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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8031, 18 January 1906, Page 4

ted to gamble by a young m&n connect*' with the Japanese embassy, how he had lost thousands that ho did not possess, and how the Japanese had offered him twice the amount of his losses if he would carry out the deep laid scheme, how he had battled with his conscience, and how ho had filially consented to betray his country. • With an expression of deep pity, Ivan Ivanovitch looked upon the young man's handsome faco. " You must Buffer the penalty, Alexander Stepanovitch," he said, and handed him the revolver; "may God and all the holy saints have mercy on your soul." Without a second's hesitation the unhappy man pressed the barrel against his temple. A sharp report rang out. A cry from Ivan and the two detectives burst into the room. "It is all over," the old man said. "He was too quick for me. Let us report to General Kuropatkin." Czar Nicholas, nevor know that the papers were stolen, but two weeks later the Japanese torpedoed three Russian ships at Port Arthur, using the secret signals of the Russian navy to get close upon the enemy. By Yiooo Toepfer in the S.F. Examiner.

A Home-Made Barometer. The accompanying photograph shows how two ordinary glass bottles may bo turned into a most reliable barometer without tuiy preparation. The bottom bottle must have rather a wide month, and the inverted bottle rather a long neck. Water should be placed in theiower bottle just sufficient to touch the mouth'of the inverted bottle, which can b6 made to stand firmly by wrapping apiece of rag round it. In very dry weather the water will rise from the lower vessel and settle in the one above, leaving the other quite empty while under moderately One conditions tho water will only rise partially. In stormy weather the atmospheric depression prevents the water from rising at all. l'he arrangement works best in a place where the sun does not strike it, and can never u have you on" like some of its more elaborate brethren. OPTt«-* to f . DATTL* V

Even Japanese Fish Can Shoot. The beaked chaetodon is a very sportive fish, most popular in Japan, and passes his time shooting flies. Ilis muzzle is the gun, so to speak, and a drop of water serves him as a bullet. When he feels that his dinnertime is approaching he moves slowly through the water till he reaches a bank overhung by foliage. Here he stops, with his muzzle just sticking out of the water. Patiently ho waits until some unsuspecting fly or other dainty insect titles on the foliage. Then he takes aim, hard and sure, and the drop of water spurts from his novel gun, hits the insect, and knocks it iuto the water, where it is gobbled up to form the repast of our skilful chaetodon. The Japanese use the fish as a household pet, and amuse themselves by seeing him shoot unwary flies. He is generally "at home" in the Indian or Polynesian Seas, and likes to be near the months of rivers, where he can get moat flics. His marking is curious, several brownish bands encircling his body, and his bciuity is greatly enhanced by ft circular spot edged with white, which is stuck plumb in the centre of his soft dorsal Jia.

Earth's Central Heat In the report of the last, eon! commission t)ie conclusion is arrived sit that at a depth of 3,000 feet the temperature of the earth would amount to !M degrees Fahrenheit, but it was considered that a depth of at least 4,000 feet illicit ultimately bo reached in coal mining, says the hnyiiicrnn;; Magazine. Tlic rate of increase, the commissioners thought, might for ordinnry cases be assumed to he one degree Fahrenheit for every sixty feet, hut it is in reality impossible to give any fixed rate of increase. The report of the British Association committee on underground temperatures during the last thirty years tends to show, not only that the temperature gradient varies considerably in different localities, but that it is not easy to reduce a fixed law of increase applicable to all eases. In some parts of Western America the heat at 3,000 feet is almost unbearable, while at the Calumet and Hecla copper mine in North Michigan, there is a rise of only four degrees Fahrenheit in a depth of 4,400 feet, although no artificial ventilation is resorted to. The temperature of the coal on discovery at the Kosebridge colliery in Lancashire was stated by the management to be 93 degrees Fahrenheit, but it afterwards fell to 63 degrees Fahrenheit.

Your Skin Changes Every Month, It takes but four weeks to completely renew the human epidermis. You have new eyelashes every five mouths; you shed your finger-nails in about the same period; and the nails of your toes are entirely renewed annually. The white of the eye, known as the cornea, is in a continual state of renewal, being kept clear and clean by the soft friction of the eyelids. These are a few manifestations of the restorative powers retained by man, who is less fortunate than the lower animals. Crabs can grow fresh limbs, the snail can renew even a large portion of its head; with eyes aud feelers, lizards do not worry about the loss of a tail, and if you make a cut in the caudal appendage of some of these lastmentioned creatures they will grow another tail straight away, and rejoice in the possession of two! But man still possesses the wonderful restorative little cells which scientific men call leuococytes. Tboy are always coursing through the body to renew and to defend the body from its enemies—the harmful bacteria of various maladies. These cells generate anti-toxins to kill our enemies. They do battle for us in hundreds of ways, and yet the majority of us knw nothing nf these great services rendeti oji tin} friends inside.