| Show IN THE ODD CORNER QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND eventa EVENTS I 1 lynell lyn eln warrior warriors allonia porn conr quer aarts 1 about thee blattle creatura Crea turm statue of oar our calendar a prina a Ite nr father time in ili hi his ome om e ii waa was sitting ahen han he lie hat hn to 0 o spy ry A cal h lar tar nigh goodness me ru exclaimed how I 1 im in flitting giuin ajr day days ar are juat just scurry liff by the world has u ed up ihl ills whole N winter inter and deman the next stage at he the turn nf nt the he pe page I 1 declare one munt must tx bo a real sprinter to keep up with the pace of thia this axe age were string get our sar lands and butth alth and mirth bisou murt must ikie down dovin to earth take plenty af f sunshine und and hurry for all a vou are worth morth then raid paid sprint with R pout of librea son on oh plexie e father dear 1 let rne me off juat just this hi year chate I 1 hate the borth more aery iry eaon season it a a illy silly absurd little 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must hurry 1 I 1 february 28 march I 1 la Is your date and ara I 1 m in a as a I 1 state of worry ia or I 1 ra mortally sure you 11 be late ml III right r leht answered spring 1 I ana am her iter mantle ahe she drew draw abot around 1 nd her and flew down to earth eart h where here and she ili crept in and nobody knew carolyn N V ells til in life 11 warriors all ocr polynesia Poly neela clubs and spears pear assume an astonishing and well nigh abnormal development they are made of extremely hard woods go so leavy heavy that they will sink in water and the carving of a eingle single weapon of the kind 0 offer require requires year years of labor some of the near inears are barbed all the way up to the handle at the same time battles among the polyn Poly nalan islanders landen le have a character that Is I 1 largely ceremonial and the object of the military equipment li Is chiefly to make the ar brior seem prouder and more tc ible If helmel elmeta of feathers feat bera are worn and aid breastplates decorated with feathers and shells the elaborate clubs are not riot only weapons but also insignia of rank in tahiti the war costume con elite slats of three cloaks with hole holes in the middle put on one over the other one white one red and one brown and the natives of that island have a special sort ot of forked sword ornamented with sharks teeth which Is a frightful instrument ment human sacrifices were universal all over polynesia before the europeans Eusope ans came sad ud cannibalism was practiced every everywhere abere sacrifices of slaves and WA prisoners were laMy laSly necessary at the build ing of war canoes the natives believed that their deities were cannibals and their faith w was as that the great god Taaga roa caught souls with a net and ate them up infanticide Is I 1 extremely common now all ever over that part of I 1 be he world and female infants are strangled quite customarily toia to rily because it paye pays better to bring up boys who can fight fish and become priests one consequence of this custom Is in that women are scarce and polyandry frequently results one woman having several husbands on pome islands women are strangled ben hen husbands hus bande bandis die tile and the matron tron from her wedding day always meare ears the ominous cord around her neck livard lizards are little and little known in shakespeare a 3 day they were thought to be poisonous and in england today country people hold them in awe the forked tongue and snakelike nak elike movement add to the fear in which they are held the scaly 1 and the thle sand lizard are most common and both seem to need the presence of water yet they like dry quarter terra and a cold told wet day will III see every one cl 0 them vanish it ie Is the tongue ot of the lizard which does most execution and cures secures the prey of which it Is in quest more especially hies files and spiders which fall ready victims to its sudden dart caterpillars are not above the lizard it attention and small earthworms are a favorite food the greater power of the lizard enabling it to atice its way almost under any stones and slid roots in search of food small partle clee leg of raw beet bw every few days appear to contain nourishment of the right kind when itse iest t food Is missing irritated by handling maerta Ia erta agil ool tun sharply ply 4 on his assailant and though toot littan cling tightly to the bend hand and nay be even ven carried about in this fashion the skinning of the lizard ta Is an event well worth watching beginning at the ears and gr lually tall ward taking about a wet or ten tea te a dara days in progress the akin skin la Is shed in aee see of perhaps half an inch in to length and going right around the body in the case of the sand lizard measures mea aurea two anchon inch in breadth the markings are most beautiful and the kin skin ot of the claws la to distinctly thed splitting ioel tu dinally between each claw and coming off much like a email small love the tand kand lizard seems in no way inconvenienced ced in the process and decram cram lies bles about with half bed shed akin skin aa as agilely ai as before nor does ha his grip of ilaw claw or mauth appear to suffer at all by the transaction the beautiful tint of hie his ide side emerald green in a fam shine seem even more vivid than before till his sloughing from the old kin akin though naturally he be la Is not comparable with the beautiful emerald green jorsey lizard A VorT lot whit white amu asta one of the principal and most immediate needa needs of the hour especially at alts moment in luzon la Is some effective method wh whereby roby moty b r 21 d r absolute impervious to the ta artap ka of the various species or allies of the genus termites the white altol says the scientific american writing to 1 our ur state department in 1893 the then united states consul at amoy china dr edward bedaloe said A fortune lies in store for the man who will ills cover some process for cheaply making wood mood proof against white ants theae preta pests are the curse of existence in amoy and every other tropical or subtropical city their voracity ja Is incredible they ata ate thi framework of a new door in thia this consulate cona lu in three weeks in the same period they al ILI moat consumed coni umed a large and handsome cabinet in the courtroom and a heavy pine settee in the ante room their work la Is invisible they attack the wood from a mere point through which they bore to the interior and there eat everything until only a shell or film alm remains wood aich will successfully resist these insects must be thoroughly charged with some powerful chemical both poisonous polso noua and non evaporable A of corrosive sublimate chloride of ot zinc arsenic of antimony would seem to meet the want dut bow how to force these into the fibia until the latter are saturated aatu rated and to do so to at a aurely fractional cost of the wood it slit la Is the problem that confronts the inventor the american genius la Is so prolific in invention and discovery that I 1 feel assured that the problem will be satisfactorily solved six year years have passed and the consul a faith in ia the genius of american inventors baa has not been vindicated while the great need of ot some such process as he be suggests aug gesta has yearly grown much greater aa as clothes wearing europeans have attempted to penetrate deeper and deep deeper or into tropic wildernesses wilder nesses A soldier correspondent of a beetem dally daily graphically writes from manila after having returned frouzine fr ourine of these recent ag av chasing raids these are as elusive and annoying aa as wasps and not much moe dangerous danger oua if it you can only catch them for my part I 1 consider the white ants much more mom invincible Tin A fellow feela feels pretty bad after IL three daya day tramp la lit tola tale tern fern house climate to get back to camp and clean clothes only to find that a colony of white ants have burrowed into his chest and that all his belongings not made of glass or metal have been reduced to a rather ane ne powder revue carlo sittee of oar our C adar 11 A writer in the french scientific journal LA JA science pour tous recalls certain curiosities of the gregorian calendar he lie writes since the re ro f farm im of the calendar by pope rope gregory XIII in 1682 1582 no century can ato zt will a a friday or sunday also the same calends can be used every twenty years january and october of the same var wear v ar always begin with the tb name azy so go do april and july also september and december february march and Nove november riber also begin with the same day new year yeats a day y and st sylvester a day also tall fall on the same day except of course la in leap years each day of the week has served as a day of rest somewhere sunday amog christians monday with tle greeks tuesday with the persians wednesday with the tha assy rians hans thursday with the egyptians Egypt lana iday with the turks and saturday with the jews FI finally rAlly the error of 0 the gregorian calendar caler dar compared with the actual course of the m n does not exceed one day in aar floisand yem As it Is quite probable chrt neither au nor I 1 shall ei eer er veri verl 1 tats r w 1 I not r risk sic very much by believing the ta statement he ot of the seeds ot of the laughing plant of arabia produce the ume same sect effect bjon persons as laughing gaa gas the plant it ift tain islas a height ot of from two to tour four fee with woody terns stems wide bj branches anches and bright preen green foliage toll axe itil ate fruits are produced in duller clusters and arta of a yellow color the saed pod pods arr w soft and wooly in la texture and contain two or three black seeds ot of the if also ot a brazilian bean their flavor ii Is W a little like opium and their taste lit 1 sweet the odor tron ron ro n them prod aci ial a sickening sensation and Is offous ive the 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