SOME NEW DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE

...As long as homes are available, rats will thrive...

...These dart a deadly poison into most small organisms with which they~"come into contact...

...The big fish is a bell-shaped creature of cartilage and jelly...

...As population increases water will become more and more difficult to obtain...

...Killed or paralyzed, the victims of these stings are immediately swept up by the tentacles, or fingers, into the interior of the bell-shaped creature...

...The essentials of a good pencil wood cannot be found in any woodland tree...

...Schroster and Prof...

...From studies already made it is believed that nearly 1,500 Indians lived in Pueblo Bonito at one time...

...So many of these discussions refer to problems of everyday life...

...The Labrador current, which carries the great floating islands of ice out into the path of steamships, has long been familiar, but, for many years, has been little understood...

...Foremost among these newer projects is the reindeer industry, now firmly established and earning money...

...Reindeer are now herded like sheep, in Alaska...

...SEAL MIGRATION THE annual migration of the Pacific seals has begun and Indians of the Alaskan Coast are now in one of the busiest seasons of the year—the annual seal hunting period...

...Greatly enhanced speeds of travel will overcome the difficulty of di-tanee...

...Lind believes that it will not be long until apples, pears, peaches and similar fruits will be picked while green, shipped to their destination and placed in cold storage...

...The transparent fish, which is about a foot in diameter, moves through the water by opening and closing like an umbrella, taking its small fish as passengers...

...The test is made after this fashion: First, catch your suspect...

...This solution changes from yellow to green in proportion to the percentage of alcohol in the breath, and Dr...

...then, persuade him to blow up an ordinary football...

...For years the one menace to rats on ship-froard, was the familiar ship's cat, a part of the standard equipment of every vessel...

...Verily, the courts must be provided with footballs and we must have law compelling prisoners to blow them up with such breath as they have acquired...

...Pictures have already been successfully transmitted to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and other cities...

...A seven million dollar ice box," they called the new acquisition...

...BARNACLES BARNACLE-BER1DDEN vessels need merely spend a few days in fresh water, in order to rid their hulls of this marine growth...

...Valier is studying the possibilities of a rocket ship...

...The host apparently gets a small share of its kill, most of it being bolted by the guests...

...Many methods have been employed in attempts te eliminate these rodents from a favored habitat —the helds of sea going vmeefe—but complete suussess has never been achieved...

...If the animal is shot by mistake, or proves, for any reason, an undesirable specimen, the bullet can easily be removed, and the beast will then soon revive and go on its way uninjured...

...In at least one region, however, there is no objection to destruction of the seals...

...They swim in and out among the poisoned tentacles at will...

...In the Spring of each year the Pacific seals swing northward for their spawning season, in the Pribilof Islands, in Bering Sea...

...The Canadian Navy has to protect the migrating animals from these law breakers...

...But, on the whole, the animals need protection during the long journey to the breeding grounds...

...LABRADOR CURRENT EVER since that memorable night when the liner "Titanic" went down the currents off Labrador have been a subject of great interest...

...Ethylene is said to give the fruit a luscious appearance and to bring out the flavor as well...

...Jules Verne's prophecy of half a century ago, as evidenced in "From the Earth to the Moon," may yet come true, just as other of his long-supposed mental phantasies have becoHie realities...

...Count Arco, Dr...

...Consequently, new vessels are being rat-proofed yrhen they are built...

...Now, public health officers, who have joined forces in the everlasting warfare against rats, declare the only way to prevent them, is to build rat-proof vessels...

...Karolus, the latter being the genius of television on the Continent, are now in Austria arranging details at the Vienna end...

...The results of the trip are still being compiled but several items of interest have already been announced, among which is a partial explanation of the current...

...Following the loss of the marine growth the ship recorded greater speed and a substantial saving of fuel...

...Of course, our ordinary, propeller-driven airplane will never be capable of trips to outer space...

...WHEN the United States purchased Alaska in 1867, our government came in for much ridicule...

...In later «iays, trapping, fumigating) poisoning, and other methods of extermination have been employed, with no great success...

...Most ships are full of tiny nooks and crannies where rats can dwell in comparative peace, rearing families in the utmost safety...

...RAT-PROOFING FROM earliest times, rats have been one of the greatest nuisances aboard ship...

...If fruit can be picked while green, loss from decay during shipment will be materially lessened, effecting an immense saving...

...S. C. LIND, of the University of Michigan, advocates a most unusual use for ethylene gas by his declaration that this byproduct can be successfully used to ripen fruit...

...The building is arranged ^inuch like a modern apartment house, with some 800 rooms (without baths, however), and 30 ceremonial chambers under ground...

...It is declared that twenty seconds is all that is necessary to send an average-size photograph, A short commercial wave length of 50 meters will be used...

...The material must not be too hard, or it cannot be easily whittled...

...Unfortunately, water supply is regulated by Nature and cannot be flexed to meet the demands of mankind...

...BEEBF, who ha been observing the ocean-bottom, off Haiti, for the N. Y. Zoo Society, has reported a most wonderful creature in shape of a transparent jelly fish which held in its interior sometimes as many as 300 living fish—nftnble silvery things an inch or two long...

...WATER DEFICIENCIES in water supply are cropping up in many communities as a result of rapidly increasing population and the Water Resources Branch of the Geological Survey is now engaged in a study of surface water, ground water, quality of water and power resources, in an attempt to help out the situation...

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...WOOD FOR PENCILS MANUFACTURERS of the common lead pencil are becoming worried, as a result of the statement made, not long ago, that the available supply of red cedar, now used almost exclusively for pencils, is not long for this world...

...He expects to gradually increase the present altitude posssibility of airplanes until interplanetary trips become possible...

...in the Fraser River Country, hair seals are being killed for bounty...

...Neil M. Judd, archaeologist of the Smithsonian Institute, who has led seven parties to...

...Consequently a tremendous task lies before the scientists of the Geological Survey, if they are to work out plans for the salvation of certain districts...

...TELEVISION COMES the report from Germany that a Ber- lin to Vienna television service is to be begun this month, which indicates how rapidly the world progresses in the science of transmitting pictures by wire...

...SLEEP-BULLETS AMONG the newer inventions, one especially interesting from a scientific viewpoint is Captain B. W, Harris' sleep-producing bullet, with which he proposes to venture into the wilds of Africa, Borneo and India in quest of big game...

...The animals are even being domesticated and ridden like horses...

...Professor Judd's report will be completed, after the return...

...It is planned to transmit pictures and telegrams at the same time, thus enabling newspapers to receive stories and illustratioas ready for instant use...

...Here Valier is proceeding along scientific lines in his attempt to design ships that will go where none have flown before...

...Modern scientists have done wonders...

...In short, a thriving^ industry has appeared almost like magic and even greater returns are assured from our "seven million dollar ice box...

...SHIPS OF SPACE HARD on the heels of trans-Atlantic airplane success comes the announcement from Germany that a young German scientist, Max Valier, is already at work on the problem of flights "into space...

...sufficing to almost clear the hull...

...Without a doubt, some wood will be found which ean replace red cedar without imposing too great a handicap on pencil makers...

...The little silver fish and one other species, were immune to this poison...

...for, several new industries are springing up in our northernmost territory...

...A fourteen months' accumulation of shells and seaweed graced the under portion of this U. S. submarine tender when she entered Gatun Lake, a few weeks ago...

...Pueblo Bonito, discovered as a mound of fallen stones and sand, has been carefully dug out and plans are now afoot to cement, where necessary, in order to strengthen and preserve what remains...

...And, today, the prospects of increased earning power are bright...

...This gives a sample of his breath, which is passed through a solution of "potassium dichromate...

...This scale registers from l-10th of 1 per cent, or decently "dry," to 1/2 of 1 per cent, or "dead" drunk...

...Captain Harris wants to take his prey alive, as he is official collector for one of the Country's largest zoos...

...The drop-off of the Grand Banks permits this inshore water to flow souths unhampered by the heavier water of the sea to the East...

...It is then a simple matter for the hunter to rope or cage his captive...

...For five days, site lay at anchor while a diver made regular trips to inspect her hull...

...They dash into the big fish's vestibule where a great eating contest takes place...

...Bogen has a scale for the measurement...

...The unusual feature is a chamber containing anesthetic, which, upon striking the animal, discharges ar.d puts the beasts to sleep...

...Over 500 Cincinnati drunks have been subjected to the test and the data therefrom have been used in 50 traffic-court trials...

...the ancient Pueblo, is also in charge of the present expedition, which is said to be the last...

...Conferences have been held by representatives of leading pencil making concerns and the Forest Service has now joined in a quest for some new wood to replace red 'cedar, when a substitute becomes necessary...

...It is reliably estimated that the income from reindeer will reach twenty millions a year, in another decade...

...Thousands of them churn their way up the Canadian Coast, furnishing an enticing prospect for seal poachers, anxious to take skins for milady's wardrobe...

...In less than a week, a remarkable change took place a- barnacles dropped from the "Argonne's" hull...

...An annual rodeo 'is held as in the old days on cattle ranches of the Far West...

...In the Queen Charlotte Islands, they are so thick they •become a menace to the fishermen, and must be slaughtered to protect the fishing interests...

...THE ICE BOX...

...Valier claims that much greater" feats will be accomplished by scientists of the future...

...Redwood, other cedars, cypress, juniper and various pines are now being subjected to tests...

...A German Company, employing what is known as the Telefunken-Karolus-Siemens system of transmission, is sponsoring the new project...

...Some New Discoveries in Science Michigan Professor Believes Fruit Can Be Picked Green, Held in Cold Storage and Ripened at Any Time by New Process, By ROBERT F. PAINE Robert F. Paine, director of the Paine Service, has prepared a series of observations on science and subjects of world wide interest...

...F^ach descent recorded a gradual dropping off of barnacles and moss, five day...

...But they can do a world of good by the present study...

...If another fish menaces them, the whole school shoots into the hollow jellyfish, which is at once their meal ticket, tour conductor, and body-guard...

...Modern oeeanographic studies are teaching scientists more and more about this peculiar flow of the sea...

...Such the declaration of officers of the U. S. S. "Ar-gonne" who recently spent five days in Gatun I.ake, Panama Canal, making a daily record of the effect of fresh water on the ship's barnacle growth...

...Thua the Labrador Current...

...to new-discoveries and to findings by government officers that it is believed that a presentation of his observations will prove of timely interest.—Managing Editor...

...Only Indians are permitted to kill seals, lawfully, and they only with the primitive weapons of their forebears—the boy and the spear...

...Last summer a small schooner carried a party of investigators to Labrador for an oeeanographic reconnaissance...

...PUEBLO BONITO THE eighth expedition into northwestern New Mexico for the study of the now famous Pueblo Bonito is in progress...

...WHEN A DRUNK IS THE new test for drunkenness, reported by Dr...

...Emil Bogen, of Cincinnati University, should be studied by that part of the judiciary concerned with handling inebriated drivers and others "under the influence...

...From the rim of the bell-mouth there hang down long tendrils, or fingers, each armed with a poisonous sting...

...Yet, out of this "ice box" has come more than a billion dollars in gold, silver, fish and fur...

...He believes that he will be successful, at least to the extent of designing a New York to Berlin plane that will make the trip in a day or less...

...Inshore water is less saline and, therefore, lighter than the water farther at sea...

...The bullet invented by Captain Harris can be fire'd from any gun, depending upon the type and caliber of the bullets he has made...

...It must be comparatively free from knots and similiar imperfections and must be cheap and easy to procure in quantity...

...When wanted, the fruit need merely be put in an airtight room filled with ethylene gas and it will ripen in short order...

...The Pueblo is four stories in height...