Bellefonte, Pa., November 9, 1923.
DIGGING THE DOVER TUNNEL
Work Is to Be Pushed From Eight
Shafts Sunk in the British
Channel.
Our old ideas regarding tunnels are
to be turned topsy turvy, it appears,
by the methods to be adopted in dig-
ging the long-discussed and more than
once begun, underground and under-
sea line of communication between
England and France. A tunnel, and
more particularly a subaqueous tun-
pel, has been a human burrow, begun
at one end or both.
It bas been virtually decided that
instead of cutting in from the two
shores this tunnel is to be dug from
the middle outward, says the New
Orleans Times-Picayune. Plunging
down into the chilly waters of the
English channel with the greatest
caissons ever constructed, the engi-
neers will exclude the sea waters by
modern processes that have been de-
veloped, and sinking a shaft into the
sea bottom will work fore and aft.
But even that single shaft is not
enough, according to Mr. Tempest,
chief engineer of the project, and it is
proposed that no less than eight sea
shafts shall be used.
If this is done it is the engineer's
idea that the dirt and rock dug from
the tunnel cutting instead of being
carried many miles to a land dump,
can simply be blown by compressed
air out upon the sea bottom. The
whole thing sounds wonderful and it
looks as though the tunnel might be-
come an engineering marvel surpass-
ing the Panama canal, the Assuan
dam, the Tay bridge and other gems
of scientific ingenuity.
IT SOUNDED LIKE A PUZZLE
Case of Australian and His Children
However, Was Simple When It
Was Explained.
A New Yorker, visiting English
friends, was lamenting leaving at
home two beautiful daughters who
were just budding into womanhood.
Turning to a man to whom he had
just been introduced, he asked if he
had any family. i
“Yes, I have a wife and six children
in Australia. And I never saw one
of them,” ne added, quietly.
The two sat in silence.
interrogation began.
“Were you ever blind, may 1 ask?”
said the American.
“No,” was the reply.
“Did you marry a widow?”
No.” Another silence.
“Did I understand you to say you
nad a wife and six children living in
Australia and had never seen one of
them?”
“Yes, that is how 1 stated it.”
Then the American inquired: “How
can that be? You say you never saw
one of them. I do not understand it at
al.”
“Because,” was the reply, “one of
them was born after I left.”
Then the
Eloquence.
“Eloquence” is literally and ety
mologically the power or faculty
of “speaking up.” The word is made
up of the Latin words “ex” or “e”
out of, and “loquor,” to speak.
The man or woman who possesses
eloquence is presumed to have the
ability to “speak out” in meeting or
in caucus, or in the board of directors,
in a way to make her or himself un-
derstood.
Yet a change has come over the pre
cise meaning of “eloquence” in the
last generation or two. Eloquence in
the old days implied, if it did not
actually require, rounded periods.
florid utterance and perhaps passion-
ate gestures. :
‘The eloquent speaker of today is the
speaker who substitutes argument for
floridity, sense for passionate gesture.
His Prize.
An old farmer, living near an avis
don training camp, was sitting on a
log enjoying his pipe when suddenly
there was a roar and burst of flame
and smoke overhead, and a plane
crashed into the tree and hung sus
pended from the branches.
“Hey” ejaculated the old man quer-
ulously. “What's the matter? What
did you come down on my farm for?”
A stifled groan came from the wreck:
age and finally the airman painfully
emerged.
“See that nice big red apple?’ he
said, pointing into the tree. “That's
what I came down for.”—American
Legion Weekly.
Strategy.
drs. Jinks jumped up in bed,
She switched on tbe light and shook
ner husband’s shoulder,
“Sh” she warned. “I heard someone
downstairs. A burglar!”
Jinks jumped from the bed. “I'll
soon deal with him,” he said. And his
voice sounded courageous.
“Oh, don't put those heavy shoes
on; he'll hear you.”
“I intend that he should! Do you
think I have any desire to meet the
gentleman ?’—Judge.
Very Much So.
Customer (missing his favorite
~vaiter)—Where's Jules today?
Waiter—He's gone, sir.
Customer—Gone! Do you mean he's
defunct?
Waiter - Yes, sir—and with every-
thing ’'e could lay ’is ’ands on!
——Vote for Taylor for Sheriff.
WINDMILLS OF THE FUTURE
They May Provide Electric Power
When Coal and Oil Fields Are
Giving Out.
“The exhaustion of our coal and oil
fields is a matter of centuries only,”
writes J. B. S. Haldane, the distin-
guished British scientist, in his article,
“If You Were Alive in 2123,” in Cen-
tury. “As it has often been assumed
that their exhaustion would lead to
the collapse of industrial civilization, 1
may perhaps be pardoned if I give
some of the reasons which lead me to
doubt this proposition,
“Water power is not, 1 think, a
probable substitute on account of its
small quantity, seasonal fluctuation
and sporadic distribution. It may per-
baps, however, shift the center of in-
dustrial gravity to well-watered moun-
tainous tracts, such as the Himalayan
foothills, British Columbia and Ar-
menia. Ultimately, we shall have to
tap those intermittent, but inexhausti-
ble, sources of power, the wind and
the sunlight. The problem is simply
one of storing their energy in a form
aS convenient as coal or petrol. If a
windmill in one’s back garden could
produce a hundredweight of coal
daily (and it can produce its equiva-
{ent in energy), our coal mines would
shut down tomorrow. Even tomorrow
a cheap, fool-proof and durable stor-
age battery may be invented that will
enable us to transform the intermittent
energy of the wind into continuous
electric power.
“Among its more obvious advan-
tages will be the fact that energy will
be as cheap in one part of the country
gs another, so that industry will be
greatly decentralized; and that no
smoke or ash will be produced.”
HEARD VOICE FROM ABOVE
Little Boy in the Sleeping Car Thought
It Must Be God Who Was
Speaking.
Little Frederick, en route with his
sarents, was put to bed in the lower
berth across the aisle from them, an
elderly gentleman occupying the upper
over him, It was Freddie's first sleep-
ing car experience and he was a little
nervous. His mother, to reassure him,
said: “Now, don’t be afraid, mamma
and daddy will be just across the
aisle, and you know God is always
with you.”
After the lights were turned out
that lonesome feeling got too much
for him, and he called out:
“Mother, are yon there?”
“Yes, darling,” mother answered.
“I'm here.”
“Daddy”—a moment later—*are you
there?”
“Yes. son. I'm here.
ike a good boy.”
In a moment the questions were re-
Go to sleep
peated, with answers satisfactory—for |
the time being—to Freddie, if not to
the other passengers.
After a short silence his voice again
cut through the car with “Mother, are
you there?” :
A deep
nounced:
‘Yes, your mother is there and your
father is there, and I am here.”
Then came Freddie’s tremulous
query:
“Mother, was that God?"—Pullman
News.
voice from above an-
Artificial Silk in Japan.
The manufacturers of artificial sils
1ave made very little progress in
Japan, being confined to the produc-
tion of coarse yarns of inferior qual-
ity. Imports of artificial silk in 1922
amounted to 225,840 pounds—an in-
crease of 62.7 per cent over 1921,
Unofficial estimates place the Jap-
anese imports from January 1 to April
24, 1923, at 178,725 pounds, or about
T9 per cent of the total artificail silk
imports in 1922. The use of artificial
silk in Japan was formerly limited to
the manufacture of neckties and
shawls, but it is now being used for
hosiery and mixed silk textiles.—
United States Commerce Report.
India Wants Merchant Fleet.
india wants an Indian meichant ma
“ne, says the Nation’s Business, or at
least there is enough discussion among
the people of India to give the subject
some importance. The argument seems
to proceed pretty largely upon the
theory that every well-regulated and
proud nation with its feet on salt wa-
ter should have a merchant marine.
In other words, a merchant, marine is
an indispensable demonstration of
sovereignty if a nation wishes to main-
tain a place in high society, As
India’s foreign dangers hdve always
lain on the landward side, national de-
fense would not enter into the
equation.
The Sergeant Commands.
In the small town of Wayback there
were so many holdups that the police
were being seriously annoyed. Try
as they might, they failed to arrest the
persons responsible. Late one night
an excited voice came over the tele
phone:
“Burglars have broken into No. 64
Lyons street! Send help quick!”
The sergeant looked at the solitary
policeman in the station.
“Mike,” he said simply. “The house
at 64 Lyons street is being robbed. Go
up and surround it.”—American Legion
Weekly.
Looked Closely,
‘How did you ever get caught i»
such a compromising position, Betty?”
“Well, he wanted to see what color
my eyes were,”
“That's harmless enough.”
“Yes—but he's near-sighted.” —Lon
don Mail.
EE tress SED
SEVEN TALK OVER ONE WIRE
First “One Pair” Phone Cable Linke
Santa Catalina Island With
the Mainland.
Making seven conversations flow
where but one flowed before is the en-
gineering achievement credited to teie-
phone engineers, who have just fiu-
ished laying what is said to be the
world’s first one-pair submarine tele-
phone cable between Santa Catalina
-island off the southern California
coast and the mainland, 25 miles away,
says a dispatch to the New York
World from Avalon,
Before the introduction of radio tel-
ephony island dwellers there had to
depend on the mails for communica-
tion. With the wireless came relief
of a sort, for with the radio linking
the island telephone line with the vast
network of wires covering the main-
land, one could carry on a conversa-
tion with any point in the United
States.
Only one conversation could be car-
ried on at a time by this method, how-
ever, and the conversation usually
found its way into thousands of ama-
teur radio sets as well as the tele
phone company’s
thus losing all vestige of privacy.
Now that the one-pair cable is in
place, however, as many as seven con-
versations flow simultaneously between
that the seven conversations flowed
simultaneously over a single strand of
copper wire in the center of the cable,
& system of variated frequencies sim-
ilar to that used in radio telephony
making this possible.
VARIABLE CLIMATE BETTER
Uniform Temperatures Are Not Sec
Healthful, It Has Been Deter-
mined by Scientists.
There is nothing in the world more
plentiful than air, and nothing more
vital to our lives, says Floyd W. Par-
sons in the World's Work. But re-
markable as have been our discoveries
relating to the handling and use of air,
such advances as we have made will
never equal in value the benefits to us
in comfort and health that will result
from intelligent control of the tem-
perature and humidity of the air in
which we live and breathe.
Already we know that there is a
direct relation of the death rate and
of health to the wet-bulb temperature.
It has been found that fairly moist
weather is more healthful than dry
weather of the same temperature. It
has been proved that cold waves, un-
less of extraordinary severity, are
beneficial to health, while a rising tem-
perature, even in the winter, is harm-
fui. In making this Statement, the
investigator carefully distinguishes be-
tween--a- drop -in- temperature and the
continuance of low temperature. Then
there is the further fact that a vari-
able climate is in general much more
healthful than a uniform climate, even
though the latter has an almost ideal
temperature. With such truths before
us, and in the light of the fact that we
can manufacture indoors practically
any kind of weather we desire, at a
moderate cost, it would seem that we
' have a solid basis on which to develop
an intelligent ventilation practice that
will make us happier, longer-lived and
more prosperous.
Robin Returns to Its Old Home.
For four years in succession a robir
aas built its nest near the administra-
‘tive building at Camp Curry. Four
years ago a robin nested on the per-
| gola, the following year on the limb
of a cedar over the studio and last
year above the doorway to the garage.
This year the nest has again been
built in the studio pergola. In that
i birds have been proven to return and
i build nests in the same situation, it
seems reasonable to believe that the
same pair of robins have selected
these sites, which are all within 50
. feet of each other. In recent years
the marking of birds by small metal
, bands about their legs has furnished
, valuable information as to the migra-
tion and constancy of mated pairs.—
Our Animals,
Es
Chicks Adopted by Rooster.
A year-old rooster belonging to J.
s1. Hudson of Troy, Kan., had its crop
torn open by dogs. Evelyn Hudson,
the daughter, cleaned and washed the
crop thoroughly, sewed it up and put
the rooster in a coop where they put
the newly hatched chicks from the in-
cubator. Mr. Rooster was about two
weeks recovering from his injuries and
all the time was very friendly with
the chicks. When they were let out
in the yard he went with them “cluck-
ing” and taking care of them as would
any mother hen. He hovered them at
night and when they were grown
ceased his care.—Topeka Capital.
A Merry Widow.
An English woman recently wrote
#0 a newspaper that she began life as
A. Mann (Alice Mann). She mar-
ried a Mr. Husband and so became
A. Husband. He died and she mar-
ried again, this time a Mr. Maiden.
Becoming a widow for the second time,
she concluded that though born A.
Mann, she would die A. Maiden.—Bos-
ton Transcript.
Not Complimentary.
Lawyer—Yes, I'm off to Florida foi
4 couple of weeks. Health precau-
tion. Think it best to recharge my
storage batteries before they become
completely exhausted.
Blunt Friend—That so? I thought
you were running on gas.—Boston
| Transcript.
SEHR STR TRTIRRRAenaai nRRRR,
receiving device, |
Avalon and the mainland. The inter- |
esting feature of the one-pair cable is |
FATHER OF THE VAUDEVILLE |
: Farmer's Son Invented Name to Re
| place “Variety Show,” Also the
| Continuous Performance.
1 eamme
| In the early 1880's variety entertain-
| ment in America was a pariah of the
| arts. Respectable women were seldom
Seen in the audience, and we fear sel-
dom on the stage. Even in the East
‘ the performer’s life was a precarious
one: he worked where he could,
| dressed in dirty holes, and the farther
' west he went the worse conditions
became. The western honkey-tonks
were combination dance halls, saloons
and variety theaters, frequented by
| drunken cowboys, miners and loose
women. A respectable actor would no
more have considered going into the
varieties than he would have con-
sidered becoming a burglar.
Such was the condition even in
Boston when, in 1888, Benjamin
i Franklin Keith, a farmer's son from
Hillsboro, Mass., who had drifted into
the circus business, arrived in Boston
with a few dollars in his pocket and
decided to become a showman on his
| own hook, says Walter Prichard Eaton
in McClure’s Magazine. He rented a
| vacant store for which he paid $1 a
day, got a pail and mop and scrubbed
it with his own hands, and then
opened it as a “museum” with Baby
Alice, weight one and one-half pounds,
and a Barnum mermaid, as attrac-
tions. He prospered in a small way,
took a man named Batcheller in as
silent partner, added a second room
with a stage, on which performances
could be given,
In 1884 Keith christened his per-
formances “vaudeville” to get away
from the stigma attached to “variety
show,” and made every effort to keep
his little museum clean and decent.
In 1885 he originated the idea of a
continuous performance, from ten to
ten, in order to get mere people.
EUROPE FARMS LACK PHONES
Rural Wire Service in Its Infancy
in the Old World, Says French.
Engineer.
“Rural telephone service is in its
mfancy in the large European coun-
tries such as England and France,”
writes Monsieur M. G. Valensi, noted
French telegraph engineer, in a recent
article in the Annales des Postes,
Telegraphes et Telephones,
One-third of the French telephone
subscribers are concentrated in Paris,
the writer points out. It is the same
830,000 subscribers, while Great Brit-
ain as a whole possessed only
985,964. ®
In contrast to this situation, M.
Valensi points out that in the United
States “more than 2,500,000 farms pos-
sess the telephone. In that country,”
"Small rural
companies, made up of farmers who
combine to construct a line leading to
a point connecting with a telephone
central.”
Not the Course.
A good many years ago a steamer
xas sailing down a certain river, with
a shrewd old Yankee captain In com-
mand. Suddenly the engines stopped,
and the steamer remained motionless
for several minutes. The passengers
began to talk among themselves, and
one of them, a portly, pompous per-
son, advanced to the captain.
“What seems to be the trouble, cap-
tain?’ he inquired. “Why have we
stopped ?”
“Too much fog,” answered the cap-
tain curtly.
“But I can see the stars overhead
quite plainly,” argued the persistent
Individual.
“Mebbe ye can,” admitted the cap-
tain grimly. “But unless the b’ilers
bu’st, we ain’t goin’ that way!”
Curing His Golf Trouble.
The following conversation took
Jlace between an old Scotch profes-
sional and a would-be golfer. The
amateur had asked what the other
thought of his game.
“Na, ye'll no mak’ a gowffer,” he
sald; “ye’'ve begun ower late. But it's
jus’ possible if ye practice harrd,
verra harrd, for twa-three years, ye
micht—"
“Yes?” inquired the other expect-
antly.
“Ye micht begin to hae a glimmer
that ye’ll never ken the r-rudiments
¢’ the game.”—Philadelphia Publi
Ledger. :
Some Time Hence.
Composer—I hope you like my new
opera?
Critic—Oh, it's good enough in its
way, and I dare say it will be per-
formed after the works of Haydn,
Mozart, Beethoven and Meyerbeer are
forgotten.
Composer (delightedly)—Really?
Critic—Yes! But not till then.~
Pearson's Weekly.
His Sarcastic Fling.
“I don’t like to invite Mrs. Newrich
to my bridge party, and yet she's a
gure loser and a good pay.”
“I don't see how you are going to
get her money without her company,”
said the sarcastic husband. “What do
you expect her to do, frame your jn-
vitation and send you a check ?"—RBos-
ton Transcript.
A New One to Him.
Father—Where's that young man
~ho was calling on you?
Daughter—Oh, he left in a huff.
Father—~A huff? A huff? They are
getting so many new cars on the mar
ket now. a fellow simply can’t keep
track ‘of them.~—London Answers.
ETRE,
for London, which in 1921 contained:
he adds, “there exist almost 26,000 |
co-operative telephone !
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