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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8181, 14 August 1906, Page 4

A Home-Made Barometer. The _ two ordiimryglass bottles maybe turr. a most reliable barometer withoi'* » paration. The bottom bottle rather a wide mouth, and the rather a long neck. Water should be in the lower bottle just sufficient to to

made to stand firmly by wrapping a piece 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 fine conditions the water will only rise partially. In stormy weather the atmospheric depression prevents the water from rising at nil. The arrangement works best in a place where the sun does not strike it, and enn never u have you on" like some of its more elaborate brethren. Even Japanese Fish Can Shoot. The beaked chaetodon is a very sportive fish, most popular in Japan, and pnsseshis time shooting flies. His muzzle is the gun, so to speak, and a drop of water serves him £3 a bullet. When he feels that his dinnertime is approaching lie 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 he waits until some unsuspecting fly or other dainty insect settles on the fohagc. Then he takes aim, hard and sure, and the drop of water spurts from his novel gun, hits the insect, and knocks it into 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 annuo themselves by seeing him shoot unwary tlies. He is generally "at home" in the Indian or Polynesian Seas, and likes to be near the mouths of rivers, where he can get most flies. His marking is curious, several brownish bands encircling his body, and his beauty is greatly enhanced by a circular spot edged with white, which is stuck plumb in tiio centre of his soft dorsal fin. Earth's Central Her.t In the report of Ihe last coal commission the conclusion is arrived at that at a drpih of 3,000 feet the temperature of the earth Would nmo'.int to f)-S decrees Fahrenheit, but it v.ms considered th:U a depth of at least 4,000 feet might u!tima!e!y bi leached in coal mining, says the Engineering Magizine. The rale of ineresH*, iho rommk-i-mers thought, might fur o:d»navy cn-e.: be assumed to he one d"grKs Fahrenheit for every sixty fret,, hut it is in reality impossible lo give any Ji:;ed ra-e of increase. The report of the lJriti.di Association romniiilee 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 cases. In some parts of Western America the heat at 3,000 feet is almost unbearable, while at the Calumet and Hccla copper mine in North Michigan, there is a rise of only four degrees Fahrenheit, in a depth of 4,400 feet, although no arti!i«-:.;l ventilation is resorted to. The temp-r.itlire of iho coal on discovery at- the I{uVu.-id;:«! colliery in L:mcashiie was stated by the management to be 93 d'-j. r,':.-o4 mn it aiterwards fell to G3 decrees Fahrenheit-. Your Skin Changes Every Month. It takes but four weeks to completely renew the human epide;i:iis. You have new eyelashes jvery five months; you shed your finger-nails in about the same period ; and the nuila 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 oven a large portion of its head; with eyes and feelers, lizards do not worry about the loss of a tail, and i.f you make a cut in the caudal appendago of some of these lastmentioned creatures they will grow another tail straight away, and rejoice in the possession of two ] Bat man still possesses tho wonderful restorative little cells which scientific men call leuococytes. They are always coursing through the body to renew and to d«fend the body from its enemies—the harmful bacteria of various maladies. These cella generate ajiti-toxins to kill our enemies. They do battle for us in hundreds of ways, and yet'the majority of us kiyw nothing nf these great services rende«W \j out till) friends inside.

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