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Lornay, October rih. Timid folk are alarmed by reports that has made its appearanca in anfe of London, notably at Batter
the brown rat, the a climber, and has a getting into the tops of houses, ading bedrooms and roofs, in prefer
the basement and cellar. This the rpdent into closer contact with human beings than the brown rat, which loves drains and sewers. Both species of rata ato plague cartiare, but for the reasons stated the black is the more dangerous.
The cure is causing redoubled energy to be put into the rat extermination" cam. paign started during the war. The object then was to kill the vorain because of the Los they are responsible for in the matter, at foodstufas stimated that rate destroy food in this country ata", the value of about £20,000,000 per annum.
One of those learned people who alway! get into print, when there is a natural history question under discussion, states Ebm the black rot, came originally from India, and reached Europe in the Thirteenth Century. It waged a war of extermination quite successfully against Byery other rodent it met in the countries fit invaded as it came West. The brown |rat also, came from Asia, China being apparently its early home. It was un known in England before 1750.
A notable personality has passed away in Mr. Wynne Baxter, Coroner for the Eastern District of, London. Ha held office for 30 years, sud in that time “sal on 40,000 inquests. This in a record that probably has not been beaten. It was bis boast that in all his long experience never once was it negeary to order a re-crhuma- tion of "body in regard to which he had bejd an inquiry, play,
His manner wis quiet and business-like; with a remarkable capacity for patience, be Bemed to have nick of extracting the essential facts from witnesses with a minimum of time and questioning. A man without any illusions left as to life, he carried on his work with kindly toler ance for the weaknesses of human nature, whether it was an inquest into the death of a baby in a back street, or into a sensational murder. Being Coroner of the Tower of London the he
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held inquests on Lody, and other Ger 38-40, Queen's Road, Central.
spies who were shot there an unparalleled experience, even for him.
This week verdict of death from mis adventuro was returned at an inquest. on a man who used an anthrax contaminated. shaving brush of Japanese origin. The news of this fatality ha perturbed chemists and others who deal in these, Articles, and a suggestion has been made that all stocks should be confiscated. #An Order in Council last February prohibited the importation of shaving brushes from Japan, but it appears that large stocks are
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SHOOTING THE MOON.
Can the moon be reached by human indeavour ? - That problem the story motif of Jules Verne and H. G: Wells-has ad this moment been transferred to the plase of scientific discussion by the American, Professor Goddard, of Clark University. A
He has planned a rocket which propelled by a serica of explosive charges, will pro vido itsel, with sufficient velocity to reach the region of lunar attraction and so esity to the moon.
On this side of the Atlantic Professor Goddard's ideas are viewed with amused scepticism, savoured with the thought that he may attain some really interesting scientiña resulte. Dr. A. C. Crommelin, of Greenwich Observatory, perhaps the great- it Batronomical mathematician in the world, whose calculationă predicted the exact position of the reappearance of Halley's comet in 1910 thinks the scheme fantastic, but concedes that the professor's rocket apparatoa may add considerably to our pro sent little knowledge of the upper air,
MAN HEAVY ODDS.
ir soundings by meteorological balloona have hitherto reached no greater height than eighteen miles. Yet recent astro nomical observations showed sa aurora to exist at 315 miles up, proving that the earth's atmosphere extended to that piont. It the self-propelling rocket of Pralemor God. dard, with barometricel înstruments; equipped with a parachute device for slow descent, can reach the 300-mile mark from the earth, scientists will acclaim him. We shall have then reliable knowledge of the upper air.
What, briefly, are the difficulties the pro- fessor has to overcame before he can shoot the moon The distance from the earth to the moon varies according to season. from 25,000 miles tk 250,000 miles. Theoretically there is no reason why a rocket could not be constructed sufficiently large to carry explosive forces which would propel, the applianer over 200,000 miles The attrac tive force of the earth extends to within nearly 25.000 miles of the moon. After that there is a neutral zone, and then the gra vitation of the moon exerts its pullinen
Arocket to reach the moon must have enough remaining velocity to shoot well into the aste of lunar attraction, otherwise the projectile would become a sort of satci- lite and end its existence in fruitless flying round and round the moon
The big win chance with the rocket is, of course, that it will miss the moon altogether, ever if it could reach ite
An infinitesimal fractional miscalculation of the angles would mean the rocket-failing to enter the sone of the moon's attractive nose, and wandering off into the wilderness
ing off into the wil
Tf the rocket did eventually hit the moon Professor Goddard quite easily might not know it. The explosion caused on impart would have to be something enormous to ensure absolute, certainty of observation from this planet,
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Altogether the odds are that moon shook ing will not be anecensfujithin sengen.
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