Show CURIOUS PACTS FACTS ax As exceedingly rare animal a black faced bla black ek eared caribou was recently shot at andover me ile this caribou was also unusually large with big branching horns tim laughing jackass when barnin warning 1 his feathered mates that daybreak is at hand utters a cry like a troop of boys shouting whooping and laughing in in a wild chorus the night jay has a cry like one lamenting in distress THE cracking of a knot on the end of a whip is simply the concussion of t the air produced by its rapid movement the effect differs with the material used for the whip lash because some textures present a much greater resistance to the air than others WOES liquors are bottled they contain a certain amount of sugar which ferments through the action of minute spores or cells these break the sugar up into alcohol and carbonic acid gas when the cork is withdrawn the gas instantly makes its escape and rising in hi bubbles produces effervescence and froth people imagine that by blowing their breath on the blade of a knife they can tell whether the blade is steel or pot metal now a persons breath will adhere to a pot metal blade und fade away the same as on steel but nine out of ten men dont know this and that is the reason why so many people carry inferior pocket L nives knives |