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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1937.

SCIENCE NEWS: by John

Electric Cell To Stop Cars

WHY

'

Importance of being a Green Pea

How old should a green pea

be? When the housewife buys she tries to steer between the half-empty pods of excessive. youth and the hard-tasteless- ness of overfulness.

There

are eight

recognised

Langdon-Davies

British pig, bristler with indignation

SOVIET PIGS

GO BALD

Where the Shoe Pinches

THE British Government has

reintroduced the treadmill; but not as a punishment for

prisoners. It is being used by

the Industrial Research In an effort to improve the nation's boots and shoes.

sclentine tests of a pra's age, and I WENT recently to buy can be traced to bad shoes and

now Dr. S. L. Jodidi has come along with a ninth which is expected to revolutionise the pea industry,

A great deal of discomfort

material needed for amateur the treadmill is being used to house decoration. Everything study why ordinary shoes are The difference between the old and had gone up in price and the so often unsatisfactory. the young pea is that the latter has reason was always the same

ton

a large sugar content and the for- "the rearmament programme." TREADMILL TEST mer has a large starch content. The But at last I found something

The subject is asked to stand who buys peas by the construct connected with the engine. By man not

the treadmill and walk the roadside at each crossing wants them sweet and young. the rat had gone up because of the on traffic control signals there is a beam of light which grower wants them old and heavy, advance in agricultural science steadily without moving, for- ward while a cinema film is The tests try to arrive at a stand- in Russia. that appeal direct to the switches on and keeps on 50 ardised grading,

It appears that we are faced taken of his pedalling feet. The vehicle instead of to the long as the red or amber light

with a famine in bristle brushes recorded movement is analysed CRUSHING PROCESS is showing.

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

This latest safety sug-

The beam is arranged to fall Thus there is a special. apparat enough bristles 4in. long to is interfering with the natural gestion was made at Llan- on the photoelectric cell of any force required to puncture the skin go round. This is not because movements of the foot,

the all the brushes wire needed to

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

lights are against it and direct- younger the pen, and above a cere 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 the the Soviet pigs are losing their film a record is being made of salt until all the peas float. The from Russia and Siberia and measure of the pen's age. There is bristles and becoming bald all the length of time the various

the

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Then there could be no rush- It is generally admitted that ing the red light or cheating

weak point in modern on the amber. vehicles is not the brakes nor the steering-gear nor the en-

buyer tixes his price upon the This must not be taken us anti- parts of the foot come We can

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

pigs Trotskyites. The truth is that should there be heavy leather is not construct more reliable ma- Photoelectric cells are used the pra flat,

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

Instead chines than the human brain. to stop all sorts of machinery

of using the needed? Everybody knows from, to produce bristics they

produce more without a human minder be- the crushing load multiplied by the bacon,

peas that are of a strength

are using it to get fat. Now that experience that soles always' ing necessary and also to steer percentage of

the Russian peasant is getting wear out in the same places; robot planes and robot sub-given size.

pea thicker gammon rasher we are find why should we always have to When you realise that the marines, and it ought to be casy to use them to counteract crop in America alone is worth live ing it difficult to paint our houses, get a complete new sole when million pounds you see why these and according to the brush industry

Is the discovery all the rest of the shoo is still Suppose every car was pro- the human fool when he has to tests are really more important than the only solution

good? of a synthetic bristie. they sound, vided with a photoelectric cell be present.

A photoelectric cell is accurate than the eye.

CELL STALLS

THE ENGINE

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 dinner, occasion his owner found him sitting After waiting impatiently for some down in the road, bustly tearing up Jokes on Each Other time to be fed, the sagacious animal the journal for which he had been #campered out into the garden, blt sent. Nothing was left of the news-

Dogs will play jokes on each other

off a flower, und laid it at his master's paper but a heap of small pleces as well as on human beings. Tim, a when this act of destruction was dis- terrier, and Bruno, a mastiff, dwelt feel. It was a forget-me-not!

covered. But murk the sequel,

In the same yard, of which the bigger dog was the official guard. When

the mastiff was peacefully asleep in

The story is ingenious; but dogs do not make practical puns. They Being thoroughly scolded, Pat be- are clever, but not as clever as that. came remorseful, and set himself the Yet there are true stories which go task of bringing the pieces of news his kennel, Tim would suddenly to show that dogs do like a joke, and paper into the house one are not above hoaxing human beings This meant many trips to the scene were evil-disposed persons about.

setter had of destruction, for the and other animals.

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ments.

by one.

set up an excited barking, as if there

Bruno would wake up at once and at Anding come charging out to repel the intru- ders. His bewilderment nobody there, und Tim's grin amusement, provided a funny con- trugt.

of

Take, for instance, the dog who torn the paper into very tiny free was seen by a lady going to church

house Bob, a London dog, loved to play sitting on the doorstep of

the tricks on the children of the house. and looking up appealingly at door-knocker. Supposing that he He would hide their toys, and look

Mul, Rochdale dog, hit on an wished to be let in, the lady laid her on with interest while they searched 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 livellest joy. to a bit of jealousy. Bob may have pedestrians in his native town. Ile His biped friend then Kave a thought at while the children were would be left in charge of his mos

ings they ter's car in the street, and his great done so than the bolted down the street as fast as his himself. However, he always wagg horn in his teeth and "honk" loudly legs could go. Some distance away, ed his fall good-temperedly when the when people were crossing the road. he turned round and looked at his toys at last came to light, showing This joke never pulled on him. victim, and if ever a dog laughed, that he did not bear any malice. thai dog did.

Another dog, a terrier, was also in

Vigorous rap, and no sooner had she absorbed in their playthings

canine hoaxer were not paying enough attention to delight was to seize the bulb of the

On Trial For His Life

LABORIOUS

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carrier,

re- break proved to be

and at Pirbright a hedgehog was infected by a cow.

What makes this interesting

searches of the Foot Do dogs like jokes? If you watch and Mouth Research Com- the habit of hiding things. But this your own carefully, it is more than

diferent motive. Likely that you will find a deelded mittee have not yet in- is that the hedgehog has always Bingo, living in Sussex on a form, he did from 1

controvertibly shown that been given a bad character in played a joke on a rooster whom he Those who hide can And," says the sense of humour peeping out now particularly disliked. The annoying proverb. The

tereler was niways and then.

Barnard Ifull

the hedgehog is responsible popular superstition. bird was in the habit of stealing sure of a pat and a word of praise

for that costly, plague, but DISEASE THAT Bingos' food when he was not look-

the nets are closing round the queer little animal.

ing

The dog stood it for some time,; and then planned revenge. He. till he routed away his treasures found an old, dry, and particularly unappetising bone. He planted this in his food-bow) in such a way that it was bound to attract the rooster's attention.

Don't Like Ridicule

the

SONGS IN THE NIGHT

trees. You

ALWAYS HAD

BAD NAME

COSTS THOUSANDS

There is a widespread trudition 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 dead reward-four pence-for #

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According to the Fifth Re hedgehog as for polecals. THERE is no fairer land in which Swifts appear to chatter and gambol to study the ways of wild nature far into midnight. How I watched

bats round the port, the hedgehog, is not only One of the effects of foot-and- could susceptible; he is the. one mouth disease is to diminish the Then he retired to his kennel and than the Jed Valley, lying so far them gliding like

odorous linden

of inlik from animals pretended to be asleep. Soon

affected by it, and the investigations rooster came stalking up. He spied away from the ugliness of our mo- -pecka. His disgust when be found and dreamy gludes blend harmon- jelly chinttering as they entered their been proved to spread the in- atarted by 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

nor luusly with the song of Nature, which nests at the caves of my window. fection by contact. Moreover, as

as the virus of foot-and-mouth companions, indeed,

If the hedgehog is that there was neither favour

finally con- Joyeus nourishment in it must have been to my ears never dies.

Richard Jeffries says, "for they bring disease has been recovered from demned It will mean that every 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 Ona hedgehog found near the the country thousands of pounds a exquisite, but at night, as the sha- their wings, the messengera 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 wells of sense of humour, as shown by the best the sweet gang of the dipper, two authentic anecdotes above. They love this stream, with its soothing Ferniehurst Castle you hear the shrill also have an individuality, and are sensitive to ridicule. A dog feels cadence, and they answer back in hoots and screechings of owls from deliciously, the century old oaks. I often think ashamed when he thinks he is being like strain, murmuring laughed at, as evinced in his furtive I have heard the rose-lintle singing these weird calls must awaken their the droning look and skulking galt.

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 beelle and the tlmorous mouse meet bird of mystery. Stand still! How human comedian, a dog does not was the blackcap, so sweet was its a sudden end at the talon of this nind being laughed at in the course strain.

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

Pleasant also to listen to the ves of the owl Like disembodied spirits There is always a "clown" dog in every performing canino troupe, who per hyrnn of the larka, making musi- of Border rivers they glide by, makes a mule of all the tricks the cat the fragrant gloaming of the I And there la more to be learned others do, just like the human summer eve. The cornbunting, which from Nature during the quiet hours "Auguste" In a circus. That he like

of night than man dreams of, for evoking the delighted laughter of resembles the lark, but

of lighter

the audience is shown by his pleased plumage, is here heard frequently under the dusky wing of night crea- It thrills like the yellow yorling. turca of great benuty besport, moths look and wagging_tail,

abruptly. Sometimes, a dog's sense of huending its serenades so

all lending liko Hving Jewellery, nur is misdirectod, as in the case of On quiet nights throughout June. themselves to the harmony and joy Pál, un Iriali setter living near Lon-heard the blackbird and mavis sing-

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

3. Turnbull Aliken

don.

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

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ACROSS

8 This development will not result from merely exercising one's wita.

9 Some variet has taken to seeing something of the world, for a chunge

10 Ground for complaint for, say, a

tenals player. 11 He is liable to get one down, in

time.

12 Wherein the Hay diet is the

thing.

13 Quotation that can be varied for

tea times,

15 English town.

17 Apply the gift of the cone for ilitle more than a small number. 10 Where to stay in depressing

weather.

22 A source of sweetness, possibly, 24 Ono sees not a few with broken rest in this part of England.

27 Agrces otherwise.

29 Particular form of pale Ices. 30 Gossip.

31 There's an American Indian in

this written effort.

32 Devon lown.

DOWN

1 Annoyed at being ejected? (Two

words).

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

3 An Ineffective observer (Two

worda).

4 Fishing vessol.

© Thero's a tree in the wAY,

6 Not a heavy-weight bird.

7 This should enable ana to and

out something or other.

14 To kill an animal for this la

giving it a "raw deal.”

10 Can be seen in Coronation celo-

brations. 18

famous scat

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20

The

black sheep?

provided by the

result of an inquiry held

In camera is not necessarily 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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