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Port Perry Star, 27 Apr 1933, p. 3

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four fathoms; the Alexandra Channel, | now unused, and the Prince's Channel; the Northward Channel; the Swim Channel for more or less shallow- draught trafic--and the Black Deep,| 'where London's mud is deposited by the sludge-boats--among the hidden highways. Green Lights and Black Diamonds 'When approaching a harbor or pass- ing through a fairway the buoys on the starboard, or right-hand side, of a vessel ate always conical in shape, and of one color, though the sides may be straight or rounded. Those on the port side of a navigable channel are shaped like truncated cones, with flat tops. These flat-toppéd, or "can" buoys, are of two colors, and painted either in vertical stripes or in chequer. If a sand-bank, or other shallow 'water, Ro ) its origin in intestinal stasis (delay)--a condition of which the sufferer is seldom aware. It means the unsuspected accumulation of waste matter and the consequent formation a C These Wis . b Greenland's Is Highly There was jubilation in Denmark last week when the World Court an- nouncer its verdict that Greenland be- longed to the Danes and not to the Norwegians, who had built settlements on the eastern coast: of that ice-clad land since 1931, Greenland is Den- mark's only colonial possession, and though it has little commercial im- portance, it has size and scenic won- ders enough to inflate Danish pride of ownership, | The island covers an area of 827,275 square miles, and is thus more than one-fouth the size of the United States, Its Inhabited area along the coasts--mostly the west coast--is only 46,750 square miles, or not quite the size of New York State, but is nearly three times as large as Denmark it divides a navigable channel the ends seit, 'ot the bank are indicated by buoys of spherical shape, with horizontal stripes of two colors. The 'outer buoy ~ is surmounted by a pole with a black "diamond at its end, and the inner buoy is distinguished by a pole with triangle. . : A buoy set to mark a sludge deposit is painted yellow and black, and those used to mark a wreck are green. Green lights and green coloring on buoys in- dicate wreckage, and the number of flashes which the 'light exhibits indi- cate to the navigator on 'which side it is safe to pass the spot. Buoys range in size from the "nun" buoy of only 18in. diameter and costing about £35, to what ic called a "first-class buoy," of 14ft. diameter and costing, fully equipped, about £200, ie Bells In Cages Bell buoys and lighted buoys are of the same shape, but the greater part showing above water is constructed . Uke a cage--the bell being rung by the motion of the water and the light sup- plied by a charge of oil-gas or acety- lene gas in the body of the buoy. The ~ gas lasts for about three months or more, and at Trinity House Wharf is a huge rack of cylinders from which the steam tenders draw supplies for the replenishment of the buoys. Mooring buoys, attached to heavy sinkers, vary in size according to the vessels intended to use them, and in eolor according to the regulations of the local port authority. They are surmounted by an iron ring, to which the ship's mooring-cable is made fast, Anchor buoys, the smallest kind, are filled with cork and attached to the anchor when it is dropped. This is a precaution taken to warn other ships against letting go their anchors near + In 1930 the population of Greenland totalled only 16,630, of whom 408 were Danes and the rest natives. These rugged people, living at the foot of mountains that strétch inland, row on row, until all but the highest peaks are buried under a nice cap 8,850 feet deep covering five-sixths of the island, manage in three chief ways to exist, 'Some are miners; others are fisher men; still others trap and hunt ani- mals for their skins. - The principal minerals are graphite = Paris to Restrict Foreign Mu:icians Paris. -- Application of the quota system to foreign musicians in Paris and surrounding districts. is provided in a decree just issued by the French Ministry of Labor. This decree would Teduce the number of freign musicians permit. ted to perform for profit to 10 per cent. of the total number employed in each place of entertainment. Though this decree applies only to musicians outside the theatres, it is believed to foreshadow simil ac tion in 'the case of theatrcal per- formers and other entertainers. The decree states that the propor- tion of musicians employed in or chestras of hotels, cafes, cabarets, restaurants and other places where food and drinks are sold as well as in dance halls shall be affected by the ruling. The different establish- ments are given a period of two months to comply with the order, reducing the number of foreign mu- siclans to 30 per cent. within two weeks, to 20 per cent, at the end of a month and 10 per cent. after two "the same spot, where cables become | and onehalf months, entangled, and to enable the position of an anchor to be discovered if the cable should break --W. J. Passingham 7 tn Tit-Bits (London). . in) Si Only lp esis > Lord Marcher ® ne Lloyd, head London --S! of oldest from the royal house of both 'acres in i The ruling contains one loophole which will allow certain exceptions. It is stipulated that in the case of musicians who play special musical instruments typical of their own countries, or who sing in- foreign languages, and whose replacement for these reasons by French artists] 'would be impractical, the Ministry family of direct|0f Labor may authorize an increase in the quota of foreign performers up to the of 30 per cent. Up to the present time here has stimulate your liver and kidneys to smooth, regular action. Your inside is thus kept clear of those imputities | which, allowed to accamulate, lower the whole tone of the system. Krus- chen works directly upon your blood- stream, too, invigorating it so that it floods every fibre of you with tingling energy. ~ 3 Kruschen Salts is obtainable at all drug Stores at 45¢. and 76¢. per bottle: re eg Barren Valued By Denmark and cryolite, with small quantities of copper and some asbestos, and enough woal to supply part of the inhabitants' needs. The cryolite production in 1930 was about 35,000 tons. Other main products of Greenland were 4,500 tons of fish (principally cod) and various by-pro- ducts; 2,300 tons of blubber and shark liver; 6,250 blue or white fox furs, and 20,000 other furs, including bear and seal skins, Exports from Greenland in 1930 totaled 10,742,000 kroner (a krone is 26.8 cents at par), and were made up as follows: Crylite, 8,156,000; codfish, 1,339,000; furs, 210,000; fish oil, 694, 000; elderdown, 53,000. Imports total ed 3,192,000 kroner; they isted of provisions, tobacco, textiles, woodwork and some coal. For a region as large as Greenland this record of production and trade is little to boast of. Still, so colorful a place is Greenland, so useful has it been for the study of Ice conditions and as a haven for storm-driven marin- ers, 80 closely is it linked with Danish history, and so sanguine are predic- tions that it may serve as a station in aerial transportation between Europe and America, that the Danes are more than happy to owns it. been no ewact restriction on on the number of foreign musicians employed in Paris, aside from the fact that all foreign entertainers were obliged to obtain permits to work in France from the Ministry of Labor. That regulation still af- fects all foreign entertainers ap- pearing in France. . fpr at French Cameroon Colony Curbs Sleeping Sickness Paris. --France has achieved another colonial victory. The Cameroon has tered sloank Yoke hid PIES Trypanosomiasts, or sleeping sick- ness, made its appearance as a specific disease in 1901 throughout southeast- ern German Africa, the French and Belgian Congos and the Cameroon. It was found algo in West French Africa, on the Gold Coast, in Nigeria and the Togo. A German mission, which went to Africa in 1913, made the first attempt to combat the mysterious malady sys- tematically. The World War, however, interrupted the work and little was done until 1916, when French scien- tists, alarmed at the spread of the dis- ease, resumed the experiments left off by the Germans. It was not until 1922, however, that the work was properly organized and sufficient personnel and backing were available. Under the leading scientist, Dr, Jamot, a study of the malady was undertaken in French Equatorial Afri- ca. At the end of 1931 sleeping sick- ness was virtually under control in the entire region. t 8 o - Do you with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. --Wm. Penn, I Do Not Think Their Equal Can Be Found For Children" und Horizontal 1--To utter 4--Warms 9--Seed container 12--Duration 13--To praise 14--S8pike of corn 16--Pertaining to universe 17--Worthless 19--God of war 21--0!d pronoun 22--Hastened 25--Total 27--Egyptian dancing girl 31--Lubricant 82--Slander 34--French article 85--Mohammedan name 36--Island 37--Preposition 38--Picture 41--Bow 42--Entrance Wind Tunnel To Test Bullets In England Velocity of Air 700-Miles an Hour -- Planes Already Under Observation The fastest wind in the world-- traveling at the rate of 700 miles an hour--may soon become a reality if plans proposed by the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Englgnd, are carried out. This high- velocity air stream will be a valu able by-product of England's newest airplane wind tunnel, Its purpose will be to test rifie bullets and larger projectiles after the manner of lab- oratory experiments on heavier-than- alr planes, The British National Physical Lab- oratory has just completed experi- ments on this new compressed air tunnel. Model planes are suspend- ed In its under air at twenty atmos- pheres pressure, Swift-moving pro- pellers drive this' compressed air against the models and scientists can discover essential data on plane de- sign, 43--Goal 44--Ripped 45--Like 53--Esteem 80--Caustic 61--Mound 1--Pouch 2--Past 6--By 8--To kill 10--Paddle 16--Angry To Test Bullets When experiments on such plane models are finished a large amount of compressed air is on hand, It is proposed to release this through a smaller tunnel, at much higher speeds, and test the action of this wind on projectiles, both large shells and rifle bullets, One thing of vital importance is to determine the amount of "drift" of a bullet due to cross-winds which it en- counters in its flight. It is hoped also to improve the range of 'a bul- let or shell by studies of different designs, Scientists have long had equations for predicting the amount of "drift" for various wind velocities, This "drift" is allowed for when aiming the gun outside of actual gunfire these equations have never been given real tests, 'The speeds invol- ved are too high. 'With the new tunnel, and its 700- mile-an-hour wind, the velocities be- gin to become comparable with the muzzle velocity of a bullet. In the new project it seems possible to avoid real gunfire trials and let the air rush by the shell instead of the projectile rushing through the air, To measure the "drift" on a bullet 11t will only be necessary to turn the stationary bullet at some small angle with the wind stream, Plans call for the suspension of the projectile in | the tunnel with automatic electric instruments attached which will tell the effect of Wind forces. To Study Motion Problems urements in the new projectile will attempt to solve some of ore pressing problems of what "external ballistics, This applied physics involves n of a projectile after it effect of air on' a bullet rush- 'things. It it does 47--=Jules Verne hero 49--Turning points 57--Possessive pronoun 5§--To be lofty 62--Undressed kid 63--Number Vertical 3--Aflirmative 4--Inheritor 6--Unreasonable 7--Upper part 9--Fit of peevishness 11--Prohibitionist 18--Smallest 20--To eat ' 22--Put on shoe buttons 23--Soft 24--Spanish article 26--Wandered 28--Fifty-one 29--Engine 30--Positive pole 32--Wing-like part 33--Outfit 36--Tapestry 39--SBuccess (slang) 40--Hotel 41---Negative 44--To dress 46--Collections 48--Simply 49--Bed 50--To regret bl--Anger 62--Former French coin b4--Note in Guido's scale 66--Grain b6--Lair 69--Pronoun substance Answers to Last Week Puzzle ¢lilp 0[S|E I io alma! misa»lo 0 [510 | fom fea wiw(=lolalw] [Rep LEG EE 3 ta > EE] fers) penne) CG alr currents sweeps around the bul- let that make it an object whose flight 1s difficult to predict. As early as 1742 attempts were made to measure the "drag" of alr on projectiles. The ballistic pendulum was devised in this era and gave scientists a way of determining the velocity of impact, Hutton, in 1776, improved on these experiments and found that the drag increased great- ly for speeds over 1,100 feet a second. All such tests * necessitate actual gun fire. France, in 1917, began ex- periments on projectiles mounted in wind-tunnels with the air moving by them rapidly, © Their work was a forerunner of the contemplated Ted- dington tests. Similar experiments have been made in England and America before this, but never on the magnitude of the latest project. The compressed air for the Eng- lish experiments is available because {* has been found, in wind-tunnel tests on airplane models, that to give comparable results the air should be twenty times as dense as normal. These wind-tunnel tests for models, then, are carred out at twenty at- mospheres' pressure with swift-mov- ing propellers blowing the dense air at the airplane model. nt A -- SS "I took them to be a theatrical couple." "Did they wear spats?" "No; but they certainly plenty of them." ------ in A ton of talk weighs less than noth- ing it it isn't backed by action.--Theo- dore Roosevelt, NERVOUS WOMEN had You're right-- Quality does count in the tools you buy and in the tobacco you use. That's why you are wise to chew CLUB--the plug with the rich, long lasting flavour! CLU CHEWING TOBACCO YOU MIGHT AS WELL CHEW THE BEST ...SMILES... eee Some people are making such thor ough preparations for rainy days that they aren't enjoying to-day's sunshine, A certain wholesaler who had a lot of trouble in getting a certain small- town retail client to pay his bills final ly lost patience and wrote the mer- chant a threatening letter. He re! ceived the following reply: "Dear Sir: What do you mean by sending me & Jetter like that? Every month I place all my bills in a basket and then figure out how much money I have to pay on my accounts. Next, I blindfold my bookkeeper and have her draw out as many bills from the basket as I have money to pay. If you don't like my way of doing business I won't even put your billls in the basket." "What's the matter with her?" "I think her dinnér disagreed with her." "Well, I certainly admire its cour- age." A well-known writer visited a jail to take notes for an article on prison life. On returning home he described what he had seen, and his descripton made a deep impression onthe mind fo his little daughter. "A week later the writer and: his little girl were in a train which stopped at a station near a gloomy building. "What is that place?" asked a pas- senger. "The county jail," promptly. Whereupon Mary embarrassed her father and aroused the suspicion of the other passengers by asking in a loud, shrill voice: "Is that the jail you were in, Daddy?" nother answered Two small girls were playing to- gether one afternoon at the home of one of the girls. "I wonder what time it is?" said one of them at last. "Well, it can't be 4 o'clock yet," re- plied the other with magnificent logic, "because my mother said I was to be home at 4--and I'm not." Far too many persons have the un- happy faculty of finding out things that are none of their business. No Offers "I wonder why Maisie doesn't get married," said Mrs, Gossip to a friend. "I think she has often been asked to," said the other. Mrs, Gossip looked interested. "You don't say so, my dear," she cried. "By whom?" "Her mother and father," said the other woman spitefully. A Bit Mixed "James," said the lady of the house, "we'll have to do something about the mutler's batress. He's been complain- ing that he wants a new one." "Eh? Who? What?" exclaimed her husband, mystified. "How stupid of me," she replied. "I mean, of course, the matler's butress." "What are you talking about?" he ed. "I said we'll have to get the battler & new mutress. He's been complain- ing," she explained once again, Hubby sighed. "Who's been complaining ? what?" he asked, PATENTS. N OFFER TO EVERY INVINTOR, A List of wanted luventions asd full information sent free. The Ram ay jv any, World Patent Attorneys, 373 Bank treet, Ottawa, Canada. EBASYSHAVE. ANADA'S OWN BRUSHLESS Shaving Cream. Easily sold, High commission. Exclusive territory, Ade dreez: EASYSHAVE LIMITED, Toronto et = "The matler has been complaining about tha batless. I mean, the batler has been complaining about the mut- less. The wattress has been complain. ing about the butler----, Oh, bother} it's Willlams--he wants a softer bed." The prize bull-dog attacked a farmer who defended himself with a pitch. fork and in doing so killed the dog. The owner of the dog was greatly dis. tressed and approached the farmer, Owner of the Dog--""Why didn't you use the other end, and just beat him oft without killing him?" Farmer--""I would have, if he had come at me with the other end." We dislike lecturers who conceal their manuscript, thus preventing 11 from knowing how much longer we'll have to keep quiet, Village Shopkeeper (to customer) "Well, that's three hot-water bottles, two dozen lemons, and a large tin of bath mustard. I'll send them right away. All well at home, 8ir?" eee cee Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. --Qliver Goldsmith, Kennedy & }* Menton 421 College St., Toronto Harley-Davidson Distributors Write at once for our bargain list of used motorcycles, Terms arrarged. BURNS Mix equal parts ot Minard's cream, paper. pply to burn or scald. Before long the 8 painful smarting stops MINARD'S JLiNimENT MO RAI YOUR LIVER'S MAKING YOU FEEL OUT OF SORTS Wake up your Liver Bile ir --No Calomelaneeded En When you feel blue, BY tro pound ol EE

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