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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY JULY 19' 1924

CASTLES ON THE RHINE

FODAETS ÖFEHACNGRË

WHERE CAS. SOLO/ERS MËPË AFTER THE WRP ONN QRNOSIZE, SIDE, QË

King of European rivers, the "Rhenus Superbus" of the Romans. Bern usuag the highest glaciegs of the Alps. "If leups from precipice fa groeinice. receives as tribaturies hundreds of little mountain tami di Sanihs every call on in all Switzerland except Geneva. loses it oft fenatiful Lake Constance, hides unione Vast forests, widens bo vain sunny meadows. Bows fleep and swift below frowning cliffs. mories Cargandhi with many miions and di list seeks the ocean among Link whalender vindmills and gorgeous tulip fields of fair Holland.

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No Bud on earth is so rish gin fairy. siwit so utt i stariem.

i have many times seen little children, thinking themselves unobserved, kreef and talk. to the dwellers in them, and kiss 198 to the wesees and dowers, or perche

Blossoms. There is no pleasure go gagal to fiert in on through

A mai kanathus bezvodi setleg and an evoly mouk and Road- Jah, kog cerade and hid of thin History loads with the woh tan pes of Nag bords of Attiin, the fan af Reland and of Zent scurvely mure rent

of resime fairies, offendal forests: for them each plner

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of beauty is alive ani, las articulate

words of

Ke kokachu prits wine lived in ancistal speech in the magnificent onis bahay ph geed arare in eine Schiller, Gothe. Sratched averag

The trump of

rock Cule through the dark disies on the bark of trees or on

incest is to

are always gustations, or on the henges when one sits. I my I have learned as a myth as the hero in this way, the most beautiful thoughts Nisholungen super-met-in fierman poetry, while resting in sinne mue igle of their hidden treasure, rest nook, the theda quedation: hatest agus and terrible revenge,perywhere. There is among no people

pity all that

so deep an appreciation of nature. muller, viljetas a goud or hur?" Aili bant

Length Of The Rhine.. the for long and bring peace to The Rhine is 850 miles long and all *Phope is no Gerrard but and hundred miles of Ile navigable phild what does not know by hent thefength of 560miles is in Germany. Twa Jegend of Rhino, who h *bilevi dina in his jumst son in

- fairies and the deniams of trees did

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hundred dial fifty miles of its turbaba! youth are in Swig territos. nude by the union of what tire kunstn as the order-Rhin, which esses from

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IS CATTLERNE OF PHE SEVEN MIGUNFI

abour Andermatt and Da bisteredthet which flow's from the Khelwald glacier, The two joir at Reichenmi. It le said that the the rives from first hust, jitly or indiretly be then imply thousand tribalaries, en tahy gongs to a Bread red deen ntad norte alertas, whiri hews upon its hosoby The easysterre of mang lations, Pictureur Basle is the last own up it hon in Switzerland. Then ranur the cathedral Towerd, of Sergisthurje Preiburst

importer on the Rhine is Coin the capital of the Swiss canlon of tires, founded in Roman time to gone,

There

STOLZENFELS

Jetown every peak. De passes the famous Lorelei rock, where the goblen haired mailen hired sailors to destrue- tim with the glory of her beauty, one sees the renowned "Serve mountains." all custle-crowned and supposed to be the rim of vat valeano al siden times, The river comes to Dusseldorf for art. ta Rotterdam for trade, o gharading Delft for its beautiful porcelain, and [brenkg up. among the sand bars of Haluk into many mouths the better co sing of its travels, as it leisurely doses into the great rean...

Castles Everywhere.

safely at home and pocket millions while others die in torture. Let the rulers and the inaniélors and the manu facturers who are, greedy for gold go and tight and the peaceful people who have all to lose and nothing to gain stay at home. It would be an excellent way to end all ware. The men who are rendy enough to pocket money while safe at home would soon, decide that all wags were įdocy.

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Ehrenbreitstein

One of the most famous of all Rhine fortresses and feudal castles in gigantic Ehrenbreitet. It is high above the Bhire opposite Coblenz and Caves' the mouth of the Moselle. It was built on thỏ nhs of a formidable Reman fort, and through many centuries was con- stantly added to and more · strongly fortinet. Ir various wars between France and Germany it was taken and held for a short time by Friowe, as in- 1801 and in 1750 and 1789. At the Pence et Luneville in 1801 the French attempted to blow it up before leaving

At the second so-called Peace of Paris the French paki Germany more than Afteen million frames to repatrit. It was wholly reconstructed in the te rengs following the exile of Napoleon.

defeat and

To the German the Rhine is German no occupation by foreign troops con nake otherwise. Paris, when occupied by triumphant German troops.

wax not German gor can the Rhine ever he French, nor the lands on its banks. The Roger de Lisle of Germany was a student named Becker and the German Marseillais is the martial song whose refrain is

Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, Den Shelen Rhein.

How Fishes Breathe.

ANY lad who has enjoyed the sport of shing knows that a flah canlive only peery short time out of the water.

On every prontiskaņu peak along the Įriver is either a enste er the ruins of ors. Many of them have history Registid in frogènes in their wali, sme of it going back to the days before books, when news were fatelit bath anelent lore and ting history of the

of their own times in this interesting "nquer." Dhe se such frogens all ord Coppaw's that a human being anal especially in Bavaria where cheg ear live but a brief space under water. The explanation of this is the fact that house, however small, is rich in Bible TWD TOMMY.aF-POLRITOSECH stories, painted over il its outside

fich gets its air from the water, while anlle, and interwoven with table text

a bung ing gets his air from the ig city of Stukar calls in the and bits from istory, going back, even gynov pacshle fab water. A mail: UTAH 1) tients at Holella, difest as far as the days of Borne and lungs, but ash hus gilla in place of ruins of the superbes tie and the Curlege. Everywhere too is a welcome lungs, breathe with them and getting. vast this the beer which heid enough for over the done in picturesque oil, tire air from water, bat failing to get any Jan any te quench their thirst.

Thi

hing MATE

the honoured and gladly jar wantedever when out of the water. river beengte gross itat adeed as it pass the groufcities of Mainz, Fling to this hume. They are such

treived guest. to bring with him a Bron the dying Ash, which takes long furs and Cologne. Frankfort jun bit

kups through the air, above and out of kelly simple people, these country te water, remains in the alr only A Corman, I wonder if the mzside world

re shoer Ume. The distance he covers will ever realize the truth that the way

depends wholly upon the speed at which www wwen more a horror and evil ta he was swimming before, he left the them than to any other nation. Perhaps water, tot door any shifty to propel the time will come when the vast buik himself though the air. A dying Ash of the neuée-loving citizens of a country har wingdike ns, but they merely will refure to be driven to death beauble how to remmin longer in the air, few ambitious men in power whe si abd are not a means of moving ahead.

ngeteg imo the "catarian a stilt here an ancient Ramon citadel.

last frivolity of the great river is the wild abandonment of its water falls and impids at Sehatfiusen. The met ie made of thever falls in the way of dort illumhating at gh a themed gaming from which to view the

There now mgnifieert hotels and tile steamer that runs Incles the throßgh the rapide fay tourists,

The River Quiets Down,

the track, but near pugh to go the ferntage of the river, Cologne with her vast doke ch immensity of Eriver commerce, is afectly on the great After this the Rhine becomes quite streams, stonggling to miles along its sedate for visits pretty Badra and thanks Carlsruhe, Huny fazily through Alsatian the wine-growing district, where vines The river meanders through plains, glamon at the big manufactur- Egards are never ending, at castles

Queer Members of the Animal World With Strange Forms Apparently Able To

4 Change Their Shape At Will--Modelled. In Wax By Scientists..

SOBY MALCOLM MaeDONALDA

FCW would ban like to emke una gamme might med tid at bobgoblin startar you in the feet. If it were be of the estupy koorlog "hite", shown in thế g Revmagroying lustration it worth? bei parough tej naar the flesh begin, its shrink and wi

Vat are the You've heard of tren froth, of tree Tene, ami tree this and tre, that, including even treg Bah; and you probabi brand the nichen! joke about the trně tonă - Roedd with a hear but but hert are romelaing char this live in Free; they are re bojoves."

Native to the isopiva, these gates-pre erralures of wareny bist he deser ci na beler, by appearance at least, the claws of the insect work Top-heavy and incumbered with nuqsarently useless appendages of queer design, they make 1hi elumny way, on hoj, from free to 1st, suckling the cap upon which thegra Dive.

E far as scientists have been able

to a: mrtatu they have no nim in life and

at perrak are entalegrued as mysteries

in

other Nature scheme of things, Beatse of their small population they cet july be classed as pests, their Consumption of acp being too small t

considerable amount of

danaye.

Change Their Shapes, The queerest thing about those Queer- cat of instets is their ability to change their simpe and antire appearance over night. A weird looking creature on Sunday, Munday finds them transform. ed into unsther just as fantastic, or * mori no, but bearing not the slightest revannblance to the tree hopper of the 'day before.

GIPOTES QUE" CURVED TREE HOPPER AXONZ

“SOUTHERNY

BRAZIL

EVER SEE A

TREE HOPPER?

beak enables it to, extrnet the juice or Like the eyes, one pair of wings is more

sap from small trees and plants.

Done in Wax.

Wax models of the droit Bittle crea- tures have been made and are now a part of the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The construction of the wax modele requires moat patient and dellente modelling and printing, in order

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side Sumu have wonderful sword or bladó-like appendages, with ball-lite projections, often several times the size of the body.

CURIOU

سزا کیک خیر محتر مور کر کو جیے رکھے گمان ہے کہ وہ ان کی

MATURE MUGARINE

TREE NDOREP FIPON INDIA

apparently wasted in thene insects.

Some Live In United States.,

The varieties found in the United States-and they appear as far north na Nuw York Stale-appear nut to have which their tropical relatives are shape-changing faculties withi endowed.

They, however, have while the colour he more sombre, the same ability of changing colour and, northern genus is far from dull in. appearance

highly developed than the other pair, | In Night the tree hypper.js dumsy, using it wings mostly as a parachute rather than for dying. The hind pair

A spesimen from India In particularly of legs is longer than the front ; interesting. It has a horn or growth the and is employed in leaping and jumping rising from its head and curving back in considerably distances, which has wird, giving the appearance of a kiven the inset the common name of 'tarkey in fight and gazing over its

free hopper?

shoulder at the purauer. In addition there is an anvil-shaped bump rising from in back and extorting backwards twice the length of the insect.

This faculty, which has earned for them the subriquet of lightning change erfints on nature's stage, produces many interesting variations, which range evon to the extent of sprouting wings and then discarding them without ostenta- to bring out the hundreds of Indentures, It is the thornx, however, which gives tion,

regularity or previous warning. cavities and lines. The photographs are the bug his reputation an quriosity One day a hard-working, kap-hunting made from the wax models and have. It is this part of, his anatomy which he

· trra hopper, Jumping from fimli to fimb; been greatly enlarged.

can apparently change at will, and it the next day starring in a new pair of Not the least of the tree hoppers, bids le clao this part which is arousing the wings and fitting from tree to tree; for fame as a curio la his gorgeous interest of scientists. They can not while the

day finds hirt minus colouring. Ifis coat is of many hues, conceive how the insect can use these following Wines

but "delled"

up in a novel head rivalling in appearance the Brazilian protuberances in any way.. Rear of curious design, the little insects parrot and other tropical colleagues in This peculiar development is not en may well arouse the envy of celebrities the animal and bird world.

clearly seen in tree hoppers of the of the stage at perven.

Another distinctive fenture is his temperate regions us in the species from The tree hopper,

or enekenopa doable

doable allotment of eyes. The tree South and Central America, where they hopper has four-two largo and pro- are often most freakishly and extra

bindiata-the more formal appellations ases, and two below partly vagantly repel.

Be Company of scientists or hugologiste," is only nhout a quarter developed. The large eyes have a keen

drol look, and the line that separates the head, in some Instances, gives them the appearance of wearing spectacles.

When wearing wings the insects have four of them, two forward and two aft,

of an inch in length, although it some- timus attain more than twice that size, It has a sucking mouthplace and a sharp bouk consisting of several bristles Penclosed in a fleaby joined sheath.' The

Weird Shopes And Forme. Some have razor-like, elevations on their backs. In others, the prothorax is an elevated night cap; in others it la shaped like a tam-o'-shanter, and some- times it has long horms, one on each

the

green

Even more astonishing is a specimen During one stage the tree hopper of coming from Brazil. This particular the temperate zono is blue, green with insect has a hump on its back Hike a machinists hammer, while from his white and black colour with the base yellow markings, gradually fading to heie an ungainly, blunt hörn extends of the prothorax a bright emerald upward and backward and resting on for some time before turning to fit the head of the summer. This forma tion makes an aperture and causes the ally turn to a grayish colour deepen

In moulting the black markings gradu.. bug to appear as though it had a huleing an gradually again into black. The in it.

adult colour is dark-purplish-brown, Since the extraneous formation fɛ

No, evidence, has been sound is larger than the bug itaolf, or rather tree hopper of the temperate zone larger than the rest of its body, the winters through the colder months as creature is ungainly and top-heavy so do some other insects. Eggs laid in that Its movements are clumsy and the summer or fall hatch out in the uncertain in the extremo. One well spring, the larvae usually appearing may ask why so much bug material was sometime in Mays: The female lays her

WER REGION,SA).

leaf stem, except when the butternut enthenona binotata does not have ants ages in a allt, made by herself, in other geniuses of this family the

tree is the host, when the eggs are deposited.. in the bud.. In the latter, in attendance." Although apparently case the buds aru entirely destroyeri. differing in no particular physiologically

-and-seeroting-a-símilar-liquid,--other--- In the United States the insect invari- members of the membracidae family- ably chonses as host the locust, the

have a peculiar relationship with ante, bitter sweet, the sycamore, hickory, the mystery of which so far romains butternut or willow tree and the wild unsolved. nut tree invariably are much darker in grape vina. Those living on the butter-

colour than those found in other trees.

Ants in Kroat numbers, and without disturbing the activities of the insect. flock around and crawl over some mem- The Home Variety Flies Best,

'bers of the membracidae family, foeding Another distinction enjoyed by the

upon a frothy excretion which the ants type found in the United States is the themselves excito. That the presence ability to fly much better than the of the ants is not objectionable to

varieties. They leave one tres with a quick "rap" and fly unerringly tropical

Insects Is alientod by the fact that insects entirely ignore them, while the to another for feeding purposes. They ants put up a vicious fight for the pro usually, however, make their babitat in tection of the former, driving off spiders, the tree on which they were born.

The tras hopper is a member of the fingers of collectors when they attempt and even going so žar as to bite tho membracidae family. Unlike many to capture the tree hoppar.