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Show Various Ideas as to Spots on Moon's Face There exist in various parts of the world curious ideas regarding the dark spots ln the moon's disk. In the eastern part of Asia the spots are believed to be a rabliit or a hare. The Chinese, in particular, regard them as a hare sitting up and pounding pound-ing rice In a mortar. Siamese take the same view. Others see in the moo'.i a man and woman working in a field. Curiously, the North American Indians In-dians have almost the same superstition super-stition as the Chinese. On old monuments monu-ments in Central America the moon appears as a jug or vessel, out of which an animal like a rabbit Is jumping. jump-ing. South American Indians, on the oilier hand, believe that n girl, who had fallen In love with the moon, sprang toward it, was caught and kept liy it, and that It Is her figure which is seen on the moon's face. Samoa islanders regard the spots ns representing a woman carrying a child. Other Southern peoples have similar beliefs, the woman and child sometimes being altered Into an old woman bearing a burden on her hack. Cable Construction The Western Union says that an Atlantic At-lantic cable consists of a central copper cop-per wire which curries the electric current. cur-rent. Around this are wound flexible copper ttipes, which In case of a break In the wire would curry the current around the gap. This Is wrapped with a permalloy tape whose magnetic qualities qual-ities give the cable its great speed. Tills metallic part of the cable Is first Inclosed In a thick covering of guttapercha, gutta-percha, which holds the currents to their path. Around this Is n wrapping of Jute, which cushions the pivssure nf several miles of sea water. lOlghl-oen lOlghl-oen steel annor wires surround the cushion mill protect the cable from injury. The whole Is Incased In an outer fouling or wrapping of tarred hi-Hin cords. |
