WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.
There are believed to be 16 tons of shells to every eobie mile ol OMML The shark holds Ike record for long-distance swimming. A •hark has been known to cotst 800 miles in three dayi. Berlin passed a law is 18T1 that all milk should be sterilized. As a result infant mortality in that e44y has fallen from »0 per cent, to 23 per e*nt. in 30 years. The dandelion produces 13,000 seeds per plant; shepherd*' pulse. ST.ftOO; thistle, 65,000; chamomile, 16.000; burdock, 43,000, and the common plantain, 44,000. Prof. Pictet, of Geneva, is reported to have derised a plan by which oxygen can be produced on a commercial scale and at a cost that will greatly increase its use. Many fish can produce musical sound*. The trigla can produce longdrawn notes ranging orer nearly an octave. Others, notably two species of ophidium, hare sound-producing apparatus, consisting of small movable bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle. The curious "drumming" made by the species called umbrinas can be beard from a depth of 30 fathom*.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 353, 12 February 1903, Page 6
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182WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 353, 12 February 1903, Page 6
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