WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3618, 1 March 1906, Page 4

WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.

There are believed to be 10 tons of shells to every cubic mile of ocean. T'.e shark holds the record for ini dbo.mvimmin<r. A shark hil‘ Ir e;, ••f»WU to cover 800 Julies in fhree days. "■•■ rim passed n ht'v in 1871 that all tnt’V '’'"'.ild be ii/.cd. A‘- a resn'. i; h; ■' :oorta 1 ity in that e>y has ft*.’ : - n per cent, to 23 per cent, in o y, 1 • '■ Or dandelion produces 18,000 seeds pi •• phi at; ..hepherits’ pulse, :17,000; th' Ole, chamomile, l(">,0O'); burdock, 43,000, and T e common plants44,ooo. Prof. Pictet, of Geneva, is reported to have devised a plan by which o;: .Tfn ran be produced on a com-m-reial reale and a? a cost that will ;jrr- ally increase its use. Many fish can produce musical so:;nils. The tripla can produce longdrawn notes ranging over m arly nn oci-rve. Others, notably two species of ophitlium, have sound-prr.ducing a] ■ aratus, consisting of sinnU movtil. I '.- bones, which can be made to jnoduce a sharp rattle. The curious ‘‘drumming" made by the species called umbrinns can be heard from a depth of 30 fathoms. i