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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.
THE WIND
OH, WHAT A WIND! Chuckling and Crooning to Itself.
By
DORA M. BROOME.
With a swoop and a pounce the wind fell on the empty promenade, as the gulla swooped on the gleam- ing fish in the blue water. -
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him from its glass bubble. Down the hill came Mr. Rumbold, his bright, eyes glancing from side to elde, for he had seventeen new What a wind! What a wind! It stories to tell, and only Mrs. Rum- blew old Mr. Mallalleu, hobbling on bold to tell them to. his two sticks, flat against the wall. "Hello Vicar, hello," he called. and kept him there gasping for "Have you heard this one? Three breath. It fluttered the white cur men went into a cornfield to smoke tains at Miss Maritt's bow window," But the wind carried his and blew Gregson's apron over her voice away, and the Vicar only said, 'head as she knelt-cleaning the steps; "Ah yes, yes, indeed it is," and it whipped Mr. Dagg's black coat went on being big and splendid, and tails round him as he forged along, thinking of his sermon. holding tight to his flat black hat; It blew Miss Langdale's skirta round her slim figure, and whisked a lock of brown hair from under her scar- let cap; ft got behind Mr. Humbold fluttering down the hill, and flapped his black skirts till he looked more than ever like a jackdaw, with his pointed beard and quick bright eyes; it whistled past the window sat in where Miss Thimbleberry Mrs. Keppler's front, with the por trait of Mr. Keppler,, and the cow in oils over the mantelpiece; It blew over a pile of boxes outside Mr. Kiffin's with a clatter, and got into the head of Miss Hazeltopp's kitten at the Needlework Emporium, so
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THE
CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL SHARE THE WEIGHT OF ANIMALS
MARKET.
Wharves, Hotels, and Trams in Demand.
OTHERWISE QUIET.
The official summary of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in as under:-)
AQUATIC GIANTS
HEAVINESS AND HABIT: 200 BEES
TO THE OUNCE.”
[By E. G. Boulenger, Director,
With the exception of a strong Weight as applied to living demand for Wharves, Hotels and creatures, has an all-Important in Trams the rest of the market was some of the heaviest animals are Buence upon their mode of life. rather quiet this morning.
Sales.
largely aquatic, for water at once removes weight and renders it comparativaly negligible.......
Trams, $23.40. Uniona, $410. Steambolts, $24. Hotola (new), $14.90/15. Powells, $9.
Buyers.
Wharves, $154. Douglases, : $2431⁄2, Chinese Estaten,: $95. Singapore Tractions, 3/-, Hong Kong Ropes, $18. Lane, Crawfords (old), $6.40. Constructions (new), $1.80.
·Hotels -(old), ;$15.35. Hotela (now), $14.85. Providente (old), $5.35. Providents (new), $2.40, Trams, $22.40.
Cements (old), $124. Dairy Farma, $29, Powells, $3.
"Hel He!" giggled Miss Thimble- berry from behind the curtains in] Mrs. Keppler's front. "All the blackbirda are out this morning."] She was so pleased with her own joke that she put on her bonnet with the purple feather, and her blacki mantle, and tried to go out, but the wind was so strong that she could not open the front. door, not even when she pulled and Mrs. Keppler $2% premium. pulled her. So she went and sati down in the parlour and laughed. hysterically, with Mrs. Keppler say-l-
"There! ing.
There!" and Mr. Keppler and the cow looking mourn- fully on.
Smack! went the pile of boxes)
Hong Kong Government
Loan,
Sellers. Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $45. Indo-Chinas (Daf.), $82. Raubo, $39. Entertainments (old), $18.
that it spun round and round like a outside Mr. Kiffin's, and away went JERRY-BUILT
teetotum and sped out into the road-
way sideways.
a little round cheese-box, rolling down the promenade.
"Box them boxes, Wycliffe,” call-
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Zoological Society Aquarium.]
earthworms, or even tapeworms, which may attain to nearly 21⁄2 lb.
the life that so many insects: Jead, ......Minimum, weight is essential to
and, as a result, many of the ter restrial species of active habit are surprisingly light for their size. Thus, certain 'apècies of whale 89,000, average-sized fleas, for ex- can. attain to 150 tons. The ample, would be required to bal- heaviest bird, considering its size, ince: one ounce in the scale pan. is the king penguin, which may Two hundred bees go. to the ounce, weigh just over 40 lb., or six times and the comparatively heavy.queen as much as an eagle of the same bee weighs less than a gram bulk. The reason for; this is that This relatively great reduction In water, through which the penguin weight is one of the principal rea- literallyles. In vastly harder to sons why most insects do not drink. displace than air, and to move in the accepted manner. The aur through it, as does the penguin, atface tension of a sheet of water. some fifteen milles an hour, implies is an inseparable barrier to most tremendous motive force. Apart insects, and should one become wet from the mass' of flesh and fat whilst obtaining moisture it is that goes to the penguin make-up, faced with the handicap of lifting the bones are heavfer and more many times its own weight. Pro- solid than are those of any other fessor J. B. S. Haldane, writing on bird. The breast muscles are like this theme, observes: wise much more developed
A more lightly bullt bird would And diving or sustained "fight" beneath the waves difficult, if not impossible. Except for the elo- |phant the largest terrestrial
animal, attaining a weight of over. Your tons-all the Zoo's champion heavyweights are aquatic, or very largely so. The hippo, for in
"An Insect going for a drink is in as great danger as a man Jeaning out over a precipice in search of food. The average in- Bect obtains its moisture by merely sipping it up from a damp or sodden surface.”
Weight is indeed a very mixed blessing. 'A mouse can fall down a mine-shaft and suffer nothing
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HOUSE stance, in proportion to its size, is worse than severe shaking,
COLLAPSES.
While Being Inspected.
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What a wind! What a wind! Old Mr. Mallalleu hobbled rounded Mr. Kiffin. And away went! the corner as fast as his legs would Wycliffe, the errand boy, nothing carry him. He looked up at the loath, his grey trousers twinkling, Observatory, winking in the sun on his mat of hair standing up more. Bredon Head. Thirty-seven years! surprised than ever. Cheng Su, OWNER AMONG DEAD. Thirty-seven years was a big share coming into Porthallion to do a little of a man's life to give to an observa- shopping with Miss Mapplebick
Rome, Dec. 30. tory. And now he was superseded, (for she was expecting the curate
persons were buried cast aside like one of those useless might call to-morrow, and there under the debris of a new tene- old hulks left to rot on the sands, were no jam tarts), forgot that he ment house at Trigliano, a sub-
a little more decrepit year by year,
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much heavier than the elephant. whereas & man would be killed out- Vertebrates generally greatly right. It is also the greatest hin- exceed Invertebrates in weight. dragce in all matters appertaining The giant squid weighs about 3 to aero-dynamica, and sets a limit tons, whilst the largest jellyfish | on the size to which such “animal turns the scale at B cwt. It flying machines" as cockchafera should be borne in mind, however, and mosquitoes can attain. that in the latter animal over 90 per cent.of its bulk consists of water. Marine crustaceans such as the giant spider crab of Japan weigh but 50 lb., and the largest lobster seldom more than 15 lb.
UNUSUAL CASE.
Weight, it will be seen, accounts for a great deal, but not perhaps as regards that little-understood organ, the brain. The brains of most creatures known to science have been weighed, measured, and otherwise subjected to an exhaus tive examination. The findings generally seem to prove that men
was of rayal descent from the urb of Genoa which collapsed All insects are exceedingly light until at last there was nothing left Empress of China's favourite Wang early this morning." The tene in proportion to their bulk. The but driftwood for the children to Ho, stolen from the Palace garden, mant was being inspected by the giant of the race, a tropical stick tal capacity, which makes or mars but the and putting his plume of a tail on owner and the contractor, accom insect, turns the scale at but a many activities, is not so much a He sighed, carry away. wind carried his sigh away, 'and one side, away he went after Miss panied by five workmen, pre-few ounces, and' is a mare feather-matter of brain weight as of brain coming behind him made him travel Hazeltopp's kitten, which was side- paratory to the advent of fifty. weight when compared with some area. faster than he had done for years. stepping the cheese-box, and away tenants in the course of the day, Away at Spanish Head he could went Miss Mapplebick after him, All seven were killed; though see the waves leaping and falling, and. Miss Hazeltopp after her, and the bodies have not yet been re- breaking on the dark rocks in white Mr. Rumbold calling "Two to one on covered. The authorities have spume, but always to leap again. the winner," and Mr. Mallalieu cry--started--a strict investigation, it Phew-w! Glorious sunshine, glori- | ing ""Go it! Go it!" Mr. "Dagg being asserted that the ous sunshine! What did it matter saw the cheese-box coming, and ment was jerry-built, in defiance If he was a crochety old man, and sprang to field, as he had that of the new housing regulations. his niece Marion didn't think much famous day when he caught Bentley Had the bulding stood up for of him? Come to think of it, he out for a duck-egg. Miss Thimble another day, over a hundred men, didn't think much of her either. berry clapped her hands-
women and children would have Church, 'and gadding about, and
been killed in the catastrophe. bits of needlework, that was what
Trans-Ocean Kuomin she
amounted to. One of these days he'd finish that book on gravitation he'd been at for years. That'd show them, that'd make some of these so-called scientists alt up. He chuckled, but the wind hurried him on before the chuckle was com- pleted.
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Now he came
abreast of Mr.
Dagg, clutching his hat and revolv
when quite suddenly, without the least warning, the wind
dropped.
And there were, Miss Mapplebick, Mr. Mallalieu, Miss Hazeltopp, Mr. Dagg, Mr. Rumbold, Mra. Keppler, Miss Thimbleberry, the Vicar, Miss Langdale, Wycliffe, Cheng Su, and the kitten all exactly as they had been.
Mr. Mallalleu remembered he
ing sonnets in his mind. Mr. Dagg would be late for dinner, and
FINNLAND AND PROHIBITION.
Will She Also Go Dry?
POLLING DAY.
tene E
Helsingfors, Dec. 29. The first day of the referan.
Echo of Retrenchment SHADOWS BEFORE
Commission.
HON. MRJ. J.. PATERSON.
A summons by the Sanitary | Authority against the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, head of Messrs. Jardine,
Matheson and Co., came before Mr. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon. Mr. Paterson was summoned, under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, "for that, being the owner of 117, Flunkett Road, The Peak, he knowingly permitted premises situated within the grounds on the west side of the main building and under his control, to be used for the storage of food intended for sale...
A plea of "not guilty" was made
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was large and low, and had never | Marion wouldn't like it, Mr. Dagg had enough time for poetry. He knew mournfully that he would hurried past. Mr. Mallallen with a never write that sonnet, Miss Lang dum on the repeal of the probi-
To-day Majestic Theat nod and a smile, and nearly ran into dale said, "So sorry, but I'm afraid bition law passed without major by Mr. R. A. Wedeson, who said that "Young Sinners." Miss Langdale. He was so Bur-I really must the Austin incidents, though the poll so far Mr.Paterson, was prevented by Today Star prised that all he could say was "I Seven ran out of petrol and stopped is far behind expectations, chief. indisposition from being present. "Good News." was engaged to a bishop's daughter dead, Mr. Rumbold forgot the pointly on account of the intense cold Mr. Wadeson said he had been in To-day Pianoforte once," which wasn't at all what he of his sixteenth story, Mias Mapple and the severe snowatorms which structed that "Mr. Paterson, when Helena May Institute, 5.80 p.n
bick and Miss Hazeltopp remember keep the voters at home, espe he was sitting on the Retrenchment
had intended. But Miss Langdale
laughed and said. "Do tell me about
It," and they walked away together
Now the Vicar came bowling down the promenade in his little two-seater, being big and splendid, and the wind got behind, so that the Austin Seven ran faster than a Rolls-Royce, and the Vicar leaned back and looked at the blue sea, and the white-edged waves, and the awooping "gulls turning to silver against the sky, and the green cliffs, and thought what a beautiful world It was, and how he meant to put it
Eecit
Enward from Europe
ed they were respectable spinsters cially in the rural districts. So Commission, made strong criticisms with reputations to maintain, Cheng far, approximately only sixteen of the way in which the Sanitaryz Suez (Hakasam, MATH). Su put his tail straight, and the per cent of the electorate has Department was being carried on." kitten walked soberly up the steps cast te vote, with the towns and The summons was eventually, of the Fancy Needlework and mew- -averaging forty per cent, missed.
ed for milk.
estimated that of these
proximat
four of the the dry regime..
Only, Wycliffe and the cheese-box were left. Wycliffe scratched his head, looked up and down the pro- tion menade, said "Crikey! That's tore ever, no definite returns will he It" and walked in.
available before – to morrow Far away, In the caverns of night, though ityla Spanish Head, a little wind chuckled stated that if to moi and crooned to itself; and the glass maintains the prop
all in next Sunday's sermon even bubble of the Observatory winked to drys, Finnland the Observatory, which winked "at l in the sun.
GOLD CARRYING
PLANE
Makes a Forced
emergency-landing in snowstorm in Picardy The pilot, and his mex draw revolvers mou
over the bullion,, whi
battlej
abandon prohibition. Ocean: Kuomin
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Defendant pleaded that his em- ployees used the place as |venient point," from where
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