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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1937.

SCIENCE NEWS:

Cell Electric To Stop Cars

WHY

not

BO

by

John

Importance of being a Green Pea

How

OW old should a green pea- be?

the housewife

When

buys she tries to steer between

Langdon-Davies

British plo bristles with indignation

the half-empty pods of excessive SOVIET

youth and the hard-tasteless- ness of overfulness.

There are eight sclentine tests of a pea's age, and

recognised

Where the Shoe Pinches

THE British Government has reintroduced the treadmill;

but not as a punishment for

PIGS prisoners. It is being used by

GO BALD

now Dr. S. L. Jodid! has come along WENT recently

with a ninth which is expected to revolutionise the pea industry.

which registers the exact amount of

AL

pea.

to

the Industrial Research in an effort to improve the nation's

boots and shoes.

TREADMILL TEST

on

A great deal of discomfort buy can be traced to bad shoes and material needed for amateur the treadmill is being used to house decoration. Everything study why ordinary shoes are had gone up in price and the so often unsatisfactory. The difference between the old und the young pen is that the latter has reason was always the same a large sugar content and the for- "the rearmament programme.' mer has a large starch content. The But at last I found something

The subject is asked to stand who buys peas by the ton construct connected with the engine. By man

the treadmill and walk the roadside at each crossing wants them sweet and young, the that had gone up because of the traffic control signals there is a beam of light which grower wants them ald and heavy. advance in agricultural science steadily without moving for-

The tests try to arrive at a stand in Russia.

ward while a cinema film is that appeal direct to the switches on and keeps on

It appears that we are faced taken of his pedalling feet. The ardised grading,

with a famine in bristle brushes recorded movement is analysed vehicle instead of to the long as the red or amber light

CRUSHING PROCESS is showing.

and that soon there will not be to see how far the shoe leather driver?

Thus there is a special apparatus enough bristles 4in. long to is interfering with the natural This latest safety sug- The beam is arranged to fall

This is not because movements of the foot. gestion was inade at Llan- on the photoelectric cell of any force required to puncture the skin go round.

Tite Jess force, the all the brushes are needed to

Next, with an electric ther- dudno by H. M. Drake in car trying to move while the ar

lights are against it and direct- younger the pea, and above a cer paint battleships, nor because mometer, the surface tempera- his presidential address to ly this happens the cell stalls tain puncturing level the buyers will of price-fixing by any brush- ture of the foot is studied as it makers' combine. It is because is affected by various types of the Electrical Contractors' the engine.'

Another test is to put the peas into most pigs' bristles used to come shoe. Association.

With the help of the cinema Then there could be no rush, solution of brine and to add more from Russia and Siberia and

all the pess feat. The It is generally admitted that ing the red light or cheating salt until

Proportion of salt needed is the the Soviet pigs are losing their film a record is being made of bristles and becoming buld all the length of time the various the weak point in modern on the amber.

ineasure of the pea's age. There

whereby the over. vehicles is not the brakes nor MAKE ROADS

also a crushing test

price upon the buyer fixes hig

This must not be taken as anti- parts of the foot come into the steering-gear nor the en-

amount of force needed to squash Bolshevik propaganda, nor are the contact with the ground. Why gine, but the driver. We can

pigs Trotskyites. The truth is that should there be heavy leather where it is not construct more reliable MR- Photoelectric cells are used the pea flat.

are being bred for better protection There is a quality test based on they

their Instead chines than the human brain. to stop all sorts of machinery A photoelectric cell is more without a human minder be- the crushing foad multiplied by the baco

are of a strength to produce bristles they needed? Everybody knows from are using it to get fat. Now that experience that soles always n wear out in the same places; accurate than the eye.

ing necessary and also to sicer percentage of peas that

peasant is getting the Russian robot planes and robot sub- Kiven size.

When you realise that the pea thicker gammon rasher we are find- why should we always have to marines, and it ought to be easy to use them to counteract crop in America alone is worth five ing it difcult to paint our houses, get a complete new sole when Suppose every car was pro- the human fool when he has to million pounds you see why these and according to the brush industry, all the rest of the shoe is still vided with a photoelectric cell be present.

CELL STALLS

THE ENGINE

FOOLPROOF

not pay a good price.

bacon.

of

using

tests are really more important than the only they sound.

solution Is the discovery

of a synthetic bristle,

good?

DOGS' PRACTICAL JOKES

You may have heard of the family the newsagents. He generally per- when he cleverly restored the miss-

dog who was overlooked when formed his task well; but on

one Ing articles to their owners. everybody else was having direr. occasion his owner found him sitting After waiting impatiently for some down in the road, busily tearing up Jokes on Each Other time to be fed, the sagacious animal the journal for which he had been scampered out into the garden, bit sent. Nothing was left of the news-

Dogs will play jokes on each other

off a flower, and laid it at his master's paper but a heap of small pieces as well as on human beings. Tim, a feet. It was a forget-me-not!

when this act of destruction was dis- terrier, and Bruno, a mastiff, dwelt covered. But mark the sequel.

in the same yard, of which the bigger guard. When dog was the offlelal The story is Ingenious; int dogs

They Being thoroughly scolded. Pat be- do not make practical puns.

his kennel, Tim would suddenly are clever, but not as elever as that. came remorseful, and set himself the the mastiff was peacefully asleep in

one.

Yet there are true stories which go taak of bringing the pleces of news set up an excited barking, as if there 10 show that dogs do like a joke, and paper into the house one by are not above hoaxing human beings This meant many trips to the scene were evil-disposed persons about.

and other animals,

setter had Bruno would wake up at once und of destrucllan, for the turn the paper into very tiny frag- come charging out to repel the intru- at Anding ders. His bewilderment Take, for instance, the log who ments.

and Tim's grin of was seen by a lady going to church

amusement, provided a funny con-

sitting on the doorstep of a house Bob, a London dog, loved to play nobody there,

the tricks on the children of the house. trast that he He would hide their toys, and look

Ifts

and looking up appealingly at door-knocker. Supposing

Mut, a Rochdale dog. hit on an wished to be let in, the lady laid her on with interest while they searched

Fic hand on the knocker, at which the for them. This may have been due entirely new joke to play on nervous dog showed signs of the liveliest joy, to a bit of jealousy. Bob may have pedestrians in his native town.

biped friend then gave a thought that while the children were would be left in charge of his mas- vigorous rap, and to sooner had, she absorbed in their playthings they ter's ear in the street, and his great canine hoaxer were not paying enough attention to delight was to seize the bulbs of the done so than the bolted down the street as fast as his himself. However, he always wagg- horn in his teeth and "on" loudly lega could go. Some distance away, ed his tail good-temperedly when the when people were crossing the road. he turned round and looked at his toys at lost came to light, showing This joke never palled on him. victim, and if ever a dog laughed, that he did not bear any malice.

Do dogs like jokes? If you watch that dog did.

the habit of hiding things. But this your own carefully, it is more than played a joke on a rooster whom he "Those who hide can find," says the sense of humour peeping out now particularly disitked. The annoying proverb. The terrier was always and then. bird was in the habit of stealing sure of pat and a word of praise Bingos' food when he was not look

Another dog, a terrier, was also in

Bingo, living in Sussex on a farm, he did from different motive. ilkely that you will find a decided

ing.

The dog slood it for some time,; ntid then planned revenge. routed away his treasures till

Ne he

found an old, dry, and particularly unappellsing bone, He planted this

a

Barnard lull

SONGS IN THE NIGHT

trees. You

On Trial For His Life

ABORIOUS L

re- break proved to be a carrier,

1

searches of the Foot and at Pirbright a hedgehog was

infected by a cow. and Mouth Research Com-

What makes this interesting is that the hedgehog has always mittee have not yet in- controvertibly shown that been given a bad character in the hedgehog is responsible popular superstition. for that costly olague, but DISEASE THAT the nets are closing round the queer little animal.

ALWAYS HAD

BAD NAME

COSTS THOUSANDS

A

There is a widespread tradition that the hedgehog sucks the cows' udders and steals their milk; and because of this we find that church- wardens used to pay as large a deadl in his food-bowl in such a way that

According to the Fifth Re- reward-fourpence-for attention to attract the rooster's THERE e no fairer land in which Swifts appear to chatter and greed

bats round the port, the hedgehog is not only hedgehog as for polecats.

One of the to study the ways of wild nature far into midnight. How I watched

effects of foot-and- i8 could susceptible; he the one mouth disease is to diminish the af milic from animuls Then he retired to his kennel and than the Jed Valley, lying so far them gliding like pretended to be asicep. Soon the rooster came stalking up. He spled away from the ugliness of our mo- odorous linden

using the old superstition the bone and gave it several vigorous dern Industrialism. Its tangled banks hear them snapping at moths, then British wild animal which has output pecks. His disgust when he found and dreamy glades blend harmon- jolly chattering as they entered their been proved to spread the in- affected by it, and the investigations us the virus of foot-and-mouth If the hedgehog is anally con- Joyous companions, indeed, that there was neither flavour nor lously with the song of Nature, which nests at the eaves of my window. fection by contact. Moreover, started by

that every Richard Jeffries says, "for they bring disease has been recovered from demned it will mean nourishment in it must have been to my ears never dies.

effort will be made to exterminate gratifying for Bingo.

Throughout the day her music is the sunbeams. of Africa to us on the hedgehog's breath.

it, as foot-and-mouth disease costs One hedgehog found near the the country thousands of pounds a Don't Like Ridicule

exquisite, but at night, as the sha- their wings, the messengers between dows deepen and you listen to the man and the blue dome of the sky" centre of a recent Bristol out- year. It is indisputable that dogs have a murmur of the river, you hear at its

Standing by the grim old walls of sense of humour, as shown by the best the sweet nong of the dipper, two authentle anecdotes above. They love this stream, with its soothing Fernlehurst Castle you hear the shrill also have an individuality, and are sensitive to ridicule. A dog feels caderice, and they answer back in hoots and screechings of owls from shamed when he thinks he is being like strain, murmuring deliciously, the century old oaks, I often think the droning laughed at, as evinced in his furtive I have heard the rose-lintie singing these weird calls must awaken their look and skulking gait,

long after the sun has gone to rest. victims in terror, for But it is a curious fact that, like a In the gathering, gloom I thought it beetle and the Umorous mouse meet. not was the blackcap, so sweet was it a sudden end at the talon of this human comedian, a dog door

bird of mystery. Stand still! How mind being laughed at in the course strain.

swift yet silent Is the errant flight of his profession."

Fleasant also to listen to the ves- of the ow!! Like disembodied spirits There is always a "clown" dog in every performing canine troupe, who per hymn of the laris, making musi- of Border rivers they glide by. makes a mute of all the tricks the cal the fragrant gloaming of the the human summer eve. The cornbunting, which others do, just like "Augusto In a circus. That be like resembles the lark, but of lighter from Nature during the quiet hours ovaking the delighted laughter

of

I find there is more to be learned

of night than man dreams of, for

the audience is shown by his pleased plumage, la here heard frequently under the dusicy wing of nii crea- It thrills like the yellow yerling, tures of great beauty besport, mollis look and wagging tail.

serenades so abruptly. Sometimes, a dog's sense of hu- ending its mour is misdirected, as in the case of On quiet nights throughout June I

keving Jewellery, pl. lending

Pat, an Irish setter Hving near Lon-heard the blackbird and mavis sing themselves to the harmony and joy

dori

Fat was one of those dogs who can ing long after night had drawn her of this unspoilt countryside.

be trusted to fetch newspapers from sable mantle over this sylvan scene.

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# This development will not result from merely exercising one's wits.

Same varlet has taken to seeing something of the world for a change.

Ground for complaint for, say, a tennis player. 11 He is liable to get one down, In

time.

12 Wherein the Hay diet is the

thing

Quotation that can be varied for 13

tea times.

15

English town.

+

17 Apply the gift of the cane for little more than a small number.

19 Where to stay in depressing

24

weather.

22 A source of sweetness, possibly. One sees not a few with broken rest in this part of England. 27 Agrees otherwise.

20 Particular form of pale Ices.

30 Gossip.

31 There's an American Indian In

this written effort,

32 Devon town.

DOWN

1 Annoyed at being ejected? (Two

words).

2 Not a dignified progress, but cook should be able to do it.

3 An Ineffective observer (Two

words).

4 Fishing vessel.

[6. There's a tree in the way.

Not a heavy-weight-bird.

7 This should enable one to find

other. out something

14 To kill an animal for this is

giving it a "raw deal"

10 Can be seen in Coronation cele-

brations.

18 A famous seat provided by the

black sheep?

20 The result of an inquiry held In comera is not necessarlly this. 21 An advance in concert.

23 The late form of active man-

hood,

25 More than one over the eight. 20 An old-time rustice has got into

a row.

28 A roomy, body for the motorist.

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