The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-26
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The croaking of frogs or toads I'M
der water is heard mt some distance
and the love-call of certain fishes Is
audible from a depth of several faith
oms. An English observer points out
that sounds pass much less readily
from air TO water. lie credits fishes
with sensitive hearing apparatus,
but has satisfied himself that speaking
does not disturb trout or other fish
Yet slight stump on the ground
causes the creature TO dart away.
Spiders are not always solitary crea-
lures. 4 scientist has lately found In
Southern India species of spiders
that builds spongy nests with outlying
webs. each nest being occupied by forty
TO one hundred spiders. with n large
excess Of females; sometimes five or
six nests are clustered together. The
spiders not only live and work to-
gcther but they share with one an
other any prey that may be captured,
and some even show maternal affection
approaching self-sacrifice.
The Lancet advocates the use Of
snalls MS food. The SNAIL it says, has
been called the poor mans oyster"
II makes an excellent fish sauce and
may be used for the same purpose as
oyster sauce. Care must be exercised
In the choice of the snail for food
purposes, as it is well known that
snails feed on poisonous plants. and
1t is the custom In France to allow
few days TO elapse after they have
been taken from their feeding ground
in order that any poisonous matter
may be eliminated.
The fight of boomerangs is illus
trated by l.. Pfaundler a German lee
turer. 10y means of various shaped lit
tie models, from two to four inches
long. These are cut from aluminium
foil fiftieth of an inch thick, and
they are hammered convex on one
side The model is placed on table
with the concave edge TO the front.
one edge projecting over the side of
the table almost on a level with the
top of "A fat vertical spring. The
spring drives the boomerang forward
and upward six or eight yards, and
then the bit of metal returns and
falls near its. starting point.
Concrete piles of an unusual form
have recently been tested in New York.
According TO the Iron Age they are
made by spreading a layer of concrete
on wire fabric to which longitudinal
rods are attached at intervals. The
fabric is Immediately rolled up in a
special machine of simple construction,
and the pile then laid aside to harden
1t thus contains, in addition to the
fabric, any desired number of vertical
rods. In a cross-section of the pile
the fabric lies spirally from the inside
to the exterior of the concrete. If so
desired any one of the rods may he
made u hollow tube thus allowing for
the use of the water jet.
/ The Craveri method of preserving
meat lately found by Italian experts
to promise advantages over all
other processes. consists in draining
the veins Of the slaughtered animal
and then injecting a solution of one
hundred parts Of water, twenty-five OF
kitchen salt and four of acetic acid tC
the amount Of one-tenth Of the Living
weight. In the Turin tests. treated
sheep and calf we're hung for seventy
five DAYS in cellar at sixty-one de
Srees f. They were then skinned
dressed ana cut up, while the flesh was
found fresh in appearance with nc
trace Of putrefaction, and proved to bt
tender unusually well Favored. di