ABOUT INDIAN MONKEYS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3621, 8 March 1906, Page 4

ABOUT INDIAN MONKEYS.

fho Method They Employ When Koiihlaj ft Corufloid. It is still an article of faith, hot duly j iri India* but in all lands Whtofi hioil- ! kejts go in packs, that they have a king, laws and language cf course. Saving the first item and duly limiting the others, ; tho belief is sound no doubt. But Ibn , Batuta tells ns, on the authority of : “pious pursuits’* ho ffiet id India, ihat the king lives in state. Tour noblemen always attend him With rods in their hands and cooks serve him on their . knees. Tho kiilg has a train or “tinned followers.” When a subject is caught, he contrives to send a message to the sovereign, who forthwith dispatches an army, and when they coiuo to the town they pull down the houses and heat the people, and their armies, it isstud, are ■ many. This is not quite su iidlfitinus as it looks, for the sacred apes that frequent an Indian village will road: ;y gather to avenge an urir.iy. i t-; it is common practice with them to dcsi-w the huts when angered. they have a great n ' ' and when a child is na. - u and mother k i:-: tb.m ' l; road. Then duty are t; tloos, who touch )'• handicraft, or rffil : - . • 1 they may not find iJ.u.r -■ , At Shaba)-, which :u pc.-w; w have been somewhere near Madras rcoHe dare not travel by might in J;e ■ -r.-T.--for fear of monkeys v.L.-.-ii on.;. : - not exact, aiuce these ck . ■ r am move after sundown, but if v-bc o Urn; i foundation of truth in tne legend it if curious. We are not aware that any In--1 dian apes at this day will at tack u pars- | erby unless gravedy provoked. But j there are plenty clscwiu re thet v.ll. It is a well known fact t'u.t in tu ■ ceeding to raid the cornfields in ccrui.a ; pai-ts of Africa apes have a combined plan of action. The old males go first—some of them scout on either flank, and climb every eminence near the line of march, to assure themselves that the route is safe. After rooennoitoving, they give orders in such different tones of voice that each must have a special meaning. The elders are silent when advancing, but the main body, femalet and young, keep up an incessant chatter, playing and feeding as they go, unless brought to on instantaneous halt by signal. Behind follows tho rearguard of males, who drive loiterers sharply on. On reaching the cornfields the teevu; kike post all round, while all llio mi fall to plundering with (ha utmost ex pedition, filling then - cheek pouches a f full as they will hold, and then tacking tho heads of corn under Bu.ir armpits. —Easton Traveller. THE OflC AM. \ Its Peculiar Viitwns Tor Ibn M.rtiiof Com j position K:i-.;v’u > ’-‘m t’:-.t;ae. | The organ as it existed in it ,ch.’s day. \ mid as in most e?;-cu(rjJs it exists now, i is an instrmneufc p'-iulin iy : riv.;fW-v ! in jvgavd to tho wakvetu u ■ f d><- (<:■ • ‘ ’• and moot courilrm -n : ... -i... . ; of r.'.'vlnlurVm and u f that moon. . / u-> -v ’• combination vhudj is "vvjv-i i ncp.-ri- y i rated in ;bo Tniaef “ompo. ilnai I known as the. fugno. It so for two or Ihreu reasons. In the first place it is the I! only instrument in which U,e ivauKls are 1 srs.t.;iued with the same im noity for ■ iV'Q first emitted. H.iv;over (••ng a t c may have to bo tmsffiiucd, fin value is there till the nnmout tiro anger quits the hey, a quality winch is invaluable v.hc-u we are dealing with long suspensions and chains of .sound, Secondly, tho opportunity of playing I.ho buss with the foot oil the pedals, leaving the left hand free for the inner parts, purs w’thin the grasp of a single player u Tail and extended harmony andJ.ecdom in manipulation such as no other instrument affords. Thirdly, and in the case especially of fnguo compositions, the immense ■volume and power of the pedal notes impart a grandeur to the entry of the base part in the composition such as no other medium for prpdnc'ng in -ic can give ns. In the time of Bach this splendid source 'of musical effect was confined to the great organa of Germany. The English organs of the day hr 1 in general no pedal board, and it is probably owing to this fact move than to anything else that Handel’s published organ music is so light,*aiid even epL juieral in stylo as compared with Bach’s; that ho treated tho 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 the English organ of the day was in every respect a much lighter and thinner affair than the “huge house of the sounds,” the thunder of which was stored iu the organ gallery of many a Lutheran church.— Fortnightly Review.

A Substitute For Gold. A French technical paper, The Jour* nal do I’Horlogerie, declares that ;i j>.-,y amalgam has been discovered which ; 8 a wonderful substitute for gold. It cuogists of 94 parts of copper to six parts of antimony. The copper is incited ami i. e antimony is then added. Once the two metals are sufficiently fused together a little magnesium and caiboi -te of lime are added to increase the den; ty of the material. The product can be drawn, wrought and soldered jmt like gold, which it almost exactly resembles on being polished. Even when expos*..! *0 the action of amiuoniacal its of nitrous vapors it preserves its color. The cost of making it is about a shilling a pound avoirdupois. Ilotflish o\fi The oleomargarine factorv o* the Earl «t Jei-'.y, near London. trim out 5,000 pounds of oloutn.ugii.'lm v vo»y v. : oek. It vvest’o 1- an/.u ..... .tin;.: y 1.---, .v'.v which edited ole.nn vrg-r'-'riK ‘ : lvr Ameria,.- ag.ihid' I -.nui.n.y the co-.v,” but it would probably regard ■ r-'c.y” oleomargarine as the proper ) tl- ag.-‘