ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, 27 September 1906, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

In North-Eastern Labrador a traveller has found a fresh water lake, 800 feet - above sea-level and 100 miles from salt water, which is inhabited by seals. He thinks that the ancestors of these seals were imprisoned in a bay when the general surface of Labrador rose after the Glacial epoch. Being thus cvi off from the sea, the water gradually became fresh, while its inhabitants accustomed themselves to theiirnew conditions of life.

It is well-known that many creatures appoint one or more of their number to act as sentinels to guard against surprise while the rest are asleep or feeding, or at play, Among the animals, birds, and insects that are thus prudent may be named the following : wasps, ants, chamois and other antelopes, prairie dogs, wild horses, rooks, swans, Australian cockatoos, zebras, quails, certain baboons and monkeys, flamingoes, and other birds, marmots, seals African wild cattle, and elephants.

A, North Island school teacher received the following interesting letter from the mother of one of her pupils : "Dear Miss— You write me about whipping my sun 1 hereby give you permission to beet 'him enytime it is necessary to lern him lessons. He is juste like his father ; you have to lern Mm with a club Pound noledge into him ; I want him to get it, and don't pay no attenshun to what his father says. I'll manage him.'