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WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY TOLD

| Claims Cure For Chadian
|

Says Specialist

French war veterans on a friend-
ly visit to Canada were hosts to
prominent Montreal war
and militia men.

Since Jan, 1 six swimmers in the
harbor at Sydney, N.S.W., have been
attacked by sharks and only two
have survived their injuries.

The high price of pork has made
the hunting of wild hogs a paying
sport. The meat brings about nine
cents a pound in Texas.

A Corning, N.Y¥., minister's wife
was denied United States citizen-
ship because she refused to subscribe
to the stipulation that she bear arms
for the United States in time of war.

Bound for Idaho, a shipment of 75
Purebred Suffolk rams left Calgary
recently. The sheep were consigned
to breeders at Caldwell, Idaho, mark-
ing a new export outlet for Alberta.

Despite poor crops, the Douk-
hobor communities in the west will
meet their obligations this fall, M.
W. Cazakoff, Veregin, Sask., is re-
ported as stating.

A television broadcasting tower is
being built on top of the Eiffel
Tower in Paris and is expected to
Provide regular service after three
months’ testing.

Apple and other fruit trees will be
Planted in Moscow streets instead of
the usual shade variety. State farms
Were ordered to cultivate 140,000
fruit trees to be planted at Moscow
begining in 1938.

The crushing blow which flood
waters dealt to the lines of the
Northern Alberta railroads last
month will necessitate immediate re-
pair conservatively estimated at
$250,000.

The Soviet Union's grain acreage
as of Aug. 15 totalled approximately
142,000,000, an area comprising 68
per cent. of the cultivated cereal
lands, it was announced. The figure
is about 7,000,000 acres above that
for the same date last year.

William Green, .president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
in a speech before the state labor
federation’s conyention that the six-
hour working day and the five-day
working week must come, if jobs are
to be given those who did not have
them.

Gifts For Aviators

Winnipeg Pilots Going To South Pole
Wear City’s Crest

When Pilots H. Hollick-Kenyon
and J. H. Lymburner fly with the
Lincoln Ellsworth expedition down in
the South Polar regions during the
coming summer months of the
southern hemisphere, they will wear
pinned to their breasts, two small
silver replicas of the coat-of-arms of
Winnipeg.

The gifts were presented to the
men by Mayor John Queen at a din-
ner given by the Aviation League of
Manitoba. “These mementoes,” said
the mayor, “will carry the good
wishes and the high hopes and ex-
pectations of the people of Winnipeg
for your success.

“But they are like a Scotch gift,”
his worship added. “There is a string
attached to the giving. When you
come back next May, I presume the
Aviation League will have a celebra-
tion in honor of your return, and we
want you to hand them back to the
mayor of Winnipeg then so that they
can be framed and kept in the city
hall as mementoes of the interest
the city of Winnipeg has in this ex-
pedition, which we hope will be his-
toric.”

J. B. Coyne, president of the
league, said Manitoba has a special
interest in polar expeditions by rea-
son of the fact Franklin tried to find
a northwest passage to the Orient
north of Canada, and so gave a lead
to Arctic exploration.

The flight which will be undertaken
by Lincoln Elisworth, with Hollick-
Kenyon piloting, between Weddell
Sea and Ross Sea, is 2,800 miles, as
far as from Montreal to Vancouver.

Monster Ice Breaker

Russian Ship Will Keep Northern
Sea Route Open

Declared by Soviet authorities to
be the largest ice-breaker in the
world, a ship with 24,000 horsepower
engines is being constructed near
Leningrad. The new craft will be
able to cross the 4,000 miles of the
northern sea route without refueling.
Other ships can follow in its track,
greatly accelerating the journey. It
is hoped that Arctic exploration also
will be facilitated.

The moon not only causes a tidal

wave on the side of the earth next)

to it, but also causes a wave on the
opposite side of the earth.

A dreadful word among doctors is
glaucoma, hardening of the eye-balls.
| Salt and water in the blood seep out

veterans| Of the blood vessels of the eye, and

|into the eye's cavity. Because this
salty liquid cannot escape, it jams
the retina against the wall of the
eye, slowly destroys the tasseled end
of the optic nerve. Vision dims,
| blindness ensues. Drugs have prov-
ed of little help; surgery gives only
| temporary relief.
| Dr. Emanuel
| Josephson,

M. (for euphony)
Manhattan eye and ear
| Specialist, announced in Science that
he had at last ascertained the true
cause of glaucoma and could cure it
with a drug.

The cause, he declared, was de-
rangement of the adrenal glands.
Those glands, situated one above
each kidney, secrete two hormones—
adrenalin in the core, cortin in the
hulls, One of adrenalin’s effects is
to draw sugar into the blood.

The effects of cortin, a scarcer
substance, are less well known.
Among such effects is control of the
amount of salt and water in the
blood. Scarcity of cortin in the sys-
tem increases the permeability of the
walls of blood vessels and capillaries,
permits a leakage of salty fluid from
the blood.

Such leakage occurs in glaucoma-
tous eyes, Dr. Josephson reasoned,
probably because the patient's ad-
renals supply too little cortin. He
bought some cortin at a drug store,
injected it into the muscles of glau--
comatous patients. Usually within
half an hour eye pressure dropped
to normal, tension and pain in the
eyeballs ceased, and many purblind
patients could see clearly for the first
time in years.

Pursuing a hypothesia, Dr. Joseph-
son gave cortin to near-sighted chil-
dren. In most cases their vision also
promptly improved. That must
mean, he decided, that myopia and
glaucoma are due to the same thing.

Canada’s Trade With Italy

Imports Last Year Valued At $2,-
750,000 And Exports Over
$3,500,000

With Prime Minister Signor Beni-
to Mussolini so much in the news-
paper headlines, people are apt to
forget that Italy is still a kingdom

Dread Eye Disease Yields To Drug

IN VICTORIA, B.C,

, It’s Victoria’s tree-shaded motor roads that have helped to win for the
city the name of Canada’s Evergreen Playground.

Acrobatic Roller Gaia

Three High-Speed Russian Artists
Performing In London

The most “revolutionary” Russians
in the world have arrived in London.
They are the Three Cossacks, high-
speed acrobatic roller skaters, (two
men anda girl), who whirl round at
130 m.p.h. on a table only eight feet
square.

“This is the smallest table anyone
has ever skated on and lived,’ John
Gajkoswky, the leader, said at the
Savoy, where the trio are appearing
in cabaret.

“There is a black line running
round the table several inches from
the rim. All the time we are spin-
ning we keep our eyes on that line
and never go outside it.

“Our slowest speed,” he said, “is
60 m.p.h., and when working up to a
climax we sometimes touch 150
m.p.h.

The Three Cossacks’ chief fear is
“centrifugalitis’—breaking of blood
vessels in the eyes or legs due to

and that the king is Victor E
uel II. Italian unity was accom-
plished under the House of Savoy
after an heroic struggle

their in the
high-speed whirling—London Daily
Mirror.

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Insect Killing Machine

Engineer Uses Artificial Fever To
Annhilate White Ants

A neat little gadget that applies
the “artificial fever’ method of treat-
ing certain human diseases to the
problem of ridding the civilized
world of unpleasant insects is on ex-
hibition at San Francisco.

Electrical Engineer E. L. Brown,
inventor of the apparatus, demon-
strated its use before a score or so
of California’s most noted scientists,
who watched with great interest
while Brown annihilated a colony of
termites flourishing in a piece of
wood he had with him.

Termites, ant-like creatures that
live in and on wood, are fast becom-
ing a major menace in American
life, according to recent surveys. In
fact, they are estimated to cost
American property owners about
$50,000,000 each year, and the possi-
bility of their eradication excited
great interest among the assembled
scientists.

Brown's insect killing machine
operates with “cold heat.’ Short
radio waves passing between two

from 1848 to 1870. Cavour, the
statesman, Mazzini ,the philosopher,
and Garibaldi, the soldier, being the
principal figures. From a constitu-
tional monarchy the kingdom’s gov-
ernment has become, since 1922, a
Fascist state, the basic idea being
that the corporative or guild state
based upon capitalism is supreme
over the economic and social groups
within the nation.

The peninsula and the seventy
islands belonging to Italy have an
area of less than ohe-fifth the size
of Quebec, but the population of
forty-two millions is four times that
of all Canada. There is a large set-
tled and floating population of
Americans and Britishers. Rome, the
capital, is about the size of Montreal.

Canada does a considerable trade
with Italy, the imports last year
being valued at about $2,750,000 and
the exports over $3,500,000. We get
lemons, olives and cherries in brine,
olive oil, wines, felt hats, silk fabrics,
cream of tartar, tobacco pipes and
many textile products. We send to
Italy a good deal of wheat, rubber
tires, dried cod-fish, wood pulp, cop-
per, nickel, sausage casings, upper
leather and fox skins. Cargo vessels
run direct between Canada and Italy
both from and to the St. Lawrence
and Vancouver: ports.

Fruit Of Enormous Size

Strawberries In Alaska So Big One
Fills Teacup

Strawberries, luscious and so big
that one would fill a teacup, and rhu-
barb with stalks as thick as the wrist
and three to four feet high, yet as
tender and juicy as the early shoots
grown in the United States, were
found in Alaska by Harry J. Lance,
Jr., of the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Science expedition that went
there to study the blue bean. Off-
setting the advantages of the fruits
and vegetables of enormous size and
fine flavor are the insects which also
grow to enormous: size. The mos-
quitoes, he reports, are twice as large
and ten times as vicious as the Jer-
| sey variety. The party had to wear
net masks.—New York Herald Tri-
bune.

Dear Old Soul—But, doctor, if
younger, how do I stand about my

old-age pension?” 2113

this is going to make me 10 years)

For H.B. Route

Meteorologiacl Station At Chester-

field Inlet Is Urged In London

Resolutions urging establishment
of a meteoroolgical station at Ches-
terfield Inlet on the Hudson Bay
route and of an ocean observatory at
lonely Tristan de Cunha Isle in the
South Atlantic were passed by a con-
ference of empire meteorologists.
The savants met in private ses-
sions in London. James Patterson, of
the government meteorological ser-
vice at Toronto, attended, along with
directors of every other meteorologi-
cal service in the empire.

The biggest frogs in North Am-
erica are the bullfrogs, which may
have bodies eight inches long.

The world's largest kitchen is that

of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York.

have the effect of gener-
ating sufficient heat to kill the bugs
without setting the wood in which
the little nuisances are living, afire.

Judging Was Easy
When Walter Hines Page was a
magazine editor, a writer addressed
him with: ‘Now I'm positive you
don't read them all. I submitted a
story last week and, as a test, I
pasted four pages together. When
the story was returned, those pages
still were pasted together.”
“Madam,” Page replied, “when I
open an egg at breakfast, I don’t eat
it all to discover it's bad.”

The cornerstone of the original
U.S. capitol was laid by President
Washington on Sept. 18, 1793.

Blue, green, yellow, red and even
black snow has fallen in various
parts of the world.

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Found Mexico Interesting

Rotarian Delegates Report Tempera-
ture Even And The Climate Ideal
No need to go to Alaska to be

cool or to Egypt to see the pyramids,

according to Mrs, EB. B. Flint of Lon-
don, Ont., who with her husband, at-
tended the Rotary International con-
vention in Mexico City. It’s never
too hot and never too cool down
there, and the Aztec pyramids are
almost as interesting as the famous
ones on the banks of the storied

Nile.

Mexico, situated 7,500 feet above
sea level, has an even temperature,
never above 78 and never below 60,
the visitors were told. It has re-
tained many quaint customs.

In a city of more than 1,000,000
inhabitants there are only two ma-
chine laundries, Mrs. Flint said, for
the women still adhere to the primi-
tive method of washing their clothes
in the streams with a flat rock to
rub on.

The pyramids built by the Aztecs
several hundred years ago, were of
great interest, and not the least
amazing feature was a primitive but
effective shower installed in a niche
in a wall. The delegates had a
Mexican dinner in a restaurant made
in a cave below the py

Little Journeys In Science

IRON
(By Gordon H. Guest, M.A.)

Tron has played a very important
role in the history of mankind and
for many centuries has been the most
useful of all the metals. The iron
used by ancient man was soft and
malleable. Some of the early peoples
made chariots and defensive weapons
of it, but a sword that would bend
easily was of little use as compared
with weapons of stiff bronze. The
smiths of the eighth century knew
how to harden and temper iron and
they ushered in the age of chivalry
with steel-clad knights, The pro-
ducts of these skilled workers of the
medieval forges—Toledo blades, Da-
mascus scimitars, Italian chain mail,
and Moorish armor—are famous in
song and story. Indeed, they were
almost as good as their legendary
reputation.

Iron occurs very abundantly in
nature and makes up aobut five per
cent. of the earth’s crust. Scientists
have calculated that the centre of
the earth consists of a sphere of
metallic iron 4,000 miles in diameter,
and covering this sphere is a layer of
silicate of iron and magnesium 1,000
miles thick. If this be true, iron is
by far the most abundant element in
the world. Iron is found combined
with other elements in many min-
erals and in most rocks and soils. It
is a i of the green coloring

The Floating Gardens, where land
is so valuable that no houses are
built on it, was also another place
of interest. It is possible to raise
seven crops of corn a year on this
land, and if a man sells a strip he
merely digs another canal instead of
building a fence to define the bound-
ary.

Japs Build Own ’Planes

First Machines Were Bought To
Study Their Construction

The suggestion, sometimes heard,
that the Japanese do not make good
airmen was emphatically denied by
C. Waseige, prominent French aero-
nautical engineer, who was aboard
the R.M.S. Empress of Asia when
she docked from Oriental ports. The
Japanese, said Mr. Waseige, have
nerve, which is the main requisite of
a good pilot. Their reflexes are good,
as can be judged by the way their
taxi-drivers get about the streets of
Tokio,

The Japanese, he said, build all
their own machines now. Like all
other great powers, Japan bought the
machines of other countries for
study, but now was able to produce
excellent flying machines and engines|
herself. He is returning to France)
after two months in Japan.

Obsolete Laws Unearthed

Sadly Out Of Date

Detroit Has Some City Ordinances

Detroit, Michigan, still has a speed
limit of six miles an hour for horses
and sleighs and an ordinance against
leaving oxen untied in the streets. In
a letter suggesting that the city
ordinances be overhauled and obso-
lete bylaws culled out, City Clerk
Richard W. Reading points out that
it is illegal to hitch a horse to a
fence around the Soldiers’ and Sailors’
monument in Cadillac Square al-
though there has been no fence there
for years; that it is illegal to herd
goats, sheep or cows in the streets,

or to allow geese on Woodward
avenue, or to back mules across a
sidewalk.

Will Earn His Pension

Man Starts 700-Mile Walk To Get
Birth Certificate

Intent on proving that he is more
than 70 years of age, and entitled to
the Ontario old age pension, William
Staley has started on a 700-mile
journey, most of it by foot, in search
of his birth certificate. His destina-
tion is more than 100 miles north-
west of Chicago. There he hopes to
get his birth certificate from rela-
tives who have refused to forward
it to him by mail. Most of his life
has been spent in rural districts
about 40 miles northeast of Toronto,
and it was from there he started his
journey.

Advertised On Bank Notes

Chinese Medicine Men
Unusual Idea
Chinese patent medicine shops in
Canton are using money as an ad-
vertising medium. They stamp their
names, address, and telephone num-
ber on all banknotes which pass}
through their hands, with a list of|
articles for sale. The banks have had
to issue an order forbidding the prac-
tice,

Had Most

Only the very poor or the very
rich are able to own more than one|
dog.

French military authorities have
ruled that bandsmen must learn to

be telegraphers too.

matter of plants and the hemoglobin
of the blood of animals, and hence it

lays a very important part in life
processes.

Hematite, known by the scientist
as ferric oxide, is the most import-
ant of all iron ores. This ore is
found in large quantities in the
neighborhood of Lake Superior in the
states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan. It is interesting to know
that hematite gives a red color to
certain soils and rocks. Finely divid-
ed hematite is ysed very extensively
as a pigment.

Brown hematite, or limonite, is
another very important iron ore. This
mineral imparts a brown color to
soil. It is present in many ordinary
clays; and when they are used to
make brick and earthenware, the
material turns red when it is fired.

Magnetite is another important
iron ore and this mineral is attract-
ed by a magnet, which fact is some-
times used in separating this ma-
terial from crushed earthy matter.
Lodestone, a natural magnet, is a
variety of magnetite.

Iron differs from some of the other
metals used in the industries in that
the pure metal is rarely obtained
and is of limited application. Iron
which contains small quantities of
other elements shows a great range
of properties and is of the greatest
industrial importance. Carbon is al-
ways present in quantities which
range from slight traces up to seven
per cent. There are many varieties
of commercial iron, the chief of
which are pig iron, cast iron, wrought
iron, and steel.

Demand For Lemons

People In Italy Are Using Them For
Their Health

A report from Washington says
there is a lemon shortage, due to the
falling off of imports from Europe,
which is accounted for by the Italian
purchases of lemons for the use of
the Italian expeditionary force
against Ethiopia.

That, however, is not the whole
truth. Americans returning from
Italy report that country completely
daffy on the subject of lemons. The
Italians have discovered that the
lemon is not only a preventive of
scurvy, but a reducer of high blood
pressure and a cure for fallen arches.
A dozen lemons a day keep the doc-
tor away. A gentleman in Cremona
is reported to have healed himself of
whatever ailed him by consuming 60
lemons a day.

The enormous demand for lemons
to keep Italians healthy has put un-
der requisition the entire Sicilian
crop, and lemons are being imported
from Spain, Portugal and Greece.
The Italian colonists in Africa are
rolling in wealth.

From the medical standpoint
there is something to be said for the
new craze, for in a country where
butter is scarce and nearly eyery-
thing is cooked or doused in olive
oil, an acid in the diet is essential.

hile the Italian it
of lemons is bringing joy to Cali-
fornian growers, who hope that
prices will go up still further.—De-
troit News.

Story Of Homer's Iliad

Professor R. A. Dara has placed
in a London safe deposit manuscripts
3,000 and 4,000 years old, which, he
Says, prove that the story of Hom-
er’s Iliad, greatest of classical Greek
poems, the epic of Helen of Troy,
whose face “launched a thousand
ships,” originated in an Indian epic
poem written centuries before Homer
was born,

Panama is to attempt to grow rub-
ber, and 30,000 trees are being
planted.

The fellow who tells you how hard
he works wouldn't have time to tell
you so if it were true,