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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932.
Professor Sir J. A. Thomson
REVIEWS MR. W. P. PYCRAFT'S
LATEST BOOK
'THE STANDARD NATURAL HISTORY.”
Curiosities of Science.
LOCAL SHARE. MARKET.
Few Buying Orders in Evidence.
STERLINGS UP AGAIN.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
MANCHURIA.
Old Kirinites Attack Japanese Garrison,
AT HAILUN.
++
Harbin, To-day,
LADY MURIEL PAGET,
May Undertake Long Trek.
TO SHANGHAI.
It is reported to-day that 300 troope of the old Kirin army 'were The official summary issued by forced to retreat yesterday after
Riga, Yesterday. the Stock Exchange to-day states: attacking the Japanese garrison at to Russia to extend arrangements Lady Muriel Paget, who has gone There were very few buying Hailun. orders in evidence at this morning's is reported that the troops ducting in Leningrad and Moscow for relief work, which she is con- session, the market showing signs under the command of General The old Latin tag about there ever circumspect his display-dance, of dullness. Sterling shares, how- Ting Tsao are expected to attack on behalf of the British Subjects' being always something new from however agile his movements, heever, were again being sought after the railway in the Imfenpo district
Rellef Association, may possibly Africa is still more true in regard may come to a tragic end, for the and were further marked up.
from North and South.
continue her journey via Siberia to the Animal Kingdom, which man bored female makes a sudden rush
The Japanese Command will and Manchuria to Shanghai
Reuter. has been studying for over two and all is over.
despatch reinforcements to the thousand years without ceasing to There is no doubt that this sort
Chinese Eastern Railway line and discover fresh facts. Animate Na-of perversity
are now negotiating for waggons. ture is a deep well of surpriscs, and every new Natural History worth mentioning has its charm of fresh
NCH8.
of behaviour does! occur, especially towards the end of the season, when. the female spider has probably a larger appetite (love) and hunger are so often in inverse} We find this charm in "The ratio!) and the male is not so Standard Natural History" (Warne, nimble as he once was. On other 15.), which Mr. Pycraft has edited occasions, the reason for the strange) and many other experts, mostly perversity seems to be carelessness from the British Museum, have co- on the male's part. He behaves in operated in writing. It is a goodly a way that is against etiquette; his book of over nine hundred pages, oncoming
wayward, may be
or,
almost every one with an illustra- among those male spiders that give zion, and with twelve beautiful courtship-presents, he may offer her, coloured plates. The editor is an a faked fly. Then she has to tell: experienced, learned, ingenious spe- him plainly that this sort of thing cialist who is not afraid to general- is not done, and the elimination of ise. He is one of the deepest of bad form must have assisted in the living ornithologists and a great evolution of Arachnid manners, as authority on whales, but we have Darwin would have said.
But we are somewhat relieved to not as yet found any kind of living' creature in which he is not interest- be assured by Mr. T. H. Savoy, the ed, which he cannot make interest- arachnologist of this admirable ing. Mr. Fycraft is an investigator book, that the popular belief that of whom British Zoology is justly female spiders habitually cat the proud, and the members of his team males after mating is not justified. play up to him, which is saying by the facts. Such things da octar, much. We select a few instances of no iloubt, but they are mainly acci
the freshness which marks this very dental." There are so many queer
effective book. It deserves a wide things about spiders that we need welcome, writes Professer Thomson not add to truth by fiction. in John O'London's Weekly.
Flying Quicker Than a Bullet.
We fight shy of the heresy that A Careful Mother. Everyone who knows even a little the living body may show chemical about mammals is aware of the and physical changes which are in- existence of three that lay eggs consistent with the laws of energy the Platypus (Ornithorhynchus) and as established for non-living things, the spiny Anteaters or Echidnas but sometimes,
we must confess,
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WHAT IS A TOY?
Discussion by Counsel.
The discussion
GIRL. GULLED.
Trick of An Original
Nature,
A 19-year-old Chinese, girl of West Point has been the victim of a $250 confidence trick of an or. iginal nature.
The knotty problem of what is a toy was the subject of deliberation whom she had known at Macao, She told the Police that a man, by learned counsel before the Stand-visited her yesterday and told her of ing Committee under the Merchan- dise Marks Act at the Board of giving spurious dollars the appear
a process he had discovered for Trade.
ance of genuiness. The equipment; arose out of an necessary to perform the trans- application of British manufactur-formation was in Macao, and it was centers that imported toys and re- necessary, to "squeeze" the Police quisites for sports and games, so that it could be landed in Hong well as gymnastic and athletic re- Kong. He requested a loan quisites, should be required to bear $250, and accompanied the girl to an indication of their country of a Bank where she drew the sum origin.
from her savings. The application covers requisites, return within two hours and give He promised to excepting clothing and footwear, her an additional $100 for the ac for indoor and outdoor sports and commodation, asking her to wait games, including table and parlour for him. She waited in vain. games. It does not cover requisites
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
MARKET.
Sterling Appreciation Continues.
Rugby, Yesterday.
DOGS' GREAT FRIEND.
of
for yachting, rowing and sculling. swimming. ice-skating, hunting, shooting, fishing, horse and dog motor cycling, cycling and gilding last month, when Mme. Gaudiot racing, motor boating, motoring, sacrifice for
and aeroplaning.
A great-hearted woman's self- anmials was recalled
Mr. John W. Morris, for the was interred at St. Ouen Cemetery. applicants, said that there was im Some years ago, Mme. Gaudiot wa8 portation on a very large scale of wealthy, and spent a good deal of In early dealings in sterling in the goods covered by the applica- money in caring for homeless doga (Tachyglossus and Zaglossus). They, this "pious opinion" is hard to the foreign exchange market aption. They were imports of articles, fortune and had to leave her com- and cats. But then she lost her believe. A bird may occasionally preciation continued and the rate he submitted, which by their ap-fortable flat to live in a ramshackle are of great interest because they
States dollar bear many tell-talc evidences of the fly a mile per minute in still afr. against the United
pearance were indistinguishable, origin of mammals from a reptilian and that is a wonderful performance rose from yesterday's closing rate
certainly to the inexpert eye, from known as the "Zone." Even in her hut in that part of the suburbs, rather for engines (muscle-fibres) consist of 3.711⁄2 to over 3.77, and against, ancestry. Most books are
products made in Britain.. vague in regard to the egg-laying, ing of threads of very watery pro-French francs there was a similar
With articles such as toys and misfortune however, when she had in extremely de-improvement from 94% to 96%. so we select what Mr. J. G. Dollman toplasm enclosed
But while a quickly-
Speculative activity later dominat sports and games requisites, I venthe bare necessities of life, she tells us about the Platypus. There Heate alms.
ture to submit that members of the would not neglect her animals. No are usually two eggs, which are flying bird may make from two toed the market and rates fluctuated
|publle to-day might well, in pertafù
hardly enough to provide her with
always joined side by side; but twelve wing-strokee in a second, a considerably-British Wireless Sercases, be indignant if they thought stray dog or cat would go hungryį there may be three or only one, hive-bee may attain to nearly two vice.
are
Their dimensiona seventeen hundred, and a fly to a hundred millimetres by thirteen or fourteen more.
say, roughly, about three-fifths of Many small birds attain a velocity an inch; the twin eggs are a little of forty miles an hour, and swifts, smaller than the single ones; the which are probably the fastest birds,* shells are soft and dirty-white. The may reach a hundred. But how rounded nest is made of grass and slow this is compared with some of leaves at the far end of a breeding the insects! Thus Professor C. H. T. burrow. Like the ordinary living- Townsend tells us that certain bot- room this is excavated in the bank files (Cephenomyla) observed at an of a river or pool, but it has length 'altitude of 7,000 feet were travelling
WEDDING.
Bride and Bridegroom from Shanghai.
CONCOFF-GENSBURGER.,
they were baying foreign products when British products are avail able,” he added.
or homeless if she knew about it. has been said of her that all the money she had she gave away. She spent a lot of it founding a Question of Definition. ' The Chairman (Sir H. Llewellyn dogs' home, in which stray animals enjoyed a comfort which she 'dent- Smith): What definition do you ed herself. She had been too give to the scope of the word toy?
Mr. Morris: We say that the apto pay for her funeral. But some generous to leave sufficient money, plication relating to toys relates, to
of her fellow animal lovers arrang- articles which are perfectly well ap-
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Fourteen Killed.
afternoon of Miss Vera Gensburger, word toy. The term toy is defini
The wedding took place yesterday preciated by everyone who uses the /ed the matter. of twenty-four feet, and sometimes "well over three hundred yards per H. Gensburger, of Shanghai, and put any more specific definition of youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.tive in itself. I submit you cannot up to sixty. This points to some second." This means six or seven Mr. Nathan M. Concoff, of Shang the articles referred to than by the dim awareness of the risks of egg- hundred miles an hour, fast enough hai, eldest son of Mrs. Marcelle honest English word of three laying, and it is interesting to learn to overtake a musket ball or the that the passage is usually tortuona, 'shells of Big Bertha. Dr. F. W. Helmendinger, of Sernet Freres.
train.
on
She
letters.
Mr. N. L. Macaskie, K.C. (for the
sociation, who are opposing the ap
(Reuter's Special Service.)
and may show a succession of blocks Edwards, the dipterologist of the by her father, was attired in Fancy Goods and Allied Trades As-
The bride, who was given away! -discouraging to an intruder.
book, indicates that he can hardly dress of white crepe monique,
Camden, New Jersey, A Blind Beggar.
accept this estimate, and we should Princess lines, falling into a double plication), quoted definitions from
Yesterday. Living as a pet in the nests of abe inclined to say the same were
Fourteen have been killed and yellow ant common in this country not the observations due to a Pro- The top part was a cape the Encyclopaedia Britannics and four injured as the result of a of white pearl beads with a there is a tiny blind beetle called fessor! We suppose it is our ignor cap to match.
various dictionaries of the word violent explosion which occurred Claviger whose ways are peculiar. ance that raises difficulties in our tulle and rose point lace.
The veil was of ay." One of the definitions was to-day in an empty gas tank in which a number of men were work- It is only a tenth of an inch long, mind when we try to think of the Carried but it has the usual equipment of chemistry and physics of the alleged The bridesmaids, two little nieces boats on the Round Fond," said Mr. and shops in the neighbourhood.
a sheath of arum lilles. "a child's plaything."
“You see old gentlemen sailing Ing. The explosion shook houses] insect organs except wings and eyes. velocity, but in any case it is pro- of the bride, were attired in white Macasklé, "and presumably these On its back there are several tufts digious. Professor Townsend says of yellowish hairs, and from their that if he could make a lying mat with tulle and white pearl beaded they are not used by children, dukess STARTING SAT.,
georgette fine sun pleated dresses, boats would be exempted because neighbourhood there is exuded a chine as effective as this bot-fly, it fluid which appeals strongly to the would be possible to complete the capes and caps-replicas of the is said that the old gentlemen
ant-hosts. Mr. G. J. Arrow, who is
the Coleopterist of the book, tells us that the ants eagerly lick ̧off the
an
bride's costume. They carried pasien of white roses.
Master Genaburger, as page, wore black velvet long trousers, a
have been brought back to childhood by reason of their age.” (Laughter). Det The Deceptive Doll!'" Giving lustrations of " things
"daylight-day circuit of the earth."
The Humorous in Nature." We are sometimes asked whether elixir from their guests, and care Nature has a sense of humour, but white satin blouse, a lace jabot and which he said could be used as toys for them as if they were their own that is absurd question-a offspring. But the pets get more pseudo-question, for it cannot be cuffs. The bride's mother attended
in a creation of plum coloured geor mentioned gramophones taking Bin or for "practical use, Mr. Macaakle than tending, for when one is hun-intelligently put. What is true, gette, and carried a bouquet of records and girls "hold-alls which gry it touches a passing ant and however, is that there is much In
sweet peas..." makes its appeal The ant stops the world of life that excites our The duties of best man were dis tained hair-brushes and so on."You and allows the blind beggar to put sense of humour. The psychologists charged by Mr. Emile Gensburger, cannot say that a rag book is ex its head into its mouth, where it explain why. Sometimes it is sim- receives a drop of nourishment! Courtship and Cannibalism..
the bride's brother.
were in the form of dolls, but con-
ply a surprising Incongruity, as Subsequently, a reception was cause you give a child his first clusively a toy," he went on, "be- when the clown sits down where held at the Rose Room, Peninsula tottering steps in education with
Hotel, after which the happy couple them."
The mating of spiders is often chair should be but fen't. almost Incredibly quaint. Be
So, when we read this delightful left for their honeymoon at Repulse
The Chairman: Would chalk havé
ing very shortsighted they depend book for an hour or two, and then Bay, Mrs. Concoff's travelling dress to be marked because it is billiards largely on a language of touch, and shut our eyes, what a succession of being of cornflower blue crepe Ro-chalk? they may court by vibrations, a humorous pleturės passes over the method which secures for the usual-screen of our mind. We see the main with a coat to match.
ly smaller male the advantage of female Angler-Fish from the mid- One of our students saw a West safety, in the case of unwelcomed ad- waters carrying about a pigmy mate African fly hovering over an azt vances. In some species he tickles a thousand times smaller than her that was about to feed, a hungry her, but that is risky. In the com-self. He holds so tight, from his neighbour, but it was the fly that mon Labyrinth Spider of our gorse-carliest youth up, that the blood was served first. And so the bushes, the female seems to fall into vessels of his firmly-closed mouth "Standard" film goes on and on. a swoon when she is touched, just join with those in some knob on the Another good quality of this new as used to be the fashion among surface of the female's body, the Natural History, in additiös ladies. But the he-man is not dis- two sexes literally becoming one turbed; he picks her up by one leg fesh! The film hurries on and we have illustrated, in the course, to the livingness and illustrates marriage by capture: see the wingless, more than half which his been secur
In other types, however, he has
careful, the temper.
sired mate is so caprició
telétactile his
blind, fly called Braula, riding on the treatment of the
bee's back
eping forward to tick
mouth and receive a drop of honey
Mr. Morria: Yes, I think that would have to be marked.
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