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Zurich Herald, 1916-09-01, Page 3CANADA'S C- EAT TELESCOPE 4AID TO BE THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD. attaat Instrument Is for Use of the Do. minion Observatory at Victoria, B.C. The great 72 -inch reflecting tele- scope designed and constructed for the Dominion Astronomical Observa- tory at Victoria, B.C., ranks in size as the largest yet completed in the world. In design the telescope is a reflector 6 feet in diameter with an equatorial type of mounting, having the main or polar axis pointing to- wards the north star and swinging the body of the telescope in a plane parallel to the earth's equator: and the apparent paths of the stats; and!' a declination axis at right angles to i i and passing through the centre of the polar axis, to allow movement north and south. The instrument weighs 55 tons, and will rest upon massive piers of reinforced concrete. The polar axis is 23 feet long and weighs 10 tons. The declination axis weighs 5 tons, is 14% feet long, 151/2 inches in diameter, carrying a flange 41 inches in diameter and 4 inches thick, to which the body of the telescope is. attached. The tube is 31 feet long in three sections, and weighs 12 tons. The central cylin- drical casting is 12% feet long, and weighs 7 tons. The mirror cell, weighing with counterpoises and mirror 6 tons, forms the lower end, while to the upper end is firmly at- tached the rigid skeleton tube, made of structural steel in tension. The skeleton portion of the tube is 23 feet long, 71h feet in diameter and weighs with attachments about two tons. Driven by Clock. A driving clock similar in design to that which has been so successful in the Lick and Yerkes telescopes, moves the telescope east or west with great precision, through an ac- curately cut worm wheel 9 feet in diameter mounted on the polar axis. The telescope is moved from one position to another, and is set and guided wholly by electric motors. • Seven motors, with' solenoids and magnetic clutches are provided for these motors.. With the focal length of 108 feet the guiding speed neces- sary for a star image is 1,300. inch per second. s The observer, at either the upper or lower ends of the tube can clamp or unclarnp the telescope, make the fine settings and guide the tele- scope- by means of push buttons on a portable key board kept at a con- venient place. Weighs 43 Tons. The engineering and mechanical problems involved in designing and constructing a telescope of such great proportions and accuracy will be apparent when considering the extreme rigidity necessary for carry- ing the optical parts invariably in their correct relative positions with- out strain, and at the same tilne so well poised and adjusted as to en- able the telescope to be easily pointed towards and accurately set on any desired object, and to enable the whole massive mechanism weigh- ing 43 tons, to unvaryingly follow the motions of the stars. The sun, the moon, the planets and the comets all have different rates of motion to that of the stars, and all this must be provided for in the controlling mechanism. The revolving dome is 66 feet in diameter, and is provided with a double shutter having an opening 15 feet wide. Its weight is 120 tons. A11 of the movements of the dome, telescope, wind' shields, shutters, etc., rare by means of electrical motors. The principal mirror is 73 inches in diameter; 12 inches thick, and pierced with a hole in the centre. Themirror weighs 24 tons; yet it is so accurately poised that no flec- tions can distort its surface, which must nowhere deviate from the theo- retical curve more than the two hundredth -thousandth part of an inch. The instrument is made to allow its use in three forms, the New- tonian, Direct or Cassegrain forms.. The secondary mirrors are 9 inches in diameter. This great engine of science, the largest completed telescope in the world, is now being erected at Vic- toria, B.C., by order of the Dominion Government for the Dominion Astro- nomical Observatory in charge of Dr. Plaskett, Chief Astronomer, un- der the late Dr. Ding at Ottawa. When a man is down his enemies Stop kicking him and his friends be- gin. Nearly everything that Canada makes, mines or grows is exhibited each year at the Canadian National Ex#ribition. ism 'A( AUSIV4' .xiiieedeamisseafita ILO r4tw.4.-iYir es The Most Comitalle footwear l�rSw mer WOR BY ALL MEMBERS S dF1itrLiFiiLY SOLD BY ALL eDtaH? SgoE DEALF,6t5 MsreaggegFaSeIggeeMskesarreZ IIltario Veterinary Collo Under the Control of the Depart- ment of Agriculture of Ontario ESTABLXSI$ED 1862 Affiliated with the Univer- sity of Toronto. College will re -open on Monday, the and of October, 1818. 110 Ylniversity'Ave., Toronto. Can. CALENDAR, OM API'LICAT'IOX E. A, A. Grange, V.5., M.8,, Pfillc(oai INFANTILE PARALYSIS. By Chas. M. Bice, Denver, Colo. The present epidemic of Infantile Paralysis in New York, Montreal, and other Eastern Cities, and its liability to spread, for it is very cantagious, brings us face to face with one of the most mysterious plagues of child- hood the world has ever seen. Science seems powerless before it, and so far, has found no certain re- medy. Closely allied with this ter- rible plague, is the ever-present pest of the common fly, chiefly concerned in spreading the contagion. Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rockefel- ler Institute, in his advice about pro- tecting children from this dreadful disease, called medically polioney- elities, directly charges the fly with carrying the virus of the disease on its hairy legs and feet. He also says that the disease is conveyed by the bite of the common stable fly. In fantile paralysis ie. caused by a virus which will pass through the fin- est filter without leaving agerm be- hind such is its miuteness. No bacil- lus can be detected in this. The virus blows about in the dust, and is after scattered about by coughing and sneezing, besides being carried by flies. Hence the necessity of protect- ing foods of all kinds from exposure, and keeping every thing perfectly clean with which children come in con- tact. Dr. Flexner first demonstrated the existence of this virus by inflecting monkeys with partious of the spinal cord of children who had died from the disease, and he is preparing an autitoxin for it, but so far, has not been successful. He found that the virus makes its way through the meucos membranae of the nose to the brain following the olfactory nerve which is descends to the spinalcolumn,ettin • • anin- flammation u flammation in the "anterior horns" of the spinal cord which is the specific cause of the disease. It is not fatal in the majority of cases, but except where the patients receive the best skilful treatment, it produces most cruel deformities in- cluding extreme curvature of the spine, and twisted and useless limbs. It starts with a peculiar drowsi- ness and dulness quite unnatural in children. This first stage lasts us- ually three days, and is accompanied by high fever. It sometimes passes off doing no harm but often it increases and runs into a mildly stuporous condition, with final onset of the acute stage, CET THIS CA` ' GUE The Best Ever issued: Guns, Rifles, Ammunition, Visiiing, Tackle Baseball, Golf, Tennis, Lacrosse, Camping Outfits, all Summer and Winter Sports. We want Every Mn who Hunts, Fishes, or days any Outdoor ante to get our large free Catalogue. Prices right, satisfaction guaranteed, immense stock, prompt shipment You sole money by getting Catalogue to -day. T. W. Boyd St Son, 27 Notre Dame St.West, ililontresl which is followed in a day or se by r pazalysis. Time for Peaches and By this time the child may he Cream! To get full palate - ,found lying on its back, with the head Usually to one side—the eyes entirely closed, and having on its face a tired wilted expression. From this condi- tion the child can be aroused sud- denly, by a gentle touch of an extre- mity. If the leg be lifted only a little, the child will show an expres- sion of annoyance, rather than dis- tress, and if the leg be the paralyzed one, the child often tries to free it from the examiner'.s hands by twist- ing the shoulders. This procedure, we are told by the Drs. is surprising- ly common, and is often accompanied by a bored look and a sortof whine, and when left alone the patient at once lapses into the drowsy state. Paralysis comes on unheraled in the morning a child can move its arms freely—a few hours later it is found lying quietly, as before, but when it lolls over one arm falls back limp. No one can tell just when the para- lysis is going to strike—sometimes it seems to prefer an arm, but often it strikes in one or both of the lower limbs, or even in the face, if the in- jury be in the brain. The eye muscle is sometimes attacked, depending upon which part of the brain is in- jured. A sore throat may indicate this dreaded diseases, though mistaken as the result of a cold. When death occurs in these cases, it is generally caused by the failure of the muscles that control the act of breathing. These muscles are the diaphragm and the intercostal ar= tached to the ribs. If only one set is paralyzed the child may live, but if. both are involved breathing ceases and death occurs. The average mortality of this disease varies from 10 to 20 per cent. So little is known of the disease, that even when paralysis has set in, it is impossible to tell whether it will progress to the point of causing death, or merely of making a crip- ple, or will pass off leaving the child uninjured. The Drs. admit they have discov- ered no specific form of therapy by which paralysis can be prevented, as the inflammatory process may be hastened. Hence, about the only way is to prevent the spread of the disease to other persons, and by giv- ing such remedies as are knownto procure relief, and that often restore muscular power in other afflictions,. preventing deformities. The genral treatment is similar to. that of other infections, such as scar- let fever and the. like; Wrapping the affected limb in cotton wool blankets, and hot water bags is a great comfort. If deformities make their appearance, then a mechan- ical treatment, or massage is helpful, and muscle training is essential. Children should be quarantined for safety. Healthy children are more liable to the disease than feeble children. BABY'S GREAT DANGER DURING HOT WEATHER More little ones die during the hot weather than at any other time of the year. Diarrhoea, dysentery, chol- era infantum and stomach troubles come without warning, and when a medicine is not at hand to give. promptly the short delay too fre- quently means that the child has passed beyond all aid. Baby's Own Tablets should always be kept in homes where there are young chil- dren. An occasional dose of the Tablets will prevent stomach and bowel troubles, or if the trouble comes suddenly the prompt use of the Tablets will cure the baby. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers dr by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. TRAVEL IN COREA. Ice Cream and Biscuits on the Re- staurant Cars. A Baldwin locomotive whisked us through the green hills and past the quaint thousand -year-old villages of Corea. It was odd to see the white swaddled Coreans, with their bare feet and flytrap hats, riding in this most modern of trains. We fled at forty miles an hour over trails where a few years ago these sante Coreans doubtless joggled clonkeyback at twenty miles a day, Any American road, says the Chris - tion Herald, would have been proud of the dinner on that train. It was vastly better than the dinners on the roads in Japan. The tiffin (luncheon) was table d'hote and cost only one yen (fifty cents). rt comprised seven courses, and its main features, re- lieved of their French disguises, were soup, fish, chicken salad, beefsteak, brown potatoes, succotash, ice cream and lady fingers, apples, oranges, ba- nanas and coffee. Plenty of every- thing and everything good, Electric bell at every table. Speedy service. Eternal politeness. And as if this were not enough, ice cream and nabiscos were served at 3 p.in.! That was the last straww, joy with maximum of nutri- ment for the day's work eat them on shredded wheat biscuit ---a complete, perfect meal, easy to prepare, appe- tizing and satisfying, In Shredded Wheat all the body-building material in the whole wheat grain is re- tained, including the bran coat, which is so useful in promoting bowel exercise. • Made in Canada Suspicious. Laurar (as her lover is about to start, on a tour around the world)— My, dear Robert, promise that you will write to me from every town you visit. Robert—Laura, is it love that prompts you to say that, or are you merely collecting postage stamps? Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff. His Patient. The young doctor and his friend, the drug clerk, were sitting at the club window when a richly dressed woman passed. "There goes the only woman I ever loved," the young M. D. sighed. "So?" the other asked. "Then why don't you marry her?" "Can'teafford it," the doctor repli- ed; "she's my best patient." G9'tIE"161isa4ei Eyelids, Eyes inflamed by expo- sure to Sun, Dust and Wlt{d quicklyrelievedbyaurine SEyRlely.NoSmarting, @sv just Eye Comfort. At XourDruggist's Sac per Rattle. Murine Eye SalveinTubes25c,Foi' 600lkelthEyefreeask Druggists or Murine Eye Remedy Co. ,t hica¢o Some Dinner. asit much of a dinner?" rshould 'say it was.s. There were seven different kinds of forks at each prate." 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A story is told of a South Sea Islanders, who :came into church with shoes merrily a -squeak. He walked proudly to the front of the room, and, removing his shoes, dropped them out of the window, so that his wife might also have the pleasure of coming in svith "talking" shoes. SAVE THE WESTERN CROP. No Lack of Men to Gather in Can- ada's Greatest Asset. Statistics from the Government authorities show that the wheat crop this year promises to be greater than ever but the problem that is •troub- ling the minds of the farmers in Western Canada is how can the crop be harvested? That Is the predom- inent problem of to -day in Canada apart from recruiting for overseas. The railways are providing special excursions to carry the men to their destinations but the effort will almost be fruitless if the labor does not come forward for the work in view. There is no disguising the serious- ness of the situation this year so many men having gone to the front or are on their way. Despite this fact, however, there should be no lack of men to gather in Canada's greatest asset if the country is to still continue the good work of the past two years in helping the Mother f Country in the greatest war the world has ever known. While Canada has sent some hundred thousand. men to the war there are still hundreds of thousands more left who have not en- listed and who are not assisting in the making of munitions. These have now an excellent opportunity of do- ing a little bit at home to help the war abroad. Canada's crop is of vital j necessity to Great Britain and her Al- lies so that everyone who helps in gathering in the harvest will in some measure be assisting in carrying on the war to a successful issue. The effort will not. only be a health giver but give excellent remuneration. You who are not helping your coun- i try directly ,are invited to take the trip West for a couple of months and not only earn three dollars a day and board but also feel that you are help- ing the powers to end the war suc- cessfuiiy for our side. Any railway agent will furnish you with all the in- formation to enable you to go to Western Canada and do your little "bit" by helping the farmers to har- vest the great crop on which so much depends. REP `-+ IRS Promptly Tirade to Storage Batteries Generators Magnetos Starters. CdLW..DX45.17 STOUA.GE 33ATTEBY CO.. 4T.IXT ,L 117 Sinrcoe >st., Toronto. Willard Agents. 4 People who do not believe all they hear are fond of repeating it. Exclusive of live stock and out- door exhibits there is an exhibit space at the Canadian National Ex- hibition of over 500,000 square feet. SEED POTA.TopS BED POTATOES, IBISH COB - biers, Deleware, Carman. Order at once. Supple limited. Write for quo- tations. 1-1. W. Dawson, Brampton. HELP WANTED. 1--0ADIES WANTED TO DO PLAIN and light sewing at home, whole or spare time ; good pay ; work sent any distance, charges paid ; send stamp for particulars. National !Manufacturing Company, Montreal. ltlinard's Liniment Cures Burns, Eto LORD KITCHENER'S RELIGION. His Conduct at Cairo Proved a Real Tonic to That City. Rev. J. H. Molesworth, late incum- bent of All Saints', Cairo, writes as follows on Lord Kitchener's religion: "No one could be long in his com- pany without realizing that he was a man who viewed life seriously. I may illustrate this from the effect he produced on society in Cairo, when he went there to take up his position as British Agent and Consul General. Cosmopolitan places like the capital of Egypt, which are largely the haunts of pleasure, are often given over to a frivolity which is not seen in cities of commerce and business. There is frequently a relaxing of morals beyond what is witnessed elsewhere, and a general air of un discipline, and it goes without say- ing that in such places Sunday and Sunday worship are at a discount. "It would be foolish to assert that Cairo was free from these vices. But the coming of Lord Kitchener in- stantaneously wrought a change. He was known to be a man of unswery ing devotion to duty,ofdisciplined life, of resolute purpose. Instinctive- ly we all braced ourselves up, and it was as though a tonic had been ad- ministered to the place. So far as his work permitted, Lord Kitchener was regular and punctual in his church attendance, and this at once told beneficially upon the Sunday habits of the community. "He was president of All Saints' Church committee, and I never re- member his omitting to take the chair, even when hard pressed by State business. "Earl Kitchener was indeed a type of that simple, manly, straightfor- ward Christianity which we associate with the best English laity, which does not trouble itself indeed about subtle questions and controversies, but rests on the broad facts of re- velation, and in simplicity practises its tenets." LITERATURE NOT GUILTY. Experiments Prove That Books Do Not Carry Germs. Old superstitions that books are car- riers of disease seem to have been dispelled for once and all by experi- ments recently made in London. We all know the familiar argument that Mrs. So -and -So caught this or that by reading an old book that old Mr. Such-and-Suchread a few months before he died with the same disease. Now we are told that germs cannot live in such surroundings as are of- fered by the dry pages of books, says Farming Business, and that sneezing,. coughing and talking while reading a book do not snake that book a carrier of the disease the reader may have. Washings from books read by tuber- cular patients were fed to guinea pigs but none developed the disear.e. A tard's I+inintent E.elteves 1 euralgia. INTEWSPAi'E15S POE Sams^. T)ROFIT-MAKING NPW S AND JOIi ,.L Offices for sale in good Ontario towns. The most useful and interesting of alllication to busii4esses. Full information on appWilson I'ublishir,g Com- pany, 78 West Adelaide Street, Toronto: MISCELLANEOUS (1 ANC.GR, TUMORS, LUMPS. SiTO.s �� /! internal and external. cured with- out pain by our home treatment. Write us before too late. Dr, Othman Medical( Co., Limited, Collingwood, Ont. Iii3K ON DOG DISEASES And How to Feed railed tree to any adlro s 9.r A:?srica's 1 die Author Pioneer M. CLAY GLOVER CO, inc. P82 Ra . e r 113 i' ee $..^.t Strict, Net/ :_rat The Soca] of a. Piano is tc Action. 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