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Show SOME CRUMBS OF COMFORT Thoe of U Who Sweltered In the Oog Day May Find a Little Consolation Here. Tot those of ua .ho are forced to pend most of our nummers in cities 'here are a few consoling thoughts, .-emarks a writer in the Atlantic Monthly. One is that the severest neat does not prompt men to crime, as the social statisticians have found that the severest cold does. Another Is that the worst temperature we are called upon to face falls a long way short ot the endurance limit of tho human body and brain, as proved by French experiments at the 230 degree level. Another comes from the discovery dis-covery through the newspapers, with every prolonged hot wave, that we are "breaking th" record" in some line or ol hi r This oi..;tu to b a stimulus to our pr.de. ii if we with to earry further the bnie:',cent iullueuce of mental suggestion, all we need to do iB to compare what Is happening to us with what has happened to various other people at various other times. For instance, when the encyclopedias tell us that in A. D. 627 the heat in France and Germany dried the water wa-ter source and a multitude of people died of thirst: that in the battle of nela, ln 1260, more soldiers were killed by the sun than by the weapons of the foe: that in 1303 three great rivers of western Europe went dry. and that in Odessa, in 1SS9. the aoon temperature reached 144 degrees and a sunshade was necessary at live in tt:e morning, we are bound to conclude con-clude that we are not so badly off. after all. Moving Picture Animals. A jungle of several acres, inhabited by wilii animals of all countries. :ii:;uy o. which are already well trained for the parts they are to play as mutton picture actors, ts m.iinir.'ned near ixis Angeles by eue of th, tilg American tiliu-produeiiii: eonii Miies It is in-' in-' tended to ex; ml the acreage and ac-commoaations ac-commoaations until the motion picture jungle will form the largest single collection col-lection of wild animals in the world, and within it will be. and now are. enacted many stirring scenes. A big I elephant named "Toddles" Is. for instance, in-stance, the star performer in a film ! catalogued as "Lost in the Jungle," In j which Toddles, during his wanderings j In the forest, finds the heroine lying exhausted on the ground, and. kneeling, kneel-ing, lifts her to his back and gallantly carries her to safety. All the animals i are as conscientiously trained to do j acts for the motion picture camera as are the trained animals of a circus. ' Cat Only Living Thing on Derelict. From a derelict ship a cat was rescued near Plymouth. England, a few days ago II M. S Donegal had received orders to search for and sink the derelict Norwegian barque I'lenmark. The Glenmark had been liismantied and abandoned a. ore than a month ago. Her crew was res-' res-' cued and taken to Liverpool by the , steamer Dunholme. The Penrgal picked up the ship .lOO miles out, but finding the hull sound determined to save her. The only living thing on board the derelict was a cat, which j had been driven mad by thirst and which severely bit a bluejacket who ' stroked iL |