The Kington Times - February 1917
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Kington Times 24th February 1917 - Page 1
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| Date | 24/02/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 24th February 1917 |
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shing rom aker . Herefordshire re , ds ms VERY Country . IS g Throughout Imes , nisher , & c . OMINSTER . O CO . PHEASANTS . set aside tempor- e the killing of lain destroy food n consumption . Captain Bathurst , he Food Ministry on Tuesday , " to occupiers of agri- current right of he lines that they ame . Lam- Mr. George now close time . proposed to give once without any ants to be killed , ly ( Cheers ) . They human consump- Food Controller legal by statute ? ing in mind the ood Controller is ander the Defence f over - ruling the and cheers ) . HOPE . arl W. Ackerman . " nt of the United ays : - on difficulties are plans . Disregard- g but the army , ry victory is pos- re again facing the advocates , he purpose . is rmany's efforts in past , because it is is win or lose in The Germans be- i nes will paralyse s . they are pre- by fand , air , and tronger in a mili- ape the war began . Entente to be at ths , despite Ameri- nsider America too the Allies . " oing to propose to perhaps if he got . him out . Edith : ight , but it was id a loud - voiced till remember that gnificent empire . bystander , and see what com- r the beds . Each a hair mattress . " I think mine the Proprietor by ces , 27 , Drapers regd ship all the on , inster THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES VOL . X. NO . 544 . SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and BALDWIN . LEOMINSTER HORSE REPOSITORY . NEXT SALE Of Valuable Heavy & Light HORSES , Consigned by Farmers and Private Owners . On FRIDAY , MARCH 23 , 1917 . £ 50 offered in Prizes . Schedule and Entry Forms on application . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN , Auctioneers , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 27th , 1917 . FAT Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 a.m .; Calves , 11.30 ; Store Cattle and Pigs , 11.45 . Entries kindly solicited . Sale will include a consignment of SHEEP , from Mrs. Yeld , Dorstone , as follows : 20 Speckled - Faced , two and three - years - old Ewes ( in lamb to a pure - bred Ryeland Ram , bred by Sir Frederick Cawley , Bart . , M.P. ) . These Ewes were purchased in Montgomery- shire last autumn and are sold owing to the Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper for transmission in the United Kingdom . KINGTON SATURDAY , FEB . 24 , 1917 . Let , comfortable COTTAGE , in Lyons- That village Apply , LIL WALL , Lyonshall . Spring Horse Sale . To Let , small GROCERY ( At the instigation of the Farmers ' Union , the Urban District Council , and the Traders ' Association ) . Tuesday , March 20th , 1917 . £ 30 IN PRIZES . Entries Close , Saturday March 10th . Prize Schedules and Entry Forms upon . application . Entries may be made with the Local Representative , MR . W. MORGAN , Newton , Kington ; or to the AUCTIONEERS , JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , BUSINESS ( country ) . Apply , BRIDGE , Décorator , Leominster . I To NO LET , MORTIMER HOUSE , BAR- GATES - Apply , H. G. HANKINSON , Ivydene , Perseverance Road . FOR SALE . IGS ARE OFTEN TROUBLED WITH clear same . Sold in Cartons containing six powders 5d . , by Agents in all parts ; or by Post 12. Powders 1 / 1-96 Powders 6/6 , on receipt of remittance , by JOSEPH THORLEY , LTD . , King's Cross , London , N. Any Craven Arms and Hereford . WALLPAPERS from 43d . per roll . quantity , large or small , supplied at WHOLESALE PRICES . Largest stock in Great Britain . Write for patterns , stating class required , ( DEPT . P. 279 ) , BARNETT WALLPAPER Co. , LTD . , Manchester . WANTED . GROCERY AND PROVISIONS WANTED Smart LADY ASSISTANT , ex- perienced . - Apply , MANAGER , PEARK'S STORES , High Street , Kington . EQUIRED in Kington , Comfortably Fur- modern conveniences if possible , state terms , with board . " C , " c / o STEVENSON , Kington . WANTED , Lady - Day next , COWMAN , cottage and garden close to work . Apply , M. YARNOLD , Boraston , Tenbury Wells . PI DIG KEEPERS WHO WISH THEIR PIGS TO PAY should use as a Condiment Thorley's Food for Cattle ; keeps Pigs thrifty . Sold in cases containing 56 Packets Five Shillings , by agents in all parts . to POULTRY KEEPERS should write don , who are the manufacturers of Ovum , Joseph Thorley , Ltd. , King's Cross , Lon- Thorley's Poultry Spice , for Thorley's Poultry Keeper's Account Book , also Book giving use- ful hints to Poultry Keepers - both sent Free . LADDERS , OAK HEELBARROWS , vendor having to quit 16 acres of pasture land VANTED , strong , willing GIRL , or mid- GATE and FENCING POSTS ready at Hyde Ash . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN . Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . THE LOWE , PEMBRIDGE , One mile from Pembridge Station and Five miles from Kington and Presteign . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN are dle aged Person would suit . Apply , Mrs. JONES , Birchley Mill , Tenbury Wells . VANTED , COWMAN , if married cottage The Hill , Bockleton , near Tenbury . W TURKEY COCK- for delivery . - C . NORGROVE , Saw Mills , Leo minster . and garden found . - Apply , H. COOPER , Y Thorley's Poultry Spice is different to any YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT OVUM , other Poultry Spice and contains all that is WANTED , STORE EREL - Apply , Mrs. TEDSTONE , Hay - producing abundance of Eggs . necessary for Keeping Poultry Healthy and wood Common , Kington Sold in cases containing 72 packets Six Shillings . Cartons WANTED old ARTIFICIAL TEETH , any ( two sizes ) 1/1 and Sixpence each , by Agents condition , for cash.-E. MORGAN , Jew- in all parts . E favoured with instructions from Mr. John eller , Drapers Lane , Leominster . Bounds ( who is retiring from farming ) , to Sell by Auction , on MONDAY , MARCH 5th , 1917 , the AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS , Casks , Heifer ( three - years - old ) , Yearling Cart Colt , and a portion of the Household Furniture . Dairy Cow ( with young calf ) , Cross - bred Catalogues may be had of the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . Sale at ONE o'clock prompt . CHINA HALL , COBNASH . i WANTED , FLOAT , must be in good land . condition . Apply , SULLIVAN , Kings- WANTED , GENERAL SERVANT , for FORGAN , Byton , Presteign . NOR Sale , 1 Tons of good HAY . - Apply , ROFITABLE POULTRY KEEPING is Pred if you give your fowls Ovum , Thorley's Poultry Spice , it keeps them in the business house . Apply , Mrs. HILL , pink of condition and assures a full egg Drapers Lane , Leominster . basket . Get Ovum at HINTON'S CORN STORES , Rainbow Street , Leominster . quired , cottage and garden found.- T gether or separate , situate in Pinsley Road , good building site . For further par- TWO FREEHOLD GARDENS for Sale , to WANTED , a COWMAN , good milker re- Apply , R. W. FARR , Lawton Hall , Leominster . WANTED , GENERAL WORKMAN , at once , or March 25th , cottage and gar- ticulars apply , " B 13 , " c / o News Office , Leo- den , good wages . - Appy , RIDGLEY , Eyton , minster . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALODIO Mr. G. YOUTHS , able to drive , age about 17 GOUGH & Co. require TWO STRONG Terms . - THE LONDON SUPPLY STORES , Leomin- Three Miles from Leominster . from Leominster . W. T. Stephens , who is leaving , to Sell by years ; also TWO APPRENTICES , liberal Auction , upon the premises , on THURSDAY , MARCH 15th , 1917 , ster . ( Free by post per quarter , ( 1s . 8d . , payable in advance . PRICE ONE PENNY . Three Specialities . Leggings Gaiters Spats FROM the House of Horse Slaughtering . W. W. BECK , Begs to inform the Public that he is still sharpened and creosoted , close to main continuing his Business as road .-- Apply , COOPER , The Hill , Bockleton . FOR Sale , a few thousand HOP POLES , N pay , you must rear every chick , and the DEAD CHICKS . - To make your poultry only sure way to do this is to feed them for the first three weeks exclusively on ARMI- ORIGINAL DRY CHICK FOOD , and follow on with ARMITAGE'S No. ARMITAGE'S No. 3 SMALL CHICKEN LTD . , Poultry Food Specialists , Nottingham . CORN . Manufactured by ARMITAGE BROTHERS , Sold by T. PORTER , South Street ; G. F. a portion of his useful HOUSEHOLD FURNI - W GENERAL SERVANT . - Apply , MISS TAGE'S NO . I VANTED , beginning of March , young TURE and Out - Door Effects , described in Catalogues , to be had of the AUCTIONEERS , WINNALL , Church Street , Leominster . Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . Sale at 1.30 o'clock prompt . By Mr. R. H. CEORCE . R. H. GEORGE , Auc er , Valuer , Land Agent , and Surveyor , PROPERTY and TIMBER SPECIALIST , MORTGAGE BROKER , VALUER and ARBI- WANTED , Lady - Day , COWMAN , splendid GROW.ON CHICKEN MIXTURE , and cottage near , wages 25 / - per week , good chance for tidy married couple , permanent . Apply , " M , " c / o News Office , Leominster . WANTED , GENERAL SERVANT , M. Street : & Co. , 3 , Lig family , two children.Apply , Mrs. Street ; G. GOUGH & Co. , 2 , Broad Street , Leo- HANDS , 8 , Bridge Street , Kington . minster . DAVIES & BROWN , Ludlow . - We are offering exceptional value in all classes of Leggings . Reliable quality , well finished and at prices to suit every pocket . An absolute necessity while the cold weather is here . We stock all sizes , in black , navy and fawn . find Here you will an extensive range from which to choose . The latest shades all bearing that dis- tinctivé mark of quality for which we are noted . Ross & Son Shoe Experts Limited 23 & 24 , HIGH STREET , KINGTON . SCIENCE NOTES . All is due to formaldehyde . It has more than once been stated that tobacco smokers enjoy EARTHWORMS IN RAIN .. an immunity from certain diseases , and the The habit that earthworms seem to have of frequent presence of a powerful antiseptic in leaving their burrows and going out in the the mouth , nasal passages , and sometimes the rain " at first suggests the possibility of their lungs ( as in the case of those who foolishly liking to do it . The fact that many lose their inhale tobacco smoke ) would to some extent When it is considered lives on impenetrable brick or cement walls justify the statement . show that there is a peril in the habit that that in the nose a vast number of microbes are only a sportsmanlike creature could be ex- hourly deposited , it is conceivable that these pected to face . As a matter of fact , says a may be effectively destroyed by the frequent naturalist , the earthworm leaves its burrow passage of tobacco smoke through that organ . because it must . The burrows of the earth - In the same way the organism exposed to worm may extend as far as four feet into the tobacco smoke in the mouth would succumb . earth , but , as a rule , they extend no further Formaldehyde is one of the most powerful dis- than the depth of the black or humus layer . infectants we possess , I part in 10,000 parts of lowing soil as they burrow along , and digesting poisonous action on the human organism . In the humus they obtain their food by swal - water serving to destroy all microbes , while such a dilute solution has practically no from it the partially - decayed bits of leaves , the same , it is most undesirable that this sticks , and so forth . Here and there the burrows connect with the surface , for the fact should stimulate the practice of smoking animals come up , usually at night , and tobacco to absurd excess , for tobacco poisoning or in pastures . soil material that are common sights in lawns and to employ tobacco in abusive quantities for During a rain the burrows of the sake of destroying microbes might amount water , but as long as the soil round the the earthworm become quickly filled with possibly to killing the seeds of one disease only burrow takes up the water the little creature CONCERNING ASTEROIDS . is content . When , however , the soil is Professor Henry Norris Russell , of Princeton saturated with water , the air contained in the University Observatory , writing in the " Scien- water in the burrow is soon used up by the tific American " on " the lesser members of earthworm's breathing organ , the skin . There the solar family , " says that at the present is no reason for supposing that the earthworm time no less than 799 planets are known , each deliberately makes a choice between suffoca- pursuing its own orbit . Only eight of these tion at home and possible extermination by are large the familiar planets . larger animals above . It simply acts on the 791 belong to the group of the minor planets , stimulus brought about by lack of exygen , and or asteroids . crawls upwards to the air . Doubtless most of No conection with any other Buyer . the worms find their way back by new holes , which they can easily make for themselves Licensed Horse Slaughterer . Slaughterer . deposit the lumpy little masses of undigested is a greater reality than many persons think , Full Value for Heavy Horses and Cattle , Dead , and Pay Before Removal . Distance No Object . Addresses : CHEMICAL WORKS , WORCESTER , NORTH ROAD , LEOMINSTER , NORTH WOOD , PRESTEIGN . as working housekeeper , 2 in family OR Sale , FAGGOTS , last year's . Apply Telephone No. 52 . one from the country preferred . - Apply , 91 , BARGATES , Leominster . ster . T. E. DAVIES , Lawtonbury , near Leomin- NOR Sale , firct - class SWEETS CONFEC- COWMAN , good cottages . - Apply , E. For particulars apply Act , 1908. REPORTS , RECORDS and SUR- M. DUGGAN , Stockton , Leominster . Office , Leominster . VEYS carefully and personally attended to . desires re - engagement after ITRATOR under the Agricultural Holdings ANTED , 25th March , WAGONER and TIONERY BUSINESS , in good position . | HOTEL and PUBLIC HOUSE VALUER . O. T , " c / o News Gaster , daily or weekly preferred , ceff . NOR Sale , New AUTO STOCKING - KNIT- F TING MACHINE , suitable for war work Hope , Lyonshall , Herefordshire . Prepaid Advertisements when the rain is over . to contract another . The other The first four of these little planets - Ceres , Pallas , Juno , and Vesta - were discovered at the very beginning of the nineteenth century , between 1801 and 1907. No further additions to the list were made till 1845. Between that date and 1891 nearly 320 additional planetoids BATTERY FOR SELENIUM CELLS . For experimental work with selenium cells were discovered - an average of seven per year . it often happens that such cells are made in The only way to find them was then to make very small size with consequent high resist- a chart of the stars in When used in circuit with , an instru- heavens , and to go over it with the telescope some region of the ance . VALUATIONS for ESTATE DUTY , MORT- cated , family and school experience ; highly ( rheumatism cause for selling ) .- POWELL , The will be inserted in THE KINGTON TIMES at ment such as a sensitive relay , a high voltage again and again until some uncharted body GAGE , ASSESSMENT APPEALS , & c . PERIODICAL SALES .of PROPERTIES . Prompt settlements in all cases . Offices : ESTABLISHMENT 1880 . Croftmead , Kingsland , Leominster Office Herefordshire . Corn Square . By Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON . recommended . - Apply , " REGINA , " c / o News Office , Leominster . ANTED , respectable GIRL , 14 to 15 , Wassist housework and shop . - Apply ; MAUND , Orleton , R.S.O. , Herefordshire . ANTED , GIRL , about 14 years , fond of W children , make herself useful . - Apply , 11 , RAINBOW STREET , Leominster . OR Sale , young TURKEY COCKEREL . Fo Apply , Mrs. EVANS , Lucton , Kingsland . NOR Sale , few Choice Bush APPLE TREES . minster : -Apply , " P. P , " c / o News Office , Leo- WANTED , about 30 Acres of good GRASS , 100 by one user at cost of 6d , weekly in one or more E. Hammond & Son , Warge garden , situate at Morti- Auctioneers , Valuers , House , Estate , and Insurance Agents , Conduct all classes of SALES BY AUCTION , VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE , Etc. , RENTS " K.L , " c / o News Office , Leominster . ANTED , GENERAL WORKMAN , cot- mer's Cross . Apply , W. J. REES , Lucton . a few LADIES ' CYCLES . WANTED , STREET . Cheap ' for cash . - Apply , 18 , SOUTH and BOOK DEBTS COLLECTED . Personal WANTED Two to Three Hundred Acres Attention , Prompt Settlements . ESTABLISHED 1881 . Offces : Highbury House , Leominster . MISCELLANEOUS . Apply , PREECE , Newton , Leominster . WANTED , a GIRL , for milk_delivery , leaving school , must be an early riser . Apply , THE LAURELS , Bargates , Leominster . WANTED , a DONKEY , or small PONY , used to children , to ride and drive , Turn - out suitable , trial necessary .. Apply , RATS , MICE , MOLES , COCKROACHES HOLT , Bryan's Ground , Presteign . and BEETLES greedily eat HARRI- SON'S " RELIABLE " RAT POISON . Cats and Dogs will not touch it . Vermin dry up and leave no smell . COWMAN NOWMAN Wanted , also WORKMAN , for 25th March , good cottage and garden ; Price 6d . , Is . , 2s . 3d . wife to work . - Apply , WHITEMAN , Chadnor , and 3s . 8d . Postage 2d.-G. W. HARRISON , Dilwyn . Chemist , Reading . Sold by Chemists . Agent VANTED , FORD CARS ( Second - Hand ) , EXTRA eggs weekly were obtained for Karswood Spice containing ground 2d . , 6d . , 1 / -- PORTER , 6 & 13 , South Street , Leominster . the following rates : WANTED , TO LET , AND FOR SALE . 1 week . 2 weeks . 3 weeks 20 WORDS 6d . 9d . 18 . 30 9a . 1s . 1s . 6d . 18 . 18. 6d . 29 . one 40 Only one article can be included in advertisement . Cash must in all cases accompany the order , at the above rates . All Advertisements received by Mr. STEVEN- HEREFORDSHIRE EDUCATION COMMITTEE . SON , 33 , High Street , Kington , Offices of this Pure Bred Sittings of Eggs for The best Local Medium for Advertisements Cottagers and Small - Holders . NHE BOARD of AGRICULTURE have ap- proved of the following Station - holders to supply not less than 70 Sittings of Eggs to bona fide Cottagers and Small Holders , who reside in the County , i e . , Coftagers up to 12s . 6d . per week rental , and Small Holders up to 50 acres or assessment not exceeding £ 50 : - WHITE WYANDOTTES . Mrs. Pitt , Old Grove , Lower Eggleton , Ledbury . WHITE WYANDOTTES . Mr. Geo . B. Abel , School House , Cradley , Malvern . BUFF ORPINGTONS . - Mr . Geo . B. Abel , School House , Cradley , Malvern . WHITE LEGHORNS . Miss Dangerfield , Down House , Bromyard . for Leominster , J. W. ROWE , ( late J. Buckham ) , W send full particulars , HOWELL , 4 , Corn WHITE LEGHORNS , Mr. A. F. Sandys , En- Chemist , High Street . K ILL THAT INSECT , TOMMY . Send your pals " out yonder " some tins of Street , Leominster . LAUNDRY WORK . HARRISON'S NURSERY POMADE - they'll APPRENTICE REQUIRED , sliding scale of be very acceptable . When you haven't time wages , according to capabilities . - Apply , to wash there's a big chance , you'll have 5 , CORN SQUARE , Leominster . " companions ! " A little HARRISON'S POMADE KILLS EVERY INSECT on hair and body .. Insist on having HARRISON'S POMADE . " Tins of comfort , " at 4id . and od . Sold by all Chemists - or by post from HARRISON , Chemist , Reading . Agent for Leominster , J. W. ROWE , ' ( late J. Buckham ) , High Street ; Kington , J. W. CAUNT . GREY HAIR restored to its original colour by using HARRISON'S Hair Colour RESTORER It is not a dye , but acts naturally , is quite harmless . Price 1/6 . G. W. Harrison , M.P.S. , Postage 3d . Hair Reading . Specialist , Agent for Leominster : J. W. KOWE , 35 , Higi Street . DARING ROBBERY AT COVENTRY POST OFFICE . cottage and garden close to work . WANTED , WAGONER , 25th March , good Apply , GROSVENOR , Kimbolton , Leominster . TO LET NO Let , TWO SMALL COTTAGES , at The Twych , each has kitchen , two bedrooms and garden . Apply , W. H. BANKS , Kington . TO NO Let , HOUSE and SHOP , No. 6 , Corn Street , Leominster . - Apply , HOLMES , 10 , Corn Street . GREENHOUSE , about saft 9ft x 3ft .; STOVE for heating same , new 1913 . Apply , STEPHENS , Wozencroft , Kington . OMFORTABLE HOME for 2 schoolgirls . COMApply , & A.B , " c / o News Office , Leo- minster . NO Let , HOUSE and GARDEN , 31 , South minster . То ences dowed School , Staunton - on - Wye . BUFF ROCKS . Mrs. Deacon , Victoria Poultry Farm , Kington . SPECKLED SUSSEX . - Mr . R. H. Bromley , School House , Lyonshall , Kington . Applications for Eggs should be sent direct to the Station - holders who will supply at least 70 sittings under the scheme on the following conditions : - 1 - No one applicant can apply for more than 3 sittings ( of 12 eggs ) under the scheme dur- ing the year . Infertile , i.e. , clear eggs , re- turned to Station - holder within 28 days , car- riage paid , will be replaced . 2 Station - holders will supply up to April 30th , eggs at 2/6 a sitting , all stamped and packed in a suitable box , but applicants must pay carriage , if any . 3 - Any complaints should be made to the County Organiser . JOHN PORTER , Organiser of Agricultural Education Shirehall , Hereford . £ 500 GIFT TO GUARDIANS . Street . - Apply , SMITH , Withenfield , Leo- PRACTICAL GRATITUDE FOR THE CARE OF A SISTER . A daring robbery took place in Coventry Post NO Let , FURNISHED or UNFURNISHED Newton Abbot Guardians were informed of a MODERN COTTAGE , 2 bedrooms , I Office on Saturday afternoon . Mr. Spencer , sitting room , good kitchen , bath ( h . & c . ) , w.c. , bequest of £ 500 on Wednesday . For over 30 manager of the Coventry Opera House , had wash - house and shed , good garden , good refer- years a Chudleigh schoolmistress had contri- been to Lloyd's Bank and drawn out £ 44 . He necessary . - Apply , BRYAN'S GROUND , buted towards the maintenance of her sister then proceeded to the General Post Office and Presteign . in the county asylum . wrote a telegram , placing the bag containing When the schoolmistress died recently she the money at his feet . A moment later he NO Let , HOUSE and PREMISES , 101 , bequeathed the whole of her estate , amounting left a slight push and the bag was taken . It To Street , Leominster , containing 6 to 1500 , to the Newton Abbot Guardians , in is supposed that the thieves were attracted to rooms , scullery , etc. , motor - cycle garage , 3 return for the maintenance of her sister . the Post Office by the knowledge that a large workshops , yard ( suitable for storage ) , and The chairman of the guardians characterised number of people would be going there in front shop . - Apply , 101 , ETNAM STREET , Leo- the gift as a noble and generous one , and the connection with the War Loan . Board decided to place it on record . minster . Paper . In the District . KINGSLAND Horse Slaughtering YARD . DISCOVERY BY PHOTOGRAPHY . The photographic method of discovery - in- troduced in 1891 by Wolf at Heidelebrg - is far often needs to be applied in order to secure was found which - if not a variable star the needed effect . It would be quite an under- would be a planet whieh had just moved into taking to mount a battery of forty or fifty the region . cells which would be required in such cases , but for amateur work such a battery can be made up , says the Scientific American , with comparatively little trouble , provided the re- sistance of the circuit is very high , which easier , and almost automatic in its action . On means only a very small current , and again a photograph taken with an exposure of two where the battery is actually put on the cir- or three hours , the stars appear as dots , but cqit for a short time . For such use , the cells streak , or trail , so that it can be picked out a planet , on account of its motion , as a little successful- can be made very small , which allows of a convenient make - up , and the plunge bochro- troduced by Metcalfe , the most at once . A later refinement of this method , in- mate cell can here be used . A very easy American discoverer of these little planets , method for mounting carbons and zincs can consists in moving the instrument so that it Cells are made of wide - mouth follows , not the stars , but the probable rate be employed . bottles about 3in , high , using say four rows of of motion of an asteroid . The stars then at cells each , or forty cells , placed in a flat pear as trails , and the planet as a dot - thus ( or wire ) , and such rods cut to the right of very faint objects is possible . box . Procure in . carbon rods and zinc rods concentrating its light , so that the discovery length can be mounted by using two light wood strips , preferably cut from a wood ruler , 600 or 700 new asteroids have been found ; but and also a in . square strip . The latter is a good many of them have got away again be- laid on the table and the ten carbon rods fore a spaced along it , then the outer strip is applied them had been obtained to make it possible to and screwed down at intervals so as to hold calculate trustworthy orbits and predict their on all the carbons by pressure . Then the places in future years . zines are all put on so as to face the carbons , in like manner . The set thus fits down into the ten cells placed in a row . Four such sets Since the photographic discoveries began , sufficient number of observations of INEXHAUSTIBLE IN NUMBERS . There are no signs of exhaustion of the are then joined by cross strips so that the group . It is probable that many hundreds of forty pairs of electrodes can be lowered into additional discoveries will be made before the the cells or raised out , using suitable supports is even approximately reached , and that the limit accessible with our present instruments at each end of the battery . The zincs should first be well amalgamated . The usual bichro - list of those for which orbits can be computed mate solution , or preferably chromic acid , is will ultimately run to at least 1,500 . employed . TOBACCO SMOKE . Almost all the brighter ones have probably been picked up , and it seems unlikely that there are many more to be found which sur- . It has often been confidently , stated that to- pass the eleventh magnitude , but the number bacco smoke is a powerful germicide , but so of the fainter one must be legion . far , says the writer on scientific subjects in a contemporary , this property has not yet been assigned to any one particular constituent of SIZE OF ASTEROIDS . Concerning the real size of these little . can upon a the smoke . The composition of tobacco smoke planets we know something , and sected within 14 miles of Leominster . The only place where animals can be dis- is , of course , complex , but everybody knows rational basis estimate a good deal more . The that tarry oils are a principal constituent , and four " oldest " asteroids show very small , but . certainly many oils are powerfully antiseptic . measurable , diameters when viewed with the the quantity of this poison in tobacco smoke diameter , Pallas 304 , Juno 120 , and Vesta 240 . According to Professor Ceres is 480 miles in is minute , if , indeed , it is present at all . At least in the number of chemical analyses of tobacco smoke at different times it H. J. Pritchard Nicotine , again , is a strong disinfectant , but greatest telescopes . Wishes to inform the Farmers and General Public that he has taken over the well adapted All Carcases paid for in cash before removal . Letters and Telegrams : 33 , Bargates , Leo- minster , or Broomy Hill , Kingsland . DISTANCE NO OBJECT . N.B. - The above premises were formerly occupied by W. W. Beck . was measures Ceres , the largest , is therefore a little less . than one quarter of the diameter of the moon , only be estimated consist of difficult to declare with absolute certainty that from its bulk , by assuming it to and its mass , which can The premises at Kingsland for the purpose of Horse nicotine was an important constituent . Slaughtering , Etc. oily matter which accumulates in a tobacco material similar to the superficial layers of the The only Horse Slaughtering License in pipe is decidedly poisonous , but it does not earth or moon , is probably about 1-100 that North Herefordshire is now held by H. J. contain any appreciable quantity of nicotine , of the moon , or 1-8,000 of the earth's mass Pritchard who intends to carry on this the chief constituent being the very poisonous THEIR RFLECTING POWER . Business in a satisfactory manner to all con- oil pyridine .. Tobacco smoke contains a cerned . Knowing the diameters of these four little decided quantity of the very poisonous gas bodies , and their observed brightness , we may carbon monoxide , which has been used for calculate their reflecting power , for sunlight . preserving purposes , and which therefore must It is found that Ceres , Pallas , and Juno ar possess germicidal properties . Some simple fairly similar in reflecting power , diffusing experiments which have recently been made away into space about 15 per cent . of the inci- would seem to confirm the observation that one dent sunlight - about the same fraction as does of the principal constituents accounting for the planet Mars . Vesta , however , when at the germicidal properties of tobacco smoke is the same distance , appears brighter than the powerful antiseptic formaldehyde . Ceres , though only half as big , and must have ITS GERMICIDAL PROPERTIES . a much higher reflecting power - probably FIRE RESCUE FROM A ROOF . nearly 50 par cent . , resembling Venus in this The amount present is more than just ap - respect . preciable , for if water through which a few Considerable damage was done at the Turk's puffs of smoke have been passed is tested for only estimate the diameters on the basis of the For the host of smaller asteriods , we can Head Hotel , Newcastle , on Saturday by a fire formaldehyde the result is strikingly positive . amount of light which they reflect - and the which broke out in the early morning . It was The quantity of formaldehyde in tobacco case of Vesta warns us that our estimates may confined to the linen room and kitchen , but in smoke would appear to depend on the quality sometimes err considerably . its earlier stages caused great alarm , visitors and kind of tobacco smoked . and employees fleeing from their rooms in appears to yield more formaldehyde than the power , ( about 18 per cent . ) that , on the aver- Thus the cigar Nevertheless , if we assume such a reflecting night attire . pipe , and the pipe more than the cigarette . age , the estimated and actual diameters of Three employees got on to a roof from which Possibly the peculiarly irritating property of these four asteriods would they required the assistance of the fire brigade the smoke issuing from the glowing end of a probably not go very far wrong in estimating agree , we shall to get away . cigarette or cigar or from the bowl of a pipe the size of the fainter ones on the same basis . + |