ZOO'S WHO by
GEORGE
The GILA MONSTER (PRONOUNCED HEE-LA)
THE GILA MON- STER LIVES IN THE DESERT COUNTRY WHERE FOOD 15. SCARCE, THERE- FORE IT CARRIES A RESERVE OF-AC-1 CUMULATED BODY FAT IN ITS TAIL TO LIVE ON DURING
FAMINES.
THE GILA MONSTER 5 THE ONLY POISONOUS ́LIZARD FOUND IN THE ANYBODY) UNITED STATES...THE BEADED LOOKING/LIZARDJA LARGER KINDY
FOUND IN MEXICO,IS THE ON- LYOTHÉR KNOWN POISONOUS
LIZARD.
ITS FOOD CONSISTS OF ANTS, MICE AND THE EGGS OF BIRDS
AND LIZARDS.
THE BITE OF THE GILA IS PAINFUL TO MAN, BUT WOULD NOT
CAUSE DEATH..
* STAMP NEWS *
ANGI
JU30 1860
CANTON
1854
Notice rates April
THE consular postal agencies were established in April,
that year advised British subjects in the treaty parts:
"Letters that may come to hand
at any of the ports where a Consul is stationed will henceforth be seat (with a memorandum of the postage, if any, chargeable on them) to the Consul who will be requested to allow ase of his establishment to deliver them on application (and, payment of postage). The Consals will, in like manner, be re- quested to keep a box open and to order letters to be received for transmission to Hongkong."
Letters were forwarded to the
Hongkong Post Office "loose" and, until handstruck stamps ware provided for use at the agencies all letters bore Hong Keng handstrikes of the period.
The Canton and Shanghai agencies were by far the busiest and dated handstamps for both offices, with a PAID stamp for the Canton office, were sent out from London in August, 1852.
There is up official record of a SHANGHAI/PAID stamp having been received at this time; the first known strike, a single-circle Imperial Crown type is known
cover dated July 28, 1857.
A
on 2
with
double-ringed circle PAID in the centre is known on a cover dated February 11, 1851.
NATURAL RUBBER IS COLLECTED IN JUNGLE COUNTRY BY SLASH- ING RUBBERTREES AND THEN LETTING THEM BLEED" LATEX
INTO CUPS.
SYNTHETIC RUBBER EXPERIMENTS EOT A HUGE BOOST WHEN WAR CUT OFF SUPPLIES OF NATURAL RUBSER.
GHAS
POSTO
SPAID
OFFICE
CANTON.
PAID.
SHANGHA
PAID
Post
OFFICE
CHENUSTS PRODUCED ARTIFICIAL RUBSERS
THAT ARE BETTER IN SOME WAYS THAN THE NATURAL PRODUCT.
"ROW THEY MAKE MORE THAN BO KINDS OF WHAT THEY CALL "ELASTOMERS' WITH ALL KINDS OF SPECIAL QUALITIES.
THREE FOURTHS OF ALL RUBBER 6LES 10 TIRES, BUT HUNDREDS OF OTHER PRODUCTS USE IT TOO.
BILLÁRTER