Obi*. the 1001111 lithe *Ind,
are laded*here ler
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LIVESTOCK
FOR Sale. Jersey Bulls, 18 and eleven
months old from classified and R.0,1,
Dams. M. S. Jones, Woodslee, Ontario.
FOR Sale. Registered Galloway Bulls,
ready for service. Excellent for cross-
breeding, an ideal type for the North,
Garfield D. Bowers, R.R. 1, North
Cobalt, Ont. Phone: Cobalt 3026.
CHATSWORTH. LODGE JERSEYS
ONTARIO'S highest producing Jersey
herd Young sires from some of Can.
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and reasonably priced. Don Matthews.
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Welsh mares, 24 American Dapple
ponies, 20 terrific registered palomino
ponies, plus a great assortment of Lund.
coloured Welsh and Shetland type
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Friday, March 25 Entries close March
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sale and get into the fabulous puny
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TEACHERS WANTED
PROTESTANT teacher wank :A for SR
No, 1 Maryborough (Lebanons
ton County. Duties to commence in
September, 1960. Salary from $3,4 00
$3,700 for experienced qualified isasti-
er, Reply giving details to Roy Bid-
dolls, sec-treas. 'A.R. 3, Listovel, Ont.
Phone Moorefield 3217._
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TRACTORS FOR SALE
NOT ICE-BOUND - High-flying footwork on ice has won the
European figure skating crown four times for Frenchman
Alain. Giletti. Here, Alain, 20, flashes gay blade at Gormish-
Partenkirchen, Germany.
"FOR Sale - repossessions - Ford &
Fordson Tractors. With and without
equipment. D,E, M.S, Ltd., THORNHILL,
Ont..- AV-5.3031."
TRACTOR PARTS
Wales. During his travels about
the country on official duty his
wife usually accompanied him,
Sharing her husband's love al
animals, she was never happy at
the thought at fishermen getting
into trouble through breaking the
various fishery regulations it
was Frank's job to enforce. Once
on a visit to Great Yarmouth he
announced at dinner that early
next morning he would make a
tour of the fish market in order
to catch and summon dealers
whom he believed were selling •
undersized crabs..
Returning to his hotel at break-
fast time he announced that his
fears had proved groundless. Not
a single undersized crab had
been exhibited for sale in the
whole market,
This showed, Frank boasted,
how efficiently his orders were
being respected by the fishing
community. It was not until
'breakfast was over that Mrs.
Buckland confessed that she had
gone down to the market before
him to warn the fishermen and
dealers of his proposed visit.
Devoted though lee was to
their various pets, they did some-
times cause him anxiety. For
some years his wife had a pet
monkey of which she was par-
ticularly fond. She did not -like
see it cooped up in a cage,
so most of the time it was free
to go where it liked about the
house.
Its favourite play room was
Frank's study, and if it could
gain entry when he was not there
et had a wonderful time tearing
up his papers and correspond-
ence and upsetting ink over the
debris.
Mild remonstration with his
wife produced little effect. In
her view Frank was to blame
for leaving papers lying around
when they should have been
gathered up and packed neatly
away.
A friend at last provided the
solution to the problem. On his
advice Frank had a large cage
'constructed in .the centre of his
study. In this he could shut him-
self away with his work, and
lock it up when he left,
The gray fox is a fairly good
climber, It climbs a tree by hug-
ging the trunk with its forelegs
and by forcing itself upward
with its hind legs.
CUB IS SUB ThiS IIOii tu6
guards the deg pound' In
Wheeling, W.Va. William Cu..,
ter, dog warden, hopes that
LhIs hew "watchdog" will dater.
Vandals who In the past have
Wrecked the 'pound' and • frei.
his charges.
PEEkiktoOM Two ye-old VIctotia trill we nt to flip flee
lid for the photedreip ler and the 14611 Mad* hee slip off the
afeei. Set harid &Mei V icky ` had a good time Playlhed the
Mad Hatter from Alice id Wonderland at the annual thildreh'sl
feirity dress' givele by the lord "Mayor of Landon,. England
All Alone In
A Six-Man Cat
Perhaps it hasn't jelled yet,
but there is a perceptible move
in our larger cities toward a. new
look at the automobile and the
super-highway as commuter de-
vices. Mayor Richardsori Dil-
worth of Philadelphia gave the
kick-off for this new thinking
Wheti he said "Detroit can manu-
facture cars snore rapidly than
highways can be constructed to
absorb them, so that it has ac-
tually reached a point whete
super-highways are something
cifee luxury.. ."
DePitty City Administrator
Maxwell Lehman{ of New York,
omes at the problem inna etnee-
What different Way. He hes add-
id tin all the highWay money
StVailable from 16014 State and.
Federal sources iii the New York
metropolitan fegio, lie fixer
-B e tetra at iii 'esolid 'S9: billion.
ut he ItilOWI that even if the
money is spent, for the reason
Mr. Dilworth stregeiste, that*
-*add 001 be a traffic problem.
Title ,Lihmart it It Cleat
Boys Will B. Boys
0g,befors Itussfa'e Sputnik
leurtehed the Vacs age in 1957,
lieen-agers had been lighting tip
the cornfield Cap* Canaveral&
With homemade rockets, Some
junior roolceteers succeeded only
:making noise; others lost An.
gore and sOme their' lives. But
desplt.the setbacks and hazards,
there are now an estimated half
million devotees in 60,000
clubs across the country.
4 brisk controversy now rages
around the missilemen Of the, fu-
tueet Should teen-agers be per-
snitted, much less encouraged, to
pursue such dangerous activities?
Many influential groups, includ-
ing the American Rocket Society
(whidh itself started out in 1930
as a group of amateur experi-
menters), answer with a firm
"no", insisting that the slightest
association with live propellant
mixtures is ,too dangerous. Most
state agencies agree.
A staunch defender of amateur
rocketry criticized these critics
vigorously last month, Capt,
Bertrand R, Brinley explained;
"Rocketry is a self-educating
process, perhaps the best means
of scientific education there is,
because every one of the physi-
cal sciences is involved. The
clubs should be helped, not cut
off."
Before Sputnik I, Brinley had
no particular interest in ama-
teur rocketry. But with each suc-
cessful launching, his desk at the
Fort Jay, N.Y„ information of-
fice received more queries from
clubs asking for help, and the
number of rocketry accidents al-
so increased, "After a while"
Brinley noted, "it became obvi-
ous that something should be
done," A memo to his command-
ing officer resulted in Brinley's
appointment as Project Officer,
First U.S, Army Amateur Rocket
•, Liaison Program. Manuals and
pamphlets went out to thousands
of clubs across the country.
Captured by the dedication of
his young charges, and dismay-
ed at the lack of essential gui-
dance, the 42-year-old captain
began writing a book, and last
September left the Army to de-
vote all his time to his new call-
ing.
In his recently published
"Rocket lelanual for Amateurs,"
Brinley carefully joins technical
data with procedural safety rules,
and insists that any group of in
spired teen-agers who have their
hearts set on rocket-building
should first form a club, com-
plete with constitution, written
rules, and continuous super-
vision by qualified adults.
"But the menace is not as
great as it is purported to be,"
the intense, thin-faced author
maintained, "Rockets are .much
in the news today, and accidents
make the papers, giving the pub-
lic a distorted view of the haz-
ard of rockets. Frequently,
youths simply fooling with
chemicals or making bombs are
vaguely called racketeers. Thirty-
three football players were kill-
ed last season, but nobody says
we should stop football. I know
of no more than a dozen people
who have been killed by rockets
in the last two years. We toler-
ate risks for the sake of enter-
tainment, but we won't accept
them for the sake of education.
"The many experts who op-
pose amateur rocketry," Brin-
ley continued, "take the attitude
that they are the only pecoole
who know the hazards. Well,
they are technically proficient,
but they don't know anything
about education.
"A bright young lad who has
the desire and brains to start a
rocketry program will do it
whether he is helped or not just
as many wizards like Wernher
von Braun and Russia's Anatoli
Blagonravev did years ago. By
shutting off the sources of in-
formation, we deprive them of
the chance to learn and at the
same time we increase the chance
of accidents. What's the sense of
letting them find everything out
the hard way?" — From NEWS-
WEEK,