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Show Inventor of the Boomerang. Tho boomerang Is rntliQr a puzzle One might think that tho highest laws of mathematics hnd been laid undor contribution lu tho perfecting of it. Tho convexity on ono side, tho flat uess on tho other, and tho sharp, knlfo llko odgo on tho Inside of tho convexity con-vexity have tho air of having boon carefully thought out. Yet tho peoplo who Invented this singular weapon cannot count higher than llvo and nro dcstltuto of nil tho arts and umonltles of llfo. Theirs Is perhaps the lowest piano of human life. Soino peoplo havo assumed that tho boomerang was tho creation of uu older old-er and higher civilization, but for this thoro Is no evidence It must bo tho product of one age long empirical uso of throwing weapons. |