WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3617, 27 February 1906, Page 4

WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.

There are believed to be 1(5 tons of shells to every cubic mile of occiin. T'e shark holds the record for *o>!-- -distance swimming. A shark ha b<*en I'nnwn to cover SOO miles , in three days. 1 rlin passed a law in 1 f .7l that all ■ ini”: rhmild be .«•; : "i.vd. As a reft:'- in'Vet mortality in that city has fa!' from 30 per cent, to 23 per cent, in i'A ye civ. 'l i t dandelion produces 12,000 seeds per plant: shepherds’ pulse, 37,000; thi itle, fi" :) ;{!; chamomile, 16,000; burdock, 43,000, and the common planta'u, 44,000. ! prof. Pictet, of Geneva, is reported to have devised a plan by which oiygcn can be produced on a comim ccial scale and at a cost that will greatly increase its use. Many fish can produce musical sounds. The trigin cap produce longdrawn notes ranging over nearly an octave. 'Others, notably two species of ophidium, have sound-producing apparatus, consisting of small raovabh' bones, which can be made to pn-duce a sharp rattle. The curious “drumming" made by the species called umbrinas can be heard from a depth of 30 fathoms.