Show Copy From Nature The ram of the modern man war man war of-war Is the device of the swordfish of the Pacific Indo ocean The swordfish's upper j Jaw w has a long beak or ram by means menns of f which It can pierce not only fish but the sides of ot timber built ships Even the plants have forestalled forestalled forestalled fore fore- stalled human buman Inventions Nearly everybody perhaps has wondered why the stems of nearly all plants and the trunks and branches of trees are round Instead of any other shape The TIle existence of tall plants and trees depends largely on the wind force And Anda a tree with a square trunk nn ann branches would offer so much resistance resistance resistance resist resist- ance to the wind that It would be continually con con- having Its branches snapped It Is for the same reason that engineers engineers engineers en en- build tall chimneys and piers for bridges round In pr preference ference to any other form |