1958-10-11 — Page 16

FEATURES

THE CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1958.

FOR

BOYS

AND GIRLS

SOME FISH CLIMB LADDERS

W WE don't usually think VY of fish being able to elimb ladders but on the northern Pacific coast they do just that, and by the tons of thousands.

If those fish ladders had not been put there, we probably › would never cat unlmon from the famed Columbia River ash eries, for they keep the salmon runs alive where the huge Ben- neville Dam had them blocked,

Krow

level. If an impossible barrier fish counter alta and punches a Es in the way. they butt their mechanical tallying device. heads against it until they die Each Ash is counted กร 4. without spawning.

crosses the "flash board."

Bonneville Dan has three

Bro com

fish ladders, and they

the st have the

structed co least trouble possible in getting over the 60-foot dam,

Salmon can jump many fect, but dam bullders try to induce them to swin instead. The fah do not cat from the time, they leave the sea until they spawn, and jumping takes more energy than swimming.

A fish enunter works for 45 minutes an hour, then lowers a

from sate that keeps the fsh Awimming through and resto his eye for 15 minutes while he things. Fish are docs other counted for 16 hours a day, and the gate is lowered at night be- cause salmon seem night.

to rest at

The ladders are not 100 per Same fnh mang

found

So the more modern ach lad- ders have many pools, each Salmon hatch in fresh water only a foot higher tan the one stremna, migrate to the sea, before, and with 200 cubic feet cont successful.

there, and of water flowing over the led the entry way and aro to maturity then fight their way back to der each second, the fish swira dead downstream from Bonnes The proportion is very the exact spot at which they as early as though they were ville. hatched when they spawn to going up rapids instead of over small, however, and of tile

a mighty dam.

note. Most solmen in the Co- produce the next generation.

climb the Ash River They swim Into the entryway lumbla

40 feet wide, ladders with ease. and up ladders

seven feet where the water is

board a deep. Above n white

Bome of them actually swim 1,000 miles from the sea and climb streams a mile above sea

-M. S. Sholton

Salmon go across white board oh way up ladder,

The First Auto Licence Plates

United States is a

Tation on wheels. But few realise the significance

of the licence numbers and letters displayed, or under- stand how important they

Arc.

Around 1000, automobile owners frightened horses and cauned injuries to passers-by.

Yet the driver had no responsi- ility to do anything about these offenses. Or if he did, t was casy to get out of

Police ught Klve mulorists But orders to appoor ip court. when the date of the hearing arrived and it was found many 1.5 lven wrong names and addresse There was no way tr trace them then.

As a consequence,

aplicants got back a

half-

In 1901 dollar-size aluminum disk bear-

New York passed a law requiring a number. ing all car owners tu register by

During the Erst year. New sending in a one-dollar Zee. The York took in about $1,000 from

the sale of these licences. Bv 1950 the amount had grown to over $76,000,000, and it in creases every years

In those early days, car owners marked their machines with their registration numbers in any way that suited them. Some daubed the numbers on the rear end of their cars with paint, some painted them on

pur the windshield, others. chased cutout house numbers and fastened them to a board or a plece of harness leather.

As other cities and followed New York's

Wisconsin had zinc plates, California used brass numerals attached to a steel wire frame, Others

markers, used' rubber Mexico, one year, used plates equipped with reflecting glass numbers that could be read in the dark.

Those Pesky ZOO'S WHO

Mosquitoes

A is mosquito, is a very

MOSQUITO, before it

long larva that hangs head downward in 題 stagnant pool.

This larva never drowns be- cause its breathing apparatus is In the end of its tail. Ils like a Anorkel tube.

The head of the larva is large for the rest of it and has brush- like hairs around its mouth Just which move the current gently

enough to allow the larva to cat ile particles of food that drift past.

Later, this larva develope into another stage, something like a tadpole. Only now does a reverse. It puts its head to the water's surface to breathe. A pair of tubes has developed on the thorax. The thorax any insect, you know, is that part between the bend and the abdomen.

of

This stage of life is called the pupa.

It isn't through yel. It grows into a winged mosquito, but | since its winga ore wok, it can't fly.

All-

Nature has helped out ing the discarded pupa skin Steel plates were used from with ale which floats 1920 until World War 31, when the water. Thus the insect can sect can steel shortages forced sub-rest and dry its wings for its stitutions. Illinois voted

comfirst light.

the binalons.

Her

THE CALL OF THE BOB WHITE IS GIVEN ONLY BY THE MALE, IT IS HIS MATING CALL.

WUFF/

THE PRAIRIE DOG IS NOT A REAL DOG BUTA MEM- BER OF THE GROUND SQUIRREL FAMILY...

NEARLY 2000- SPECIES OF SHRIMP EXIST.

PENGUINS DIFFER FROM OTHER. BIRDS IN THAT THEIR WINGS ARE ¡MODIFIED INTO SWIMMING PADDLES

| FOR WHICH THEY ARE EXCLUSIVELY USED.

Merlin And The Shadows

-Just Being Themselves is Best, They Find-

By MAX TRELL

"WHICH would you rather

the Shadow Knarf, Boy with the Turned-About Would you rather be small s Name, asked his alster Haald.

a fly or as big as a telephone

"I don't know," sald Hanid. "What would you rather be?"

Before Knart had a chance to answer his own question, there was a sound of footsteps, and Mr Merlin the Magnificent Ma- gician, came out.

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pressed paper with a soybean Only the female mosquito content a failure after hungry guilty of biting mammals, cows began using the tags for mate is content to subsist on polo?" Insly snacks.

vegetablo Julees and the nectar Even today there is no set of flowers. standard among the states ng On a stagnant pool, the fe- counties to width and height of tags male drops her eggs all in one example Each state has its own reasons bunch, in sort of a ratt.

The and registered motor vehicles, for its auto tag colour com-new larvae hatch by pushing it was seen that this was

off the lids of the lower ends of way to keep drivers from es-

But one thing is certain, all their eggs, The cycle starts coping responsibility in case of vehicles today have Identifying again. accidents.

undergone plates. They have

Some mosquitoes eause seri- disenso in man. Malarin Gradually the

took quite a change since the make-ous atates

shift oues of the "horseless cat- fever is caused by mosquitoes in over the job, with each state

the toples or very warm climates. regulating the

manufacturing riages,"

Another mlachevious mos quito carries yellow fever.

It was this disease which wased trousers, patent leather shoes caught in a spider's web (that rampant in the Panama Canal and a tall slik bat, and he car fly was Mr Merlin). Zone and prevented completion ried a cane,

and use of its auto tags.

-M. S. Shelton

BOYS ENJOYED MARBLES

PREHISTORIC BOYS

YHEN

American boys

Wala marbles they are

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the feet wide, raiced more than A elrcle is drawn on ground or sidewalk and a cer- foot above the ground and hav- fain number of marbles pinced ing a wooden rim to keep the

from

OIL his marbles only carrying on the popu- in li. The player takes

running

middle-ager a many inest marble, his "shooter," be- There larity of an ancient game.

thumb and

"aw" forefinger took part in a game of Ages ago when man was just tween

at the marbles in to the delight of a cheering emerging into the early light of and shoots history his fierce litle chuggy- the circle, trying to knock out gallery. haired offspring must have dis- as many as he can. covered the joys of the game. At any rate, scientists have de- cided that the ana}} apheres found among the remains this early civilization

of

* *

Bat the Zutus of South Africa

The British Museum contains play what seems like a comble marbles used by Egyptian and nation of marbles and golf. The Roman children. Back in those are too player makes nine holes in the days marbles were really made ground lo a straight line and frem chips of marbles. small for any sort of weapon, tries to toss his marble Into and say they were for children'z

each hole in suboemion in the And in the 18th century, when sport.

fewest pornbla plays.

Nuremburg, Germany, was the

The game has not always centre of trade on the continent, Marbles hus always been been for youngsters only. in the very cheapest marbles were

100 years strictly a sport, and strictly for England until

ago painted by hand and painsiak- boys, with "ring law" being the many a favern took pride in its ingly decorated with concentric Our marbles today are most popular way to play the fine marble niley, which was a rings.

cement bet 20 feet long by 12 of stone, class or baked clay..

Rome,

Some Wise Detective

FOR

of the canal for so long.

In Magician's Clothes

Mr Merlin was dressed in his magician's clothes. He wore a beautiful black coat and strip-

There were three fles up near the ceiling.

The third y almost

Kot

Puzzle

Pete's

COLUMN

Change.ot Pace:

· CROSSWORD ·

ACROSS

1 Walt at table

6. "On theof the Lonesome

Pinc"

7 Body of water

0 Ever (pont.)

10 Father

11 Pronoun

12 Wine vessel 14 Conducted 15 Girl's pame 17 Set anew

1 Liner

2 Agc

DOWN

3 Egyptian sun god

4 Contend

L Simple substance

7 Health resort

9 Crimson

13 Malt drink

14 Southern general

10 Lone Scout (ab.)

DOUBLE-THREAT

"K" WORDS

See how many words begins

ning with "K" you can' and in

A few minutes later, the this sketch Cartoonist Cal pre-

Dr Waller C. Reed, an Army "We were just wondering." three fles were back in surgeon, demonstrated first in Knart started to say, "whether room again. The fly with the decide which are out of place the pared as a double-threat, then Havana, Cuba, that the disease it is better to be as small as a

cane thumped it up and down in the scene depleted: the ny or as tall as a telephone and there stood Knart and

could be transmitted by moquito. From this it was dis covered that the disease could be controlled by eradicating the mosquito.

-Lois. C. Ryker

Mercury.

By William J. Weiser Jr.

pole."

Hanid and Mr. Merlin onco more In the middle of the toom.

"I often wondered about that myself," replied Mr Merlin, as he slood in the centre of tho

it was agreed by all room and twirled the cane in it being a fly was very little the air. The cane turned into fun.

an eel, and then into A length

three

of rope, and then into A long "Now we'll try being a tele- † string of spaghetti and then phone pole," said Mr Merlin,

as it He back into a cane ngain

Ćane banged his

again twirled around Mr

minmured Merlin's against the floor,

some strange words and in n flash they all disappeared. And sal three telephone, polea were

hand..

"Mr. Merlin,

dear," Hanid, "wouldn't you like

to standing along the side of

the

F prizes were awarded to really know whether a better road. A candi leaned against tho

planets for being dif-to be as small as a dy or as inst polo. ferent, Venus's neighbour, big as a telephone pole?" Mercury, would win the

most trophies.

It's the smallest planet-5,100

222 miles in diameter,

Work

OR thousands of years findings and a German actron- that moved. One day, in Janu- who started the search a quar- Too, omer found the planet three outermost he predicted would be.

where ary, 1030, a faint, star-like ob ter of a century before. .the

fel moved. It was the new Pluta was the god of darkness, planets Uranus, Neptune

and the world through which planct. Just as in the ease of, Nep- and Pluto-spun through

The little planet was given the tiny planet pins is very

the dark and gloomy. Pluto, because the skies unknown to men, time, delective work was re- the name

esponsible the discovery of first two letters of its name are It wasn't until 1781, when the Pluto. The main clue was that the initials of Percival Lowell, William J. Walter Jr. American Revolutionary War Neptune wasn't travelling in the was drawing to a close, that exact path it should. Asiron- Uranus was

accidentally dis- emers decided there must covered by an astronomer who another planet beyond it..

bo

FISH APLENTY, GET YOUR ROD

had bèon scanning the heavens Percival Lowell, the man who studied Mars so closely, started

for years.

Ils Ander, William Herschel, work on the celestial mystery

First Try

"I certainly would,” Mr Mer- lin told her, "In fact, I think

It's the nearest to the sun-36 all three of us ought to know million miles away.

what it's like. Well, let's be It's the fastest planet-going fles Afst. Here we go." 30 miles second.

It's the holiest planet.

Mr Merlin tapped on the This little planet, which is Door with his cans. He mumbled lem than half the size of Earth, | couldn't · support life

know it because of ils extreme heat and cold.

One of the poles was alenosti blown down by the wind (that) polo was Knarf).

Hit By Lightning

The second at the poles, was almost struck by lightning (that pole was Hanfd),

The third rode was almost same strange words. The next bumped by a man in an auto- we second, Knarf and Hould and mobile (that pole was Mr Mer- Mr Merlin himselt bad com- in). The cane was tipped over. pletely vanished and there were three Alles buzzing around the room just under the ceiling.

There are two reasons for Its great heat: It always keeps the came face to the sun (Just as moon. always keeps the samo 'stao to.Earth). It is so near the sun.

our

Carrying a Cano

One of the files seemed to be carrying a cane. All three files open It gets by far the most sun-buzzed out through the light; in fact, soven times or window. nuch as Earth receives. On its sunny side, the temperature may hit by a fly-awatter when get as hot as 710 degrees, or hotj enough to melt lead

flew into a neighbour's kitchen Since one side of Mercury 13 (that fly was Knart).

always light, the other side is

One of the files was

- DUB THEE

FİR KENNETH!

-SCRAMBLERS

Scramble

a word for "sof A few minutes Inter Hart conadent" and have " mowing and Hand and Mr Merlin were instrument. back in the room again,

Scramble "antives of Nope of them liked being a mark" and have a car body": telephone pole any more than re-scramble and havo "collège

officinis." they liked being à fly.

Den-

DI

"Now what I think is this," Scramble "a Greek war god” said Hanid, "The best thing to and have "withered": be is to be ourselves."

scramble and bava ""argans of hearing"; again 'and "oges."

almost

1

it

And Knart and ngreed with her,

Mr Merlin

irst thought Uranus was a tail at his observatory at Flagstoff, MANY people imagine and all the other living things

that fish are found all on earth, So even if the fishing always in darkness. In these tanded on a sheet of fly paper candy, a shoelace and a long

less cœnet, and it wasn't until Arizona.

year later that, i was identi

fied as

a

planet.

newly discovered.

Lost Capitols

Then Mr Merin returned to his bookcase, twirling his cane, The second to fly almost which turned into a sick of is not good, this does not mean frozen, dark wasichands, the over the

wisp of smoke, as he walked. ocean, and they that there is any lack of fish to temperature is believed to be (that my was Hanld).

about 450 degreen below zero. *) long to get out where "tho be caught.

Between these two hot and His calculations showed that really big ones" are.

cold halves da a strip called the However, the discovery of

The fact is, the finny crea-

twilight zone. Here the tem- -an unknown planet should be Uranus twio. Neptune, was no somewhere in a patch of sky tures are not found far beyond

peraturen would be TROTV poeldent but the result of astro- behind which would be thou- the shelt of cach continent,

modernia" and if any life existi, This shelf extenda for a mile homion) détective work. Autbun, sands of stars.

which is very doubtful, it would to about 15 miles around each By Bobbie E. Rogerman omers, staring Uranus.

be in this band that separates continent, and then stopes off MATCH the capitol cities in the hot and cold hemispheres. into great depths of 1,000 feet 1 Column 2 to their home It was thought for hundreds or more.

stato in Column 1. There is anot years that Mercury had no

city to make the quiz atmosphere at all, in 1050 A species of fish now to the extra

very thin shell of gas was dis- experts in the field has recently more difficult.

covered, but it is far too thin to support animal life.

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that it was straying from its Because Pluto is so small, the Job of locating it took, many

predicted path.

-

years.

Astronomers, working

in

An amaicur antronomer, T. J. Lowell's observatory, knew that beini caught along the coast off Hursoy, suggested that an un- it might be seen in sky photo- | Australia, and about three miles) 1. Missouri.

COLUMN 1 Imown planet might be pulling graphs because a planet moves of the Continental shelf there, ncross the sky while the stars

2. liinals Uranus from its orbit.

behind it remain almost steady. Eighteen of these newcomers to 3. Kentucky

the now-known fish family 4. North Two men, one in England and the other in France, working Many sky photographs were weighed 400 pounds, They are Dakota

the area where the good to ent. Aussie fishermen 5. California Independently, started calculat taken of

over the find, and Colorado ing just where in the sky the new planet was thought to be. are clated /unsoen planet should be."

A young Kanaas farm. youth 47 the waters must be 'teen- Clyde W. Tombaugh, who ing with them, since '20 of the John Couch Adams of Eng worked at the observatory, was big fellow slipped out of the net. land made the first correct cal- given the task of comparing the culations in 1840, but his find- photos. ings were ignored at first,

Day after day ho stádled FA year later the Frenchman, thousands of star spooks on the Urbain Loverrlor, published his photographs, hoping to see ene

There are more creatures in the sens than on the earth, in

COLUMN 2

a. Frankfort b. Biznaric `c. Sacramenta d. Springfeld

e. Jefferson.

City

f. Charleston

6. New York, ` `μ. Concord

4, West 19 h. Cheyenne Virginia 1. Albany "New", 1.Jackson Hampabiro k. Denver the earth, and in the air above 10. Wyoming earth, all put together.

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deed, there are more falien than gor-2.0 13 6 2 in a logiq ja there are insects, animals, birds, jeg ip 'g to [-BAIMENY

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Whilïo - #elenlists think this Ituo planet is a lifeless world, 'dark patches have been de- rected by astronomers with powerful telescopes, But wo know nothing about their origin or mature,

In fact, we aren't sure Moroney is Hat or mountainous because we can't sen" it closITZY

· mough. Merouny le:hard to ase broncso, lí, že – nó - mear theʻ wan and "must be viewed nose" the herkom just - berdin sumnjao ne Júst after: mARTÍ,

Rupert and the Early Bird-27

Over' a hurriedly prepared breaks, except the skylarka, and shay fast Ruptet tells his Mummy of the "don't come year the villips, inckdaya unyaval idea, *** That I wonder iƐ Edargant knows how must be a Very odd bird," saya" odd her jackdaw is,'! wys, Rupert. Mrs. Bear." in fact, the whole "She'd better hest of thin.?", șa thing, is odd. Whose egg is 15? when he is dryssed be yata persila. None of the ordinary birds around. Esion nod nická zway to tal-kar all hers, by their skra lo the grass. Abone it.

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Find the right starting point, then read each letter either,up, down, backward, or forward (not diagonally) to find the seven states Puzzle Pete has concealed to his State Square,

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