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Zurich Herald, 1952-01-31, Page 3Dog Shoots Man A remarkable hole -in -one was accomplished by a New York gol- fer recently. !)riving from the third tee, -his ball brought down a low- flying Piper Cub 'plane, and then ran into the hole, Though the ball passed through' the fuselage, the pilot was unhurt. 'Planes meet with 'Many tutex- pected hazards. Earlier •this year an R.A.F. Canberra jet bomber's attempt to fly the Atlantic non- stop without refuelling had to be postponed because it met with a collision, A hole eight inches by six incites was made in the leading edge of the starboard wing—by a seagull! Quite small members of the ani- mal lcindont are capable of causing the most freakish accidents. When • five buildings were • razed to the ground in- Pearl River 'Village, New York County, a crow was to blame. Someone took a pot' shat at the bird, missed, but set off a series of explosions in a fireworks factory. Igniting grmpowder caused exten- sive Carnage to four nearby build- ings, but the crow flapped off un- injured. A bee was recently responsible for blacking out, half a stown in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The bee stung a motorist's nose, the motorist crashed- into a pole and broke all the power i'nes. Fish were indirectly to blame for another black -out, when the automatic control system of an American railway was short-circuit- ed. An angler near Wellington cast his line into a creek •beneath a railway bridge. It caught. in some wiring' and the result was sthat fourteen freight trains and three passenger expresses were held. up two -hours. A dog shot a man in Texas last year, He sniffed- at his mas- ter's rifle, raised a paw and 'Welched offs the trigger. In Cambridgeshire this year a cricketer went up in smoke and fled for the pavilion with fire licking at his trousers. A ball had hit a box of matches in • his pocket which immediately burst into flames. A somewhat siniiiar occurrence is reported from California. A far- mer had been working with a weed- killer made from sodium -chlorate. When he put his hands in his pockets, his trousers exploded, the chemicals used •being highly in- flammable. An even less likely ,accident oc- curred in Indiana this May. A steeplejack, James Swottan, was. treated in hospital for considerable injuries. He had fallen—from a stool! Yet an ex -paratrooper, Richard Beckham; of Fairbanks, Alaska, fell froin..a, kitchen..Flielfy theu,;_Itit.: a tap and turned on the water. Soggy calve clogged • up the sink waste -pipe,. the water overflowed, short-circuited the electric wiring and set the house alight. In Appleton, Wisconsin, a roan sneezed so hard that he fell out of bed and. broke his toe. A severe sneezing attack caused another to crack his Adam's apple, and yet a third sneezes, a• Sussex woman, dis- located her spine and had to spend several weeks' in plaster. A dislocated jaw was the lot of a Kidderminster girl whose fi- ance kissed her with too much verve. Kissing appareatiy needs a lot of care, for in 'America an actor embraced his leading lady so thoroughly that he broke his nose. He has since been .given compensation for injuries received in the course of duty! You never know what may cause an accident! Parlay. In Detroit, after Duane Hunter, 11, told how he -had. run a $30 stake up to $2,305 at the horse races, the judges ordered him to sink all his winnings in.U.S. defense boors, • - . Perching Pooch—This dog, "Mr. Nick," has different ideas on what to do with a fire hydrant, He likes to sit on this particular hydrant and watch the world go by. He won't let other dogs. near his perch and when same paint - vers turned up to paint it, they hod considerable trouble until Mr, Nick's owners calledfdtn off, tl A Few Odd Facts About Cook $Qoks Cook -books are written just for bachelors, for two people, for- hum- dreds, for third graders, for •gour- mets, for amateurs, for living alone whether you like it or not, and for men only, Special cooking equip- ment and specifie seasons inspire more books, while sometimes a book is dedicated exclusively to a single food. One, for example, is about nothing but mushrooms. There is an "indispensable little cook -book on Eskimo cooking," cook -books by operasingers, funny paper characters, mythical person- alities created by food companies, and by church groups. Some shops are carrying as many as 125 titles in cooking alone. Fannie Merrit Farmer started the deluge in 1896 when her famous "Tire Boston Cooking - School Cook Book"' was published. One of her theories nearly knocked the cozy off great-grandmother's tea- pot. It was the decree that cooking measurements must be level and universally standar cl, "Slightly rounded dessert spoonfuls" were out, With Miss Farrier, cooking ceased to be an individual, crea- tive art and became an exact sci- ence. Today there are two classes of cook-books—straight and specialty. vfiss Farmer's comes under straight, a's do other general vol- umes which carry all-inclusive se- lections of recipes, mean and diet suggestions, marketing,. serving and like information. Specialty books • deal with one type of food or cook- ing—such as the Sizzling Platter, Cooking Under Pressure, Casserole Cooking, Chafing Dish Cookery, .144 Siamese Royal Wedding—After their wedding in the Siamese em- bassy in Paris, Prince Birabongse of Siam and his bride, Celita Howard, kneel on intricately fashioned pillows waiting for the guests to file past and spill a little "holy water" into their hands. Internationally famous as an auto racer, the Prince uses the name, P. Bira, in sporting events. scores of others. A unique exam- ple of slanting is a cook -book for bunters. It includes deerburgers; armadillo sausage, muskrat ineat loaf, beaver fricasse and wood- chuck pie. This is truly the Golden Age of cook -books. In fact, people are al- tering the attested 'conversation wedge of "1-fave you react any gond books lately?" • to "Have you read any good cook -books. lately:" It will soon be seed -treating time and many farmers through- out Canada will be preparing their seed grains against attack by 'many seed and soil -borne diseases. I am reminded of this important fact by Canadian Industries Limited who also sent along the interesting pictures appearing '. herewith. These are from magnified photographsof two wheat kernels. The top one shows a healthy seedling that has been treated with a modern seed disinfectant. The. untreated seedling + below is heavily infected with root -rot and will either be killed outright or will develop into a retarded, weak plant. Nuff said? Feed your cattle on. sawdust and have them thrive; is the latest from the scientists. Sounds almost too good to be true—but that's what the man said. r, * * During World War I sawdust was converted by German chemists into cattle fodder by means of sul- furic acid. The acid broke down the lignin (stick stuff in woddy cells) so that the wood 'or cellulose could be digested in the rumen of a cow. A cow has four stomachs, of which the rumen is the first. Cows can. eat cotton, which contains no lignin, • 0 0 lir the laboratories of the General Electric Company Dr. M.' Dexter Bellamy has long bean trying to make sawdust digestable without the aid of sulfuric acid, He does this by turning electrons on sawdust. Tlie electrons do something to the lignin so that bacterial action of rumen, can convert the celluldse into aceticacid, propionic acid and butyric acid, All these volatile acids can be absorbed by a cow's inter- . tines, * * The electrons that Dr. Bellamy • turns on the sawdust come from a modified X-ray tube. An X-ray tube glows in action. .This visible• glow consists of a stream of elec., irons, When the stresdn strikes e. tungsten target invisible X-rays shoot forth. s. :Ur. Bellamy wants the electrons and not the X-rays, Accordingly, he applies a discovery itiade years ago by' Philip Lenard. In other words,whe substitutes a thin alureins uni window for the target. The electrons Pass through the alumin- um into :the open air and make a fate tninia.tiu'e aurora. Dr. Bellamy could hardly turn the electrons directly on a cow without doing damage and probably killing the animal. Rabbits' ears are easily punctured by electrons. So anartificial rumen or stomach in the form of a test tube was used. In this test tube cultures of bac- teria from a cow's rumen were placed, for one or two days and kept at 100 degrees F., which is the temperature of a cow. * * 0 After the period of digestion ended steam was bubbled through the specimen.' The volatile acids came off as vapors, which were then condensed. To the liquid thus ob- tained caustic soda of known strength was added. T•lie. degree„ to which volatile acids were neu- tralized by,the soda was a measure of their amount, When the stuff in the glass was exposed to electrons for only one minute there was no •Creat effect. But with an exposure of twelve ixtinut s the bacteria .digested the sawdust as readily as they did bay. As the period of exposure was in- creased digestibility was again re- duced, apparently because the cellu- lose,. was destroyed, Sawdust over - water, but ordinary cellulose is in - exposed -to electrons is soluble in soluble.. rt * * :A11 these experiments may be of commercial importance. Because Inman beings cannot live on cellu- lose, it does not mean that cattle cannot. And if cattle can be fed a nourishing sawdust, which has been • .made ,digestiLle by simpler means „.fili4it treating it with sulfuric acid, •b,eef may be much cheaper some c"l;y than it is. 0 * 0 , Aind for millions of beef -lovers, tftat day cannot conte a minute too soon, Wreckers Made Own "Power Cuts" As well as being famous for its cream and rugged coastline, Corn - ie °renowned for its "wreckers" 'unscrupulous characters who•used to lure ships to destruction by hang- ing out false lights, or dousing ex- isfing• •beacons, and seizing any cargo washed ashore. <''_.Tliere's the story of one Cornish parson. •who, although he always ti.eluded. in his service a prayer' for %til tii*Siii,sPerilson the ,sea, invariably added a;'rider to';the effect that if the Alruigltty saw fit to wreck a particular vessel . . could :Re please arrange to do so locally? yet . "we are bound to con- chide that most tales, of actual wrecking of ships are _legendary . or to be found only in romantic • novels," says William McIr ee itt his . • informative book ou one of the Most fascinating of all subject's, "The Law of the Sea". Tite only ' instance with historical backing did not occur in Cornwall at all but on, ' the Scilly Islands, writes the author, 'when. in 1680 the first lighthouse was rected there. ' "Unfortunately, the keepers ap- pointed appear to have been Still- onians who• used their lights to a.s- ,sist rather than hinder their rela-. tives engaged in the family occupa- .tion of wrecking. For over a cen- tury the St: Agues light was a public scandal. Sometimes it shone slightly; sometimes so dimly that it could not be seen from St. Mary's (a neighbouring island). Sometimes it was put out altogether!" Turning to New England, Mr. 1VIcFee states that although the story, again of a parson, who spot- ted to wreck on the rocks through his church window and ordered the congregation to "wait for him," is probably founded on fact, there is little historical evidence to sup- port deliberate "wrecking" of ves- sels on Cape Cod. IF YOUR .IRON STICKS • If. starch sticks to your iron and scorches, 'snaking it hard to work and using- up' extra .current and .effort, let the iron cool, then run it over; a waxed paper (paraffin dis- lodges starch); lastly,;'wipe clean with .ysoft cloth. :If some starch stip remains, soften .it with heeswais them scrub With soapsuds or very'"mild scout- ing powder, using only .a very little water. , Don't scratch ironl "Bark -feeding' ' Trees In The Winter Because it has been discovered that trees aren't really as dormant as they seem in winter :months—in fact, can absorb fertilizer solutions through their bark -it may be pos- sible to help trees to avoid or re- cover more quickly from winter injury by "bark feeding." This is :.indicated by research work at the Michigan State College horticultur- al department, headed by Dr. I -I. B, Tukey. Radioactive chemicals, plus fer- tilizer solutions, were the tools Tukey and his fellow researchers used in their tests. When they ap- plied a radioactive chemical to the branches of a dormant 'tree, for in- stance, they found that it traveled. A Geiger -counter test on the trees a few days later showed that the radioactive material . had moved. The saute thing happened when radioactive chemicals were sprayed: or painted on the trunk of the tree —the Geiger counter clicked at a different spot on the tree a few days after. And these tests, mind you, were made during winter weather at temperatures as low as five de- grees below zero, The next step in the tests was a series of experiments with fer- tilizer solutions containing phos- phorus, potash and nitrogen. The research oxen selected peach and apple trees in several- commercial orchards in Michigan that had been hard hit by winter freezing. Still during the winter, they sprayed the fertilizers on the branches and trunks of tite test trees. The pay-off came later, Trees that had been trunlc-and-brauch- sprayed could easily be told from nearby trees which received no such treatment. For one thing, they showed more short growth and bet- ter leaf color. Also, close examina- tion, including cross. sections taken . of branches, revealed at least partial recovery from the winter injury. Yet the untreated trees in the or- chards gave every indication of greater permanent damage. Tukey believes that the fertilizer solution absorbed by the branches gave the trees additional nutrients. to speed recovery—also acted as a• substitute for the food that was blocked from normal channels by injured tissue. This "shot in the arni" apparently gives the tree a chance to grow new wood and set up new channels for 'flow of food from the roots. "Actually," says Tukey„"we don't yet know how much practical value there is in this winter bark -feeding process. But at least we know that so-called 'dormant' trees will absorb liquid chemicals through the bark." From "The Country Gentleman.” BATTLE FOR HUMAN HEART For a great many years •now, a strange tug-of-war has been going on between the French and Austrian governments over—a heart. It be- longs to the former King of Rome and Duke of 'Reichstadt, son of Napoleon, who died in Vienna early last century at the age of twenty- one. At present the. heart is in Vienna, together with the re- mains of the Duke of Rome's mother and Napoleon's second wife, Marie ' Louise. The French would like it to be buried with Napoleon's remains ,in Paris, but the Austrian Government remains adamant. • • NEW and USEFUL Too New Children's Clothes Washable Denim overalls with roomy pockets, conte in blue, green and brown. 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