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Some interesting Arborcal Lizards, lately arrived from Bur- ma are attracting much attention In the Reptile House at the Re gent's Park Gardens. They are, ruther larger than the common wall lizarda," and have the corious faculty of adapting themselves.to the colouring of their surround- inga, like chameleons. When they are moving about among green. foliage they assume a greeny tint, and when they cluster together in
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
LIZARDS WITH MOUSTACHES.
SPIDERS FOUR INCHES LONG.
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CHINA BUILDING Opposite Queen's Theatre) TELEPHONE C. 269.
MASSAGE HALL MRS. S. UZUNOYE
Expert Masseuse
37, Queen's Road, Central.
nd, floor.
MRS. SEKAI MASSAGE
Tel. No. C. 4433, 2nd Floor 2, Duddell Street. Hongkong"
T. NAKAO Japanese Shoe Expert. TORTOISE SHELL BOXES AND CASES A SPECIALITY"
Astor House Hotel Building,
Queen's Road Centrál,"
unch upon a tree stump they gradually become brown; so that It is difficult to tell where the tree trunk ends and the lizards begin. Some of these lizards have pretty bluey-jade necks; and they all have elastic skin beneath their chips. There are twenty- three of them altogether; but they are so quick and lively in their movements, and 'can conceal themselves so readily owing to their useful gift of camouflage, that often one would thirk there are no more than a dozen in the case. As those kaleidoscopic lizards have strange 11tle turfts on their upper jaws, they have been listed as "Moust- uched Lizards.".
Cloth machinga.
A flower lent,
11. 12.
Alittle tower.
Anointed with oil,
14. To state again,
15. Racers.
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10. Sediments. 20. Intellect
Suddle-Back Grasshoppers. The Insect House has been 20. enriched by some curious-looking 21,
new comers.
They are much bigger
Frenzy. Some of these are 23. Used for digging. 30 nightmarish in appearance that
Flows from volcanoes. nervous folk hurry past them with shudders: The most "dreadful. perhaps, is a group of Saddle-back Grasshoppers from the South of France.
5.
26. Perennial plants.
Play with love.
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Less frequent
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An annual herbaceous plant.
32.
To crowd together"
33.
Referees,
34.
Perfumes
To move back.
Volumes,
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A
distress signal.
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than ordinary grasshoppers; h 38. stead of being slender and grace-43 ful in their movementa they are nwieldy in build, having fat
bodies with humped backs, which red of commodities.
give them the appearance of wear-50.- ing saddles.
of leather.
rofecting mass..
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10. Opposed to windward,
14. Floating structures.
16. Gaze.
22. Denotes consent.
24. Examines accounts.
25. A boy.
27. Spots made with soot.
2. Tricks,
2D...
1. Printer's mahsures.
12. Feminine pronoun.
34. Siem
35.
of certain species of grain.
maker of money.
36. Fenced with stakes.
37. A public vehicle,
40. Lovers who run away.
JI. A wilderness,
42. To
endeavour.
14. Horses,
16. A kind of shoe.
18. Fathers.
19. To analyse a sentence into its
parts.
52. A rodent animal.'
-54. Low down.
57. 'Distant
Through
Saturday's Puzzle.
59.
51.
Sayings of notable men.
To run with haste.
53.
To sieze sullenly.
55.
A well-known plant. Well-being.
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Fabrics of wool. Fostered,
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Some large Signature Spiders in 52 another case near by are niso new arrivals from the South of France. 66. They measure from two to four 58 inches in total length of thin legs 60. and fat body, and they are bril-61. liantly coloured in bright brown 63. 62.
and fawn.
Both the Signature Spiders and the Saddle-back Grasshoppers are keen hunters of flies; and it is rather gruesome to watch them at feeding times. They will let n fly run between their legs, and then, just as it is racing off in a fright, they pounce suddenly upon it and remorselessly "devour it.
Its
A beautiful young, Crowned Crane from West Africa has been established with its proud parents In the Ostrich House. Its main plumage is brownish and slaty- black, and its neck is
daintily marked with brown spots on a deep but ground. The same pretty tint of creamy buff appears again in its under-wing feathers. greatest decoration, however, is the regal-fooking crown it wears
three-inch Luft of stiff hair-like bristling plumes of straw-colour set into a pad short feathers which grow so closely together that they look exactly like a small black velvet pincushion.-G.G. in Ex.
MASSAGE HALLpon its head. This consists of a
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1. Splendours. 2. A fragment- 3. Spoken.
4. Measures.
Macerates.
5.
6. Military display.
7. To have effect.
8. A portable shelter.
9.
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AN INCREASE ON METHANOL
In view of the good progress
Washington, Nov. 28. President Coolidge has increased made in overtaking the housing the tariff on methanol from twelve. arrears, the gradual diminution of to eighteen centa the amount of state assistance for maximum possible under the flexi
a gallon, the house building has been decided ble provisions of the tariff law, upon by the Government until ulti-
It is explained by the White mately the subsidies, now in forceHouse that Imports of methanol try of Health to-day states that the gallons in 1924 to 608,000 gallons will totally disappear. The Minis-have increased from forty-eight firet diminution will apply to last year, when for the first time and while you're there, ask about our new stock of houses not completed by October the imports exceeded the exports.
-Reuter's American Service.
next. British Wireless:
VESUVIUS ERUPTING. DIPLOMATIC CHANGES. RAIN WATER ACCUMULATION.
THE CAUSE."
• NEW DUTCH AND RUSSIAN MINISTERS TO ROME.
the
THE SINKIANG MARU.
LOOTERS FOUND TO BE CANTON DESERTERS.
Rome, Nov. 28. Mount Vesuvius is again erupt-
The Hague, Nov. 27. M. Van Redenburch, ing. A cataract of lava is flowing Netherlands Minister at Brussels, down the northern side. The will succeed Dr., Van Rooyen as crater is harling masses of inean- Minister at Rome when the latter The looters of the Japanese s.s
Peking, Nov. 27. descent material into the air, departs for Washington in Feo-Sinkiang Maru on November 18 are accompanied by shattering explo-ruary-Renter. sjons. At the Observatory Pro-
now stated to have been desertors fessor Malladre states that there is
from, the Cantonese Army, no cause for alarm as it is a yearly of the Moscow Soviet, has been now arrested 28, who will be severe The regular Cantonese forces have phenomenon due to the accumula appointed Soviet Ambassador to ly punished. tion of rainwater in the crater- Reuter,
Italy, in succession to Comrade The Japanese Captain has been Kerjenzeff-Reuter
released-Reuter.
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YES-TUROWJ TILKY AWAY AN' WE'LL 60 OVER TO MY HOUSE AN I'LL GET, ONE
OF FRECKLES TEANIS
BALLS FOR YOU
TO USE.
AWRIGHT
Moscow, Nov. 27. Comrade Kamenteff, ex-Chairman
YOU WAIT THERE FOR ME ILL LOOK UNDER HIS BED AN SEE IF
HIS TENNIS BALL
IS, THERE.
Hit 'em and Weep!
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