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ha medicine to which___they_ been-subjected. No doubt crit cal tests will be carried out,, and dis- it is conceivable that the covery of the dose which will produce the desired effect but 'will not harm the animal will in W.C.2.time be found. There has also
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THALLIUM FOR SHEEP
Shirts And Salutes
Rumania has demonstrated the reductio ad absurdum of the wearing of coloured shirts to denote political creeds by the simple process of banning them. Practically all the colours have been used up by multifarious political organisations, and ex- cept for a sombre grey, the de- cree virtually forbids any law- abiding Rumanian to wear shirt at allGREY
difficulties Accounts of queer biological
Somewhat similar inventions come from Russia are foreseen in the new arm- than from any raising cult in Europe. All the perhaps more
methods by different other country at the present time. This is probably because salute can be imparted are the Soviet Government is en- rapidly being exhausted and couraging the vigorous prosecu when any new
i
which a
group .comes
tion of biological and other along they will have no scope,
and because for originality beyond scientific research,
the
it is one of the maxims of that grotesque.
· Fascists, raise one arm, with country that scientific research should be directed, rather more open hand. Bolshevists raise one than in so-called bourgeois coun-arm with clenched fist. There tries, towards immediate social is also a salute which consists in ends. One of the latest of these raising the forearm so that it queer inventions is a means for stretches across the chest. obtaining the fleece from sheep Now the French Radicals, in without the necessity of shear- a determination to distinguish ing them. It consists in dosing themselves from these various the animals to induce a moult, schools of manual dexterity, both so that the fleece may be remov- have begun saluting with ed whole with the greatest ease. arms raised above the
- head, In Moscow, and in several sheep their hands touching. breeding centres, the method has been used with success.
It sounds the least impressive of the lot. If only someone were to give the sharp command, In some countries the coarser "Downward bend,” we feel surcit
woolled and haired sheep moult they would all downwardЛā naturally each season, and it has bend, a position which would be been found that the hybrids pro- very convenient for giving them duced from these breeds inherit a good spanking, which is the peculiarity. But the Merino possibly what they need, ♪ but and the finer woolled animals, which does not add to the dignity though they have no natural or prestige of a political move- moult, respond to doses of thal-ment.
lium by losing their fleeces in It looks as if all known gen• exactly the same way as do the tures, have been appropriated by moulting sheep. Thallium is one the - various factions that are of those queer, rare metallic causing so much fuss in Europe elements not at all like the com- and that any new parties, that mon notion of a metal. It is may come upon the scene will bluish. white, and very soft, have to salute with their legs. without any elasticity or tenacity The call is for greater and still to speak of, and nearly twelve greater physical fitness, presum- times as heavy as water. It was ably, so that men may be the discovered in 1861 . by Sir Wil- better able to slay one another. liam Crookes while examining, Surely, then, the raising of legs by means of the spectroscope, would be much more... helpful, another mineral in which it was more physically culturistic, than present as an impurity, and be- the raising of arms? cause it was represented by a The faction whose members green line in the spectrum he were able to salute one another, called it Thallium, from the and defy all the world, by rais- Greek word for a green twig. ing their feet to their heads Thallium salts are a component would, can it be doubted, sweep of certain optical glasses which all before them. There is are rendered more highly refrac- reason why ballet dancers and tive by the presence of thallium chorus girls should have a mono- in the glass. They are poison-poly of these graceful acrobatics. ous, one curious effect of thal- The chief prize would go to lium poisoning being loss of hair the party which raised both its
-It is
no doubt this peculiar legs simultaneously, standing on action of the substance on the its hands for the purpose. Don- hair which suggested:"
do this trick well, on sian experiments leading up to their fore-legs, and such agility. the use of it for removing the would make a strong impression fleece of sheep. But the poison-on public opinion.
no
ous nature of this new substitute A prominent official of this for the sheep-shearer has also to party would be the Hon. Extrica be counted with. In some places tor, whose duty would be to untie in Russia where it has been used, proselytes who had got them- sheep have died, though not selves hopelessly into knots.