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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3543, 6 July 1905, Page 4

UNKOWN.

The wasp and the irreconcilable enemies. Tlidj |ire|eiioe »M a ■ wasp’s nest is a ginjjfttofoe to ./toe !i . ..ole neighborhood of the absence of Hies. | : v A product (M >£liefiOi%'t»M)re i ductive. deserts of (Jfull is n kind of watermelon which is picked in October. The melon ripens after it is picked. An air-cooling system on a vast ■■■; scale is to be tried at the St. Louis exposition. Great fans will bring down a current of cold Air frofn a height of tift da¥&Ae and pour it days. ' y y /.hProf. Wilbur C. Knight,'of the state university of Wyoming, is engaged in putting together pieces of a sea serpent which lie discorded ii| A 1895. The animal was GO feevfong arid 1 Is' > one of the most valuable specimens ever captured* To sec objects at a distance of 100 miles the observer must be at a height of 6,CG7 )£he| level of the sea. The npe|isrfffi|t ft he? distance in miles at^vhtOn" , atr'objt!ct on the earth’s surface may be seen is equal to the squftCf ,yuyt K pf, • and a half times tiff the observer in feet above sea level, allowance being made for the effect of atmospheric, refraction. Prof. McKendrick, In his presidential address to the physiology section of the British association, in September, remarked that the smallest particle of matter }{ssl} 1 ? ec P*] our present microscopes is between onc-fonr-h mid red-thousandth and on e- (i ve - luui dr ed -1 hoy sand th hi an inch in diaiwtedi^OTK!)llinln^'tlom.t»fl light in the microscope forbids the possibility of seeing still smaller objects. Yet the living spores studied by physiologists are sometimes, probably, even smr.JJcr kt, size., than the most tbat#|the most pi rfect shovV. The stars which arc called “fixed stars’’ arc j • ■crly' so described.' They do not change their relative places appreciably c.-im in the longest periods of time with which history has to deal. Take, for instance, the twin stars of Orion, that cm H.Tvitmri which is pspneiclly 1 ae gv ry o' cur winter skies. There i,. :n doubt that the relative posilmn* or thvse twin stars, and th- ir poriMona t i.-t.vc to ojther stars in the vicinity, were j ifl fit fife same 1,900 years ago us they are today. so far at least as the general appearance of the constellation is concerned.