Daily British Whig (1850), 31 May 1912, p. 10

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5 pounds full weight of sugar. Ask your Grocer for it. RADWAY'S READY . RELIEF . Cures LUMBAGO Radway's Ready Rélef st weil rubbed over a lar until 8 glow is produccd, burning sensation. Few casos 1c quire the Rag Pils. ®ome dc when a dose en retiring would be taken, Ask for RADWAY'S READY RELIEY and be sure you met what yon ask for PINEAPPLES {Pmeapples at $1.00 per dozen Pineapples at $1.30 per dozen Pineapples (large) at 1.60 per dozen "A. J. REES 166 Princess 8t. Phone 58 onid be ' wit | #wch a ne pe drops of Shirriff's True Vanilla go as far as six to eight drops of ordinary vanillas. Shirriff'sisthe real extract of Mexican Vanilla Beans. Aged until its strength, bou- quet and flavor are fully matured. Try a bottle | was {thy | least sixty su Xm 3 THE DOMINION HAS PRODUCED ENTHUSIASTIC BIRDMEN. ik as Been Forgotten But Who ived at' Three Rivers, Was One of the Pioneers In Aerial Experi. ments Back.In 1840--Perron's Re. searches--Dr. Bell's Work. Many vears before the venerable Trowbsidge had given to tHe world his. "Darius Green and his Flying Machine," actual experiments, which Rad anticipated those set forth in this poem hati been carried out in the particular" field of, gliding aero Anglican clergyman, whose name is, unfortunately shrouded in mystery, is also unRngwn, al deternvined that they took plate some- time b& ween 1835 and 1845. This clergyman ommeticed his work by studying {AB flight of birds, and finally decided®that it was well within -the sphere of possibility, for man to successfilly femulate the ex. ample of his feathered friends. . Accordnfgly he conmnenced by mak. ing peimentss © gliders and plane sur , .and gothered an im- menseé amount' of wvaliable data which, unfortunatély, has been lost. From verbal accounts of some of these experiments,"it seems possible, that he discovered the method of building abrofoils, according to the system later lajd down by Phillips, and which m thod has Been exten sively introduced by the leading European manufscturess during the past year. After hawing. made numberless models gliders, this clergyman con- stfucted a full siked glider, with which he succeeded in making a number of ." In the lost notes he stotéfl, shat after he thd accom. plished his he f certain that the air was destined to be navigated by heavierthan-air machines, and that it was not only possible, but highly probable before the close of the cen- tury. He stated also, ¢hat before anythipg eould be done to accomplish { this much desired end, a motor suf. iciently powerful and yet sufficiently ght would 'be required,"and in many {w.ys he forecasted tha present day internal combustion otor. How truly his prophesies havé come true, is familiar te everyone. : In IB7?Ta French-Canadian inven- tor in Quebee, by the name of Perron, made some experiments in aerotech. nics, consisting of flights with gliders. What particularly distinguished the efforts of this man was tle excellent workinanship which has come to be sary factor in the econ- struction of aeroplanes to-day. It is recordeéd that this inventor incurred the displeasure of somé of his devout neighBers, because they thought he was endeavoring to prove false an old French-Canadian age, that "pigs might fly," which was employed to urge the impossibility of a useless undertaking, He, however, ultimate. ly gave up his experiments, partly on acgounmt of the opposition of his friend8, who thought. that 'he was making an effort to [bre into the realm of the oegult, and partly, per- haps, because he was compelled to discontinue his efforts more from the nedbsdity of an efficient motor which did not,exist in his day. It is stated, ugll it has been od of the future of the aeroplane, and, like his cltrgyman predecessor, in the same fifld of endeavor, prophesied that power driven air craft would be a common Mght within fifty years. No further effort of any importance to conquer the domain of the air was made in Canada until. within the last ten years. Away back in 1908, which is, indeed, ancient listory in the dev®lepment of the aeroplane, a sdliety, which was known as thie Aenerican Aeronautfeal Association, was formed "which had for its object aero-technical experi. mentation. The organizer of this society was Br. Alexander Graham Bell, 'the inventor of she telephone. Now Pr. Bell was by no means a young 'man, 'whert he undertook this w work, and it was pecessary for hin te gather about him men young- er in years and posseesed ¢ adequate practical and teshnical knowledge. The smembers of this society, which has long eimce been dissolved, have each becdme famous by their indi- vidual! éxploits in the aviation world Two Candllians were J. D. McCurdy and J. A. Baldwin. With a sound' scientific mind like Dr. Bell's, who was a master, not {only of the technical aspect of aero idyn os, but also a practical scien. tist to guide these two young men, it is no Wonder that the researches which 'were made "at Dr. Bell's sum- mer red nce « at - eck, Nova Scotia, C Breton) shoufl have borne such excellent fruit subsequ- ently. : A whole summer was passed and many thousand dollars were spent in the constpiiction of acroplapes, ac. cording to plans which were work- ed out bysthe members of the Associa- tibn. Dr. Bell; with the aid of his young psuisiats, at as ad ak op rhunity. to Orou; is theory ne x to 'tetrahedeal cells, which ulfortunately did not work out in tice as he had anMeipated. Whe, however, Ahe celebrated inven- for saw that it was a success, he abandoned further eo iments, and {he and hisqussistants then directed their aiten te the perfection of #8 ane type of machine. The first machine whish was built, wis a somewhat erude looking appar satus, but it was found to be a right 'direction, and was ¢ by \ sewe! others, whieh was a distinet improvement over the otlter. The last one which built by "ehe association, before were finally dissolved, made at ful Rights over tha Rozen surface Of the Bras d'Or lake. Thiz machine was a biplane in type, and hid a supporting surface of about five bundred square feet, 4 A -- rei ol Neuss. : No mab ther. is a - EARS HTN tm than A An Anglican Clergyman, Whoge Name | technics at Three Rivers, Que., by an | and the exact date of his experiments ' however, that he was. firmly convine- ! a I 'Germany between y and to his wife's mo- Ue | AN EXPLORER'S TRIALS. ~ 5 pees Mr. A. M. Savaze Landor Had Ter rible Trip Over the Andes. Interesting particulars of an eigh- teen months' journey across South America and back have just been giv Sandor. whe He a yet recovered from of hard- ships endured on the e tion. "My journey," he said, "included Brazil between Rio and Manasos in the great central basin of the Kingu Tapajoz and Madeira Rivers region, which Brazilians themselves have al- ways regarded as impenetrable. Af ter erbwsing Brazil I went over the { Andes through Peru to Lima, thence ! to Cuzeo and Lake Titicaca to exam- | ine Inca ruins. "Next I went across Bolivia and ! Chili "Antofagasta. From this poinif to Valparaiso by steamer, and { once more across South America to Buenos Ayres, "With the exception of thirty hours in the frain, all the traveling was ! done on mule, eance, or on foot. For about half the distance we had to cut | our own tracks through the forest, proceeded along the great campos or by the prairies over vast areas of ab solutely uninhabited couniry. The ob- '| ject of my journey was scientific, and the expedition was my own venture. "In the main, the chief difficulties were due to the absence of roads and i the fact that I could obtain no help Prom anyone, as all tried to dissuade i me from proceeding. I could get no | information, and existing maps prov- ed to be very inaccurate. During my {journey I took careful observations, {and have prepared a map, scale one fifile to the inch. When I left Rio in { March last year, 1 took enough pro- { visions to last for a year, but owing {to wastage on the part of my men (and loss these eventually gave out, | and towards the end of that part of | the expedition through the unexplored | portion of Brazil we remained for six- | teen days without a morsel to eat. "Happily there was plenty of water, { but there was no game, no fruit, no fish, and no inhabitants, and neither | my men nor myself had sufficient food to cover a sixpence. Our experiences { were terrible, and it was one of the {most tragic marches I have ever imade. At this time I had with me two carriers--my only companions-- and they suffered even more than I did. Both wanted to put on end to their sufferings, and it was only with difficulty that 1 prevented them from committing suicide. "For myself, although accustomed to roughing it, I nearly died. 1 lost fifty pounds in weight." Mr. Savage Landor stated that he studied several new tribes, made vo- cabularies of their languages, and some interesting geological, geogra- phical and anthropological observa- tions. His zigzag route over unex: plored or little kngwp country in Bra- zi] was about 5, miles, and the Bra. zilian Govérnment are so astonished at the :success of what they had re. garded ag impossible that Congress voted a grant of $20,000 to the ex- plorer. Mr. Savage Landor added that this was the last of his twenty-five years' exploring. He is reserving full de- | tails of his experiences for his forth. coming lecture at the Royal Institu. tion of Great Britain next month. A Couple of Geese. Thomas Hoar, the devoted servant upod whom Gilbert White, the natur- | alist, depended to carry out his garden plans and to look after his comfort in many ways, was noted for his ex. actness, | H. C. Bhelley, in "Gilbert White and Selborne," gives an amusing illus. tration. There was que occasion when Thomas came to report, "Please, sir, I've been and broken a glass." / "Broke a gllss, Thomas! How did you do that?" "I'll show you, sir," he rejoined, as he disappeared for a moment. Returning with a glass in his hand, he let it fall on the floor, remarking, "That's how I broke it, sir." "There, go along, Thomas; you are a great goose," said his master, add- ing to himself, "And 1 was ss great i one for asking such a foolish ques- on." The Vest a Minor Garmeht. The waistcoat has always been a garment of minor consideration. Tt Spheated and disappeared according to requirements of the varying cos- fumes in earlier times and first had official recognition under the reign of Charles II. It was in 1666 that Pepys makes mention of the waistcoat in his dairy: "This day the king began to put on his vest, and I did see | several persons of the House of Lords and Cdmmops wearing a long cassock {close to the body."'--~London Mail. Cannon-Ball Tree. One of the most remarkable plants in the world is the cannon-ball tree, to be found in British Guiana. The natural height of the tree reaches to 80 feet or 100 feet, or even taller. The fruit is 8 hard globular capsule, 7 inches or more in diameter, contain: ing number of flat, circular seeds, rather Jarger than a sixpence. in color, and very rough. Taming Tennyson. Of Tennyson it is related inv "Nuts and Chestouts" that at a club dinner he insisted on putting his feet upon the table before the guests had risen. AL efforts to make him "behave" fail. ed until Brookfield (Old Brooks of the sonnet) whispered: "Do take your legs down, Alfred. They're saying ou're Longlellow." Down went the legs. i Is a Whole Council. Mr. Fred. Cooper 'is chairman, clerk, and member, all rolled into one, of " {the Parish Council of Ashen, in Es. sex, England, From disuse the pow. ers of authority have lapsed, and Mr. Cooper has been officially made the w council until the end of the year. + Shen 1 be held 17th to 22nd, mized when town. The first national gas in the United States wil Milwaskee from June inclusive. Don't get | you set out your evlors to paint 'the thé whole of the unexplored part of} stro It, resembles a 33-pound shot, is brown | /N THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG., FRIDAY, MAY 31, ST : " CHAMPIOR KISSERS." Two Hubgerford Wen Salute Al the Ladies In Their City. Just when England iz beginning te 'pride itself on its progress of modern. ity, Hangerford, on the ol Berkshire and Wiltshire, back into the centuries because it is Hock ney Tuesday. Flan you have: lived through Hockney Tuesday you csin have ne , eonception of what it means. It needs ong merves and a stronger consti- tution thoroughly to enter into the spirit of ancient times. © 3 eight o'clock the town erier, in grey and scarlet, with brass buttons, comes out of the town hall and blows three notes on the ancient horn given by John o' Gaunt. and that is the signal for two tufti-men -to emerge from the constable's house with staves tipped with flowers--dafiodils, prim. roses, and tdlips, surmounted by an orange. ' It is their business to go forth and kiss the damsels of the town, irrespec- tive of 'age or beauty, #:cording to custom. Mr. James Blake and Mr. Anthony Bowsher were the toiti-men last Hocken" Tuesday. Mr. Blake is sixty years old, Mr. Bowsher is younger but "both of them kissed vigorously from eight o'clock until seven in the evening, with a break for dinner. Tradition decrees that they shall be liberal with oranges and pennies. Therefore, having kissed a maid, they gave her an orange as a solace, And they hurled oranges among the crowd of urchins who. followed them about all day. It was a perfect orgy of kissing. They knocked at doors, and little, high-pitched shrieks floated out into the street, showing how nobly the tutti-men were doing their duty. They went to the workhouse and kissed all the old ladies, including Ani Benson, who is ninety-nine years old; they went to the laundry, with their floral staves. Up from house to house, kissing, kissing, until, at the time of the sunset there were no mere left to kiss. They wanted to start again, but that is againaf the ancient laws. Meanwhile, during these goings-on, the Hock-Tide Court. had: been sit- ting, doing the serious business of the year, appointing a constable, a portreeve, an ale-taster, and what not, and at the end the entire court ad- journed to the Three Stars for church- warden pipes" and bowls of smoking punch. Everyone agréed that "they were good old times." A Deathbed Marriage. . Tt is recorded that tle tenth Lord Mary, daughter of J. Milner, of Stain- drop, Durham, but died the day after the wedding. A romantic story is associated with this statement. Mary Milner was a beautiful girl of humble birth. The earl went through a false form of marriage with her, but she lived with him as his wife in all in- nocence, their only son being sent to Eton as Lord Glamis. On his death- bed the earl confessed that he had acted dishoporably, but said he would now marry her. : The injured woman would have no more secret weddings; and, ill as the earl was, he was carried to church, and their marriage took place before all who could be summoned to attend the ceremony. Lord Strathmore pass. ed away next day, and though he could not legitimize his son, the worthy" and much-respected gentle- man, Mr. John Bowes, who died a few years ago, he made the mother Countess of Strathmore. Subsequently Lady Strathmore mar- ried her son's tutor, Mr. William Hutt, who becamé, through-her wealth and influence, member for Gateshead, and eventually a K.C,B. Unique Collections. Collectors gather together articles more or less interesting, but probably few go in for such bulky objects as those chosen by a distinguished Brit- isher. Old doors are the object of his desire. His doors come from old houses, castles, and abbeys of histori- cal interest. Bome time ago he ob- tained, at considerable cost, a door through which, during the French re- volution, Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday, Danton, and Robespierre pass- ed on their way to the guillotine. Probably nobody of today has a strong desire to bring together a great variety of teas and snuffs. Lord Pet ersham, however, a noted man in his day, had a hobby for acquiring var- ious kinds of tea and snuff. All round his sitting-room were shelves, on the one side laden with canisters of Sou- chong, Bohea, Congou, Pekoe, Rus- sian, and other teas, and on the other with hamdsome jars. containing every kind of snuff that the collector could lay his hands on. Their Two Medicines. The native pharmacopoeia in Skye used to be of the simplest character. A man from the island, during his first week of night duty as a Glasgow constable, went into a chemists shop and expressed frank astonishment at the bewildering array of bottles. "These medicines ar~ ferry numerous ~yes, ferry numerous indeed." "Yes, we have to keep a great many," the chemist said blandly. "Now, in Skye, whers. I come from," the coustable went on, "the medicines are not what you might call numefous at all" "No?" said the chemist. "How many do you have?' "Juist two. There is tar for the sheep and whisky for the people." Enlists at 102. Mr. John Durant, of Weyb hs England, formerly in the navy, wi has just celebrated his 102nd birthday, has been enrolled an honorary mem. of the local company of the Sur. rey" National Reserve. . Guard Your Health. Look to your health, and if you have it praise God and value it next to a good conscience, for health is the sec. 'ond Blessing that we mortals are cap able of, a blessing that money cannot buy. --lzaak Ww ig Strathmore married on July 2, 1820, |p jmade the rudder's work 1912; ~~ SOLDIERS IN BUSINESS, -- Some Have Made Fortunes on the The acceptance by Lord Kitcheper of a seat on the directorate of a well- known railway recalls the fact that two other famous generals of modern times went into woody 'apd mot with especially happy results. Of the adventures of Lord Roberts as a "City man™ there are still many old stagers who can talk. re Was nothing spéctacular about the at soldier's operations, and his ces wee as modest as his capital. Noth- ing of a wild-cat nature entered into the generals schemes, as may well be imagined, but it was not long be. fore the financier discovered that his genius py not in the direction of fin: ancial operations, and soom, like Kip- ling's veteran, he was 'back to the army again. 1 As to Lord Kitchener's financial much question | ability, "there was amofig the stock rs of the City of London, who, on his visit to them in 1888 to urge a subscription to his college at , were more than once astounded by his intimate ac- uaintance with the mysteries of the "market" and his knowledge of good and likely "futures." Though by no means a stock gambler, it is said the grant of $400,000 made him by Parlia- ment has been trebled owing to lucky . investments in "moving" markets. In 1902 the late Lord Salisbury de- clared that Kitchener possessed all those qualities. which were dedirable in an efficient Chancellor of "the Ex- chequer, and it is certain that no' business concern will lose by his inter. vention in the councils that direct its policy. , Perheps the most successful of mod- ern soldiers, however, was the late Marshal MacMahon, Dyke of Magen- ta. Before the Second Empire Mac- Mahon, who was of ®rish descent, was one of the poorest of French officers. Possessed of "inside information," however, on the eve of the Presiden- tial coup of 1848 he ventured his all on thé Bourse, and came out a big winner. He died worth nearly three millions sterling of English money, and wealth alone gondoned the lack of ancestry in hisson when the lat. ter allied himself in the 'nineties with a daughter of the Royal Due d'Au- male. Other French soldiers of "dis. tinction have won vast fortunes in apecalative enterprises---the great Mar- shal 'Massena, for one example, who died ip 1817 worth several millions sterling, a large amount of it made in Bourse speculations, A Wonderful Feat. One of the most remarkable feats ever performed by a diver is related y the crew of the British sloopsi- war, Shearwater. J. P. Lingen, a younig English shipwright, boarded up the propeller well while the vessel was rolling in heavy seas, and mo enabled her to make the voyage to port. The Shearwater was cruising off the coast of Mexico when, in a storm, she lost her propeller. Resort was immediately had to the sails, but it was found that steering was almost impossible, because the big arch, or well, under the stern, in which the propeller had revolved, ineffective. The officers decided that if they were to bring the ship to port, this well must be boarded up. Lingen was sent down to do thé work. Though hampered by the heavy diving suit and by the weight of watet, he was able to adjust himself to the bad roll- ing of the ship and handle the heavy timbers passed to him. He fastened the boards so securely that they could only be shifted in one place when the Shearwater reached port, even though she had been bajtered by heavy seas on the way. Navel men give high praise to the young man, and a 8pecial report has been sent to the British Admiralty. A special trial to the nerves of the diver while he was at work was the presence of sharks, which at times came close to him, Armed men on the warship, however. kept them from attacking im. The Devon "Tongue." Lord Aldenham, at the annual din- per of the Devonians in Londen, ob- served that things changed even in Devon.' A few years ago the squires of Devon used to speak in the beauti- ful "tongue" of the county, bul now it was almost impossible to tell to what county a man belonged. Sir Jno. W. Spear said he wondered what London would do without Devonians. There was hardly a Ministerial, pro- fessional, or literary movement in the City of London, and, indeed, in the world, in which Devonians did not take a prominent part. Smoking Hemp. "One of the curses of the natives of central Africs," said a Scottish mis- sionary, Mr. Crawlord, "is smoki hemp. It is' worse than opium. know a case where a native tied his wife up in a parcel and sold her for a smoke of hemp. I was told of the sensations of hemp smokers by a chief who had conquered the habit. It causes a peculiar glazalike enamel to come into the eyes and has the effect of making a man quite friendly one moment and the pext he would like to stab you."--London Btandard. She Grows Shamrock. One of the largest growers of sham- rock is ap Irishwoman, who started the cultivation of the plant as a heb- by, and now employs a considerable number of women and girls in her fields in the southwest of Ireland. Her trade extends to remote parts of the world, to which bunches of the trefoil are weeks before Bt. Pat vick's Day. Progressive New Zealahd. Milking machines have been in general vse in How Zealand for font years. er 3 hundreg cows ma; milked one of them in less Lae two hours. : Cheap Living. In the Biue Nile region in native laborer can live very ably on 6 to 8 cents a day. on Al h Spitzbergen's coal mines are in Arctic zone they are so deep they can be worked in the eold- est weather. 2 Mén and women who are odd might get even by marrying. to show his watch, The dude may be shy of brains but he always A a with him. 4 The average is usually anxions t mbsjache and » Bova eR ee I. 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