Show This Is Unusual The Thc courage inspired by mother love throughout the animal world has again been demonstrated by a 3 great homed owl This bird for years cars has nested on a B narrow ledge not more mom than i IB inches in width on the sheer face of or Bromide Springs in Platte national park ThIs Tills spring found her in her accustomed place carefully guardIng guarding guard guard- ing tag her eggs Then work started stalled on the reconstruction reconstruction reconstruction recon recon- I of the Bromide trail which passes along the bluff about 50 feet above the nest In order to gain a footing it was necessary to blast away several tons of rock and this blasted rock was thrown down and over the owls owl's nest c coming within a few feet of it Although the bombardment of rocks continued for ten days daj's the mother owl never d deserted her nest In Ji what must have seemed to her a veritable no mans man's land Now however the blasting is over and the courageous mother has as her reward for bravery under fire two white gray-white owlets so nearly the color of the limestone ledge on which they nest that it is difficult to distinguish them from it unless they move Why does cutlery sometimes 1 leave unsightly marks on china which cannot cannot can can- not be removed by washing Scientists at the United d States bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau of standards in Washington arc are investigating the question follow- follow ng complaints that the stroke of cutting even a tender piece of meat on a plate or platter is often sufficient dent clent to scar the housewife's dishes permanently with pencil like Uka mark ings Some factor in the tho baking processor process of or China may explain that some pieces appear Immune to cutlery markings while whilo others nr ar arc readily discolored the preliminary findings show An excess of ot carbon in the furnace furnace furnace fur fur- nace did not appear to make the dishes susceptible to marking but sulphur dioxide gas in the furnace did make the china more liable to I scratching with metal particularly with nickel and steel Dishes Just removed from the oven and not washed after alter their baking marked readily as did glass surfaces I that hat had been dried by heating at temperatures above degrees decrees Cen- Cen 1 I When the surface glass retained re- re tamed some iome moisture to act as a a. lubrIcating lu lubricating lu- lu film the marking did not occur Instead of oC becoming extinct moose are re r rapidly increasing in Sweden thanks to restrictive game laws During last years year's brIer brief open season season sea sea- son SOl of three days animals were killed according to official figures This means an increase of at more than coo 00 over 1929 and 1300 over 1928 Since Ince each animal is worth about 50 the total value of the moose killed in 1930 is about kro- kro no or In spite of this heavy killing the moose herds in central and northern Sweden increase se annually and in fact act fact cause many farmers actual because of oC the damage they do doo doto doto to o crops and young trees In most parts arts of at the country the moose cows and id calves enjoy constant immunity while the open season on bulls lasts ts but ut a few days dars according to their prevalence In iii each cach district |