Interesting News
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1958.
Stories From All Parts, Of The World
Have You Got A Normal Nose?
No Two Noses Are Alike Says American Doctor
By DELOS SMITH
New York.
ACCORDING to a noted nose expert, a "normal"
nose is a very rare thing except in infants, which may or may not be a comfort to people with stopped-up noses in this peak winter month for hend colds.
COUNCIL
MAN
LEARNS
TO READ
London.
Builder Том Sherborne is a councillor. He has money in the bank, 70
Dr Non D. Fabricant of Chicago was speaking of nose
ing, of course the "Nocal Mucosa," He lold it down as law that "no two noses Rre alike" because the state of this mucosa has to vary. This makes it exceedingly difficult to medicate noses effectively.
"From the time the human bring is born, his nasal mucosa is subjected to an unending laught of neute respiratory Infections, weather conditions, allergens, smoke, dust, and chemical substances," Fabricant sald.
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Medication
tenants, and an ambition Το make cffective hose
to become Mayor of Bide-medication more dimeult, the
ford.
But only now, at the age of 54, is he learning to read and wrile. To do so he has hired a
tutor.
In his living-room at Grange- bungalows, Bideford, Devon, he pores over beginners' exercises, on rather I think I'm getting well," he said.
Mr Sherborne, who built his own home and halt a dozen houses for bla family, stood for the council as an Independent five times before he was elected
with to top of tho pell votes last May.
GOOD MEMORY
1,807
How does he manage to keep 12 with council affairs? listen very carefully to the com- mittee discussions and I've a pretty good memory.
"I pick things out in the agenda and compare the words with the ones I know from my Bible. You'd be surprised. i pick up mare than you right think."
None of his clcclurs guessed from is easy handling of elec tion meetings that he could ly sign his name with the greatest difficulty.
Chubby Mr Sherborne ex- plained: "T made money and, although getting on the, couneli was diicult, I decided to show the family that it could be
done."
Mr Sherborne
hadn't
told why he
learned lo write when
ho was a child.
"I was the eldest of 10 chil- dren and sold papers ut seven to help bring in some money."
nano) conveyer
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a "veritable mucosa is
belt," thanks underlying layers of vibrating cells which keep the overlying thin layer of mucus moving.
This is a very useful arrange- ment, Fabricant pointed out, is "on extremely because it effective mechanism against at- airborne agents. It tack by traps dust, bacteria, powder, and other agents that Invade the nasal cavity."
But it points up the useless- ness of many nose medicines, heavy with particularly those Bena-kilters, The idea that the Bose is "constantly teeming" bacteria with sickness-cousing
is selontifically unsour.d.
No Trouble
A Super Dog Biscuit
What must have been the biggest dog biscuit ever made was presented to Fly, a coolle sheepdog, for saving her master from a bull. It Is two feet. square, weighs 23 pounds and will feed Fly for two months. Her master is pictured here with Fly and the biscuit. He is 68-year-old Mr Thomas Powell of Welshpool, Wales.-Express.
ITALIAN INVENTOR CLAIMS:
New Motor-Fuel
In Hongkong || W
of
Paris.
Called
Is 'Fresh Water'
By HENRY MACLENNON
Milan.
VILL automobiles of the near future draw up at the public fountain instead of a gasoline pump?
It may
be so, for a farmer here claims to have invented a motor-fuel called fresh
Laundry fluttering from the windows of Corsica's ancient, multistoreyed apartment hovada la not only
new plcturesque but legal, the water.
Court Paris
Appeals
Не
the is Pietro Fasoll of ruled last wook.
1tle Halian country town of Val Serlana not far from Milan The court stipulated that
Fassoli is not done much where an apartment did not open onto a rear courtyard, farming for the pust 30 years, he says, but he has dismantled laundry properly wrung
more than 1 could be hung from the
100 automobile
front
motors, window. United
Pres.
Methane-Gas
He mainly abns at getting a
It has been demonstrated," motor to rus) on various kinds
continued Fabricant, "that when of gas and quld fuels, and in bacteria are sprayed into the 1940 he designed and construct- nasal cavity, they are quickly led the Arst methane-gas driven swept away from uctive orcas truck in Italy.
Fasoli is an inventor by by mucociliary streaming"
He holds patents for (which means a running nose.) vocation.
dozen electrical and "This is the reason why the mechanical inventions, most of deeper regions of the nesal them 10 do with automobiles. cavity are frequently sterile." But the Fusoli masterpiece, He felt that eliminating harmful reckons, is his water driven bacteria from the nose was motor.
Fasoll emingly sald If bacterio there, but one cannot overlooks were no It significance of the natural acfences of the nasal cavity."
A deaf and dumb man passes his driving test desirable
London.
MAN who has been
A deas and dumb since
birth has passed his driving
test,
And his examiner says he
Running Nose
strict the inflamed
pro
he
Fasol claims that hy this means he has obtained a motor Equal
motors to Ordinary constructed today. By a sill to be worked out idea of combin- motor with ing the centrifugal the water fuel invention, Fasoli hopes to revolution be the mojor
future- industry in the near United Presa
BUBBLE GUM GAME
The tuck-shop treble chance IS OUT
London.. UBBLE - GUM machines that some-
there BU
tricks to it. Just a
simple electrical device which times produce a trinket
produces hydrogen Ene
from
wator and hence the actual fuel as a "bonus" were de- needed for his motor.
There were one or two hitches clared illegal last week,
to the idea, Fasoli said, but they
"A sort of fuck-shop treble may bo Goon overcome, chance," they were described in Hydrogen gas is too powerful a court at Bradford.
tual for ordinary automobiles For months children have Therefore, the best medica- built today and it is also been playing the "bubble-gum is 0126 of the soundest flon for the running nose due to highly corrosive element, Motors, game. driver he has conie across. head colds is medication which burn out after about three They put a penny in the
The man is 30-year-old Owen does not make the nose less months.
machine and-If they are lucky Corey, of Camborne, Cornwall-unning but does tend to con- Fasoll said that he must keep they get a tiny plastic charm
"natural driver," according to
blood | further details of his invention with the gum. instructor Jolin Oliver, of Yursels of the mucusu and so a secret. He is preparing to go Bradford pollen kept watch on "drying" to the United States on an one machine and last week the Mousehole, near Penzance,"
Invitation from an automobile owther 40-year-old "Owen
senses everything i
company at Detroit who have an Wheeldon, of Westfield Crescent, Lecturing members of the needed to make him
option on the Invention for Yeadon Leeds, appeared before a good raan at the wheel," sald Mr American Academy for General putting Into mas production, the magistrates, Oliver. His eyes are always Practice, Fabricant spoke fav-That is if the hitches to the idea
́ ́TOO TRIVIAL' ourably of these medications can be economically overcome,
Wheeldom, owner, of a Bradford and Loods, denied conducting a
on the alert."
'QUITE AT HOME'
have un eventunl
feet.
tis or dropped into it drop-
Samuel
which, whether sprayed into thei Motor Company chain of machines in by-drop, are simpla "yasоçón- Not only will the Detroit competition "not mainly depen Owen maintalas that the eyes sirietors. The relief from the are what matter. Heating is a stopped-up nose is "temporary," motor company took at Facelis dent on silit" and conducting a
lottery, donger becĞUSO - It distracts but it is welcome distraught attention from the road.
KERT.
bis voice:
patients.
HOWEVE", that it
The magistrates dismissed the first cummons, but cor- victed on the second. He was given a cofitional discharge on payment of coals. His counsel, Mr Bernard Gillis, q.C., claimed that it was not a
en competition because there could
water driven motor, They also want to test another of his inventions. Fasoll said.. This is Ho 'henes" his engine revs through his foot and stomach.
Vasoconstrictors mixed with a motor which saves up to 70 They tell him when to change utibiotics, sulfonamides, anti- per cent combustion fuel,
Detalls on this inverilon are histamines, er hormones have also secret for the time boing. Owen, a factory
their "ardent supporters" among inspector, wrote on a pad which serves as medical men, he granted, but ad Fread. It can be revealed
there are other medical men automobile motor without sparki bo po sivalry and that it was too who look at these combinations plugs, and most of the Cog, trivial to be regarded as with considerable restraint." isprings and rode which make up lottery,
an ordinary motor, todky.
The magistrates' declalon out- "One thing is certain," he
“In" simple terms, that? motor | laws the bubble-aum game from added. "Whatever relief from a works on a contrinigal force Bradford, but not
fróm, other stuffy nose is brought about by brought about” by the use of towna and cilos munions - polico hose sprays or nose drope, it is three
bonringi | being #uconinful proceutions. "obtained primarily by tha encasoð ár, wỹ rotor. Pual com- Mr Whoolden'a a solicitor said: to slicking component."--United bustion than doren the bearings. "The question of an - appeal is
Pross,***
to rotate citrifugally,
being congidsend."
"I am quite at home on the rond, I can peso how kho car is running, and my eyes keep me ready for whatever might happen.
"No deaf and dumb. person should allow his handicap stop him from driving,"
SPACE-CRAZY
BOY RECEIVED A RED LETTER
London.
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Lloyd Lee took one look at a letter that popped through the door of his house in Vicarage Road, Mickleover, Derby, and fainted.
His mother rushed with the "He wants to join the Merchant lotter to the police...
Navy and travel.
And his father stayed off
work.
bo
"I don't mind him travelling on the water, but I'll be blowed The letter camo a few days ||7 1'll let him go up into space." after travel-minded Lloyd heard REPORT on Lloyd try his a story that the Russians were English master: "He could offering £50,000 to space travel come another Jules Verne. Ho volunteers and wrote to the has enough imagination." Russian Embassy In London offering his services,
Only his closest friends In Form IV, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Ashbourne, know about it.
Russian Embassy
The letter, headed "Russian Embacay and typed in red, Informed "Lloyd that he had been placed on a short list of candidates for the next sputnik launching. It continued:-
do
You will be required to some training in Siberis ready for the launching. Our agents will be contacting you within the next few days tó iako you Away for training,
The Secret Of His Smile
London.
Patients of Dr Mellvill D. Sheppard, who knew him as "The Smiling Surgeon,” learned the secret of his
mile.
never
Dr Sheppard, 82, was known by his patients or staff jat the local hospital in the Buburb of Chelmsford to look glum
That was when Lloyd faint ed. Illa mother said: "I was He had his usual laugh with frightened out of my wits, I the staff and patients one day would not let my husband go last week, waved cheerily and to work in case these agents went home. came for Lloyd."
The following day he was But poltee discovered the found dead in his green-house. letter was a hoax-written by Police said he had cut ca artery senior pupils at Lloyd's school. with a surgical knife,
Headmaster Mr A. L. Kim- Then his secret came out. He mins wrote to Mrs Lee apologis-had an incurable illness since ing for the disturbance the birth but his widow, Barbara, telter caused. And police sald: sald he was determined not to "We do not intend to take fur- let his personal tragedy affect ther action."
his medical work,"
A reassured Mrs Lee laughed ! But at home he gave way, at the idea of a spaceman son, she said.—United Press.
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