Science Notes and News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 August 1915, Page 3

Science Notes and News

-- —-♦ ■ Ai\ AU'IXMIATIO PAEK-SEAT. An inventor in isan Diego has ueveJoped a novel scat lor use in parks and pleasure resorts, which is normally so tipped that it cannot*be used. Upon placing a coin in the blot, however, the seat may be tipped back into the usual position, making a. comfortable ana restful bench. When tho occupant rises from the seat ijt automatically swings forward and locks in a nonusabie position, Irom which it can only be moved by the insertion oi another com. J THE BABI ALBATROSS. j That great bird, the albatro<*>, lays but one egg at a tiino, and makes two haielringrs a year. As soon as the oinek j is hatched the parent bird flies away and leaves him for six months. During all this lo»g time ho has no water at all, and instead of taking food, lives on his own fat, like animals tJiat sleep all the winter. At tno end of six months back comee tho mothefi , to push him off the nest and send him out into the world to- shift for himself.