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CANTON'S CLINICS

Free Treatment Given To Thousands

DETECTIVE RAY

Knows An Egg's Age By Looking At It

"STUDY ONLY IN ITS INFANCY"

“ENGLISH AS SHE

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ENGLISH ASSOCIATION'S MEETING

Canton, To-day. According to the report of the the Municipal Bureau of Social Affairs, the numbers who re- ceived free treatment in the The scientific detective-with an record and third clinics dur-eye more, penetrating than any of ing last year were as follows; 2nd the celebrated detectives of fiction speaker at the meeting of the Eng- Clinic 18,576, 3rd Clinic 19,558.--has arrived. Central Press.

ROCKET: FORGETS TO WHISTLE

Costly Experiment

The Rev. H. W. Baines was the

leh Association held at the Helena This is the ultra-violet ray, known May Institute last evening. Profes to most people solely for its great sor R. K. Simpson presided.

Taking "The Rescue of English" curative powers. Its scope of de tection is so wide that it is becoming as his subject, the lecturer found of great service, not only in certain pure English being: endangered by classes of crime detection, but also misuse in everyday matters, the to people so differently occupied as once robust faith in the efficacy of Customs officers, analysts, museum, their language now appearing to crumble to a point where, on account curators and stamp collectors.

Mr. E. Davidson, Mr. R. T. Bar-

It has been discovered that the of confusion. It was found necessary A rocket fired from a meadow ray has a marvellous range of ser- to set up a standard of uniformity, lat Duisburg bordering on the vice, and all over the world scientists as was being attempted by the Bri

ever-tish Broadcasting Corporation. [Rhine has not been seen since. are experimenting with its A man of 18 spent all his sav-increasing uses as a detector. ings on constructing this rocket, "This study is as yet only in its rett, Mr. R. R. Campbell, and Prof. which he claimed would reach a infancy," says Dr. Julius. Grant, a Simpson were amongst other apea- height of 8,000 9,000ft. and then well-known analyst, who has made a kers who contributed to a very in-

"We teresting discussion. return to the place whence it was special study of the subject. fired. The rocket disappeared in-who are experimenting with it are to the blue and has not yet been constantly adding to our store of traced.

knowledge of its possibilities."

When it descends, the inventor states, it whistles to draw atten- tion to its presence.

VANISHING ISLAND

Trinidad's Capricious. Neighbour

MAY DISAPPEAR AGAIN

Exposing Forgeries

Various branches of crime will be made more difficult because of the growing uses to which this know- ledge is being put.

VOLCANO SURPRISE

Minor Eruption That Saves Earthquake

Dr. Grant, explained that the ray SOLFATARA BECOMES ACTIVE

is already utilised in legal and police

AFTER LONG SLEEP'

work for the detection of forgery on documents by alterations and erasures. What appears perfectly The Solfatara volcano, near month ago blew out a normal to the naked eye is fre- Naples, quently ruthlessly exposed by this hole 9ft. in, diameter, throwing penetrative ray. In the same way out boiling mud and small stones. This is believed to have saved secret inks have been made to give

neighbourhood from

an

of Trinidad. It vanished entirely alto the rays of the lamp.

In connection with foodstuffa

The vanishing Island off Trink-up their secrets, and deletions on the

The Solfatara, well known to dad has reappeared again, according documents have been made, so dis-earthquake. to the American Vice-Consul there, cerible that in some cases the actual

In 1911 a strange island rose from words which have been scraped out British visitors, is a half-extinct the sea in Erin Bay, between Erin or obliterated by chemicals have be- volcano of which the only record-

1198. and Charham, in the Southern part come clearly visible when subjected ed eruption dates from the year "Although Solfatara has not few years later.

is not surprising that in such a Apparently the vanished island frauds the ray has many uses. It been active for so many years, it

the in many cases, detect had come ashore, for some distance can, inland near Erin a split, has occur adulteration of food, auch as butter, volcanic region it should sudden- coffee, milk and flour, merely byly become active," a noted geolog- red in the earth and a large are revealing, a colour foreign to theist said. "There may have been

of ground, hitherto much the same

as that in any, other part of the normal article.

Island, has taken on the appearance

of a well-ploughed farm. The sur-

Food Adulteration

some earth movement which al- lowed the steam and gases from the hot basalt substratum to es-

As an illustration. milk subject-cape. The area is conducive to

face of the earth, has broken and ed to the rays develops a canary spasmodic phenomena of this cracked, being thrown up here and yellow colour, but if even a trace of kind." sunken there. Trees lean at absurd sodium salicylate has been added angles, and the whole appearance is the colour changes to a bluish that of a crazy quilt.

white.

On the shore line instead of sink- Eggs cannot conceal their age again. ing and cracking as further inland, from this detective. According to

Recent experiments have also

a whole new beach, about 800 feet Dr. Grant, the serum or white of disclosed a new aphere of activity! long, has been formed by subter the egg changes its colour by min for this scientific detective. It has ranean upheavals,

nte degrees as the egg grows older, been discovered that under the rays The question now arises in the and while the change la invisible to the microscope can reveal cultures minds of residents of Trinidad, the naked eye, it cannot escape the in organism which were unknown whether the transient island is ultra-violet ray. The ray is also to students using the ordinary there to stay this time or is merely able to tell if the marks of origin white light, putting on a short appearance to of Imported eggs have been obliter disappear again in a few years. ated, by making the erasure visible beginning," Dr. Grant declared.

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