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HIGH ALTTUDES,
Effect On Animal Life. Major RW. Hingston, natur alist to the Mount Everest ox- pedition of last year, in a paper. road before the Royal Geographio- al Society on "Animal Life at High Altitudes" in the Eolian Hall, Now Bond-stroot, London, recently, said that Tibet was a high-altitude mountainous donort at an olovation of about 14,000ft. There was the great range of Lemperature charactoristic of the dosort-ofton 50 degrees botwoon day and night.
The rainfall was soanty. The atmosphere was so dry that split the skin and nails and prevented the ordinary decom- position of flesh. Florco winds blew across it, and they absorved: the scantinoss of vagotation, the absence of troos, the thorniness of the plants, the short active] nonson in which flowers rapidly blossomed and as rapidly died
диду.
Anyone who had travelled in a low-lying desert know how important was protoctivo colora- tion of croatures in the gonora 1 achome of things. It was exactly the same in Tibot. Most of the common animals of the plateau| were inconspicuous against the soil, and not only did their colours; blend with the surface, but thoir) shapes and outlinos were ofton) lost to viow, being confused with the scattered stonos. Tho animais of high altitudes contended with the wind Fin Inany different ways.
Somo grow danser conte, othara) sought aholtorod placos. There was a great tendency, to burrow in the soil. Cortain butterflios and motha flattened themselves, on the ground.
THURSDAY, MARCH 26; 1925.
TO-DAY'S FASHION.
A sleeveless slip of black satin, narrow and short, takos
upon ita slim shoulders full ro- sponsibility for the giddy poppy red over jacket of erepe do chino that flareB at the bottom into a wide An ad- ditional flaro in given by the fringe that joins tho frock in pointed pattern.
band of fur. Many insects made only quick short flights, Certain flien kopt in among stonos and bushes; high-altitude grass- hoppors and other kinds wingloss, Certain bootles threw themselves for safety to the ground.
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some of the bigh-altitude birds to And How He Found the Way Out.
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The peculiar environment of the Tibotan platonu had caused
change, their customary habits of
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JEWEL THIEVES.
Hiding Places Without Originality,
Recent activities in London of, thloves who specialize in raiding bod-rooms while the occupants of the house are at dinner call atton- tion to the general carelessness of | which tho ownore of valuablos, are guilty, says the Daily Mail..
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The average woman thinks sha has exercised the maximum of care if she relooks hor jowol case) aftor taking out the artiolon required for immediate adorn mont. Others, a littlo cautious, tako the precaution of hiding the jewel case or the valu- ables thomeolves in samo recep- tacle in the bed-room. But the. trouble is they have no originalty. Amazing though it may roarn, it has been computed that 75 out of ovory 100 women have the same idos of what constitutes a safe placoa little mattor of pay- chology with which thieves aro thoroughly familiar.
Detectives doclare that most womon invariably place their jowellery in the top right-hand drawer of their drossing table or chest. If not there, then they conceal it In the lingerie or linen In one of the other drawers or in one of half-a-dozon placos whore an exporionoad thief immediately looko, such as the linon basket, under rugs, behind pictures or pillows, under the mattress of the bed, or under the paper which usually lines tho drawers of the drossing-chost.
It will gonorally be found that, if a thief has not discovered the booty ready to his hand all these. placos have been searched,
The criminal is cunning as well as daring. If he finds a locked jowal caso the export does not crudely force it open, but see skoleton keys and thon carefully relocks the cas that suspicion shall not be im- mediately aroused; maybo the thoft will not be detected for: days, by which time all clues. will be cold.
HUMAN RACE IN INFANCY.
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life. Many of the wildest birds Up to the time of his retire- Sir Oliver Lodge on the Universal had lost their sonso of fear. The inent from activo participation in
Scehme, hill-pigoons fod as boldly at their the great league matchos of Everest base camp as if they were America Jou tame birde in. a London street. ominent baseball player, had Liverpool recently on the nature They observed the samo tamonose always lived an outdoor life. of electricity to commemorate in the caso of some of the mam- Afterwards nettling down to the his election to honorary mem- mals. Cortain birds of the plateau business of a painting contractor borship of the Mersey and North had formed communities with his health gave way, as so often Walos branch of the Institution other animals, this being a help happens to sportsmen who they of Electrical Engineers. to thom in socuring food.
give up rigorous training and He said that alroudy it had HIGHEST ANIMALS ON EARTH. tako to sedentary habits, and for boon soon that mattor could ba In the struggle for existance a time he was in a bad way until turned into energy and could bu convorted into extreme heights. many animals were drivon to by recommending Dr. Willams' actually
It indicated Pink Pills, the famous blood radiation. The most intenso how rolontloss was the force of builder and nerve tonic, a friend example of this radiation was nature to spread into every habit-set him on the right road to that of the stars and the sun. The conversion of matter into able corner of the earth. The recovery. wild shoop and mountain baros) Discussing his illness at his was at the rate of four million radiation in the caso of the aun struggled up the ranges ovon home No. 1261 West Socond tons overy second. It sounded at avenue, Spokane, Wash., Mr.Incredible, and it had made no 17,000ft. Thore WAS A little Armstrong said: rodstart which placed its nost at
impression in a million years. the same inhospitable height. They found grasshoppers at 18,000 ft., nearost the farther limit of vegetable growth. They frequent
Armstrong, the Sir Oliver Lodge lectured at
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outdoor life and I think the work markable thing," said Sir Oliver, "I have always lived an active To me it seems a very re- I am now following was a con- tributing causo of my breakdown.all this time, that the electrical "if the solar system has lasted My blood became very thin and theory of matter and the nature of ly saw the magnificent lammor falt myself growing weaker electrical theory is leading us to geyor soaring round the mountain from day to day. I became this view, that the earth hasi as 20,000 ft. They found bocs, nervous and could not sloop. baon preparing all these millions moths and butterflies at 21,000 ft choughs at the immonse height of not know what to
Then I became fidgety and did of years for a human race and 27,000 ft. They found traces of
do. My that the human race is tho erown a permanent animal oxistance did not agree with me.
appetito was poor and food and flower of all that labour and far above the Himalayan snow-
preparation. I cannot supporo Jino and 4,000 ft. above the last
splendid "One day a friend of mine said that the human race has come to vogotablo growth. Those woro
ho know the very thing to help its climax, or is any where but in small spiders and wore the high-mo, and on his recommendation ite in fanoy for it is only a mo- eat existing animals on the I began treatment with Dr. Wilderately short fraction of timo earth. They lived in istands ofliams' Pink Pills. In a very short that it has existed. broken rock surrounded by snow time I was convinced that the "Ithinkitis remarkabla bacauso and ico. There was no sign of pills were all that he had claimed wo hardly fool worthy of it. The vegetation or living creature near for them. My appotite improved mene wa mako of things some- them, and for food they ate one in a wook and then I found that times makes us wonder if all the another,
I could loop roundly and folt preparatiou were worth whilo, Nothing illustrated better this rested in the morning. Gradually but I assume the hope of an high-altitude struggle than the my nerves gained strength and ultimate outcome in the oye of mannor in which animals secured now I am almost as well as I Ono wiser than ourselves to be a livelihood on tracts of snow and others about Dr. Williams' Pink realise our responsibility and
have ever booh. I have told worth while, provided ice. An interesting fauna was Pills for I know that they are a make the most of the opportunities found on the Rongbuk Glacier at an altitude of 17,000 ft. Tho sur- good tonic."
face of this glacier, was dooply If you are ailing or weak, or fissured and to a large extent suffering from any disordor due! covered with broken rock. It to impure watory blood or dob- adomad at first sight utterly bar litatod nerves, Dr. Williams' ron, vot some grass grow among, chemists, or post froo, 81.50 per Pink Pills woll do you good. Of the rocky fragments, and patches of lichen appeared on the stones, bottle, $8. for six bottles, from the Certain animals found oxistance Klangse Road, Shanghal.
Dr. Williams' Medicino Co., 60, in this dosolation. Ho had soon a flock of wild sheop sitting on the glacier surrounded by pin- naolas of ico and stones,
THE CALCUTTA 200, Calcutta has overy reason to boj JAPANESE CURIOS STOLEN. proud of its eminently well- ́Japanese carved ivory figuros, managed and woll-kept Zoological the work of well-known Japanese Gardon, and it is gratifying to artists, and valued at from £1,500 note that the collection is proving to £2,000, have been stolen from an inoroasing attraction to the, the promises of Mosers Philips gonoral public. According to the and MagConnal, New Bond-street, report of the Managing Com- W. An exhibition of examplos mitteo, 877,478 visitors paid for of Japanese art was being hold, admission during the year, 1923- The shop window was smashed 24, as compared with 854,003 in by a brick, and through the the previous twelve months, and aporture the thieves managed to 840,053 in 1921-22. In addition," hook out about twenty Sguros. 41,784 persons visited the Garden One fine specimen figure worth on free days. The representative over 300 ge, was beyond their character of the collection is rosch.
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