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FREAK GOLDFISH.

How Man Has “Improved” Nature.

No fish is more deserving of Jame as An aquarium Inmate than the common goldfeh for

it has suffered more than any

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

MODELS WHICH SPEAK.

FRESH

Astificial Vascau Say Words Distinctly.

| TRAVEL, ` DIAMONDS; AND CHARITY.

Express was troubled with the plasticine with larynxos of rubber

A correspondent in the Daily

"Artifcial "mouths" made of delightful problem: what to do

to

with a sudden windfall of £500, are the latest results of scientific other, not only from ignorance the anawon is simple. He would speak" by means of a resonator If a man is in dire need of £500 experiments which way in duo

Gaurae enablo the dumb as to its requirements, but, as

the whims of pay his bilia and apond it in that would reproduce all the a martyr to braedors, writes Mr. A. E. Hodgs, £500 descends suddenly on a man ordinary human beings.

necessities. If, on the other hand, sounds and words mado by F. Z. 8., in the Daily Chronicle,

who is glad to have it but does. They are the invention of Bir By its peculiar charm and beauty it has hold its own as a not really nood it, and must spend Richard A. 8. Pagot Bt., who, in fit, the probleru becomes interest-

a paper road to members of the ing and moro difficult.

Here are a number of solutions Royal Society, stated that the models bo has designed havo boon gathered from men and women in made distinctly to say such words A man of fifty: I would give "mother," weather," "barry," and "ango" (the lattor tho upwork for three months and French for "angel.") winter in Egypt, going there by

always longed to soe.

popular pet in this country over

since its introduction from China nearly 250 years ago.

In its typical form, the goldfish is hardly deserving of its name, for it is of a brownish-alivor tint,

London.

A

Sir Richard attacked the pro-

and, if introduced into a pond and loft alone, cultivated stock will soon revert to the dingy huo of way of Greece, which I have blam of reproducing human

speech by means of a sorios of A man of twenty-five: If I resonating models from the point! had to spend it and could not of view that it appears to be invest it in Savings Certificates

their ancestors.

Wo

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Battery Path.

THE "LION HEAD."

It la from albino varieties that, by patient process of selection, the gorgeous goldfiab with which

I would buy diamonds, and bold essentially a branch of human Aro 80 familiar has boon them until I could make a profit to identify without the aid of gesture, which the ear has loannod produced, whilst crossing with melanic specimene has resulted on them.

Thus the laughter Another man of twenty-five: sound Ha, ha' is essentially a

Bight. in the many variotion,

would like to live for three amilo mado audible and omphalic Apart from rod, yellow, white. months or so in the most ox-by the suddon variegated or ontirely black

passage of ponsivo botels in Europe, go vibrating air." (moor)

transparently about in porfootly made clothos, forme, scaled--or "scaloless" as they are danco in the bost places, and all reproduce vowel sounds,

Ho first of all endeavoured to called-fish may be mottled with that sort of thing.

For When it was this purpose he made a resonator bluo or lavender.

Goldfish are apt to change back broke and find a job, for of the human mouth cavity. Tho over I'd be quite content to come in plasticine, shaped in imitation colour at any time, the tendonoy should have soon life, being from dark to light buon,

model was progressively aitored A girl of ninetoon: I would by raisingthe tongue, reducing the they are all of the sombro grey starting noxt week. tint referred to above.

ing the mouth, and the alteration A woman of thirty-one: I

of the rosenɑnoce was noted at would give £400 to my father each modification. In cultivation of form, almoat and mother, who are old and An artificial larynx (tho sound unpardonable liberties have boon poor, and I would spend £100 on box at the top of the wind-pipe) taken with tho goldfish by myself, buying things I have was subsequently added to the Chinese and Japanese breedere always wanted and will never model. This consisted of a rubber indulging in their love for the have. I have always wanted a strip fixed edgowino across

£50 beaver coat and a set of tor-fattoned air passage, formed in grotesque.

The chunky bodies of most tolsoshell-backer bair brushes paraffin wax and encased in fancy varfoties, now very popular and a manicure set in real jade. in America, are so abcormally A middle-aged woman: I would) developed that all sorts of in- buy a week ond cottago near ternal derangements result, and, Londen, which I would lot most in the case of the Chinoso eggfish of the year. and the Japanese lionhead- A man of thirty-five: I would which has to go through life with go straight to Monte Carlo and| ahead like a gigantic raspberry put my money on the tables in --those unfortunato victims to the hope of cóming book really culturo have difficulty in main-rich. taining their balance owing to the ontiro absonse of a back-fin.

This "deformity" is common to the Celestial, which has earned its name from the fact that its oyas project upwards, or "honvon- wards," so that it has virtually!

RARE CHINESE POTTERY.

plastioino.

TALKING FILM.

д

Big Progress in Latest Attempt.

Porfoot "timing" has baen achloved in the phonofilm, the talking motion picture, and shown to the Royal Society of Arts recently, by Mr. C. F. Elwell.

Tho Do Forest Phonofilm, as it in called after the inventor, is a distinct advanco

all upon provious offorts in making to look out of the top of its head. Soveral objects

Those who appreciate the pro-archaeological interost were add-it in only in the exporimontal]

of great cinematograph articulate, though polling power of a fish's tail willed to the British Museum at the stage, and has at present definito wonder how the motoor goldfish meeting of the Trusteer, which limitations, the result shows that manages to swim at all, scoing took place recently. that it has not

apology" for a taill

avon

TELESCOPIC EYIS

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British Museum Acquisition.

much of the mechanical side of

HOW IT WORKS

The Ceramics Department not the problem is solved. ably bonefited by the purchase of! In fact British productions will a Chinese porcelain vase of the be attempted shortly with this] One of the most repulsive pro-Hung Chih period (1488 1505) of new mothad. ductions of the Chinese to my the Mitg Dynasty and also by a Mr. Elwoll showed several way of thing, is the socalled gift by Mr. O. C. Raphael of a talking rocls. The first, a one- "tolescope" in which the oyes pro-collection of ourly Chinese sketch. "Cohen on the Tolophone." trudo so far from the sides of the pottery. The vaso is of typical was not very successful, because head that they have boon known Ming ahapo with high shouldors of the resonanco produced in the to fall out; whilst in the caso of and small mouth; about sixteen soundhorn, and the strong Am- the tumbler goldfish the curva-inches high. It is decorated oriican-accent. ture of the spino actually causes with Imperial five-claweddragona Then followed a series of vocal the fish to turn somersaults in and olauda Tho porcelain of and instrumental items which the water.

this short Ming reign is extremely were admirable, and a dance with The person who can derive scarce to-day, and this is undoubt-orchestral affects that was tho pleasure from watching such a odly the most important example best of the lot. lepoctacle should fino a home for which has as yet been found.

cripples highly amusing l

The collection of early Chineso

The demonstrator explained With the exception, of course, potiory comes from excavations of the tailless meteor, all the near the Tientsin-Pukow and the that when the pictures are taken the volco or instrument is simul- mentioned havo Lung-Hai railways in Contral monstrosition" twin tails, but these are not the China, and comprises 72 pieces, taneously recorded by lines on a long, elegant, train-like caudal ranging in date from the Chou narrow strip of celluloid. aprondages which, with a largo (1122-235 B.C.) to the Sung dynasty microphone and a three electrodo With the aid of a very sensitivo: asil-like dorsal fin, adorn the (960-1279 A.D.), many of which fringotails and voiltails.

Bro now and interesting types.

valuo amplifior the Though some of these fancy Special interest attaches to tric currents, Those are turned waves are transformed into elec- "freaks"-roally the result of series of Sung pottery and into light, which is permantly re- centuries of patient cultivation- stonoware found in the nor h are worth their weight in gold, of the province of Kiangsu; film, and this is the negative.

corded on the sensitised celluloid for simple symmetry, graça and a loonlity noted for its cream. beauty, give me a healthy gold white wares in the Sung period, simultaneously the roll of post- To reproduce sound and, soone fish of humble breed, even though] It includes a "wastor," or spoilt its value is but as many ponca as piece, found at Blaohsion, in the tivo film le placed in the cinema that of its glorified brothron is neighbourhood of the old Sung Projector, to which has been fit- pounds.

kilns, and thus rondors possible tod an attachment containing a the identification for the Arat time of the Sung white ware for which the place was famous,

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journalist and the father of the

sound

mall incandescent lamp. This shines through a fine alit and the sound record in action passes before this illuminated slit, tho fluctuating beam of light so ob- tained falling upon a photo- cleatrio coll.

At the last moeting of the craft.

The light, therefore, is ohanged Dublin Litary Society M. H. D. Steel, in The Tatler, gained again into small electric currents. Brunicordi read an interesting journalistic experience that By means of the three electrode paper

"Journalists and broadonad and onlariced his valve again, there small ourrents. Litoraturo."

litorary ability. Journalism had are again increased in strongthi In eearch for early journa-boon described at a dinner in until they are strong enough to lists, the lecturer said, he would London as "Literaturo's poor operate a loud speaker. Tho havo to go back about 400 relation." This was not a fair timing of notion and sound, is

B. C. to And the description of the connection be- porfoot, first one. Thucydidos, the his-twoon journalism and literature. From this achievement Mr. torian, might be rogarded as the The school of journalisur was a Elwol argued that an entirely first reporter, his account of the school of experience through new form of soreen drama can Phoenician War being written in whose gates many of the most now be worked out the way an ordinary reportor successful of modern writers bad. He admitted that the ordinary would act about his tank.

passed to fame, and the "poor silent drams will not in general Julius Caesar might also be relation" had given to literature, be improved by the addition of the regarded as another early jour-more than any other profession. aloe. But it was reasonable nalist. Ho referred to the en-In spite of the noors at journ- to ‹deolaro” that. It is up to |tablishment of the first news alism by writers, it would, he scenario witers to see the, new paper, by Daniel Dofce, who soon that journalism had tributed, possibilites, and to work up their published the life and adventuros no small part in the development, situations and scenes around of Robinson Crusoe, 200 years of literature, both prose and such soonatio effects as can ba ago. Defoe was the first Engilsh poetry,

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