ABOUT INDIAN MONKEYS.

Manawatu Herald, 18 June 1904, Page 4

ABOUT INDIAN MONKEYS.

Method Xlioy :!•: replay V.'hea Kobbing P, t > 5i C«v:ir;-;;!iL Spu 1 It is still in: article of faith, not only in India, but in nil lauds where mentkoysgo in \a- •, r.u ih.vy hav« a king, lav/smuiln:;;,i;l Saving tho iSrsfeitem and duly iivahing tho otliers, (tM.bcTiof is .worn! no doubt. But Ibn Statata took r.s,' on iho JiiiMiority of "pions person;; 7 ’ ho met iu India, that the kiug’-livcu in arum. Four noblemen ft* llways attend him with rods in their . hands and cooks servo Turn on their ' knees. py; Tli.o king lias a train of “armed A»IIfhloWers. ’’ When a subj'ci: is caught, ho |#jjF ‘rives to send a message to (ho sov' • 'Vrt ‘ vvljo dispatches an treiga, . when they como to tho town feSr y puii people, and theft k .; ’ ' 3 *\ m many. This is notqdw? 0 «dmnlons-.aa it looks, for tho sacred that frequent an Indian village" wih readily , enther to avenge an injury, and it is a i coramorl practice with them to do-tioy j tho huts whou angered. They have a greitt many cluidicn, and when a child is tmliko its .•■ather and mother it is thrown fMon tho hgch road. Then they are taken u~ tho Hindoos, who teach them every sort of handicraft, or soil them gt mgafc, that they may not find their way I 1! At Shabar, which appear;! to have been somewhere near Madras, people daro not travel hy night iu the woods, for fear of monkeys, which is certainly not exact, since theso creatures never move alter sundown, but if there he a foundation of troth iu the legend ifeiS curious. V/o aro not aware that any Indian apes at this day will attack a passerby unless' gravely provoked. But there aro plenty olsowher-)- that will. It is a well known fact that in proceeding to raid tho coriiigilds »i certain parts of Africa apes luivO a cpmhmod plan of action. Tho old males go tirst—some of thorn scout on either think, .and climb every eminence near tho liuo'Pf march, to assure themselves that Jho route is safe. After recouuoitering, they ' give orders iu such different tones of voice that each must have a special moaning. The elders aro silent when ■’advancing, but the main body, females and young, keep up an incessant chatter, playing and feeding as they go, un'•"l£SS brought to an insir.iu;.neons halt by signal. Behind follows tho rearguard of males, who drive loiterers sharply on. On reaching tho cornfields the scouts take post all round, whilo all the rest -■ fall to plundering with tho utmost ox- ' peditiou, filling (heir check pouches as full as they will hold, and then tucking the heads of corn under their armpits. — Boston Traveller.

THE ORGAN

Its Peculiar Fitness For the Form of Composition Known aa the Fngne. The organ as it existed in Bach’s day, and as in most essentials it exists now, is an instrument peculiarly suggestive ■ in regard to tho realization of the finest and most complete effects of harmony, of modulation and of that simultaneous progression of melodics in polyphonic combination which is most completely ■■ -illustrated in the form of-composition known ns tho fugue. It is so for two or three reasons. In the first place it is tho ■. only instrument in which tho sounds are sustained’with tho same intensity for any required length of time after they are first emitted. However long a note may have to be sustained, its full value is there till tho moment the finger quits - the key, a quality which is invaluable when we are dealing, with long suspou- • sions and chains of sound. .Secondly, the opportunity of playing tho bass with tho feet on the pedals, leaving tho left hand free for tho inner parts, puts within the grasp of a single player a full and extended hannony and a freedom in manipulation such as no other instrument affords. Thirdly, and in tho case especially of fugue compositions, the immense ■ volume and power of tho pedal notes impart a grandeur to tho entry of the bass t part in tho composition such as no other ii medium for producing music can give us. In tho time of Bach this splendid source of musical effect was confined to the groat organs of Germany. The English organs of tho day had in general no pedal board, and it is probably owing to this fact more than to any- ■. thing else that Handel’s published organ music is so light, and even ephemeral in style'as compared with Bach’s; that he treated the organ, as Spitta truly observes, merely like a larger and more powerful harpsichord. Without tho' aid of the pedal it would be rather difficult to do otherwise, and tho English organ of the day was in every respect a much lighter and thinner affair than the “huge house of tho sounds,” the thun- , derof which was stored in the organ gallery of many a Lutheran church.— Fortnightly Review.

fj' ,* r; A Substitute For Gold. , A Eronch teolmical paper, The Journal de I’Horlogerie, declares that a new amalgam lias boon discovered which is a wonderful substitute for gold/ It conUists of 94 parts of copper to six parts of antimony. Tho copper is melted and the ■ antimony is then added. Once the two metals are sufficiently fused together a little magnesium and carbonate of lime are added to increase the density of the material. The product can be drawn, wrought and soldered just like gold, which it almost exactly resembles on being polished. Even when exposed to the action of ampouiacar salts of nitrous vapors it preserves its color. Tho cost of making it is about a shilling a pound ■ avoirdupois..

English Oleo. The oleomargarine factory of the Earl - of Jersey, near Loudon, turns out 5,000 pounds of oleomargarine every week. It • was the London Saturday Review which ■*- once called oleomargarine “that American crime against humanity and the ; cow,” but it would probably regard ‘‘Jersey” oleomargarine as the proper thing.*