WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.
There are bettered to bo 16 ton* of shells to every eubk mile of ocean.
The shark holds the raoord for long-distance swimming. A shark has been known to cover 800 miles in three days.
Berlin passed a law in 18T1 that all milk should be sterilised. As a result inf.i-t mortality in that alty has fallen from 30 per cent, to *3 per eeni. in 30 years.
The dandelion produces 13,000 soodi per plant; shepherds’ pulse, 9T.O0O; thistle, 65,000; chamomile, 16,000; burdock, 43,000, and th» common plantain. 44,000. ’
Prof. Pictet, of Geneva, is rtported to have devised ft plan by which oxygen can be produced on a ccvat mercial scale and at a cost that will grentlj‘ increase its use. Many fish can produce musical ! sounds. The trigla can produce long* drawn notes ranging over nearly an octave. Others, notably two species of ophidium, have sound-producing apparatus, consisting of small movable bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle. The curious "drumming” made by the spaoes called umbriuna can be heard from a depth of 30 fathoms.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3586, 17 October 1905, Page 4
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184WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3586, 17 October 1905, Page 4
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