Show za fishing with T V an octopus 4 A snow 1141 d r i x I 1 I 1 t va 4 4 aw ft 0 14 the accompanying photograph represents what might aptly be termed fishing extraordinary suda bay off the coat coast of crete ie Is frequently used by y the british fleet meet in tha mediterranean for gunnery practice during th the a a hips stay in these water waters it often occur occurs that euch such ait article to an as dist niehei se P lates basins and the like are tot lost from them and lie ile at the bottom of the iea the natives anxious to retrieve the article articles for their own uee use adopt an in Ingen Ingon loua loUs method of obtaining them having located tho the lot lost article by means of a kind of sen telescope ea telee cope they lower a captive octopus oct opu which aa on an the object encircles it with its it tentacles tent adee the rho oc ie Is then drawn up still till clinging to the lot lost article the photograph shoes the octopus with a plate LAST OF THE aborigines 1 0 about one year yeat arc irr a wild man wa was caught in 0 o california and Iden identified tilled as a the ie last survivor of tb tha douthett Sout hett yana tribe ibe of indian indiana that bad had been boon almoite wiped cut by massacre num iacre in 1 the name of ashl cleaning meaning man la in the asia dialect vu was given to bim him bo be cause ho be wound oud cot not tell als il real name IV r was taw take to the university mu BUM cum in san SAO Frau deco and there they bave are been trying to civilize him lahl bag as good a head as the merican it morl cun but he be la in unspeakably ig orant lie ile know knows nothing or knew nothing fix six months ago ot of firs fi rs and euri of money and ud labor and apty pty ot of government and authority oc of neopa peri pert end and business of 0 the other thou sands and of that make up our life UN in hort short he bc has really tired lived in the stone axe age ilia ills faeo aco Is in As a clean of 0 beard an when he be was vas discovered and has not ben been touched by it alor thie this Is 1 hot a racial characteristic but tho the result of c lita ht substitute tor for haling having he ile pulls lut big beard half hairs one by one ai As they emerge it habit formerly merly aa S all tribes oa on the continent contI neLt but ler less etUy in tats he a peculiar efant he be never rollow follow ti the habit vaen nen va company NO WATER FOR THREE YEARS some litte resting stories ot of alou la in the denert desert of 0 mexico part parts ot of alch no white man had ever penetrated were recently related by or dr karl Lum holts to the royal at geographical society dr gal cald that arcely arc lly of water was ra the ereal great problem the thine thing was that the flora and faucia did cot not team t atte from thit the aridity in spite ot at the me lacic lack ot of rain during the winter to his hi visit to the aad ad dun during curan spring he found at onn ono place an astonishing growth qt of flower through which akay traveled for neary abra talles and ind it had been found b bi actual experiment that mall small rodents 0 arid regions bad had been ahe ibis to live tor for two or three inars on tard bard seeds without water vater the condition conditions in the be and sand dunes near the coast were it possible even more remarkable here hors an soon ar a athe uncertain rala rains of winter had mado made the plant plants green aa an the mexican mexicans say the cat tie gan and hones horses were driven there and remained three months from february to the end ot of may absolutely abiol without water in hia his it wa wit the usual thing during the winter time for the animals to go 90 without water every second day FISH THAT TAKE COLD fich are not equipped to combat rapid change changes la in temperature brause the be temperature ol 01 the water rater la 1 the ocean lake lakes and rivera rivers beneath in tad surface remains virtually table stable some flab ucb such aa as carp and trout when taken from warn wate and placed in water several degras colder take cold the cold attack attacks the kin skin and the fla and nd ra avaious loue portion portions of the kan skin present a cruc cracked ked appear ance ante it required to arm water the hah flab usually rt ter bu sometimes the disease wb 41 seems to bo be a eort sort ot of eczema cati irto tio tau geles of 1 the fish and mr artal OCTOPUS GRIPPED DIVER A naval diver at toulon france francs w wa as suddenly attacked by a giant 00 u while under water in the bar bor he a gave the hoisting signal and wa was hit hauled tiled to the surface together wui with the octopus whose tentacles aid said to be 25 teet feet long were around bin him the adler wa was artoun the octopus held fait fast to tte diver until it was stabbed to death it weighed pound pounds and the suckers on its it tentacle tentacles were a trifle larger than silver dollar dollars MOST SOUTHERN INDUSTRY what lo 10 possibly the most southerly industry lu tu the world write writes consul henry D daker baker ot of hobart tasmania Is being carried on at the macquarie islands about hallway halfway between tas mania 1 and tho the antarctic continent in the capture of the penguin penguins for their OIL macquarie Mac island belongs to the tate state of tasmania and has an area ot about 25 acres being about 2 miles long and 6 miles wide the island has been leased by the tan tw hanlan government to joseph hatch who has established the penguin oil industry there there are proba probably bly pe penguins n on the island so 0 o that the stock to be drawn from seems almost limitless there are alac also a large number of sea elephants about the shores ot of his this island the oil Is in obtain 1 rom from the penguins PU gulas by boiling the carcasses la in digesters capable ot of deally deall g with birds ai at a time the oil Is placed in barrels and gold old to binder twine makers in australia and new zea land macquarie Mac island Is about miles southeast of lJ obart the island la Is barren being covered only with grass whaling baling ships visiting there have introduced rabbits and maori hen hens which are now quite prolific the mawson antarctic expedition from australia has established a wire lees leal station there and dally messages tire ar belne being received at hobart NO FORESTS IN CHINA there are no forests tn in china ay says i the americal Amerl cal consul general at Forest forestry rr Is a subject in which the chinese evince no interest tho great plain plat n on which la in located never had forest forests being entirely of delta formation and the mountainous regions to the north and west were denuded of ther for forests eats centuries ago A Dr illish mining and shipping corpo tion has bag begun tha work of af afforest foresta lion and has a it million young trees growing but there are no government forestry officials schools of forestry or horticulture magazines devoted d to these subjects or associations of foresters nurserymen nurseryman nursery men sae dimen etc in china OWN TELESCOPE I 1 the telescope here shown vaas invented and used by galileo the famous astronomer who discovered ell in 1610 noted the mountains V the moon and ed the lua S spots the old inspru meat his an honored etaco in the wu seu ut florence PIG COMMIT among the suicides chronicled go the papers as being due ua abe beat is that af a pig it was bolind downar zd in a brook on the state farm at windsor conn houses made of biatch ar boxes A 4 i i are 1 I 1 I a picture of john wood an agad pensioner ncr of essex england who makes toy houses out of match b boac ales 88 a recreation and incidentally to etc eke out hie his allowance from the gov t by selling ling hi his nally abl creations to lillfors lill tors 1 f ita |