Bellefonte, Pa., mt August 25, 1916. | THE TEST OF A MAN. - ! Not by the measure of his deed Does life make trial of man’s strength; Not by his wisdom, nor his creed, Nor yet by his compassion’s length. Nor by his span of worldly power, Nor even what his truth might dare; i But ’prisoned in his darkest hour, But how much he can bravely bear! —Selected. FARM NOTES. —Dogs and Farm Sheep.—The number of sheep in the 36 farm States, which do not include any in the western division, could be increased by 150 per cent, it is estimated, without displacing other live stock. Some au- thorities believe thate® the increase could be even as much as 500 per cent without serious interference with the number of other animals. An increase of 150 per cent in these 36 States would mean in money $144,267,000. In a new publication of the depart- ment, Farmers’ Bulletin 652, the re- sponsibility for this loss to the coun- try is laid upon the sheep-killing dog. Sheep-killing dogs, it is said, are the principal cause of the marked decrease in the numbers of sheep on American | farms. In the 10 years between 1900 and 1910 the number of sheep in the country, exclusive of the States in the western division, decreased 3,900,000 head, in face of the fact that during these same years the market value of sheep rose so rapidly that the total value of sheep in this area was $19,- 000,000 or approximately 25 per cent more in 1910 than in 1900. Favorable though the market conditions were, they were not a sufficient incentive to induce farmers to risk the heavy losses from stray dogs. The number of sheep killed annu- ally by dogs can not be stated exactly, since there are many cases which are not reported at all. Judging from the figures in those counties and States in which reasunably complete reports are obtainable, however, it may be said that in the 36 farm States more than 100,000 sheep are kilied each year by dogs. This, it is true, is less than 1 per cent of the total number of sheep in this area, but a 1 per cent loss on a business that is being con- ducted on a profit basis of 5 or 6 ver cent can not be ignored. This esti- mate, it must be remembered, is also probably much lower than the actual figures. It is certain, too, that many men have been kept out of the sheep business through fear that in their own particular cases the loss would be much more than 1 per cent. Anyone who has actually seen sheep killed, or frightened by dogs is likely to think twice before engaging in the business. In many cases while only 1 or 2 sheep may be actually bitten by the dogs, the whole flock is chased until it dies from exhaustion. If the dog question could be sat- isfactorily disposed of, there seems to be no reason why the number of sheep in the country could not be in- creased to the extent already indicat- ed. In Great Britain there is 1 sheep cr lamb for each 2.5 acres of the total area. In the 36 farm States in this country there is 1 sheep of lamb for each 31.8 acres. The British farmer handles his land on an intensive basis and feeds kis sheep on forage- crop pasture. Such pastures not only increase the fertility of the land but also free the sheep from many infer- nal parasites contracted through graz- ing upon permanent pastures. In particular the use of a succession of forage-crop pastures will prevent stomach worms, one of the most pre- valent and disastrous scourges of young stock, and will enable the far- mer to market by the end of June or the first of July, when market prices are usually the highest, the lambs that were born in the late winter or early spring. Handled under such conditions and on high-priced farm land, the importance of a small flock of sheep can not be overlooked. In addition to pointing out these facts the bulletin already mentioned, “The Sheep-Killing Dog,” discusses the possible means of preventing in the future the loss from dogs. At the present time the various State laws on this subject differ widely, some States using the money obtained from dog licenses to reimburse sheep own- ers, while others permit the sheepmen to recover damages from the dog owners, and two offer them no re- course whatscever. Ilogs, however. are very seldom caught in the act of killing sheep. It is always difficult to Aetermine their owners, and where the damages are paid by the State direct- ly from the dog tax funds the money very frequently is far from sufficient to meet all the claims. A remedy that is suggested for this situation is a uniform State dog law embodying the principle of a tax upon dogs sufficiently heavy to discourage .those who are not willing to take care of their pets from keeping them. Under this plan all dogs over 6 months of age must be licensed each year, the tax paid at the time of licensing and a metal tag bearing the license num- ber attached to the dog’s collar. Any dog found without this tag unattend- ed and off its owner’s premises may be killed. When found unattended on a farm where sheep are kept the dog may be killed whether it has the tag or not, and under any circumstances a dog caught chasing or killing sheep may be killed. All dogs which can be proved to be sheep killers must be killed whether caught in the act or not, and a reward of $15 should be offered for anyone identifying a sheep- killing dog. The money received from dog taxes should be devoted to reim- bursing sheep owners for their lost stock, and the county should in turn recover this money whenever possible from the dogs’ cwners. A special license should be issued for kennels where large numbers of dogs are maintained under such conditions that they can not possibly do any harm to a neighbering flock. ‘While some such plan as this is probably indispensable to the full de- | precaution. . been built which prove a satisfactory ‘essary to fence the entire pasture, velopment of the cheep industry in the . United States, there are cases where ' the flock master will find in its ab- | sence the use of dog-proof fences | very desirable. - The grazing of sheep ‘upon comparatively small areas of land sown to forage crops, instead of | upon permanent pastures in larger! fields, materially reduces the area to | i be fenced and makes this a practicable | In the West fences have. defense against coyotes, and the fence | that will turn aside a coyote will turn ; ‘a dog. A fence cf this character can be built as follows: Post 7% feet in length, set 2% feet | !in the ground and 16 feet apart; a! barbed wire stretched fiat to the sur- | face of the ground; 3 inches higher, a 36-inch woven-wire fence having a 4-inch triangular mesh; 5 inches high- er, a barbed wire; 6 inches higher, a second barbed wire; 7 inches above this, a third barbed wire. Total height, 57 inches. It is important to remember, how- ever, that the bottom strand of barb- ed wire must be stretched flat on the surface of the ground at all points. If necessary, the ground should be graded before the fence is built. Thereafter such small holes as appear may be filled in. It is not always nec- for dogs usually attack sheep at night only. If a sufficient area can be fenc- ed to give the flock protection during the night, they may be safely left in uninclosed pasture through the day. This method involves a certain loss of time in driving the sheep to and from the inclosure, but in many cases will be preferred to the expense of fencing cn a large scale. High Living Cost in Mexico. “It is odd how fast money goes down here,” says “Messages from Mexico” in “World’s Work.” “With buying eggs and cigars, milk, etc., at exorbitant prices, striker’s wages and mess bills, I spend be- tween ($50 and $60 a month. Clothes wear out in a minute and shoes too. I am on my third pair of the latter. So much mountain walking, where we have to lead the horses. Matches are two boxes for 15 cents, little double- ended wax matches with only about 40 lights to a box. “There were some oranges and apples at the ranch here the other day, 10 cents apiece. I got a dozen oranges and ate three before I had enough. Our food is getting very tiresome. The complete list comprises fresh beef, prunes about twice a week, hard bread or field bread (the latter only when wagons go into base), coflee, potatoes, tomatoes, beans and bacon very seldom. Sugar is all the native lump stuff. Of course, there is enough, and with the package from home we do all right. I have not lost more than 10 pounds. Some officers have lost 30 or 40, fat ones. See no prospect of moving north. All moves at best are very gradual.” ——King Alforso of Spain belongs to an older royal house. The Bour- bons, to which he belongs, mada their how a couple of centuries earlier than ihe Hohenzollerns or about a thous- and years ago. But the Bourbcns didn’t begin their trade of kinging in France for a num- ber of centuries after the first of the family wrote his rame in history. Francis Joseph, Emperor of Aus- tria, is the twenty-seccnd ruler of the house of Hapsburg. The fir:t one be- gan his reign just 700 years ago. The first Romanoff in Russia ap- peared at Moscow 575 yeais ago, so that the Czar’s royal family is young- er than that of Germany, Spain and Austria. England borrowed its first King of the present line from Hanover, Ger- many, only two centuries ago, so that King George kelongs to an infantile royal regime. Unless the present great war shall differ from most of the great wars of history, a king or two is sure to lose his crown when it ends. Take the bayonets from under the thrones, and very few of them could stand alone. The “divine right of kings” is merely the vulgar right to levy taxes to support an army for self-preservation.—Girard. Agree to Aid Suffrage. Sixteen of the nineteen Congress- ional candidates in Pennsylvania who have replied to the questions submitted by the National American Woman Suffrage Association hawe agreed to support the Federal amend- ment to give suffrage to women. The three who did not pledge themselves asked for more time. The questions asked were: “Are you frage?” “If elected will you vote in Con- gress to submit to the States a feder- al amendment to enfranchise the women of this country?” “If appointed on a committee in whose jurisdiction such an amend- ment sshould fall, will you do all in your power to expedite the passage of such measure?” in favor cf woman sui- Then Sleeper Awoke to Find That Sup- posed Telephone Was Faithful Old Alarm Clock. A man in the employ of an automo~ bile concern believes in using the alarm clock in getting up on time. The faithful alarm clock was put on the job every night except when the Sunday holiday came to give Mr. Man and the alarm clock a chance to loaf on the job. But one Saturday night the auto man forgot himself and set the alarm. When the alarm began buzzing early Sunday morning, his wife awoke, but she decided to let her husband get up and shut the alarm off, since he was the cause of it. Husband, however, never stirred. He mumbled something in his sleep. The mumbling grew louder. “Hello! Hello! he cried out. “What's the matter?’ asked the wife. “Why, they don’t answer,” replied the sleeping talker until his wife gave him a thump, and he knew it was the ! | ! | alarm, ANCIENT FORT WILL BE USED Did Fortifications Built by Spaniards on Isthmus of Panama Are to Be : Rebuilt by Americans. Fort San Lorenzo, for many years one of the important units in the de- *enses of the isthmus of Panama dur- ng the days of the Spanish occupation »>f most of the western hemisphere, is gain to serve in the capacity of de- fending cne of the most important rrade routes of the world, the Panama canal. This time the ancient fortress will pe manned by secldiers of the United States, who wiii Serve modern, iarge- caliber guns with ranges of more than 12 miles, The new fortifications which. in a measure probably are to replace the ancient ones, will form one of the main defense links of the great Gatun locks, at the northern end of the canal. Old Fort San Lorenzo, or, rather. the ruins thereof, stands on a high bluff at the mouth of the Rio Chagres and overlooks the town of the same name and the shallow harbor which on numerous occasions sheltered the ships of Christopher Columbus and the Spanish conquistadores who came after him and developed the isthmus of Panama into one of the greatest trade routes in the world of that time. Across it was transported that vast amount of. treasure that flowed from the Americas into the treasury of the Spanish kings at Madrid. The Rio Chagres was one of the routes across the isthmus, and for that reason was defended at its mouth by the important and heavily garrisoned fortress, San Lorenzo.— Washington Star. SEA BATHING HITS HEARING Deafness Often Caused by Blowing Nose Too Soon After Taking a Dip in the Ocean. “bathers’ deafness,” a common summer ailment: “This is a saltwgter, not a fresh- water, complaint, and many people who have been disporting themselves by the seaside return home much harder of hearing than when they left it. Cases are on record in which people have be- come actually deaf after bathing in the briny ocean.” Bathers’ deafness is caused by blow- ing the nose after your dip. People blow their noses instinctively after bathing, because the sclt water in their nostrils makes them uncomfortable. The result is that water is forced into the little eustachian tubes, which run from the ears to the nose. Here the water remains for days till inflammation is set up by the particles of salt. Then the eustachian tubes get blocked, remaining more or less so permanently, causing partial deafness. ’ So, if you must blow your nose, wait till some time after your bath is over, and then do it very gently. But it is better not to blow your nose at all un- til at least an hour has elapsed. Canadians Refuse to Surrender. A German paper describing the fighting at Ypres on June 2 says that the Canadians were completely ex- hausted and in part “fled irregularly” and in part offered a stubborn re- sistance, desiring death before sur- render. Many a nest which contained Canadians who defended themselves desperately, refusing quarter, had to be emptied by hand genades. The paper adds that a general who -was captured drew his sword and struck a sergeant, who summoned him to surrender, in the face, whereupon the infantryman attacked the gen- eral, who was fighting like a madman, and ran him through. It is said that the general had been visiting the trenches when he was caught by Ger- man curtain fire and was unable to return. Numerous other officers, says this report, were killed because they refused to surrender.—London Times. A Noble Charity. The Helen C. Juilliard, the new float- ing hospital of St. John’s guild, just constructed with $100,000 contributed by Mrs. Juilliard, made her maiden trip down the harbor with her decks crowd- ed with sick babies and their mothers, besides a number of children who needed the fresh sea air to bring the color back to their pale faces. The Helen C. Juilliard carries a staff of doctors and nurses to look after the little ones so that they get medical treatment as well as pure food and ozone on the daily trip on the water. The vessel is 240 feet long, equipped with an operating room and a quaran- tine ward, and is ready for all hos- pital emergencies.—New York Times. Torpedo Defense for Battleships. The ever-increasing power and range of the torpedo and the inability of the net to stop these terrible weapons have called for some permanent de- fense, exterior to the ship, which may be carried when the ship is traveling at high speed. A substitute for the net is found in providing a fixed outer shel’ conforming to the contour of the ship’s sides and carried several feet distant from the hull, the water being free to pass between the shell and the hull. This construction has been used on the new British monitors. Australia’s War Casualties. The Australian war casualties up to ‘| May 29 are officially given as 41,102. Three hundred and seventy-five of- ficers have been killed, 251 wounded and nine made prisoners of war; and among the rank and file 7,370 have been killed, 9,398 wounded, 1,155 are missing and 53 prisoners. Sick of- ficers number 689 and sick men 21,430. THIS RABBIT WAS A KICKER Monkey in New York Zoo “Monkeys” _ With Little Animal and Gets Un- expected Jolt on Jaw. There is a monkey in the Central park zoo which cannot be convinced there is luck in a rabbit’s hind foot. He is sure, though, that said rabbit’s foot has a kick like a string of cocktails on an empty stomach. . From Billy Snyder’s hospital, where the monkey is recuperating from mon- keying with a big white rabbit, the word went out that the patient was as well as might be expected. The monkey is the smallest of two ‘that were so pindling they couldn’t hold their own in the big monkey cage, and were sent to make up a happy family in a cage with 20 rabbits and guinea pigs. In these pacifist surround- ings he felt his oats—or peanuts—and started to pick on the big white rab- bit. ! The latter, being an American rab- bit, stood a lot of picking, ear tweak- ing, fur pulling and other indignities. Finally, however, the monkey tried to steal from under the rabbit’s wiggling nose a particularly dainty bit of let- tuce. The rabbit's pink eyes went red. “Oh, my fur and whiskers,” he exploded, like Alice's rabbit, and out went the deadly rabbit’s foot. There was a thud as it struck the simian jaw, a squeak of pain and one of triumph, and then all that remained of this monkey's tale was a much subdued monkey and an otherwise happy, happy family in the little cage. SOLDIERS WANT NO CHILDREN Would Not Rear Sons to Go Through Horrors They Have Experienced on Battlefield. I asked Zeni Peshkoff, socialist, . what his sensations were when he Says a prominent physician about | - New Republic. . it doesn’t now. went out to kill, says a writer in the “It didn’t seem real, Before my last charge the lieutenant and I were filled with the beauty of the night. We sat gaz- ing at the stars. Then the command came and we rushed forward. It did not seem possible I was killing human beings.” It is this unreality that sus- tains men. Germans are not human beings, only ethe enemy. For the wounded French soldier will teil you he loathes war and longs for peace. He fights for one object—a perma- nent peace. He fights to save his children from fighting. “Have you any children?’ I asked one soldier. “No, thank God,” is the reply. “But why?’ “Because,” comes the fierce answer, “if I had a son I would rather he deserted than see what I have seen.” This man is not unusual. The soldiers—not the wom- en—are beginning to say: “We will have no more children unless there is no ‘more war.” Jewish Soldiers Find David's Shield. Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Patterson’s Jewish fighting unit—the Zion Mule Corps—is unique since the days of the Maccabees. It was composed chiefly of Russian refugee Jews, who fled from Egypt to Palestine to es- cape the terror of the Turk. There they were armed with excellent rifles, bayonets and ammunition cap- tured from the Turks when they made their futile attack on the Suez Canal. The strength of the corps was about 500, and the pack mules for transport work—whose eccen- tricities are at the bottom of many a famous tale, numbered 750. The corps’ badge was the “Magin David,” an exact reproduction of the shield David used when he went forth to fight Goliath of Gath, and by a co- incidence which in older days might well have passed for a “miracle,” the Zionists found the original at Sedd- el-Bahr, Gallipoli. The colonel writes: “While we were pulling down a house and excavating the founda- tions, we dug up a slab of marble with a beautiful filigree design carved round the outer edge of it, and in the center, strange to say, was the shield of David! The stone must have been very, very old, and how it got there is a mystery. Perhaps it may have been taken from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Turkish Uniform. The Turkish uniform, under indi- rect German influence, has been greatly modified during the past five years. It is of khaki—a greener khaki than the British army, and of conventional European cut. Spiral puttees and good boots are provided ; the only peculiar feature is the head- gear—a curious, uncouth looking combination of the turban and German helmet, devised by Enver Pasha to combine religion and practicality, and called in his honor enverieh. (With commendable thrift, Enver patented his invention, and it is rumored that he has drawn a comfortable fortune from its sale.)—Alexander Aaronsohn in the Atlantic Monthly. Nearer the Mark. The minister of ga Scottish village being away on holiday, a young dep- uty took over his duties. During his long journey north he had caught cold, and arrived at the village inn late on Saturday night, After being shown to his room he suddenly decided to have a glass of hot lemonade, and rang the bell, which sounded rather undecidedly. When the servant appeared he re- marked pleasantly: “That bell seems to be like myself— a bit hoarse.” “Ay,” replied the girl, calmly, “it's cracked.”—Kansas City Star. HEALTH TIP WORTH HEEDING Always Hold the Head High, Is Advice Given by William Muldoon of World Fame. In a letter to Robert Grimshaw of the New York university, William Mul- doon, who ranks as one of the fore- most remakers of physically broken- down men, gives advice that it would be well for every man and woman, boy and girl in America to take to heart, according to Commerce and Finance. He says: “I was taught in early manhood not to throw my shoulders back, stick my chest out, draw my stomach in, or hold my chin down like a goat preparing to butt, but to always try and touch some imaginary things with the crown of my head. If one tries to do that—first understands how to try and then tries —he doesn’t have to pay any attention to the rest of his physical being; that effort to touch something above him, not with his forehead, but with the crown of his head, will keep every particle of his body in the position that nature intended it should be. And as a boy I was advised to frequently back up against the wall and make the back of my head, my shoulders, hips, heels, all press against the wall at the same time; and in that way get an idea of what was straight, or, in other words, how crooked I was be- coming by drooping.” ? Both to young and old Mr. Mul- doon’s “hold-your-head-up” suggestion is inspiring. Try it. The effect physic- ally and mentally is immediate. When the head goes higher the impulse is to deeper breathing. A man finds more elasticity in his limbs. He steps out with more ease. There is more spring to his gait. He isn’t a lumbering, sham- bling creature, but a man alive. With the elevation of the crown of the head there seems to come clearer thinking, a | more buoyant feeling and a brighter | outlook. FEW ARTICLES GO TO WASTE | Not Many Realize How Many Seem- ingly Useless Articles Have a Value as Merchandise. Many people imagine when an arti- | cle is cast into the dust bin its days | are ended. This, however, is not so, for all the contents of dust carts are | carefully sorted and they are emp- tied, anything of value being put aside, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. | Disregarding things stich as scissors and knives, many corporations are making a big profit out of their “dust.” You wouldn’t think that there would be any value in egg shells, yet every | year as many as 400 tons are required in the manufacture of so-called kid gloves and also in printed calico. Corks, too, are a valuable item, for they sell to manufacturers at the rate of nine cents a pound and in a year no fewer than $500,000 worth are thrown away. Cycles suffer a number of hardships before they reach an absolute end. Old tires are bought at quite a good price by manufacturers for the rubber on them—inner tubes are especially valu- ; able—and go to make rubber mats and cheap rubber toys. The frame sup- | plies gasfitters with short lengths of | tubes, and the rest of the machine is melted down to make a fresh iron ar- ticle. Anglo-lIrish Tunnel Again Discussed. For the last fifty years the proposal ! to construct a tunnel between Eng-. land and Ireland has been discussed. | It is again receiving some attention, ! suggested by political and military de- : velopments within the last few weeks. The tunnel, as an international utility, would shorten the journey to the United States and Canada by 48 hours, and would only cost $80,000,000. Between the coast of Wigtownshire on one side and those of Antrim and Down on the other there lay at one! time a loch about 25 miles long, and ! varying from 600 to 900 feet in depth, and this loch, known to geologists as Beaufort’s Dyke, still’ lies beneath the waters of the North Channel. Curiously enough, it is beneath this loch, which lies north and south about midway between the Irish and Scottish coasts, that it is proposed to run the tunnel. Curiosity of Wireless. The wireless service men with the American punitive expedition . into Mexico, it is related, were surprised to discover the conditions in that coun- try were exactly the reverse of those in the United States, says the Wire- less Age. In the United States the wireless operators find that the night time is much better for the transmis- sion of dispatches. South of the bor- | der the day time is best. There is so much atmospheric dis- turbance at night in Mexico that wire- less men prefer the day as a time for operating. This is not due to the alti- tude, which is 7,000 feet, but to the minerals in the mountains, especially iron ore. Two Famous Scotch Cities. Glasgow has much of the picturesque about her, but she never gets credit for it because Edinburgh is in the neighborhood. Edinburgh is pic- turesque in such a spectacular fashion that no other Scotch city has much of a chance. So it is taken for granted that Edinburgh represents the Scot- land that is put on canvas and Glas- gow, the Scotland that goes into bank books. Under more favorable circum- stances Glasgow might have won a name in both lines, but as it is, she has to be content with her modern buildings and her vulgar predominance in trade. : fossil hunter. WONDROUS LAND OF FLORIDA Famous Tarpon Springs Not Among the Least of Things That Have Made It Widely Known. The western coastal country of Florida is one of the most amazing natural color effects in the world. A land of pine and oak forests and cypress and palmetto swamp, intricate- ly jigsawed and inlaid with lakes and rivers and bays, it is a poem in green and blue, marvelously matched and blended. Dark green are the pine for- ests, and darker yet the live and wa- ter oaks; ‘deep blue are the little lakes and the slow-moving streams that creep under arching tangles of forest far into the wilderness where the alligators bellow and the rare white ibises nest. A brighter note—a glinting, fiery blue—is struck by the waters of the gulf, placid in the bright Florida sun- light, rolling in easy swells to break upon a narrow, snowy beach washed immaculate by their endless laving. Within a few miles of salt water, at a point not far from Tampa bay, there is an immense spring, which has formed a pool perhaps a hundred yards wide, and of depth unknown— soundings have never found its bot- tom. At times the waters of this pool lie clear as the summer air, gradually deeping into the green shadows of its mysterious tarpon may then be seen, and they give the spring its name. The vicinity of this strange spring has always fascinated men. The aborigines have left their shell mounds all about it; and in modern times a neat little town, made up largely of winter residences, had grown up. Its banks have been parked and cemented, and it has been made a harbor for ex- pensive pleasure craft. All about it are fashionable cottages and bunga- lows, children play upon its beaches; lovers peer into its wonderful depths— and see nothing but themselves. Far below, in its darkest crannies, the’ great silver tarpon still live and hunt as they have for countless centuries. SCHEME THAT WENT WRONG Probably Mr. Buggly Will Think a Long Time Before He Attempts to Fool Wife Again. On his way to the Boo & Buggly pen- wiper factory, Jacques Buggly stopped in at the ladies’ tailoring establish- ment of Simon Weeve, his old friend and schoolmate, remarks the Detroit Free Press. “My wife will come in for a new suit today,” he told Simon Weeve. “At last I've persuaded her that her 1905 bur- lap suit is no longer fit to be seen in public. “You know how my wife is, Simon. Although we are rich today, she can’t overcome the habits she contracted when we were poor and struggling. So I know she won't buy anything worth wearing today unless she thinks she’s getting a great bargailn. I want you to offer her a suit like that $500 one in the window for $4.50 and send me a bill for the balance.” Late that afternoon Prunella Bugg- ly fluttered into her husband's office in a green cheesecloth suit worth at least $.80. “What do you think, Jacques!” she. cried. “I worked a fine stroke of econ-, omy. I made Mr. Weeve sell me a suit: for $4 that he wanted. $4.50 for, and: half an hour later, wien Mrs. Twiddly, | saw it on me and learned the price, | she offered me $11. And I went right, away into Levy & Deecy’s and bought! this for $1.89, and then went to Mrs. Twiddly’s house and changed! What would you do without me, dear?” | But her husband had slid into the! waste paper basket. i Monoclonious Mounted. The American Museum of Natural History has just mounted the bones of the monoclonious, a creature which, . if alive today, would pass the 3,000,000 year mark. It once roamed through; the then tropical glaces of Alberta,! Canada. With gigantic head, a no-; table feature, double rooted teeth, a small tail and a beak suggesting a turtle, this strange creature remained in its stone mausoleum until found one; day by Barnum Brown, explorer and! The monoclonious had! five toes on its front and hind feet, with hoofs on three inner toes of the; hind feet. Its great skull was five feet long, with a hood scalloped frill, | a short horn over each eye and a; long sharp horn above the nose. The] mouth was covered with a horny! sheath, which enabled it to clop her-! bage. On each jaw and back of the’ beak were two vertical rows of double: teeth. i Peculiar Fish. i Some remarkable fish were on view, recently at the annual exhibition of; the Aquarium society of New York.| Among the collection was one called! the African butterfly fish, which has] wing shaped fins that enabled it to. skim like a hydroplane over the sur-; face of the water for twenty feet or so. Then there is the climbing perch, a fish that walks on land. With its! scalloped, saw edged gills it climbs; on terra firma from one pond to an- other during the dry season. Others: are the guppi of Venezuela and a fish’ that builds nests of air bubbles that float on top of the water. Snow White Quail. In a flock of quail north of the Cal- loway canal, on the George Wear farm, near Bakersfield, Cal., there are, six white quail, snow white. A year: ago there was one white bird in the: flock, but this season the number has been swelled by five, | omg
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