| Show till I 1 if 1 4 youre not so many 19 bay when you think you own the earth et iirth and by some right of royal birth tou you think you are ot of nobler blood than those of ot us u bhore rore made ot of mud A nd by haiat are the beat of any go count yourself youra elt youre you re not eo so many say when you f el 1 I that you are what the vast majority of men are not and cannot be because your make Is far superior perlor eu to theirs please take A little tumble if it theres any and count yourself your tilt youre not so many say it you havo have an idea that you of ua us all know where youre it at and while re robins in doubt you know just where youre doming out collect yur your wite wits if you have any and count i not so many say brother it you hive the call gall to think you really snow it all lo 10 10 fed feel that you are better than the ordinary average man and that hereafter you will rise to higher clory glory in the akies skies than those who do not hae a peri pert go count yourself yur ure elt self youre not so many W J 1 La labaton Lab in the new york her aid towers built by ants why should not a termite or large ant king give the same boastful name to his palace which 1 in a thousand thou gand times as tall as himself that we gle to buildings only 60 50 times as tall as ourselves the majority of termite hills rise from six to twelve feet above ground and extend as far under ground though one var variety letY which Is globular or egg shaped Is only three feet high and another variety the columnar often attains a helsha of fifteen and occasionally eighteen feet As only half Is above ground thu tha total LAM height of tho the structure in the lt case Is thirty six feet the hills are made 0 of earth covered by a layer of some hard insect secretion A stout pick la Is needed to open them within la fa a labyrinth of passages connecting cavities used as storerooms store rooms nurseries for the young and the royal apartments in w 1 h the king and queen are kept as djs boners the queen Is the mother of her people in a literal sense and the king holds tho the of the queens con sort the people are divided into workers and soldiers and each class attends strictly to its own business neither marrying nor giving in marriage the termites aro are often called white ants but they are only distant an ant tower cousins to those insects and are more nearly related to the dragon flies they work t tible havoc in the works of man and nature felling telling trees and devouring leather paper and everything of vegetable or animal origin they penetrate wooden packing cases in a night and have even invented a method of getting at wine in sealed bottles by secreting an acid which perforates the lead capsule pRule ca the only way to protect things Is to put them on smooth stone or metal foundations up which the termites cannot climb tho the accompanying photograph Is from australia tut but the termites abound also in africa and south america A stream of fish wm washburn a farmer living near the old bethlehem church in I 1 endeavor to coax water from a spring supposed to be dead struck a large stone As be he attempted to pry the stone with his shovel a large stream of water burst forth carrying with it myriads of small fish the largest being three inches long and the smaller ones tho the tiniest of minnows all of the sunfish variety it la Is difficult to trace the route of the spring the nearest stream I 1 is 8 eagle creek four miles away the belief Is becoming general that there is an tin underground lake in the vicin ity decatur ohio correspondence vegetable vegetables that think the tiny roots of vegetables in i their work of piercing a path through the soil boll to tl tle surface and the light act in a manner which tends to show that they are capable of thina thinking ng if a R stone ho lie in their upward path they turn aside without tour touching bing it and mako make a path parallel with the obstacle and if there Is a w ann rm burrow near by they hlll ill turn aside and make qu use of the excavation which Is to tb make their task the more easy it if they co io not think how do they discover tile seen obstacle and the equally 1 ible alu there must be calens of the presence of certain both boa it n al these indications act and 1 upon stange form of mental organism some there are vegetables move from one place to another whose root roots is ad plants which do th tb same abaye ab ground placa some pol sub stance directly in their way at al n they will take a different direction it but it if something nourishing is on one aide side sa they will go around that after aft there are plants that eat meat place some flesh on the leaves the latter and gradually folds round it and assimilate it in plain words et il an experiment tried with the dro drosen was to tie a fly near the stalk of of these plants about an all inch Z away from the juncture of 0 the leaf to the stalk in a short time the leaf began to bend towards the flies and in jr ua an hour it was curling round its prey man made volcanoes A man made volcano exists in bd glum which has been burning barning contla bously fox nearly airs 3 cars and emits vast coumas of black smote rendering tho the neighboring country barren baked and utterly unprofitable A at brule trance france Is even a more remark able volcano made by man originally it was a mass of coal millions of tons tots probably well elevated above the sur rounding country dense forests coy tred cred it i the peasants took tool out tie tle coal for their own i se as they wanted it and each for his own one a of tho the favorite ways for keeping rival rivals at a distance waa was to throw pieces of old leather on a burning braller br alzer cans taus ing an intolerable odor one day a century ago the fire extended to the coal and it has never ceana burning the dummit of the smolder ing mass has a genuine chater how smoke Is utilized in brussels malanes Mall nes and other bel glan towns a novel method of not only getting rid of smoke but turn turning fing it to good account has recently been employed the smoke Is driven by a ventilating fan into a filter filled with ith porous material over which a con sinuous stream of petroleum benzine beni ine alcohol or como liquid hydrocarbon flows the result Is that the mole Is ii entirely suppressed while the niter alter yields a gas of great heating power which can be used for dom domestic estI pur pose and lor for driving gas engines tie tte filtering material itself also become becomes a good combustible during the process hawk an easy captive As dr charles H R gibson of if woods wood ville N 11 was returning from a professional visit the e atte afternoon he noticed a large i sting on a 4 limb projecting over bo rho highway tho the bird evinced no to fly as he approached when ha came cam under the tree ho he struck at the bird with his whip thinking to frighten it but to his surprise the whip lash caught about the legs of the blid tn held it fast ahe he pulled it into hi his team and hitting it sufficiently to ren rell der it unconscious he brought his capture safely home the bird meas ared three feet from tip up to tip UP ol 01 wings ocean coal mines thousands of tons of coal cover US oceans bed oft off hull mass blass ak here col hera navo have been wrecked and sunk for many years every big storm only adds to the store washing large quantities of the coal up on the IN beacht odd item items from everywhere in an ironclad of tons the hull weighs tons and the m rak w cry ery 1400 tons Is larger than france germany and spain combined bombin ed but MS 1148 only people the german emperor u stallis bianca twenty fourth in the list of succession to the british crown cron the biggest nugget of tin on 00 re cord has been found nt at coith dundas in ta manla it weighs 5 00 pounds ana ad Is 67 per cent pure tin forty five tons Is the record weight ever pulled by a pair of horses this was in tho the shape of bark loaded on A sleigh and pulled on ice rome though the capit capital al city of italy Is not the largest city CUT it its a only people while milan aaa and naples nearly divers boots twant pounds poa apiece tie the helmet weighs fort 10 pounds and the diver carries also anable bonab e 13 D 0 eighty pounds of lead to of c to keep hie his balance at the bottom the sea it has often been stated that all miles en an hour was the utmost rats r at which a swallow could fly recht 1 experiments between Com antwerp proved that a sa m miles in all hurry burry can con cover A hour |
