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The public nowy may see in the Zoo an assemblage of flah in model haunts comparable with the searcaly creditable wonders of the aquarium at Honolulu or Florida, says a Homo paper on tho eve of the opening of this now Zoo feature. They will not seo quite such a phantasmagoria
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Tho general onlooker will be: not loss ploused. Sole and plaice and dabs and flounder disappear| from journeys in the pitre sea water fall fetched from the Bay of Biscay) into delicious sand on ja porsuasivo xen-floor. Coloured diaphanous tropical fish play hide-and-seek among living fans of coral. Porch and pike float in a sintit river bed, and trout take oxygen bathe in the continuous fair bubbles of a chalk stream. You may aven look up, as if you. too. were subaqueous,
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FOOD V. FLOWERS.
The Dead-East And West.
Dr. C. T. Wang gavo a talk at A studout may spend woeks
the North China Union Language hero with uttor enjoyment,
School Poking, rocontly, choosing whether he has a particular or a general pursuit. One fresh-water as his subject, "Some Aspacts of tank contains a number of salmon Chinese Life." Among other in- parr, which will bide there till terpretations of custome which. they turn to silver amolts, till the stranger finds in China, Dr. they undergo that still mysteri-Wang said he thought that the ous Rea change and will be duly country has had such a long transferred to the other side of history because of its system of the family unit. Such a lifol the lung, semi-circular room where the seawater tanks are breeds tolerance among the pao- ranged. The salmon's life history will be visibly acted.
ple
Commenting on the apparent differences in the way of doing Somo amazing special develop things in China and the West, ments are illustrated. There are the speaker referred to the Chi- marsupial fish, fish that hold unese way of showing reverence their eggs-in-their-mouth (ona to their dead by placing food in could soo the bulging Jaws) and front of the grave or the family. later allow the fry to scok the altar. This has its counterpart same nursery, Thore are fish in the western habit of bringing that walk on land, fish with lungs flowers to the grave of the dead. to defend them against a dry In noither caso is it supposed that season. The strangest, perhaps, the dead cat the food or smell is a small Nite fish. The female the flowers, but it is merely an loaps into the air in order to lay outlet of expression for the fool- the eggs on a surface leaf, and ings of the heart.-Chung Mei. the male lashes the neighbouring wator with his tail to sprinkle thom. Thoro are Mexican axolotls, a larval creature that normally does not go beyond the larval state.. Mr. Julian Huxloy effects the metamorphosis, by dosus of thyroid or pituitary gland. The Zoo iothyologists have wrought a like miracle by compolling it to breathe air.
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Mr. Sydney Fawns, author of passed as i markof the highest "Tin Deposits of the World,' confidence. When Henry IV. says in the Cornish Post that, paid abvisit to his aunt and was Unison ?
Owing to the lack of funds taking all the factors into acoffered confectionery, he took a Roports of the singing of twenty "Eastern"
count, and the varying casts of sweetmont, without requiring her. propaganda locusts and the flashing of fire- centres in Baku, Transcaucasia, production all over the would,' to eat first; and for this mark of flies, in perfect accord, have often Transcaspla, Turkey and Persia £250 to £280 per ton is a reason- trust she remembered bim grata- One fish is famous in the world, led to considerable discussion have been compelled to close. It able and hatural price of tin. fully for ever. Anything might The mine or alluvial deposit bo poisoned not only the food. It was found in the gardens at and the dificulty of accounting is also stated that recently which could pay at £70 or £80 a itself, but any article might con- Hongkong after the burst of some for any such phenomenon has Chicherin water pipes. It was given to the led some solentiflo men to doubt Bovist official representatives in ton is a rarity; and costs of pro-tain the fatal substance, Zoo, and was held to be an ordin its existence. A conspicuous Eastorn countries to dissociate have greatly increased in the ing one's enemy to the hereafter duction-labour, materials ete,spolally refined means of further- ary salamander. But it grow and instance is related by Carvath themselves entirely from all grew, and has now proved itself a Wells in Asia (New York)-in an agents and centres of the Third last decade. If tin wont to £350 was the use of poisoned rings. now spaolos hitherto unknown to article about ble experiences on Internationale in the countries there would be mining activity Some of these instruments are the Malay Peninsula. He wrties: to which they are scoredited, and everywhere, all tending to still extant and may be studied One evening I saw a demon- to "follow a policy of peace and add something to the total in the Cluny Museum in Paris, These are but a few random stration of insect organization friendship in the East in accord supply. In the East many They are of the usual form, but examples of the particular which I believe it is impossible ance with the promises made by thousands of Chinamon, not have a globular stono, which is denizens of the aquarium; and to explain. It was a beautiful the Soviet Government to abstain working in companies, but hollowed out and may be openod. in small parties of fossi-The opening looks like a little other aquariums, have as many night. The air was full of extra from Communist propaganda.,
ckers, will then scrape a ton of mouth --and ( le set with curiosition. But none has a group ordinary fireflios. About every
of small, fine so well soloated, or so plea- ftoon minutos those flios sc Prompol, the last, King of tin from here and half a ton, a number. singly, sp artistically, shown, parated into two armies, one set- Ashanti, who has been exiled in from there, and the aggregate teeth which wore saturated from this amount, of human with poison. This death-ring" Daylight, caught and
ountling on the tross growing on the Seychelles since 1896, is to offort would certainly run to was used as follows:-One called ningly rofleated; Illuminates the loft bank of the river and the return to his own country. "Sub-some thousands of tons per on the enemy who was to be the glass-aided tanks on the one other on the right. Then, when ject to certain reasonable condannuna. The immediata out murdered and shook hands in a side, and artificial light the small I had decided that the frolice tione says Mr. J. H. Thoma look should be good enough for friendly manner. The stone of tanks on the other; and wherever had gone to bed for the night, the M.P., the Colonial Secretary, "I all sound tin mining enterprises, the ring opened and the poisonous you are in the long are you feel whole army on tho left bank gave have approved 'ble rotum, að an altogether transported from the one big flash in porfect unison, asrly date as a private person, external world, as if you had which was immediately answer- and not an king.” Choson King been given a dreamlike, visit to ed by another big flash. from the after a civil war in 1886, Promu- The art of mixing polson was so strong as to cause death. The another world. It is hard to right How these flies managed pon's election was favoured by widespread in olden times and ringe in the Paris museum are boliovo that so pleasant a place to keep time absolutely beats me, the Bitch, and be ruled prosper fest of one's shomies was just as nearly all Italian of the Repai
anos parjod, when the to be in is found behind those but they did so, though thoro only for several years. About general, comments an exchange. folding doors-such clear, bub must have been thousands of 1893, however he began to in France it was the custom, for poisoning was of Its height. bling water, with silver bubbles, them stretching along the Tiyer gore the terms of the treaty instance, on entert sach gracious rocks and golden bänks för hundred yards or with Britain, and after vain honoured guest, to aand, such floating miracles in so mote The illumination was 10 negotiations, a war began which dishes before they offered to the polluold a light, Honolulu had strong that the branches of the anded in his seizure and dethrone-visitor. To bat of a dish before come to London, and gained in trees could be seen quite die mont
the host had the transfers nee..
tooth pressed into the opponent's flesh. The poison was generaliy
alug
all
"custom "ol-wearing poiso
continued till the Rave when the *vis; supposed to:
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carried in's ring
finger