Zurich Herald, 1952-02-14, Page 7Great Lakes Make
Weather Forecasts
In cooperation with other meteor-
ologists the Rev, J. Joseph Lynch,
S. J., director of Fordham 'Univer-
sity's seismic observatory, has been
making a study that indicates a re-
lation between changes iii the
weather and multi - ground waves.
He and his cciile:lgues have yet to
determine what causes these micro -
seismic waves, This clone, they hope
to prognosticate the weather as it
moves from west to east.
Unlike earthquake tremors, which
are recorded as two distinct types
of waves with a constant ratio of
speed and which therefore indicate
the distance of the shock from the
recording machine, micro -seismic
• waves are recorded as a single vi-
bration. Distatce, therefore, has
been the great unknown. The Office
of Naval Research awarded a con-
tract to Fordham University to con-
vert this unknown into a known.
Center in West -Northwest
Heavy surface traffic in the New
York City area has made it difficult
to record the micro -seismic waves
with accuracy, for which reason it
was necessary to set up a seismo-
logical triangulation station at St.'
Andrew -on -Hudson, adjacent to
Hyde Park. This triangular net-
work showed that the center of
ground vibrations associated with
weatherchanges lay in the West-.
. Northwest.
Center in Lake Erie
To make sure that the Hudson
River, wide at Hyde Park, was not
the source of the weather ground -
vibrations, a second network of
seismographs was set up on the
opposite bank of the Hudson. This
second network indicated that the
waves were coming from the sane
source as those recorded, on the
.east bank of the river. The agree-
ment indicated that Lake Erie•was
the broadcasting station.
The instruments were next mov-
ed to Hot Springs in North Caro-
lina in the Appalachians near the
Tennessee border. A triangulation
pattern covering hundreds of miles
indicated that the source of the
vibrations was almost due north. A
line drawn from the station in the
direction of the source intersected
the previously drawn line at Pough-
keepsie at a point over Lake Erie.
Father Lynch infers that probably
the entire Great Lakes system acts
as a transmitter of ground weather
waves.
"Sure Thing" Bets
To Amuse Friends
Ask a friend to think of any hour.
between one and 12, and say that
merely by consulting your watch
you will tell hint the hour he
thought of. He will be very sceptical
and probably willing to take a bet.
Hold the watch in your left hand •
and a pencil in your right, telling
your friend to make -a careful mental
note of the number of times you
tap on the dial, counting from the
hour he has thought of. Thus, if
he has thought of five o'clock he
starts counting to himself from six
as you tap. You add that he must
stop' you when, mentally, he has
counted twenty, when the pencil
will be pointing to the ho!+r he
thought of.
This is how it works. The eighth
tap of your pencil, going round
the dial, must be on the figure
12. The first seven taps can be •
anywhere you like, but, to •make it
look more inyster.ious, starton: the
figure five and work round_ elpek-
tvise until 12 is reached, .t''apping
your pencil once on each .figure.
From this eighth tap, work. hack -
wards -11, 10, 9, 8, and so on, until
your friend says "stop" having
counted twenty taps. The point of
your pencil will now be resting
on the required hour, and you can
pick up your winnings.
Bet. any lady present that you
can make her tell you her age.
Give her a slip of paper and a pen-
cil and stand away so that you
can't possibly sec what she is writ-
ing: Ask her to multipy the years of
her age by 3, aiid add 1.
Quick Change Artists—This sign in the American Express Company's window in Paris warns tourists
not to exchange their dollars at unofficial rates offered by shady characters. Caricatures of some of
the more ,notorious black -marketeers make up the display.
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Then she must multiply this total
by 3 and add the result to her
original number (her age).
Now ask what her total is. It will
always end in 3. Strike off the'
figure 3 and the number remaining
will be the one originally thought
of—the lady's age.
Suppose her age is 21. Multiplied
by 3 you get 63; adding 1 the result
is 64. Then 64 multiplied by 3 gives
192, which, added, to the original
number (21) gives. 213. Drop the
3 and you have the original num-
ber, 21. It works with any number.
Here is another trick. Place 21
matches on a table. Explain that
this is a game in which one, two
or three matches at a time can be
taken from the heap. You are will-
ing to bet that you can force your
opponent to pick up the last match
and so lose the game.
His Move First
Always allow your opponent to
make the first -move. If he takes
one 'matchyou take three; if • he •
takes -two, you take.two—each time
you pick up the difference between
his number and four. After five
moves 20 matches will be picked
up and your opponent will be forced
to take the last one.
The late W. C. Fields used to
win himself many a wager by
walking into a bar and betting any-
one that he could take a drink from
a bottle without touching the cork
or tampering with the bottle in any
way.
His secret was to select the right
type of bottle—the type with a
hollow bottom. Fields merely invert-
ed the bottle, poured a drink into
the cavity, then drank it. He had
not touched the cork or tampered
with the bottle, yet he had taken
a drink front its
That's the way to make a betl
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THflA1M IRONT
Joku
1 don't want you to rush right
out to try and buy some, because
it won't be on the market in quanti-
ties until 1953. But there'll •come a
time, -probably, when we'll all be
using a new synthetic organic
chemical called Krilium, which is
said to be front 100 to 1000 times
more effective in improving soil
structure than compost. manures or
peat moss.
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Developed • by a leading chemical
company, Krilium was introduced
by their researcher, Dr. C. A.
1-Iochwalt at the annual meeting of
the Association for the Advance-
ment of Science last December.
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Not a fertilizer, Krilium is a
soil conditioner which for the first
time radically and 'immediately im-
proves soil structure. Dr. Hochwalt
said.
It is highly resistant to nacterial
decomposition, effective •and econo-
mical in control of rain erosion. It
shows promise in control of spot
erosion problems in productive
agricultural areas.
* * *
One pound of Krilium has es-
sentially the sane effect on soil
structure as 200 pounds of peat
moss or 500 pounds of commercial
compost. Peat retails at four cents
a pound, commercial compost at 21
cent, and Krilium at under $2.
* * *
Rate of application, which de -
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pen.. on the type and degree of soil.
improvement desired, ranges from
concentrations of 0:02 per cent to
0.1 per cent. (by weight of soil).
* * *
In agriculture and home -garden-
ing the new conditioner . may be
spread on the soil 'surface at a
uniform rate. Bath soil surface and
conditioner preferably should be
dry at time of treatment.
,. ,
Since such minute amounts of
Krilium are. effective, it may be
desirable to use a diluent. Then the
conditioner, which' is a nontoxic,
free-flowing powder, should be
mixed thoroughly into the soil, to
the desired depth, by means ..of a
disk, rotary title' r '•and iinple-
ment.
Adding sufficient water. to soak
down to the treated depth helps
achieve the maximum effect. If
• rainfall is the expected water source,
treatment may be made just prior
to anticipated rain. Seeding can be
done conveniently before watering.
* '*. *
Krilium is an effective. -and eco-
nomical agent in control of rain
erosion. In this application it merely
may be spread on the surface even-
ly.
After it becomes wet, Krilium
forms a water -permeable film on
the surface of the ground during
• the period necessary for establish-
ment of a permanent cover crop in
erosion control,
* • * *
In addition to providing marked
resistance to the erosive action of
water, including splash erosion by
raindrops, Krilium improves con-
dition for seed germination and
subsequent growth of the grass or
vegetative cover always necessary
for permanent protection against
erosion.
The conditioner holds seed ants
soil in place while grasses or le-
gumes are germinating and becom-
ing established. Tests indicate that
the surface application of Krilium
is effective in treatment, of a wide
variety of soil types.
Tough On, Tires = This picture,
taken at a speed of 1/15,000 of
a second, shows what happens
when your -auto tire, properly
inflated, strikes a brick at a
speed of 40 miles per hour. It
is one of '•a series of photos
made by engineers at Seiberling
Rubber Co., to study effect of ob-
stacles on tires at high speeds.
Economic :advantages of Krilium
in comparison with'various surface
mulches widely used in erosion
-control, include its ease of applica-
tion, lack of flammability, resistance
to; wind, availability in areas where
nitilches are .not obtainable readily,
and savings in transportation, stor-
age, and application costs. •
Krilium ms`y be' useful in green-
houses, since 30 to 50 per cent.
crude organic wastes, such as peat
moss and composts. constantly must
be added to poor soils to bring
them to ordinary greenhouse stand-
ards .To achieN e such standards,
sand and vermiculite also usually
arc added because they do not rot
away. * - * *
Krilium-treated soils may elimi-
nate considerable surface tilling
and mulching' with organic matter.
Krilium mixed with soil before
seeding or transplanting will im-
prove soil aeration for potted and
bench plants.
* * *•
Even light surface treatments will
aid infiltration • and drainage, which
are important processes when- sur-
face irrigation, such as that used
in most greenhouses, is employed.
* *
Soil structure;is the arrangement
of tiny, primary soil particles into
aggregates with varying stability
to water. Soil structure should not
be confused with soil texture, which
is based on the relative proportion
of the three major sizes of soil
particles—sand, silt and clay.
Krilium forms and stablizes na-
tural soil aggregates against the
dispersing or slaking action of
water. The new conditioner im-
proves aggregation of poor soils, in
which aggregates may range from
dust to clods but have very low
stability to water.
* * ,I,
In well-coiditioned soils aggre-
gates retain an optimium size rang-
ing from a pinhead to a pea. In-
creases in vegetation through the
use of Krill= can he regulated as
conditions demand.
* *
Aeration, the process by which
plant robts obtain oxygen and uti-
lize nutrients, is increased greatly
by Krilium. Roots need air in ad-
dition to water, and treated soil has
large amounts of pore space for
easy access of oxygen.
How They "Doped" Horses In Olden Days
The doping of racehorses is head-
line news to -day, There's no doubt
that thoroughbreds are ''got at"
from time; to time by unscrupulous
individuals; and it's also interesting
to recall some of the perfeetly jegal
but somewhat unorthodox, .methods
employed by trainers to bring their
charges up"to scratch in the early
days of the Turf.
One of the first' on record was
Gervase Markham, who revealed
the mysteries of his calling to the
world of 1599 with a work entitled:
"How to Choose, Ride, Traine and
Diet both Hunting -horses and Run-
ning -horses."
He explains, somewhat obviously,
that you must first pick a horse
whose 'shape, countenance and de-
meanour give promise of speed." On
the morning of the race, after bring-
ing your charge to its peak on a
diet of straw and oats varied with
hay and bread, its recommended
breakfast is a large white loaf, cut
tip, toasted, soaked in wine, and •
then dried out between hot cloths.
There is now but one final service
for you to perform. Namely, to fill
your mouth with strong vinegar and
blow it in the animal's nostrils,
"making them apt for the receite of
wind." This rather tricky operation
should be repeated immediately be-
fore the off . , . "and so bequeathe
him and yourself to God."
An owner of the last century with
some original ideas was the fourth
Duke of Portland. He decided that
none of his two -year-olds should
face the alarums and excursions of a
racecourse without first being
thoroughly conditioned to noise;
and accordingly decreed that squibs
should be let off unexpectedly in
their corn -bins, and that at exercise
on his estate they should constantly
encounter drum -and -fife bands at
full blast!
Another unorthodox owner of
that time was Lord Glasgow, who
used to shoot any of his horses
whose performance displeased him.
He also had a way of dealing sum-
marily with servants; he once threw
a waiter neck -and -crop out of the
window of a Scottish hotel, break-
ing his leg and causing other in-
juries. When the irate manager
remonstrated with him, his lord-
ship remarked cheerfully: "Put hint
on the bill, no matter what it is."
It's so long since a filly won the
Derby -1916 was the last occasion,
when Fifinella scored in both Derby
and Oaks (substitute races at New-
market)—that not everyone realizes
they are eligible for it. They are,
however (although colts, of course,
are barred from the Oaks), and al-
together four fillies have been suc-
cessful in both great Classics.
The first to bring off this re-
markable double was Sir Charles
Bunbury's Eleanor, whose excel-
lence inspired the famous last words
from the mouth of the Bunbury
groom, to whose death -bed a parson
had been summoned just before the
Epsom meeting of 1801.
After a variety .of helpless con-
tortions, the poor fellow finally
divulged the dramatic secret of
which he was so anxious to rid his
conscience before departure. "De-
pend on it, that Eleanor is a hell of
a mare!" he cried—and fell back
dead. The parson had only himself
to blame if, a few clays later, he
failed to back the winner of both
Oaks and Denby; He had been
given the tip all rights
Denzil Batchelor tells that and
other amusing stories in his very
readable book, "The Turf of Old" a
notable contribution to the literature
of racing in Great Britain. He also
includes some remarkable wagers
of the bad old days, when a man
could cheerfully lose £40,000 on
one throw of a dice, and when the
general zest for gambling is perhaps
best epitomized by the prince of
them all, Charles James Fox, who
yawningly asserted that next to
winning at gambling he loved
losing best.
One of the most astute wagers
was that of the Duke of Queens-
berry, who had the temerity to bet
that he could dispatch a letter fifty
miles within an hour in days when
the swiftest transport was the stage
coach.
His opponent must haye con-
sidered himself on velvet ... until
he saw the Duke enclose the letter
in a cricket ball, which he handed
to twenty-four skilled throwers to
fling round a measured circle for
sixty minutes ... he won his het.
He Paints Pictures
On Heads Of Pins
When Italian artist, Egidio Bos -
chi, holds an exhibition of his
work, each painting can be seen
by only one person at a tune. View-
ers study his pictures through the
lens of a high-powered microscope.
For Boschi has executed seven
paintings—six landscapes and a
portrait—on the heads of ordinary
pins.
He will never make any more
of these minute masterpieces, be-
cause the strain involved has cost.
hint the perfect sight of his heft
eye. After three years' intense
work, it has been irreparably dam-
aged.
Art experts who have studied his
work are amazed at the amount of
detail in the paintings. Boschi's
landscapes show clouds in the
skies, trees and shrubbery on tiny
hills and other items that are
frequently ignored in normal sized
pictures.
He used special colours that
would retain their brilliance under
enormous magnification, and instead
of a brush he used a single hair
from the back of his hand.
Artists throughout the ages have
attempted to paint the greatest pos-
sible detail in the smallest possible
area, but few have equalled the
work of Boschi.
An American tamed James W.
Zaharee is also famous for his
close work, but he uses a pen
instead of a knish. Zaharee's hand-
writing is so small that he has
been able to put the Lord's Prayer
on a single grain of rice. It is said
that he has written more., than
7,000 letters (clearly visible through
a microscope) on one side of a grain
of rice.
A man had been talking for hours
about himself and his achievements.•
"I'm a self made man, that's what
I am—a self made man," he said.
"You knocked off work too soon,"
came a quiet voice from the corner.
feeding Time At Oak Ridge — A workman places an aluminum -
jacketed uranium slug in a fuel channel opening of one of the
graphite reactors that make up the atomic pile at Oak Ridge. The
natural uranium slugs, like the one being inserted above, weigh
2.57 pounds each and are four inches long.
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