The Exeter Times, 1923-5-24, Page 6les orried Over Failure a At Venkelks and .Tenet Paa113
to Reach`an Ag eelinennt on the Question a
A despatch from Lausanne says:- Turkey, he declared, could not than-
'he great Mohammedan festival of don the principle ef Grecian repara-
airAnt when the followers of Mo- tions but, in ,a spirit of conciliation,
itrned 'relax and rejoice after:their stood ready to leap fixation of the
itt3days of fasting, browght no re-actualama $ to arbitrators.
ators.
eee or gaiety to lsmet Pasha on M. Venizelos pleaded Greece's cause
Thursday, nor luckto the Near East with find eloquence; he painted a pic-
toneerenee. ture of Greece struggling to succor
The situation between Turkey and over a million refugees who had been.
Oreeee over the problem of reparations driven out of Turkey during the ter-
is grave, and the conference presuzzl- rible war and attempted to show with
etbty is imperilled because- all direct figures that the Hellenic nation was in
efforts by Ismet Pasha and Elipther- such a serious financial condition that
los Venlxelos to settle this dangerous all, payment of reparations was 'out
issue "out of court" failed. The 'An- of the question, On the emetr'ary, he
ora and Athens leaders after a fruit- contended, . GreeCe should receive re-
'l. S e
and because e of
th
reed to disagree wrath 1 Froin Tiu•ke b ..a s
esd sass it,
s Q agreed g gi? y
tuber& the issue to•'the conference ill economic disaster caused to the Greeks
gin attenent to find: a solution. Out of when tthey fled from the Turks, aban-
ect for the Tunes' religion, . the dening homes and fortunes,
Witte proposed that no formal session It Turkey is juetifled. ha asking dam -
et the conference be held Thursday,. agtias, Greece was equally justified and
but ' the t rceco-Turkish reparations perhaps the two accounts. could `be bat.
&spite is so serious that both anced, What Venivelos wanted' : was
3aelos and Isinet felt j'ustified'in utilize a clean' slate on the reparation 'ae-
1 the festival b rfving to reach count., both•Turks and Greece calling.
it g h Y y etriving � y
ail accord, M; Venize1os teek the in- lit square.
itiative, suggesting, a meeting with Ismet Pasha Could net see this at
the noted Turkish general; probably all and the confernce io tadjourned.
a
with the idea that the Bairam festival The allies are greatly tly worried over
•' would eseieine ,a softening influence the de elo HI
s as they.,had.1
d
hoped
on the controversy. their good offices would lead the way
Both the Greek leader and Ismet to a direct settlement between Greece
used gentle words, but neither suc- and Turkey. They will continue their
ceeded in piercing the other's armor mediation efforts, but everybody on
of resistance. Isnot insisted, that Thursday night conceded that there
Turkey eould pay no reparations is danger of Greece breaking away
whatsoever to Greece, but expected from the conference and resorting to
to receive an equitable sum for dam arms unless same satisfactory corn-
ages caused by the Greek armies in promise is reached.
Asia Minor, when,he asserted, they.Turke wants - 4,500,000,000 gold
5
burned towns and villages during francs reparations and Greece says
their retreat and laid waste the whole she wants 5,000,000,000 gold francs
from Turkey.
countryside.
Honor to "Tay Pay."
The famous Irishman, T P. O'Con-
nor, who has been a member of the
British -House of Commons since 1830,
was honored on May 15, on his 75th
birthday, by a luncheon given by two
hundred members of the House. He
is one of the few members who still
use snuff,. and he- was presented withi
a gold snuff box.
Gas Fumes. in Garage
Suffocate Toronto Man
A despatch from Toronto says:-'
Overcome by carbon monoxide fumes I
while working on his motor car in, the
garage at the rear of his home, 9
Oriole Parkway, Thursday afternoon,
ki. Pearcy Porter, aged 31 years, vice-
president and assistant manager of
Sanderson Pearcy and Company, was.
found, by his wife about 6.30 in the
evening. Dr. Andrew Cox, 39 St.
Clair Avenue west, was called and.
tried artificial "respiration without
avail. A puirnotor was requisitioned
from the Consumers' Gas Company.
Later, Supt. Saunders, of the Life -
Saving Station, arrived with an extra
oxygen supply, but all efforts were
vain. Chief Coroner Graham was
2iotified of the tragedy, and after in-
vestigating, he decided that death was
accidental and that no inquest was
Hiecessary.
e
Man has been the supreme enemy of
p Y
birds on this continent, as elsewhere
in the world, and is responsible for
the .extinction of species over large.
tracts of country.
One
Million J.S. Born
Live in Canada
It is estimated that there are
approximately one million peo-
ple in Canada who were born
in the United States, or about
twelve per cent. of the Domin-
ion
ion population. Most of 'these
are to be found on farms in the
Western Provinces. Nearly' one
hundred million acres of West-
ern Canadian land has been
settled by homesteading, and.
citizens of the United States
have accounted for thirty per
cent. of such settlement as
against twenty per cent. on the
part of British. In addition,
'United States citizens are each
year the heaviest purchasers' of
privately held and improved
lands and farms.
TO SELL BRITAIN'S
DEBT FUNDING BONDS
Original Contract Made More.
Flexible to Enable U.S. to
Place on Open Market.
A despatch from : Washington
says :-Final details concerning the
debt settlement between the United
States and Great Britain call for spe-
cial arrangements which will make it
possible to soli the bonds furnished by
Great Britain on the open market if
so desired it was ex lained at the,
> p
Treasury Department on Thursday.
Details in this arrangement have
been submitted to the British' Govern-
ment at London and the final views of
the United States debt funding cos -
mission were explained by Secretary!
of the Treasury '_ Mellon's office to
Ambassador Sir Auckland Geddes.
Government officials reiterated that
there is nothing in the delay which
suggests any desire on the part of -the
British Government to avoid the com-1
mitments made in the original settle-
ment.'
ettle-ment.' The plan of making 11 possible 1
to sell the British bonds to the public,
it was explained, was included in the.
original settlement, the_ only changes
required being certain variations in
the contract whichwill make it more
flexible in this respect.
in
Butterflies, which are very prolific
in Australia, are suffocated in thou-
sands by the aborigines, and, separat-
ed from their wings, pressed into
cakes and eaten.
HOW ARE. YOU FEELiN(
ToD/ ', DUMBUN('tIY?
BRITAIN'S TRIBU"f E TO BELGIUM„
On April 28th the Prince of Wales visited 13elgiuotunveil'i monument
erected by the British government as a memorial to the kindness of Belgians
to British soldiers during the Great War, The picture shojis the Prince, and
belidnd him the Belgian King' and his two sone
g
TOE W
ttj
DRAMA. CANADIAT:''..C.IVIRAZAWN
When in 1919 the city of Calgary merit have thrown over the country
hold n t St• d F• t• will e `-again
b ,emova.d ,and' the' city �'
mons er amps e or son ser
Day celebration to celebrate in to man-
ner appropriate to the locality the re-
turn
of Western men from the War,
9
drawin together g•ether i n the City- of the
Poothilis the continent's 'best: riders
and ropers, its most daring perform-
ers at the old sports of the range, old
timers shook their' heads sadly and
said there would. never be another..
With the disappearance of the range
and its romantic pursuits it was be-
coming increasingly difficult to gather
together in one spot the superb horse-
men and women yet clinging to , a
past era, to collect a :sufficient num-
ber of really bad horses to thrill a
continental gathering, or find the old
type of wild range cattle to test the
mettle of the people of the range.
Yet Calgary, one of the last local-
ities to cling to the fringe of a pass
mg era, is confident of stagingan
equally 'thrilling and entertaining
event this summer, and the little city
still claims wide attention as one of
the very few remaining places on the
continent still able to stage such a
Mammoth and stirring drama. It will
be a last effort to arrest the progress
of time, when for one week the cloak
which civilization and modern develop -
dwell in tlio era which gave it birth
and prestige: '
Fifty rfty thousand collars in prizes has
been calculated to ' the Al-
berta
t o t
berta 'city such as the doughty riders
of the range as''have not been absorb-
ed by gentler callings. It will be re-
garded as perhaps the last grand re-
union of the great•ranch brotherhood.
Riders from both sides• of the border
will compete against each other, and
the first of their calling from every
section of the country take, part in
the sports of the range which, with all
their dangers and thrills, will com-
prise the daily program for one week.
The Stampede presents an unique
opportunity to the traveller in Canada
this summer to witness' what is prob
ably°the passing of the old Canadian
West. Such events have been limited
always to the Western part of the Am-
erican 'continent, and the area of such
diversion became narrowed down until
Calgary remained perhaps the last
stronghold of the ranching. industry.
•Its day is practically gone there too,
and one lastattempt-is being made to
give residents of the continent a pic-
ture `of what m. a few years' time will
be regarded as history.
First Belgian Wal V ct' n ian prisoners: Oneof the Germans
to be Honored seeing the body of the soldier, stuck
his bayonet, in it, saying, 'There is a
dirty Belgian." The next day the
body was buriedin the cer".letery of the
little village, n here inc gi ave has al-
ways been tended reverently by the
inhabitants.
Brussels, May 1°. -The name of:
Antoine Fonck will live in Belgian his-
tory. .A. monument to be erected in
his memory at the Croix du Polinard,
acrossing near Thimister, wile inform
future generations .that at that spot
was killed the fir=st Belgian "soldier in
the World War -the first of 45,000.
Fonck was a private in°the Second.
Lancers: On August 4, in the fateful
year of 1914, his squadron was recon-
noitering at Bat-flee,in the province of -month broke over Southern, Alberta
Liege. Word came that German ca -e- Thursday morning, briningg almost
airyhad been sighted near the village .
g g I half an inch of moisture. The total
of Thimister and. Fonck was sent to; registered, here , so far this month is
verify the report. Coming suddenly 1.75 inches.
upon the enemy scouts, Fonck fired The storm was accom anied
upon them. He .was pursued. His snow between Lethbridge
ry
and Calgary
horse -vas soon shot beneath him. and also in the Crow's' Nest Pass:
Using the animal's body as. a barri-I Seeded -fields are now thoroughly
the soldier continued o fire until'
saturated, and a moisture reserve for
Alberta Gran Fields Have
Abundance oi Moisture
A despatch from Lethbridge, Alta.,
says: -The third rainstorm of the
he died. the grovrmng season is being stored up.
That was at 10 o'clock in the rimm-
ing. Some hours later some German AU life is summed up in being, do
soldiers passed by with Belgian civil- ing, and saving.
INTERNATIONAL MOTOR TOUR. IN JULY
A long column of Canadian and United States cars will follow the route
indicated on the map en .their annual tour
in July. The Pikers., Michigan
Pikes Association, will follow the Champlain, Trail. The tour starts July 8
from Detroit and ends at tho same place" 23 July :
,.covering 1,700 .miles en
route. It is the nfietla annual tour. Mom Cailendal'
Ontario, to Ottawa; the
tour will follow the route of Champlain's travels in 161.5.
TORONTO,
Manitoba Wheat -No, 1 Northern,
$1.28%.
iiianitoha oats ---No.; 2 C*, 5'114e;
No, 8 OW, 54%c; extra No. 1 feed,
52% o.0\10. Io. 1 feed, 0214e.• '
Manitoba barley Nominal.
All the above truck, bay port:,.
American corn -No. 8 yellow,
$1,0234 ; No, 2, $1.02. '
Barley -Malting, 60!to 62o, Accord-
ing, to :heights outside.
Buckwheat -No, 2,74 to 76c.
Rye -No. 2, 76 to 77c,
Peas -No, 2, $1.45 to $1,50.
Millfeed-Del. Montreal freights,
begs included: Aran, per ton„ $2,9;,
shorts per ton,'$31 • middlings, 35;
coed, feed flour, $2.15 to ,12,25'.
Ontario wlo at -No.` 2 white, nom -
Ontario No. 2 white oats -51 to
530.
ncern---Nominal.
O toric
O its io flour-.-Nifiet ' per centt.
t r yp . pet.,
in jute bags, MontrealC, premp't ship-
ment,
,
meet, $5.10 to _,.20; .Toronto basis,
$5.05 to $6.15; bulk seaboard $4.9,5
to $5,
'
Manitoba' flour-1stP ats., in cotton
sacks, $7.10 per bbl.; 2nd pg
ts, $6.
60
.
Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per Pon,
track Toronto, $15;to 815.60; iiia, 8
ttrnothy, $1`4; mixed, $,12' to 813.50;
lower grades, $8.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, track, To-;
ronto, $9.50,
Cheese -New, large,2
0e r twins,
22c;2�c, Stltons22•to 23c.
Old, large, 30c; twins, .8.; Stiltono,
32c.
Butter -Finest creamery prints, 35.
to 86c; ordinary creamerymory rints r
83
coo tele
to 34c;..5 dairy, 24 to c, g, 22e.
Eggs, new Jidda, loose, 32c; necv
laids, in cartons, 86c.
Live °poultry --Chickens, milk -fed,
over 5 lbs., • 25c • do, 4 to 5 lbs., 22c;
do, 2 to 4. lbs., 20c. hens over 5 lbs,,
28e; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 26c; do, 3 to 4 lbs.,
22c; roosters, 17c; ducklings, over 5
lbs., 800; do, 4 to 6 lbs., 28c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs. and up, 25e,
Dressed poultry -Chickens, milk-
fed, over 5 lbs., $5c; do, Oto 51bs., 30c;
do, 2 to 4 lbs., 25c; hens, over 15 lbs.,
30c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 28c; do, 8 . to 4
lbs., 24c; roosters, 24c; ducklings,
over 5 lbs., 30c; do 4 to 5 lbs., 29c
turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 80e.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, lb.,
7c; primes. 6%c.
Maple products-Syrup,er. imp.
'gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per
gat Maple sugar, ib., 22c.
Honey -60-1b. tins, 101%a to 11c per
Ib;; 8 -2% -lb. tins, 11 to 12%e per lb.;
Ontario comb honey per doe., No. 1,
$4.50 to 85; No. 2, 3,75' to 84.25.
Potatoes, C1n$1ts,rio-No,
to$145
1, $1.15 to
F�1.25; Flo•- 2, . ,10 ,
Smoked ,moats -Hams, hied., 25" to
2:7e; cooked Yiai is, 86 to 40e; smoked
rolls, 26 to 28e; cottage rolls, 28 to
30c:;• breakfttst bacon; 80 to 33c; s c-
eie brand breakfast Lacon, 35 to 88c;
basica, boneless, 84 to 40a.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon 50
to'�70 lbs., $13.60; '70 to 90 Ibe,, . $18;
90in, "blbarrels: $3s, an�l'u�s6.50; $17;°hlightweight rrollollss;
:eavyweight ,
$32.50.
Lard ---Pure tierces 10 to 18M,c;
tubs, 161,ii'; to 17c;- alt's ,.. 17 tv 17%e;
Prints, 1$1/ac, . Shortening; tiertt s,
14e1 ° ;o 15',,4,c; tr'bs, 1514' to 15%c;
ppa.s ils, 15 to ,16140; prints, 1714 to
179i,c,
Heavy ;beef steers, $7.50 to $8.50;
butcher steers, choice, $7.50 to $8; do,
good, $7 to $7,50 do, ;med., $6.60 to
$7 • do,' cos., $6 to " $6.50; butcher
h�fc h c to 7
50 • d ,med..
o xs c o e 7 0
i
$6.50 to $7; dog cos, $6" to '6,50;
butchercows' choice` $5.50 to $6.60;
do, med., $4.50 to, $5.25 • canners and
cutters, $2 to $2.50 • butcher; bulls,
ood, 84.50 to $5.50; do, cont. $8.50 to.
84' • feedin steers, good, !$6.50 to
7.i0 do, a to .50;,
$ 'fair,Y i 1 stockers,
1 - 5'.50 ;.
good, $5.50 to $6; do,fair, to 5
0
milkers-sppringer, choice,, 880 to 110;
calves, 'choice, $10 to $11; do, med.,
$8 to, $10; do, cone., e5 to ;87.50;
lambs, choice, $13 to $16; do, com.,
7.50 to ` $12; lambs, spring,: each,
. 9' to $17; , ..sheep, "choice' light,
Izt
7.50 to $8.50; do,choice heavy,
6 to $7; do, culls' 'and .bucks
d to5.c0 hogs, fed- and watered,
g' ,
11 to 11.25; • do,' f.o.b.,10...2
5 to
8
1• points, $0 50 • �o" countryclans 10 to
10,25.
MONTREAL.
Corn, Am. No. 2 yellow, .$$1.01 to
$1.02. Oats, No. 2 CW., 67 to 67/c;.
No. 3 CW, 62 to 63c; extra No. 1 feed,
601/2 to 61e; No. 2 local white, 59%
Ito 60c. Flour, Manitoba "spring wheat
pats., firsts, $7.30; do, second's, $6.80;
do, strong bakers', .86.60; do, wrote.
pats., choice, $6.15. Relied oats, bag,
f10 lbs., $3.1,0 to $3.20. Brae, $23.
Shorts, $30. elideilings," $85. Hay,
No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14 to $15.
Butter, choicest creamery, 311e to.
311/2c. Eggs, selected, 34c. Potatoes,
per bag, car lots, $1.20.
Com. and med. bologna bulls, $3 to
$4; med. cows, $4.50 to 35; do, coni.,
134; calves, coni. and med., $4 to $5;
I do, heavier, 36; do, pail -fed, $4 up.
Hogs, $12 to 312.25; sews, 38.25 to $9.
Natural Resources
Bulletin
The Natural Resources Intel-
ligence Service of the Depart
ment of the Interior, at Ottawa
says:'
Of the 178,567 barrels of
crude petroleum produced in
Cenadarlast year, .Ontario sup-
plied 164,731 barrels. There
are fourteen oil-producing fields
in the province, all situated in
the southwestern 'portion: The
largest producing field was the
Petrolia and Enniskillen, 64,-
934 barrels, Oil Springs coming
next evith;;43,213 barrels, Both-
well with 25,680 barrels, Moza
township with 11,959 barrels,
West Dover with 5,482 barrels, -
and other fields with smaller
quantities. New Brunswick
•produced 7,778 barrels, and Al-
berta 6,053 barrels., The vahje
of the crude petroleum produc-
ed in Ontario last year was
3526,316, this including the
federal bounty of 386,484. Im-
ports of crude petrcleuili in
1922 were 14,068,075 barrels' of
35 gallons, valued at :$24,
697,612.
Gal.oping Snakes.
One of tee most deadly snakes is the
Black Mamba, found in South Africa
A strange thing about this particular
snake is its fidelity to its mate. Old
hands "know •that if they kill one mane
ba they must look for .and kill =its!.
mate' before it can follow and kill
them.~
A native method of revenge is to kill
a mamba• and put it beneath an
enemy's bed, sure that the survives
wile wreak vengeance on the unsus-
pecting sleeper,
These snakes travel so rayidly that
they are able to keep ,pace with a gal-
loping horse.
One way of'.saving oneself is: -to
break the .snake's back with the sjam-
bok, or raw -hide riding whip, that
every South African farmer carries or,
if 'a road be. near; tomake for that
as! a snake cannot trtvel SO rapidly on.
a smooth surface .,as over broken and
uneven ground..
Leonid Krassin
The envoy of Soviet Russia, who is
in England to negotiate with Lord
Curzon. Britain: will extend time 'for
negotiations but will accept nothing
less, than compliance with her de-
mands.
Fifth Generation at Funeral
of `Mo :tre&l' Ceritena.rrian
A despatch from Montreal says:-
Francois Robideaux, centenarian,
whose funeral took place here on
Thursday, is survived by five children,
32 grandchildren, 68 great-grand-
children and three , children of the
fifth .generation.
According to Custom.
Nine-year-old Marian is her : Aunt
Marian's pet, And whenever auntie,
who is a successful young business
woman, buys herself any luxury she
buys one for Marian, too.
For instance when she bought an
umbrella for herself she bought
Marian a parasol. ' She bought a
bicycle to Journey to business, and
Marian a tricycle. She bought a big
rocking -chair for herself, and Marian
a little one.
The other evening she came home
with a new admirer, who was one .of
the follows s whorl Natu=re has made
of 'the 'diminutive order,
For a minute Marian eyed Y d him, and
then she said, "All right,auntie`I like
him. But where's yours?"
RABBITB O RQ
\ J L L, `fou'L.L t-kP'VF `Co
EL/NT PleeelIN FOOD, PeND
STPe`� '1N THE HOti5E NI6KTS
Of : QUITE
A.1 JHILL
VE.5 , DOC , TH'\T'S
WHAT I THOUGHT
Our Most lmartaa
Animal
At this time of the. yea tl;o lambs,'
t311 loeg'talled and ret 'unsteady
on their.lanley cgs aro enjoying the
maddest frolics- on the pastures all
Over •tee cousntryside, wlrllst their
mothers browse placidly, peusting naw
and then to watch the ganibols_of their,
offspring, anci boeesiona•ily feeneleleter-
lag a reproving butt is any Y'ouilgster'.
beeemeg too obstreperous.
You would hardly imtglna-frons his
looks that CO prosaic an •aninnc.!1 as the
sheep !had bellied him a history more
romalttic:alien: that of any other living
animal, or that but Cor him the whole
:human race might still be living in a
state of savagery such as that which
in
e'xl to darkest Africa.
s
New Miesing Link.
Yet so it is. 'else sheep ire one of the
Mystery, animede. No one res113= knows'
where` he oamo from or what he is. '
He 1a not old ea aniniale go. The fosY
sil bonee of deer and ox, c,f elephant
and tiger, date from times thousands
of years before man made, laIs;appear-
ance in the world. •.Butwe do not ,find
with them the banes of the sheep. He
is `a near relative of ox, goat, and deer,
a hind of miesing'link, between then,
for he is like, and yet unlike,' any of
them. One thing we do know, and
tiivat -is that he belongs to the Old
World, Thesheop was unluiown in.
Ame
ica 'until the first a
panish set -
iters, three hundred yeBIS ago,
took
over ,the few that became thee ances-
tors of today's coulielesss millions, and '
it was only in the "last century that,,
sheep were sent from England to Aus-
tralie. and NetvaZealaad.
So far as we can discover, "sheep
came first from Asia, for •thnt.is where
the first traces of them ` are found.
Really, the .sheep has no i^igint to be in
existence at all to -clay! By all the
laws', the race should have died out
long ago; the sheep is above all things
a food animal, the natural prey of
wolves, foxes, wild dogs, and even
eagles. 1 -ie is almost defenceless, and
.is not gifted with great natural min-,-
Hung, Nor, like most food animals, is
he a rapid breeder; the doe rabbit may
have several families of ,four: apiece
in twelve months, but the ewe has sel-
dom more than a pair' of lambs, and
that but once in the year.
Nature, carie to the sheep's help by
means` -of one little. device. Between
the two toes; is• a•gland, which secrets
a scent. Hence, where -vex, the facie
has passed the groun=d is tainted„and'
stragglers can rejoen by the help of
their noses.
But elm real preserver of the sheep
is man, who discovered in his earliest
days that "of all cattle, the. sheepe is
the most prolitablest," as, a book on
farming published just, four centuries'
ago puts it. Man saw in the sheep a
heaven-sent erbore. of food and cloth-
ing. Why bother 'to hunt when you
could -`capture a few wiirl sheep and
turn them into a tams flock always et.
hands. To help hint to keep hies sheep
man tamed the dog and made ahem his
ally.
One man alone could not look after
a whole flock, so the first shepherd
calledin others, who lived in scatter-
ed huts or in caves far apart, to assist
hint, offering in return a share of the
wqol and the meat that were now so
.easy to obtain. And so at the edge of
, the pastures 'the first villages.,grew:
1 up. Thanks largely to the sheep
thoman society eame into, being, and
with it came laws and customs for the
benefit of the little community. •
Tlie next tremendous step was.the
discovery of how to spin wool into
yarn and weave yarn into cloth,•-whieh
paved the way for manufactures and
commerce.-
New Artificial Light. _
A young French scientist, M. Risler,
formerly- head of the laboratory at
Strassbourg University, is reported to
`have succeeded' in producing a• new
kind of artificial light; which it is sug-
gested may completely revolutfoniav'
present methods of illuminat on.
This: is deseribed as a form of Beat-
less "on the glow-worm principle,
Most of the energy developed in pro -
clueing present forms of artificial light,
whether in the form of candles,. -oil
lamps., or ,electric bulbs, is wasted in
the form of 'heat. The problem has
been to solve -the secret of the glow-
worm, whose light is selentifecaley
M. Risler iso said to ibave solved the
problem by utilizing tubes or bulbs
filled with a special glass 'ander a cer-
tain pressure. The tubesthemselves
are painted with a phosphorescent
mixture, with a basis of sulphide of
zinc, which" renders them fluere cent.
When an electric current it sent
through the tubes they give, out an -
amount of light incomparably superior:.
to that from ordinary, sources. The
installation is reported to be extreme-
ly simple, all that Is required, in addi-
tion to tubes or bulbs, being a trans-
fermer, which can be conectecl up with
au electric current, of the required volt-
age.
111. Meier states that the expenditure
of electrical a,`nergy, is; very email, be-
ing eciilivaleot only to 15 watts- for de -
metres of tube of a diameter of 7 nine.
It J. asserted, that noharmful rays
exist ill ills new illuminant.
Scientists in Great Tuftsin are de-
veloping a special thermometer to be
used by fisherinen in si.>•arc1. oa Mike,
a fish said to regulate: its ren'emer tri
according to the teriipeeature o4 the
water. The thermometer ho trailed
behix,d the fleeting boat.