Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-26

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AN astonishing number Of edible sea-
weeds is known to the native Hawaii+
ans, who give to these kinds and some
otners the general name of ''limu."
Some of the great reservoirs in the
country districts that supply certain
Engllsh cities with their water have
become populous breeding places for
water fowl and are we'll stocked with
valuable fish.
A South African paper reports:
whales are frequently seen in close
proximity to Table bay-in fact. at
times, in the bay-but rarely or never
has one been known to come within
the dock area. During the early hours
Of recent morning, however, one of
these sea monsters was seen for some
hours by the night watchmen of tho
liable bay harbor board swimming
from Loeb jetty to the South Arm and
back again. It evidently could not find
Its way out Of the dock for some time,
but as daylight broke it suddenly dis
appeared"
Diabetes promises to be one Of our
serious future troubles, as reasons are
found for believing that the great in.
crease Of the disease in the last quar-.
ter Of century has been due largely
to the increase in railway travel. Sta.
tistics Of British and French railways
show that the mortality from diabetes
among engineers, firemen, brakemen
and other travelling attendants is great.
ly in excess Of that in the general pop
ulation. This Is attributed to vibration,
and as we become more and more adj
dicted to riding on railways and in
automobiles the evil is likely to go on
increasing until remedy is found.
Flying fish are very voracious. In
their turn they are preyed upon by bar
racudas, sharks, Nolphins, bill-fish, red.
fish and hundred and one others. Ma.
ture has colored the flying fish ~protec.
lively. The back is deep blue, merg-
ing into the blue of the seas they fire.
quenty SO that they are invisible few
feet below the surface, while the I'M
derneath is a dazzling white, and to a
fish that looks upward must merge
into the light falling on the sea. In
addition they possess the unique power
Of flight. Flying fish are about seven
inches long and the spread Of wings is
about equal to their length. The wing
Is Of thin, gauzy substance, having
stifening sinews, like the fiber Of
leaf, to strengthen it.
Though first made by Fouche and
Picard as recently as 1901, the oxyacct.
ylene blowpipe is now employed in
France by at least three hundred or
four hundred establishments. Improve
ments have been brought out, and
three types Of the apparatus have been
developed, the chief differences being
in the means taken to prevent the re-
turn Of the flame into the gas RISER
voir. In one form, porous substances
are used; in the second, wire gauze:
in the third, small tubes Of great
length. These blowpipes consume from
one hundred to 1850 cubic feet Of
oxygen per one hundred cubic feet OF
acetylene, and they give results sur.
passing those Of the oxyhydrogen
blowpipe, the temperatures running up
to more than 5000 degrees G.
The huge brown bears Of Alaska,
a specimen Of which, 8 feet long and
weighing 1000 pounds, has just been
mounted at the Museum Of Natural
History in New York, are said 10 be
skillful salmon fishers. Apparently the
labor Of supplying the family with fish
falls upon the mother bear. Some
times, according to a writer in the SCH
entific American, she wades, upright,
into rivers SO deep that the waite.
reaches her neck. Her movements are
very cautious. Walking slowly on her
hind legs, with her forepaws out
stretched at her sides, she waits until
a salmon, running upstream, inadver-
tently brushes against her. Instantly
she seizes it and filings it out on the
bank, where her hungry cubs are wait
ing. After their appetite Is satisfied
she catches fish for herself.