ee PAGE SIXTEEN a _ THe. DAILY BRITISH WHIG , SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1917. ar Av Cy hE A AA EE ---- Va In ® NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE +! be Jroken ivory cam be joined with a | Paris surgeons cement made by melting alum in hot | standing deafness water Russia has 137 central eleciric sta- | tric motor, a stone tions, serving nearly 15,000,000 per-| Michigan limestone lant can sons, For the heaviest truck wheels carrying have been designed. An Australian ferry floating reinforced concrete as A landing stage. A woman 4s a patentee of a doubl duty thre utilizes brush with stiff bristles for cleaning | cards jor newspaper builetiny. dlotheslines, Tests in Europe have shown that on motor trucks, are being used pens made of tantaern outwear those | England tio repair automobiles brok- made af steel or gold, A Kansan has invented a machine that attaches wallpaper directly to a {growing plants surrounds the source wall from the roll. New Zealand plans to about $2,500,000 in the ment of ils water power resources. Between the handles baby carriage is suspended a seat omfmachinery or buildings. which a smail child can ride. Hlectric traction has been applied | women can be removed and motor tires | Dutch army are made of straw and a | they can be used as beds pontoon | A typewriter has develop- | / The Automobile The geelogical survey has estmat-{ eo that theye about 1,000,000 ed are | ounces\of platinum in the tie STITCHES IN TIME. } &d States, | 2] 1 When they Wreated a man with! ® X-ray for an ulcer on his tongue! Not infrequently, motorists allow also cured his long |ipeir storage batteries to become al- most totally discharged and, in some | Driven by a 300-horsepower elec- | cages. nearly dry. crusher im a| moo many motorists are apt to crush | treat the storage battery as they | would treat a dry-cell--they have the | he impression that there is nothing to do but use the battery until it is exhausted. Consequently, they pay no attention to it as long as it does been invented its wor with the result that by the thet Witten addresses on boxes OT | ime it becomes inoperative the bat- 6 Jckingeg or can be used (or SHOW | tory is very seriously harmed. | It should be remembered that dry- carried | cells are not intended to be recharg- on ed or used again, while storage bat- teries, by virtue of their electro- chemical nature, may be used contin- uously throughout their life, by re- rharging from a source of electric supply. 11,250 tons or rock an hour | Litters for wounded used by |are equipped with straw blankets so & machine hops, en down on country roads. An annular receptacle for holding {of light in a recently patented_i co spend | direct lighting fixture, 4 -- Apparatus has been invented by! {an English scientist photographically; Do not neglect to take a few spark : v . Th of a ngw [to measure and record vibrations of | plug cores with you on your trip. The | metal parts of a spark plug will last i | i itely, but the cores The wide brim of a mew hat for|almost indefinitely, - : a leave must break in time, and that usually i i . As to one of Spains most important min- [only a narrow ome, giving a woman | means buying a new spark plug eral carrying railroads. A mew hand stamp resembles a | the appearance of owing two hats. the cores can be bought fot a fraps Australia has prohibited the im-| tion of the cost of a new spar plug, portation of any preparation urport-| it meaws economy to carry a few World © rocking blotter and presses ink from |I a pad through a metal stencil ing ito be a cure for drunkenness or British geologists have estimated | the tobacco or any drug habit. that more than 24,000,000 tons of | Despite the increase in the use of coal remain in the Welsh fields. { electricity, the United tates has 25 Tiny knobs are attached to the |factories that are kept busy making backs of the blades of a new knife [incandescent gas mantles. s0 that they may be opened more! A scientist in Europe has invented easily. a method for sterilizing the ground A water power method for break- | in which posts are to be set against ing down rock in masses instead of imsect, germ and fungus life. C: s been invented in rym ang 31. a | mer to which mails are fed from paper strips, enabling a man to nail laths at many times his usual speed. Switzerland has built its highest aerial tramway, 1% miles long and | ascending to a altitude of nearly a | mile solely for tourists. A ring large enough to encircle j {two fingers and carrying a blade has cutting twine as parcels are being tied. For sprinkling floors of buildings lawns or streets, @ one-man wheeled 'tank has been invented from which the water is forced by compressed air. fon amid has reclaimed 48,0000 acres, mainly from material brought down by rivers, A metal hatrack or clothes tree, recently pakented, is so shaped that it can be used as a fire-escape by re- versing it and bringing it from a window "sill, Span-BlasS as an insulating cover- ing for steam pipes is being tried out in Europe being acid proof and lighiter than all other insulating pre- parations. - Valves for automobile motors, made of pure carbon by two Boston inventers, are claimed to be self- lubricating and to be proof against the usual valve troubles. Shoes with quickly detachable soles and heels have been invented by a Frenchman for railroad men to enable them 10 escape should - their feet be caught in tracks, A threehanded watch of French invention tells both twelve-hous, and 24-hour time one hour hand "being used for each kind on separate dials, || while a single minute hand does for Fboith." | Tongs kept open by a spring have been invented ¢o enable an angler to hold open a fish's mouth recover a gwallowed hook scaling and cut- tng knives being mounted oa one arm of the device, IS YOUR CAR INSURED ? We have a very up-to-date policyi whieh we would like to expla 16 you --- it covers all hazards a car is insured against. Call, rite $e 'phone at our ex- pense, - JK Carroll Agency Real Estate and Insurance. | Phone 68. 56 Brock St. A Californian has patented a Ham- |: been invented by an Ohio man for | with you. Also carry a few extra gaskets, | A direct cause of rapid tire wear, particularly the rear tires, is in the | misuse of the brakes, The brakes on ia car should be very seldom locked. They should not be locked in wet weather any more than in dry. When the brake is locked, those | parts of the rear tires which are in | contact with the ground are planed {off as rapidly as though the tires | were held against a piece of cutting | machinery. It does not take long [for a tire to blow out after it has been subjected to this treatment for {any length of time. | It should be x rule with everyone |who drives to use the brakes spar- |ingly and never to drive his car rap- |idly"enbugh so that he will be com- pelled to make a sudden stop. If you use an enamel cover for your tires, be sure to put it on right side up. Sometimes one finds one In about 30 years England has lost | put on upside down, which will cause 6.650 acres of land through sea eros-|it to hold the rain instead of shed- | it. Keep watch on the spokes of. the [ wheels, especially if the car is an old |one. If spokes can Be shaken, tight. jen the bolts on the flanges of the {hub. If they are still loose consult |a wheelwright, as your life may be ! endangered by the breaking of a | wheel. 4 A - Occasionally the_ interrujter be- | comes loose, \and jt is importahy that | the, beginner juld "learn to set it. This trouble is shown by the fact that the engine will not start when cranked, but gives only one or two explosions. Where an engine has been running properly and the above trouble develops, inspect the inter- rupter -immediately. , In turning up a six-cylinder motor, one should be very careful to note that there is good compression in each cylinder. In a four cylinder motor the sound of the exhaust will reveal a weak cylinder. From the ex- haust of a six-cylinder motor, how- ever the condition of a particular cyl- inder is hard to detect on aecount of the stroke lapping. Very often a weak cylinder is not detected and the carburetor adjustment is chang- ed to eliminate the supposed thump Value % / Light our Country Club $1110 '975 f. 6. b. Toronto Subject to change without noticed 's Greatest Car Better materials go into this Light Four than any oth er car of such comfortable size sold for such a low price. The Will df buys materials in great~ er quan ra os fond Quality a tow pric. than any This Light Four is $394 lacking, so easy B; 80 complete, so economical, It la valus unequalied, pare its specifications-- ride in it--and you F quickiy seo. ; Overland Sales Rooms: ARTHUR W. H. CALLAGHAN, Dist, 210-214 Wellington St., Phone 141 0. lin the motor. In reality the cause | les in a weak cylinder. f In resetting the magneto the coup- | ling often may be placed so as to | cause the magneto shaft to be out of | alignment. The best method Is to note the condition of the coupling | before being removed, which is done | by slipping the thumb and forefinger arqgnd it. The periphery should be perfectly smooth and one side should | not be higher than the other. In re-| setting the coupling clean it well and | see that the outer surfaces of the | parts are in line. ! Eddie Rickenbacher, who retired | from racing late in May, has been | appointed a sergeant in the first class of the signal corps, and may be ad- | dressed care of Gen. Pershing. ' JFrank Willard, brother of Jesse | Witfard, won the 100-mile race, | which was given for the benefit of | the Red Cross at Dallas. Accounts | ftate that he drove a fiivver. { Under a recent edict of the New York State Legislature the horse and | the mule as a motive power on the | Erie Canal will glvegway to motor driven tugs. For 80 years the mo- tive power has i in the hands of mules and horses. With the country at war, and a desire to move freight more rapidly, and relieve the rail- roads it was decided to make the change, Gray-Dort Climbs Steep Hill. Some motor cars elimb hills and others simply '"'eat 'em up." In the words of the local distributor of the Gray-Dort line of motor cars, the, Gray-Dort is distinctly in this latter class. This dealer tells of some re- cent tests of this hill-climbing ability of the Gray-Dort that were made on hills. In filling the gasoline tank Just previous to these tests the fill- er cap was mislaid and the cap from another car of large size was laid over the opening. One of the grades taken was so steep: that just before the top of the hill .was reached the angle of the car was such that a quantity of gasoline ran out of the tank onto the floor of the car, yet the sturdy little car did not falter or miss a single explosion, but kept on over the top of the hill without the driver | being . obliged to shift from high to second speed, . This is particularly remarkable be- | cause the Gray-Dort tank, which is| located in the dash, has a projecting | spout of several inches, and under | ordinary conditions it would be ne- cessary to place the car almost per- pendicularly to spill even a drop of gas from the tank. / . Mr. Dort vouches for the truth of this story, which was' related to Ro- bert Gray, general manager of the Gray-Dort Motor Company, 'and was attested to by several obseryers who were in the car at the time.' : .25 MILES TO KINGSTON One Gallon of ~ Gasoline has done it. Runabout - Touring - - Coupelet - - TownCar - 780 Sedan - . 890 F.O.B. Ford, Ont. $475 495 695° Ford Deal ANGROVE BROS. eage * 20 to 25 miles to a gallon of gasoline is a frequent occurrence with the Ford car. One man (name on request) reports an av- erage of 33 miles per gallon for. 20,000 miles. Surely this is a rec- ord that few, if any other makes of cars ever equalled. It demonstrates the economy of owning and driving a Ford. You can average 1000 milks more tra- vel on Ford-size tires. The saving on oil and repairs is proportion- ately large. The name "FORD" stands for lowest cost and greatest service. The Ford is truly the Universal Car. Mey rt Over 700 Ford Service Stations in Canada. ' Kingston, Ont. ITE Form-a-Truck $450 F.0.B., TORONTO. f you raise live stock, to your rack body, When you come to Truck town with Smith i with the fa- WHEN you come to town now with your ordinary hors§ drawn farm wagon, you have got only one type of body, you must keep a live stock box body for hauling lumber and in addi matenal, else lumber, lime or anything you carry it in Hos i a A 3 ; special type You get them all in this t-in-One Convertible Body. Eight i Ope farm body that equaled this for con- venience. "oy Combined with the Smith Forma- the wonderful one-ton truck. It gives stand up under the hardest hauling you could ever do. When you are in town drop in and see Smith Form-a- Track. It will pay you well. Cor. Brock and W. F. KELLY OIL CO. a Ontario Sts. Phone 486