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~ SOMETHING ABOUT OYSTERS
- Recent’ research shows that the green color
of French oysters is due to a pigment-present in
their food materials. A quantity of the pigment
~was isolated, and oysters placed in a sea-water
polution -took up the color within twenty-four
ours. . ‘
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-” REAL MONEY IN CHINA.
Under the direction of American experts, China
is building. what will be one of the largest mints
- in the world. It will be able to convert fourteen
tons of silver into coin_in a single day. . Al-
though printing began in China, it is worthy of
note that the Chinese are not installing a print-
‘ing press to increase their supply of money.
VOLCANO FOR. SALE
_In Bolivia a volcano is being offered for sale.
or for rent. The advertisement maintains that the
voleano will produce enough steam .to develop
electrical energy of 400,000,000 kilowatt hours a
- year. The offer is said to be a bona fide one.
THE “HUMAN DOVE”
. A Bangor, Me., boy has a pet. dove which ‘is
showing traits that might be called human. It is
tame and walks in and out of. the doors for its
meals, perching on the shoulders..and heads of
the people in the house. This dove does not allow
| another bird, not even of its own kind, in the
-. yard or anywhere near the house. :
“MILLIONS OF WHITEFISH .
According to the latest figures of the United
States Bureau of Fisheries, the annual catch of
whitefish, tha favorite food fish of the Great
Lakes, is-more than .625,000,000, with a market
value of nearly three-quarters of a million dol-
‘Jars. In 1921 the bureau hatched and planted
more than 420,000,000 whitefish fry.
_ THE “CAT HOAX” .
When Napoleon was about to depart for St.
- Helena in 1815, some one in Chester, a city in
England, had a large number of handbills printed
and-distributed. These bills. stated that.the Is-
land of St. Helena was overrun with rats and that
16 shillings would be given for each full grown
tomeat and 10 shillings for every full grown
tabby and two shillings and six pence for every
kitten able to feed itself. On. the day. fixed
the city was crowded with men and women and
children carrying cats. A riot ensued in which
the cats broke. away and.infested the private
houses. Five hundred of them were killed, others
~ drowned and many infested the neighboring sheds
and barns for many. weeks. .
LOW TEMPERATURES ON MARS
During the past year investigations to deter-
.
~~ mine. as-nearly as possible, the temperatures on™
| PAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY _
-— GOOD READING
the planet Mars were conducted both at the
Mount Wilson Observatory in California and at
the Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. The ob-
servers at Mount Wilson calculated the afternoon
temperatures. along the equator of Mars to be
approximately 10 degrees above freezing, while
those at Flagstaff-estimate the temperature at
20 above freezing. These calculations would indi-
cate that Mars would be more tempting as-a
summer than a winter resort.. In the Martian
polar regions the temperature must be extremely
ow.
arr DAYS WITHOUT NIGHTS
Nothing strikes a stranger more forcibly, if
he visits Sweden at the season of the year when .__
the days are the longest, than the absense of -
night.
Doctor Baird related some interesting facts. He~
arrived at Stockholm from Gottenburg, four hun-
dred miles distant, in the morning; and in the
afternoon went to see some friends. He returned
about midnight, when it was as light as it is in
England half an hour before sundown.
You could see distinctly, but all was quiet in
the street; it seemed as if the inhabitants were
gone away, or were dead. The sun, in June, goes
down at Stockholm a little before 10 o'clock.
There is great illumination all night, as the sun-
passes around the earth toward the north pole,
and the reflection of its rays such that you can
ree to read at midnight without any artificial
ight. ‘ :
The first morning Doctor Baird awoke in .
Stockholm, he was surprised to see the sun shin-
ing into his room. He looked at his watch and
found it was only three o’clock. The next time
he awoke it was five-o’clock, but there were no
persons in the street. 7
There is a mountain at the head of the Gulf /
of Bothnia where on the twenty-first of June, the “oo
sun does not appear to go down at all. A steam- :
boat goes up from Stockholm for the purpose of
carrying those who are curious to witness the
phenomenon. It occurs only one. night. When
the sun reaches the horizon you can sce the whole
face of it, and.in-five minutes more it begins to
rise. At the North Cape, latitude seventy-two de-
grees, the sun does not go down for several weeks. :
A day’s_work is twelve hours. Birds and ani- ay
mals take their accustomed rest at the usual hours,
whether the sun goes down or not. Oo
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