Walkerton Independent, Volume 55, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 November 1929 — Page 2

y*lkerton Independent Thuradkyby 3 , THg OfDEPEyDEVT-XKWK CO, Wa I K r-n Tn °f the W4IJIEHTON INDEPENDENT nokth liberty news -- ... lAKEVIIJ.E STANDABO ,T°* jo SEPII_COUNTY WEEKLI^I" Business MaZkcer , Chajlea m Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Km^h.: ::::::: U TERMS IN ADVANCE IBatared at the po 8 t office at Walkerte*. ** ■econd-cta— matter Quevi that these modern seeresses are never able to foresee their own bad luck. It is an axiom of finance that it is impossible to guess the stock market. But nobody believes it. As he goes from place to place. Trotsky continues to assert himself as a movie and a talkie. The street pajama fad for women will probably be wrecked on the shoals of too much material. Always an affecting sight is the gentleman on a diet who is paying for the luncheon of one that isn't. Why not reduce congesHon In the prisons by making them less comfortable —and therefore less popular? Tact is where you touch father so far in advance he fails to realize the money is for the Father’s Day necktie. “Listen, doc,” said the skeptical patient, “I’ve had my teeth out and I’ve had my tonsils out, so that leaves you one guess.” What ever became of that flve-year-old king in the Balkans, and bow did he come out with the no-more-oatmeal ultimatum? The Office Cynic has no particular objection to the thirteen-month calendar idea, provided all the bad luck could be crowded into the thirteenth Just when it seemed that inspiration for a new dance step was uttterly lacking, a farmer in New Oxford, Ont., I reported the birth of a four-legged duck. Time takes care of all things, and the tobacco coupon passed out of ex- ( istence just in time to keep from be- I ing confused with the new paper 1 money. “An uneducated thief,” says a clergyman. “will steal a ride on a train. An educated one will steal the whole railway system.” Then why educate them? Announced as (rending is a merger linking many of the nation s finest hotels. If is said about SSO.UUO.INIO in realty is involved, as well as BUO.OUO towels. Some thing new in ear and eye en- i tertainment may soon be offered. The Farm Journal says scientists are trying to cross the watermelon with the grapefruit. Stowing away has become so unpopular recently that thousands of transatlantic travelers have reconsidered and decided to make the trip in the regular way. “Paul Revere,” says the Philadel- | phia Public Ledger, “made the famous ride on a white horse.” Then there j is a red-headed girl history has never accounted for. It might be well to point out that these fellows who stay up eight or nine days on a refueling trip are also setting a mind-your-own-business endurance record. In the London Lancet a doctor reports the case of a small boy who is unable to smile. Rather a trying child, we should think, to read the | comic sections. Since the customs of ancient Hawaii are to be preserved by their inclusion tn the curricula of the territorial public school system, the world is to be insured against a shortage of hula girls. Another vital truth that is impressed upon the owner of an expanding waist- ■ line is that it s natural to form a Ilk- I ing for a doctor who tells you that i over-dieting is more dangerous than ' over-eating. Standards have changed so that the importance ot a social leader today । depends upon the number and quality of the products which have advertised her endorsement with accompanying ' photographs. An entomologist says the eye of the j bee is only I per cent as acute as ■ that of the human being. This ex- | plains why the poor little bee goes 1 through life without seeing anything much except honey and wild flowers. Quite a number of vibrating exercisers are being sold to descendants of folks who toned tip the liver with j a springless farm wagon. London physicians assert that music i is a health aid. Yes, many a man has sprung from a sick bed to get the saxophone player next door. The Little Woman has made her final concession to the fashion of going without stockings; she has agreed to go without cotton stockings for the rest of her life. Is there anything pleasanter on a sweltering day than to drive slowly along a country road in the shade of a ten-ton truck. The honeymoon is pretty well over ! when it is no longer im unbearable ‘ separation if he steps into a telephone ■ booth for a second. The psychologies!l perfume they talk , about is really physiological, nnd the I orientals have understood the trick of using it to gain effects and create moods. Io these many years.

— Fortress of the Great Eastern Rum Ring r F - ~ iM^Bk ri' Jr «< _ -\ ■ Truis S <s^ ft fell IlStrT ’ a ■ i w - -- - i The former Oscar Hammerstein home at Hillside, N. J., which was raided by federal agents after they learned that a huge liquor syndicate had converted it into an armed fortress and made it a base of operations. New American Dirigibles Need Big Hangar ! __ __ _ : ■' ’* • tzißsnwJW' .. An exterior view of the giant hangar at Akron, Ohio, which will house the new American zeppelins. The ships will be of 6,500,000 cubic feet in capacity, nearly twice the size of the German Graf Zeppelin.

World’s Largest Watermelon ' ' ' - BPw JiBF z I I*' * Bh^L W|Hl v w * This is believed to be the world’s largest watermelon, grown this summer by Edgar Laseter at Hope, Ark. It weighed 152’A pounds. Former Ambassador and His Bride TijWllin > A 'AjaP jZ j- ; ; w5 x ’ > ’ ■ rl fIR • '- r • Lloyd G. Griscom, former United States ambassador to Italy, with his : bride, the former Miss Andrey Grosse, leaving Alarston r i russell. Market ■ Harborough, England, in a shower of flower petals, following their marriage. . THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

The bulk of the world's supply of tungsten comes from China. The average cost of gasoline In Bolivia is 65 cents a gallon. There are more than 3.400 spoken languages and dialects in the world. Interest in automobiling has caused a slump in horse breeding in Belgium. Grizzly bears may be seen in three of the national parks in the United States.

Spain is to have a model automobile road 2(>o miles long. i America imported $7,000,000 worth of black pepper last year. There are 73,000 elk grazing in national forests of the United States. 'Die purple raspberry is the result of crossing black and red raspberries. The tales of “glass snakes’’ that I break in pieces if struck are entirely mythological.

ENVOY TO SPAIN r K> < 4j y B jwwlßk ZOS * : 'i^/ Irwin It. Laughlin of Washington and Pittsburgh has been appointed American ambassador to Spain, succeeding Ogden 11. Hammond. resigned. Mr. Laughlin has been in the diplomatic service for twenty-five years. SAW LINCOLN SHOT BAv f l gr * B' * *1 v'Z & 1i <tz ■ z f 00 lM* A al ; w /THMKLeb . ®F Benjamin Church of Lisbon, N. Y., despite his ninety-seven years, remembers with startling clarity the scene in Ford's theater in Washington on the evening of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, April 14, 1865. Church, a young naval official, was seated opposite the ‘Great Emancipa tor” and saw Booth shoot him. Famous Vatican Library A curious feature of the Vatican library, in the custody of which Cardinal Ehrle succeeds the late Cardinal Gasquet, is the pains which seems to have been taken to concetti it. You turn aside in a corridor not far from the sculpture gallery, and pass through a glass-paneled door, screened by a grating. Within is a great chamber, exquisitely decorated, but. at si first glance, without any sign of books. The books are there, however —tens of thousands of priceless volumes — but all in closed cases and cabinets beautifully painted to harmonize with the general scheme ot decoration. How About Their Stingers? “Mother.” remarked seven-year-old Janet its she watched several mosquitoes gliding silently back and forth over her head, “there’s skeeters In this room, but their motors aren't running." —Pathfinder Magazine. Environment While It is illuminating to see how environment molds men, it is absolutely essential that men regard themselves as molders of their environ ment. —Lippman.

They Were Great Wheelmen Long Years Ago j 1 i ~ n The annual Wheelmens’ reunion, marking the fifty-third anniversary of the bicycle, was held at Gwynedd, Pa. Tin* photograph shows five bicycle champions of the old days with high wheels that they used. Left to right: Arthur A. Zimmerman, world champion in 1*90; t’harles AL Alurphy, known as “Alile-A-Minute Alurphy” after riding a bike a mile in 57 seconds: George Gideon, first national champion in ISSI ; Irve Wilhelm, Penn state champ, and Henry (Toother, px'sident of the League of American Wheelmen. Water From Everglades Inundates Hialeah Ihe busmens district of Hialeah. Fla., inundated by waters from the Everglades overflowing into the town after I torrential rains. Hialeah is a suburb of Miami.

FLIES TO FISH HnT - JR • I v -X' * . • a Internatinal Cov. Alexander Parks of Alaska is j I both an aviation ami a fishing addict. । Here lie is trying to land a few of 1 ' the big fish in Lake 1 lassellborg. He . (lew to the lake and made his aviation I i co<ttime into a fishing outfit by don- | j uing a pair of rubber boots. COACH AT MEXICO । l® 'IB l J ; 1 ■ i ■ il ■J t I sj 4 I ill _ J i ? 4®AKA ■ A Reginald Dean Root, former Yale i football star and line coach on the Yah' team, who Ims arrived in Mexico City to take up his new duties as coach at the Vniversity of Mexico. Ancient Churn An ancient horse-driven churn, from I Broughton Manor farm has been given | to the museum at South Kensington, | England. The machinery, with all its | gear wheels, is of wood. The horse ’ walked round in a circle about 15 feet across, and the churn held GO I gallons. It produced more than five | hundredweight of butter a week. Babies Always Babies Even babies of the Stone age had to be amused, judging from a little rattle recently found near Budapest. The handle is in the shape of an animal's head and il makes just as much noise as any baby's plaything of today. Perfected Machine Gun The first modern practical machine gun was invented by Doctor Gatling of Chicago In 1862. and it was put into general use about 1870.

Light Fifty Years Ago and Now r w * IBWBk * s JH Ik 4 - / TB. WB "t of h g ' kMMIHk I * I Thomas A. Edison, hero of light's golden jubilee, exhibiting a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp, which gave 16 candlepower of illumination, in contrast to the ultimate in today's lamp achievement, a 50,000 watt, 150,000 candlepower lamp. Professor Radio and His Class I 1 \ gRBNSk .£1 . 1 Glass in economic geography in the Cran^ junior college. Chicago, receiving instruction by radio. The loud speaker delivers the daily lecture. Empress of Canada on the Rocks *- W'Z- " '*'V An airplane view of the Pacific liner Empress of Canada after she bad run on the rocks at Albert Head near Victoria. B. C. The passengers were taken off safely but the jagged rocks tore great holes in the steamer's nil. SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST

El Paso, Texas, plans a subwaj system. Mexico City is located at an altitude of 7,500 feet. Chicago averages more than 4,000,000 telephone calls daily. Wild horses are being killed in Canada to provide meat for fox farms. Practically all the iodine in the human body is stored in the thyroid gland.

I Seven-eighths of Japan is mountai j country. American skunks are being sough by Swedish fur farmers. Motorcycles mounted <n skis ar I proving useful in Alaska. The female of one species of spide carries her young on her l ack. An intoxicating drink is made fror the sap of the century plant in Mex i ico.