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BEACH MARVELS.

VARIED ANIMAL LIFE.

Darwin bas pointed out the im portance of earth-worms in renewing the upper surface of the soil, and in the case of seas orms it has been cal-

toculated that in an acre of sand come thing like a thousand tons would pass through these animals every year.

When many are making a visit the seaside it may prove useful to say a few words about the collection of

Bea forms of life. Instead of aimlessly wandering stout the chore picking up one thing and then another merely to Cast Away again, we should rather en- deavour to study and make collections of the common objects of the ceashore. There is such a wealth of different forms of life in the space between the tide-marks that it is impossible to

mention more than a few of the com- moneet forms.

HEAPS OF SEAWEED.

THE PERBLY BEACH,

The stony part of the beach, with its rocke, pebbles, and remains of different coloured shella, is also worthy of notice.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Janakamat

First Film In Lhasa.

'THE CHINA MAIL.'

A cablegram received in London announces táo ourival at Calcutta of

the members of the Britinh Buddhist

CALMLY MEETS HIS DOOM.

MURDERER'S DRAMATIO FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE.

interview with his wife.

Ho walked with remarkable self

AVOIDING TAXATION.

HOW TO LIVE ON NOTHING.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer

| Isle of Man any addition to the statu-

Thomas Henry Allaway, the mur-stated in Parliament last mail wook mission to Tibet. They will go to derer of Itens Wilkins, capiated his that he proposes to ask for increased Darjeeling in a few days and thence crime Winchester Gaol at eight contributions to the Imperial Ex- will begin the long and difficult o'clock in the morning. He declared chequer from the Isle of Man and the journey 01 foot through the his innocence at an affecting farewell Channel Islands. In the case of the Himalayas, On the way to Darjeel ing a visit is being made to the Bodhidruma or Tree of Intelligence -the cacred fig tree under which, ac cording to Buddhist tradition Baddha was sitting in contemplation when ho attained the parfect wisdom. A film is to be taken of the tree and of the pilgrime visiting it, and it is hoped to show these pictures to the Dalai Lama in Lanca itself. It will be the firet kinematograph exhibition over given In Lhasa,

Care of Umbrellas.

possession the short distance that tory contribution of £10,000 a year! separated his cell from the scaffold, will require legulation. The execution was expeditiously Lt. Col. Assheton Pownali pointed performed by Ellis and bis assistant. out that income tax in the Isle of Man Alloway's wife paid him a farewell does not exceed 38. 55. in the £; visit on Friday, and during the eighthat in Guernsey the income tax is toon minutes interview both were in 78. in the E, and that in Jersey there tears.

Mra. Allaway asked her husband if he had made any statement in regard to the murder. Looking straight in her eyes, and in broken tones, ho re- plied:-

"I am as innocent of this crime as

A wet umbrella, even if only a little damp, should be opened wide and left, in a room to got thoroughly dry. The wires should be oiled at the hinges may a little darling Gladys."

He regretted that he could not see cccasionally with some light machine oil to prevent rust. To avoid soiling Gladys his little seven-year-old Mrs. Allaway replied the cover only a tiny drop a oil must diughter. be applied to each joint at a time." Even now I may bring her."

"No," sobbed tho condemned man

Indood, the way in which the waves sort out the pebbles on the beach by their size should be remembered by the shell-hunter, for on the banks of with a feather, or a narrow strip el tions of ber father in gool. I wan pebbles, as the tide goes down are wood sharpened to a fine point. The her to think of me as she knew me."

At the conclusion of the last fare- abelle-heavy sbells lying with the tip of a penholder is useful for the large pebbles, and lighter shells with the small ones. The experienced eye knows exactly where to look for shells of a certain kind since day by day we can find the same kind of shell in the

Little and often will give the best "I don't want her to have resul results. The oil should be applied

Shells are usually gathered for their beauty, or on accoont of the habite of the creatures that inhabit them, such as the limpet, which clirgs so ten accusly to the rock, or the cockle and the razor shell, which burrow in the Rand.

The first objects Lely to attract attention in a walk along the beach will be the heaps of seaweed left at bigh-water and epring-tide marks.

For the sake of convenience sea-Game spot. weeds are classed as red, green, or brows, and these always attract the collector on account of their beauty, but tevers! varieties are put to practical use, such as dulsa, laver, and carrageen mose, which are eaten. Among the green seaweeds most commonly found are the wracks, the bladder wrack, a coarse, dark sea- on all our weed, being abundant COSATA.

In some parts this seaweed is gathered for fuel and manure by .seaside agriculturists, who count wo tons of wrack worth one ton of com.

man manure.

THE WHELK AND THE BORING SPONCE We often find a small collection of common seashore thelle alike only in one respect, namely, that each has a round hole bored through it.

This is due to the fact that the common whelk is a tiger among ite kind, and when it has taken up its Again, at one time burnt seaweed position upon the sbell of another supplied almost all the soda salts mollusc and commences boring opera used by the glass manufacturer, but tions with its ribbon like file of these can now be obtained more tongue it is all over with the other cheaply in other ways. All the three mollusc, for the whelk will surely eat grea: classes of seaweeds are exten. the shell empty through that little sively used for making kelp, the first hole. stage in the manufacture of icdine.

MARINE ANIMATS,

The pools among the rocks afford aver-ending amusement to those who watch the swarms of small animale disporting themselves, and who note their forms and habits, and also the marvellous power of mimicry by which Nature crab'es them in some measure to escape their enemies,

If we lift up a bunch of wrack from the side of a rock many living forma which have been sheltering there will

Among the commonest objects of the seashore are old shells and stonet of chalk or limestone perforated with tiny galleries, which are the work of little boring spouge, but how the creature manages to bore out their galleries is a matter of dispute. Some say that it secretes a special acid for the purpose, but no Acid has been found in its body.

Others say that the carbonic acid 249 which t'u creature breathes out dissolves the lime in the shell; but

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is no income tax.

In the financial year 1920-21 Jersey and Guernsey together contributed £10 100 towards the cost of Imperial defence.

ed as the island of the tax-free and Jeracy bas frequently been describ.

ths taxpayers' ideal of Paradise. One

year reckoned that he lived for a man who became a resident thero lu t whole year for nothing. He explained this apparent paradox by saying that' the money he would bave paid in in- come tax paid the whold of his ox- penses for 12 months.

Officers on furlough especially from purpose. An umbrella that has not well there was a dramatic pause, India, are taxed in Britain if they By going to Jeracy after the six mon. been used for a day or two, unless it"Well, good-bye, Tom," said Mr. stay there longer than six months. is carefully put away, will certainly Alloway."

After a pause and a long look at his the has elapsed they avoid taxation bo dusty, and should always be dusted

altogether. Needless to say, the float before use or the least bit of moisture wife Allaway replied:

"Good-bye. May, I am quite readying population of the island is largely. will stick the dust to the material for to-morrow, and I shall look over composed of theao officers, while the permanent residents include many you and little Gladye.”

half-pay and retired officers whose means will not permit them to live in

which will soon look shabby. Boschee for Blondes.

"Beaches for blondes and woede for branettes" is the latest Americaa prescription for the survival of the the condemned cell. fittest. This is the outcome of the fairly good night, and was awakened latest American discussion on about six o'clock in the parsing heredity, which it appears, has a He had very little breakfast, and definite bearing on holidays. Persous listented intently to the last ministra with clear blue eyes and fair com- tions of the prison chaplain.

Two Pressmen were present at the plexions are supposed to prefer the seaside owing to a Viking strain | execution. At five minutes to sight Similarly, brown-eyed people with Ellis entered the condemned cell and dark, swarthy complexions, whces pinioned Allaway by the arme. ancestors were born and brod in Allaway was dressed in the grey the woods and foresta, prefer the sports coat that he wore during bie When the slow procession rough and ready life of mountains trial. and valleys. People with special began Allaway had only to proceed

are recommended twenty feet. characteristica special holidays. Thus a shortnosed man, as he is descended from the desert dreamers, wacts meditation and is advised to go fishing. Child Saorifico Recalled,

WALK TO THE SCAFFOLD Allaway was then taken back into Britain.

He spent a

Times

Looking straightˇiu ̄front-of-him, Allaway walked to his doom with re- markable: self-possession.

He was stopped on a chalk mark on the trapdoor, the bag like white cap was placed over his bead. Then the executiouer pulled the lever, the trap opened with a crash which could be beard outside the prison, Allaway dropped to his doom, and all was over.

One of the alters at which the Carthaginians for centuries sacri, ced their firsttorn to the Goddess Tanit has been discovered, writes the Paris correspondent of the on

At the inquest which followed the August 13, by M, Pouissote and M. Lautier, two French srchicologists, jury returned the usual verdict that who are searching the ruins of ancient death was due to strangulation fellow Carthage. Tanit was the name given ing hanging, according to law. by the Carthaginians to the goddess! THE CRIME REQALLED. Astarte. In front of an altar near a

It was just before last Christmas

be revealed-delicate seaweeds, share this leaves out of right the fact that Temple of Tanit, three vaults have that Irene Wilkins, a capable and

crabs, anemones, anLelid or worm formus, besides those lively little crus- taceans called sand-lice, sand-hoppers, or skippure.

When walking among the dry weed, thesa little animals are Bone times present in such numbers that they cause a pattering sound as of rain by their continuous leaps on the the weed or sand.

THE CRUSTACEA,

Almost every rock, pool, or sand lagoon left by the t de will furnish shrimpe at prawns, not to speak of the crayfish, lubater, and the varieties of the crab.

a shelf is partly mineral and partly animal in nature, and the carbunic arid as would not dissolve the animal part.

The most crasonably theory is that the little spiker, like fine, with which the sponge is covered bore holes by constant motion through the bar shell or stone.

THE COMMON SCALLOT,

The common scallop in most often seen perhaps in fishmonger's shop hut, though a deep-water creature its large ohells are frequently washed up on the beach.

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distance outside Bournemouth.

Allaway's arrest was due to the skill and patience of Superintendent Garrett, of the Bournemouth police. from time to time he obtained specimens of Allaway's handwriting; and was able to establish to his own satisfaction that this handwriting was identical with that which appeared on the decoy telegram which lured Irene Wilkins to her death. A combination of ether circumstances of a suspicions nature surrounded Allaway and at last his dramatic arrest was announced.

been unearthed, which contained the chatred bones of new bera babies and level beaded young woman. living at. children from two to three years of Streatham, left her happy little age. The arctologists express the suburban home to rmbark on the jour- view that to the left of the altar wasny wich ended in her dreadful mur stone slab with a bronza grill under der, for which Thomas Allaway has which burat a fierce fire, and here the now paid the pen.Ity.

Miss Wilkina was anxious to secure naked bodies of the first boru were

skilled offered in accordance with the ancient employment of a highly rites which wera regalaily practised domestic nature and answered an from the Christian Era until the days advertisement which appeared in the By wire the Was when the Romans conquered and Morning Post.

instructed to proceed to Bournemouth destrued Carthage. Another theory where, ahe was informeil, a motor car advanced is that as it was cust-mary would be awaiting her. Misa Wilkins for the parents to reclaim the remains One peculiarity of these shells, of the Brat-born after the sacrifice, reached her destination safely, but There is nothing prettier than the though it is much more marked in the bones now unearthed which later ber dead body, terribly, batter motion of a prawn, for the whole the smaller binde of pectens, commade a gruesome pile 15 ft. high-ed, was found in the carly hours of oreature is to transparent that the monly called clams, is that the two as the remain of sacrificed children the morning at a quiet spot a abort beating of the heart oan be clearly care," which make a straight jure placed by their parents under tho seen as the animal hanga motionless, tion for the hinge of the double shell, protection of the all powerful Tanit. staring at us with his stalked eyes out are never quite equal in size, so that

the aheil seems a little imperfect. An enterprising and ingenious of his prison in a glass of water.

This, Lowever, in the natural shape, undertaking for wrosting from the The crustacea are usually all parnivorous, and act as the scavengers the larger pair of ears being those seu some of its long hidden spoile just of the sea, greedily devouring any from which the "beard" grew which about to reach its climax, is the at- sort of animal matter, however putrid. fzed the young scallops to the rocks. tempt to salve the treasure on the All the points of a typical crustaces Bat in later life the reallops art sunken Inst Indiaman, the Grosvenor, may be made out by watching & com- always unattached, and shoot through wresked in August 1783 some trenty the water by opening and closing their five miles from Lusikiriki, on the mon prawn in a glass dish.

Pundoland coast, For some months, The points of interest are the black shelle.

JELLY FISH AND STAR-FISH. states the African World, engineers stony eyes, mounted on stalks, and the long, restless antenne, which set Under the head of "Lassoo have been driving a tunnel for 450ft, ni organs of smell, as may be seen by Throwers" come the medura, or through solid rock to the narrow golly dropping in a tiny piece of cockle jelly-fishes, which are lying about in which, lying as in a cradle, the within sweep of the antename, but everywhere, of all sizes from a hazel Grosvenor has been located. They hidden from the eyes of the animal. aut to a videawake bat.

still bava 140ft to go, but, so far, the The long slender threads which Table Mountain sandstone, through The little coils of sand which are fringe the margins of the discs are set which the tunnel has been driven, is familiar on every sandy beach bat ay with thousands of microscopical celle, baid and has been found impervious to the presence of Braworms, which are and in every cell a venomed dart lies Fercolation from the mea above. To really beautiful creatures, and often coiled up like a watob spring, ready wards the end, bowever, difficulties For cruelty to a cow Join Contra brilliantly coloured, when their at the slightest pressure to leap out may increase, as the Grosvenor lies in farmer, of Lanesido Farm, Marley, tentacles and gills are protraded from and buty ita barbed tip in the flesh of many feet of eand but it is hoped that Lancashire, was fined £10 at Clitheroe. the tubes and waving in the water. the creature which has touched it. this bed way by now have solidifed Two polio men said that Conten They live in tubes of different Other very familiar objects of the late natural concrete casing and told them he burned holes in the cow's kinds, and almost every stone, shell, seashore are the star-fishes, some with tender the wreck easily available ears with a red hot iron and tied bar. five rape and come with twelve-Proof has recently been forthcoming bed wire through them to prevent the the sea for soms time will be found "sunstars" these lost, since they look that among the treasures shipped on animal from jumping into the next covered by thers winding stony, very much like eunflowers with board the Grosvenor was a courier-field. limestone tubos. The slightest a'aru, crimson centres,

able quantity of diamonds from Costos denied saying this. Ho however, causes the twaworms to pɔp Very few people seus to realise Madran, to the value of 24,114 Star stated that the holes were made with back into thrie tubes, which are probat luggy creatures star fishes are. Jagodas, the standard gold currency & proper piercer. The edges were mptly closed behind them with a lid. 8trange to say, they have limbs fiter in the Presidency in those days. The scared with a warm fron and oil was Curiously enough, both on land and ally by the bundred, although they Grosvenor Bullion Syndicate, of afterwards applied. Tape, and ot tas warms live by wallowing the keep them, as a ulo, laside their Johannesburg, has abargs of the barbed wire, was used to connect the sand or suil, passing it eqrough their bodies; and poke them out through undertaking, and keerat intetrit care Thousands of sheep-la-etary - intentions and catracting any body holes in the skin only when required locally taken in the loteresting enter part of the country had their ears that is in it.

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LITTLE COILS OF SAND.

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CRUELTY TO A COW.

FARMER SAID TO HAVE BURN- ED HOLES IN EARS.

British limited companies to avoid paying the registration fees of this country, also exploited the advant- ages of the tax-free island to such an extent that this year the Jersey Legislative Assembly passed a Bill re- quiring companies making application for regi-tration to depcsit le. Gd, per £100 of nominal capital.

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