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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS COLBORNE, ONT. FEB. 14, 1957 Birds in Florida Dawn on the Tamiami Trail. We had left Miami before sunrise for a purpose: to be well in the Everblades as the birds awakened and started feeding The friend who had planned our whole trip for us had insisted that we start out in the dark, so that we should not miss seeing a single bird and all the brids of this area, "that would take Athos a million years to paint." Suddenly we saw ghost wings -- an owl? - then a flying night heron; but there was not enough light to distinguish whether it was a yellow-crowned or a black-crowned. As visibility came a coot could be plainly seen, then a pied-billed grebe, and we correctly identified a black-crowned night heron. Suddenly the sun was up over the horizon. The automobile idled along, for we were in no hurry. We, were in a wildlife refuge of two or three million acres that included the bulk of the Everglades, south of the Tamiami Trail, and taking in the Bay of Florida and Whitewater Bay. There was no trace of white civilization in this wilderness except the straight road, the canal en one side, and occasional stretches of so-called Australian pines that had been planted alongside the road. Now I am beginning to see birds thick and fast: dozens of coots in the canal: crows, sparrow hawks, and kingfishers perched singly on vantage points above the canal that was alive with fish. We saw twenty black vultures perched on some boulders by the canal, but we stopped counting turkey and black vultures, for they were in vast numbers. Next came a Florida gallinule, marsh hawk, several American egrets, and great blue heron after great blue heron (we gaw only a few little blue heron), then a huge flock of boat-tailed grackles. Near a small truck iarm (how did this farm man-» age to be in this refuge?) were two mockingbirds and several bluebirds perched on telephone wires. Farther along we saw three red-winged blackbirds, a green heron on a rock by the water, a cormorant, and a flock «f tree swallows. Woodpeckers had been conspiciously absent, but a red-bellied woodpecker put in his appearance. We came to cypress forests, the free trunks covered with clusters of air plants, one with open red flowers that stood out as a bold splotch of color in the gray-*reen landscape.^ Often the canal einths. These make a beautiful sight when in bloom, but are the despair of Floridians, who try in vain to keep their waterways cleared of this introduced plant. The banks of the canal held many flowers unknown to us until we saw a bloom we could name, the lowly thistle. In the distance we saw great numbers of American egrets and snowy egrets flying together. The sight of these two types of white-plumaged birds was what I had been told made Die Tamiami Trail so interesting. --From "Menaboni's Birds," by Athos and Sara Menaboni. It's no use giving people more Liberty till they've learnt to handle what they've got. REALLY STACKED - The lure of money being what it is, model Cathy Hild tries to wrap her arms around $8,000 in silver dollars piled on a table. The table load of hard and heavy cash was golf's biggest one-day pay-off, offered .gt the recent Mac-Naughton Pro-Amateur Tournament. Who Started This Shaving Business? It's a surprising thing that there aren't more beards around, when you consider that the average man spends some six months of his life _ gloomily scraping away 456 million unwanted whiskers from two square miles of skin. Who started this futile business? Nobody knows. But the Egyptians were definitely shaving 5,000 years ago. It can be a painful enough process, too, even with a modern safety razor. Spare a thought, then, for the African tribe which uses planes of red-hot iron for a close singe; or the one in the Pacific which clips a whisker at a time between two sharp pieces of flint. In other parts of the world, beyond reach of razor blades, the local citizens use such uh-comfortable implements as sharks' teeth, shells, pieces Of bamboo and broken glass. One of the sorest cheeks in suffered by Samuel Pepys, who wrote in his diary on May 2nd, 1662: "To trimming myself, which I have done this week every morning with a pumice stone ... I find it very easy, speedy and cleanly, and shall continue the practice of it." Two years later, he had changed his mind: "This morning I began a practice which I find with the ease I do it with that I shall continue . . . that is to trim myself with a razor: which pleases me mightily." Men have always used a blade Of some kind to rid themselves of stubble trouble. The oldest razors yet found--jagged pieces of green obsidian stone -- were used in Peru 3,000 years ago. Bronze razors dredged from the DIAMOND DOME - Something unique in construction is this oluminum-domed auditorium, shown during final stages of its erection at Honolulu's Hawaiian Village. The building was erected in only 20 working hours by a 38-man crew. There is no interior framework or support. Diamond-shaped aluminum panels are bolted together to form a rigid shell, which, as seen in lower photo, is strengthened by addition of exterior struts. The auditorium will seat more than 1,800 people. Thames and dating back to 1,000 B.C. have looped blades cast in one piece, so that a finger could be used to feel the skin while shaving. Down the centuries there have been as many reasons for shaving as there have been different methods of doing it. Both Peter the Great of Russia 'and Elizabeth I of England pounced on beards as a profitable source Of taxation. Elizabeth imposing a penalty of 3s. 4d. a year on bearded priests. Alexander the Great forbade them in his armies on the grounds that they gave enemies too convenient a handhold. To the ancient Greeks, shaving was a sign of refinement, and Julius Caesar noted that in Britain it indicated noble birth. The first attempt at a safety razor came in 1762, when a Paris master cutler produced a modified Cutthroat type, with a guard on the blade. The modern form of razor, with blade at an angle te> the handle, oomo years later. Meanwhile, inventors had a field day, creating such weird and wonderful instruments as a cylindrical beard-grinding machine, driven by a foot treadle, and a razor to which was attached a small boiler designed to soften the bristles with a jet of steam! Statisticians have had a wonderful time with shaving. It has been gravely calculated, for example, that the energy expended on it in a lifetime is enough for a 140-lb. man to climb 764 nine-inch stairs; that the average face has 40 square inches of shaving surface, on which 25,000 whiskers grow at least a hundredth of an inch in twenty-four hours. Down With Booze! A man went up to a passer-by in New York one warm afternoon last June and asked: "What city am I in!" The answer so disturbed him that he went straight to the nearest police station. Dazed, he tried to explain to the duty sergeant that the last thing he remembered was being in a bar in Johannesburg -- 8,000 miles away -- two months earlier. The police sent him to hospital for a check up. In July, a railway worker in France was astounded to see snorting, hiccupping pigs staggering out of a truck. Hastily he called a vet. "Blind drunk," decided the vet when the police had taken charge of the disorderly char-Examining the train the police found that the pigs' truck had been shunted violently at some point of its journey smashing open the pigs' cages and two barrels of the finest Bordeaux wine. The pigs were delighted; they guzzled the lot! Earlier last year, wine merchant Bill Gartner opened his cellar for the first time for nearly a week and found thousands of ants wallowing in booze. Undisturbed, the crawling army had gnawed through the kegs and drained away $500 worth of rum. Then as a "chaser" they had a go at the champagne which was frothing everywhere. Bill Gartner was severly bitten when he entered the cellar -- for the ants were all fighting . : . CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING . : . Sell exclusive houseware proaucis «m appliances wanted by every householder. These items are not sold in stores. 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