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The Brussels Post, 1920-4-1, Page 2Vdet Acquainted With Your Case— Article VII. Have you a good mixer on tate cart It doesn't matter how good a mixer you Ye the a isnotpolitically lg' od mixer oor n the old boat It means tremble. Mixer, you may? Yves, a mixer to mix the mix- ture. ix- to e. Oh, yes, they call it a carbur- etor, but Its business ie mixing, far, though it be one of the complex thing!: you saw at the show, with all sorts of 'valves and levers and controls, the Whole thing centres around the mixing chamber, where gasoline and air are manufactured into a oombustable mix- ture. The rest of it is simply to see that proper pnoportdonc and con- ditions exist in that royal chamber. Neve if you have not made a study of the instruction book for your par- ticular brand of carburetor, lay dawn the paper and get out the book. If 3au have no copy lay aside the article until you get the book from the manu- facturer and read it through, and find eut how it works. Then you can read the remainder of tine. The first thing to learn to do about a carburetor is to let it alone. Lucky ui is that its my:eery keeps so many rroeetl fooling with it; but so many :Folks want to adjust it every time the engine sputiters. Since it is the lungs of the engine, it is natural that there should be a cough at times. Birt Bough and sputter and gasp do not wean necessarily that the carburetor Tis et fault or out of adjustment. If it utas been working well and you and year friends or the garage man have inept hands oil the adjustment you can gamble that it is correct still. It takes finesse to change it. But you eeght to knew enough about it to determine what is the correct ad- justment and row to make it. If you were a mechanical genius I would advise you to see sena, one dissect a carburetor and then go to It with your own; but if you do, dant blame me if Tcu have to take the Oleg to theservice station for assera- biy; it would merely indicate that you Ira not a mechanical genius. Of course the proper adjustment is the ane which gives the greatest pow- er for the smallest gaso:ine consume - den. If too little gasoline is admit- ted to tbe mixira chamber the mixture wilt he 1.'..:11 and the engine will back - fee, e•;;,: esely iu '.nrting; if too much gasoline the mixture will be too rich, caustic s :e^i,d: melee of the nieLor, sled r scall . bi. tassh smoke from the clet es Bate s nuee indirates, tee es see t ..••'i tete (el and it is steam viitr. iu.,hire: lead. means but Orme three. Tt...-• rc'o '+.ae s to the :adjust; were o' .' ' se tor. The needle valve reetrols the gasoline supply. This tu;eatiy has .; small wheel for ad- lasvimr, with a nnovae1e pointer to dee tcat< eediem. Terming the wheel to the left t••!ces more gasolene and vire versa. .I c aura changing the ad- juatnr:a set the pointer so you can charge back to present adjustment if desired. Tbn close the needle valve *hefty by turning to the right and reties bow many turns it takes, Open the needle valve about three- di0arths of one turn and see if the en- gace will start, If so, does it run ataeethly or is there a lot of fuss taut it? If smooth, press the ac- e'eleeetor eharpby, Was there e quick response from the negine, indi- cating pep? If not, open the needle valve a hair's 'breadth and test again aad continue until the adjustment is So that there le smooth idling and Aare response to throttle or accel- erator. The correct adjustment Is the east opening which does not cause baokflring. Since there is variation In all makes and models of carburetors, adjustments should be made with in- struction book in hand until you know all the processes for your make. The auxiliary air valve adjustment must be made when the oar is running. It may be set approximately when standing, but when you see the garage mechanic leaning over the engine when running he is tuning the auxil- iary adjustment to a nicety. Perhaps you would rather let him do thin acrobatic work, but if you are to learn the car you must essay this, too. E- econoniy of operation depends upon care in carburetion. Let me impress again the import- ance of the instruction book. The manufacturer knows more about your model than anyone else, and if it isn't in the book only the service man can help you. Must modern carburetors have hot air or hot water devices to keep the mixture warm in cold weather, but as :her do not work until the engine has warmed up it may be necessary -o fill the senator with hot water before starting, or, perhaps a kettle of hot water poured on clothes wrap - earl about the intake manee,ld may zvsrm it enough There is a priming or choking device to enrich the mixtare for starting in most cases. Respect your carburetor enough to let it alone until it es certain the trouble is not elsewhere and then do not hesitate to do what is necessary to get it warking right, whether it be adjusting or cleaning; but as a usual thing, when you think the mixer is off, you can look elsewhere for the trouble. Study the carburetor, become familiar, nay, internale with it, and then let it Mune. 1 The Voice of Command. An infinitesimal flaxen -haired atom ,r in r puddle before the Highland Arms hotel, says Punch, splashing it- relf and its clothes and shouting in glee. Reside it stood a dignified tur- baned figure, pleading earnestly in Hindustani. "Huzcor," it said, "listen to the ward of thy servant and rise; her honor, thy mother, will upbraid if she see thee there. And behold, even to- morrow thy servant must leave the Presence and set forth again upon the black water! Shall he go with a downcast face because the Presence has taken cold?" All this it said and more; yet the "Presence" continued to wallow with callous joy. Then on the doorstep of the hotel ;appeared the bit red-headed house- maid from Morayshire, who has re - coney joined the party. "Eh, Sahn- dy," she cried, "get oop oot of thaht this mennit, ye bated boy!" And San- dy rose, Biography. What better reacting is there than the sympathetic and understauding re- cord of a noble life? Biography, when it Is well done end when le deals with a worthy subject, Is a great humaniz- ing influence, It has a power for en- lightenment that dces not lie in any other branch of writing. Good 11c - tion, besides providing us with enter- tainment, stimulates and aroused 0111' best impulses. Poetry awakens, culti- vates and satisfies our rinse of the beautiful. History enlarges our un- derstauding and acquaints us with rho great movements and reatijustnients 1n the lite of nations. We must read widely in fiction, poetry and history if we are to be cultivated men and women. Yet however widely we rend in those fields of literature we shall mise something of the utmost im- portance if we neglect biography. The qualities that make fiction and history valuable aro to be found In biography of the best sort; and through some biography there runs even the vein of poetry. The life of a great man, if It is vividly recorded, is interesting as a novel is interesting; it is the story of struggle and con- flict, of dramatic situations that test the character, of disappointments and triumphs. Furthermore, it sheds light on history; the movements in the life of a nation are initiated and led by men; and the detailed study of the character o1 loaders is often es- sential to a complete underetan.ding of the character of historical movements. But the most Valuable significance of a good biography to a reader who is deeply interested in the subject lies in ells: by making known to ordinary people the influences In the lives of extraordinary people and by showing ordinary people with ordinary prob- lems how extraordinary people dealt with extraordinary problems it makes the ordinary person a Little more com- potent himself—a little more capable to decide questions right, a little more determined to do in his sphere what the great man did In his, and to apply to the affairs of life, it not similar methods, a similar degree ot resolu- tion and honesty and courage. As- sociation with those who are intellec- tually and morally superior is an ex- cellent thing for a man if It does net produce in hmi servility of mind. Bos- well suffered from his association with produce in him servility of mind. Bos - well's Life of Johnson does not suffer. Reading biography Is more likely to emancipate the mind than to enslave it. Hindu Sammy. 'Out' greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."—Confucius. Acrobats of the Ocean - Like boys, Athos seem to find pleas - Wee and exercise in venturing outside their natural element. A boy is toad al running about and playing on dry lined, but the time usually comes when be wants to go swimming and diving. Aad probably in the same way the .tett enjoys the 'variety and asns•ation or leaping up into the air and finds that by doing this he gets exercise teat he never has under water. The porpoise is nue of the most agile of 'capers, as a fisherman clis- co'rered who set nut to capture a few We specimens. Ile and his mates proceeded to a small bay where por- paises were known to congregate at high tide, After a settee' of porpolsee had en- tered the bay, the fisherman and his friends established their boat across the entrance and put out a seine, They were sure that they had effec- tually blocked the passage; and then they waited. Soon atter 1110 turn of the tide they saw the black backs of the porpoises glistening in the sun and rolling to- ward them, In a few mamemts the advance guard reached the net, turned ante darted back, spreading the alarm. The result was that the entire school agate swam up the bay. But the fishermen knew that as the water receded they would have to come dowti, and se they waited patiently, Sure entangle after about eut hour, the porpoisea again ad- vanced, .Onoe more they struck the act and dashed up and down; then henna of them swam book a 11ttle way, turned, and came at the boats at full speed, "Look out!" cried Ile !Warman. "'They're trying to break through!" But that was net their tn'cntlon, To tho amazement of tato m„n, they rose bodlly into the air like b{rde and parsed clear aver the beats, Then l..ytped up another and another, and finally the entire school made this overhead flight, struck the orator be- yond in safety, and made off, chuck- ling, •perhaps, over the easy way in which they had outwitted those poste terms human beings, A well-known scientist who has spent many winters cruising in South- ern waters had a remarkable demons- tration of the agility at Ashes out of water. One duty his yacht, which had about fifteen feet of beam and was six or more feet high above the water Hue, put into Jupiter Inlet and, run- ning along before a fresh breeze, reached a place where the inlet nar- rowed, - Ahead, a ripple showed that a school of Ash was fleeing, The runway nar- rowed so rapidly that the Ashes, which were pompanoes, began to be crowded together and became panic- stricken. Suddenly they began to leave the water like rockets, shooting out at an angle of forty-five degrees over the boat, landing twenty-five feet away, and then sliding along the sur- face urface for ten or twelve feet more, very much like the flat skipping stones that a boy throws. Gradually the number of those fly - Ing Ashes increased, and they shot over the boat with such velocity that it was dangerous to stand up, The men lay on the deck and waited for the bombardment to cease, .Finally the yacht pushed ahead of the fright- ened school, and the dlsturbauce was quieted, Night Is the throe when fishes gener- ally diepiay their acrobatic propensi- ty, On st perfectly calm evening In the Gulf of Mexico the sounds that come over the water aro coutinuoua, Now it is the splash of a small fisih, now the males of a shark lashing with his tall, and now a load roped as the giant ray, ifftoen foot mites, epringe blithely from ltls native element to fall back with a crash, Thinking in Latin. The head master of the Perse Gram- mar School at Cambridge, England, Itis Instituted it new methal of teach. Ing the classics, which is described by a contributor to C'hatnber:en Journal. When the elate is ready and the Inas- tet' is sitting at hie tessk, he rays "Surge,” anti rises iu itis !lace. Tho boys at once asancinte lite act of rite Mg with the souttcl and eepreeslou or surge) (1 rise). The tnastir Leon beck- ons to a boy to rise, and says to hint, "Slug's" (thou risost), and to the rest of the class, imiuting to the boy, "Sur gib" (he rises). Perhaps two boys are next motioned to rise, and the master says to the rust of the clans, "Sur- gunt" (they rise). The buys now alt down, and the toaster, indicating by signs that all the class, including him- self, should rise, says, "Surgimus" (we rise). Again they sit down, and sever- al boys are motioned to nee, the mas- ter saying, "Shrgitis" (you rise), In that way the whole class, without speaking a word of English, has learn- ed the present tense indicative mood, singular and plural of ,the third conju- gation verb surge in such a way that the lesson will never be effaced. Moreover, their interest has been keenly aroused, and they have had a good deal of amusement. The lesson is continued, "Ambled' (I walls), says the master, taking a few steps forward; "reveille" (I come back); "sedeo" (I sit down). In a short time the boys have learned the present indicative ot all the four conjugatlons, and In ranch the same way they learned simultaneously in- stead of in succession the Ave declare stone of nouns. The boys write on the blackboard all the words that they learn, but the early lessons do not consist of sen- enees of one word only. Each boy has a Latin name, and in that, way the vocative case is in•trodttced naturally and easily. "0 Carole, Burge!" (Charles, rise), says the master, Intro- ducing the Imperative. "Quid facie?" (What art thou doing?) he asks, and his tone and expression indicate his meaning. The boys almost immediate- ly experience the joy of being able to speak and understand the strange new language. It is obviously the natural method. In learning our mother tongue as children we master the names of familiar objects by hearing people re- peat them many times. Words are really sounds not collections of lettere. A regiment of British Tommies fresh from the home country were en- camped just outside a town in India. Everything was very novel to them, and one morning soon after their ar- rival there went trotting along the road by the Damp a Hindu Christian preacher. He carried a big Bible un- der one arm and, like his fellow minis- ters in other countries, an umbrella under the other. Altogether, he was a quaint little figure as he ran, along in the dust and the glare of tate sun. Some Tommies hailed him as he went by with a question that appeared more irreverent than it really was: "Hello, Sammy! How's Jesus this morning?" The little fellow pulled up short and looked at them with his bright, dark, piercing eyes. Then, holding up the Bible, he said slowly: "Do you sahibs mean to say that you who sent us this holy Book talk of the Lord Sesus like that? Do the people of your great country send the gospel to us poor heathen and yet insult the Saviour?" The men looked a bit uneasy at his words, but he went on: "I will, how- ever, answer your question, and ans- wer it from the Great Book. You say, "How is Jesus this morning?" I re- ply from Hebrews xiii, 8: 'Jesus Christ is the saute, yesterday, to-dey and for- ever,' " And, malting the inen a melte little bow, the Ilindu pursued It's way with dignity, 'Chet evening Sanmmy's wife was startled to see coming up the little garden path of their home, which was near the camp, two British soldiers. Her heart nearly stopped with fear, for she was sure her husband had somehow offended the great British raj. The men inquired for her hus- band, and he came to the door, They at once seized him by the hand and very earnestly they thanked hint for his plucky speech of the morning, "Alter you had gone, they said, same of us felt ashamed, and we had a talk about it, and my mate and I, we went off into the woods, and—well —there we gave aur hearts together to the Lord Jesus Christ, We've come to tell you so, feeling that it is all thrcugh what you said," The dark eyes twinkled with joy, and between the white men and their brown brother there ran that current of sympathy which moves too deep for racial hindrances and grapples souls together in eternal friendship, He Lost His Hold. The station master, hearing a crash on, the platform, rushed out of his room just in time to see the express that had just peased through disap• peering round the curve and a dis- heveled young man sprawled out per• featly flat among a confusion of over- turned milk cans and the scattered contents of his travelling bag, "Was he trying to catch the train?" the station =tear aaked of a small MY whet stood by, admiring the scene. "Ile did catch It," said the boy hap- pily ,"but It got away agarol" Meet men are ambltiotta to get to the front, lis who '.chows the crowd always iceepe behind. Bits of Information. The name Europe has. boon in use for more than 2,000 years, Naval gunners are now firing ranges of more than 20,000 yards. There were 1,750,000 allotment -hold- ers in England and Wales last year. Germany's pollee forces number 100,000 men, all former officers and N.C,O: s•, Tin farthings and haltpennles were issued in England in the reign of James II, Britain's most up-to-date battleships are now fitted with 3111, guns for anti- aircraft work. Salisbury Cathedral, England, dates back 700 years, the foundation atones being laid in 1220, Cushions filled with dried coffee grounds are said to keep needles and pins from rusting. Some incubators for chickens used now are the same in principle as those of rte Egyptians of 4,000 years ago. British exports totalled $529,400,000 in January. This is the first time they have exceeded the 100 million starl- ing. The process of making a cashmere shawl oceapiee three men for six months, and calls for the fleece of ten goats. There are said to be 20,000 British ex-olflcers unable, through various causes and no fault of their own, to earn a livelihood. The British Navy is getting rid of all her 12 -inch gun battleships; all future ships will have 13.0 and 16 - inch guns. 'A ton of water taken from the At- lantic Ocean yields 31 lb. of salt, as compared with 187 lb. front the same quantity of Dead Sea water. The British Army will shortly be reduced to a streugth of 200,000, equivalent to the Army allowed to Germany by the Peace Treaty. Allotments in England and Wales produced an estimated total a1 1,270,- 000 tons of food in 1919, including 740,000 tons of potatoes; cabbages and cauliflowers ranked next with 860,000 tons, CROSBY'S KIDS Ripplingiatimos y Walt Mwon�i. Still Higher. T KP,IIPII us all deploring, lamenting, and the like; for prices still are soaring, each clay they take a hike; I view the situa- fl tion that now disturbs the nation, and in my agitation I breathe the nano of Mike, A stilt of wool, not shoddy, of hand - 801110 color tones, once clothed toy shapely body, and cost 'no thirty bones; and it would hang together in every kind of weather? as trusty as the leather the village saddler owe, But now a suit of shoddy my timeworn system feelu; and it is panic and gaudy, and costa me eighty wheels; it shrinks when rain Is reigning, it splltu when I ant straining, and so I am complain- ing and raising frenzied spiels. My shoes are muscle of paper, bedizened bright and smart, and when I waltz or caper the blamed things cane apart; to wear them is exhaustion, and oh, the price they're eluting would put a layer of frosting upon tate warmest heart. If things were worth the money, the prices we might greet with smiles serene and sunny, and not with frozen feet; but goods are made by pikers and prices set by hikers, and so I join the strikers and breathe the name of Pete, A Lost City in Mesopotamia. A striking instance of the service that aerial photography can render to archrnology mimes from Mesopotamia, where the almost obliterated site of an immense garden city on the bank of the Tigris was discovered and napped by an aeroplane camera. Without aerial photographs the city would probably have appeared to be only meaningless low moulted, scat- tered here and there, for much of the detail was not recognizable on the ground. The area was Aret photographed tram the air, then six -inch -scale blue prints were made and transferred to the plane table, and Anally supple- mentary ground surveys wore made. The ruins extend for some twenty miles along the left bank of the Tig- ris, above and below the present town of Samara, with a breadth of from one to two and a half miles. Near the river the site is laid out regularly with wide streets that intersect at right angles. In some quarters the plan- ning is less regular, but as a rule the streets are straight. The blocks near the river are larger than those far- ther from the bank, and no doubt in- dicate that tho wealthier classesonce lived there. On the east side of the central quarter a public garden was laid out as a quatreteuille, with a pa- vilion in the centre. Scattered about the site were a number of square de- tached forts with circular towers at the corners, There was e highly elaborate and scientific 'negation system such as has been introduced in the Punjab only in recent tines. and an ancient canal skirted the site, Lieut. -Cal. C. A. Beazeley, who discovered the city, found also the ruin of a barrage with a full equipment of sluices and regu- lators. Ho mattes no attempt to de- termine the age of the ruins. Several tokens • of considerable antiquity, such as gold coins, pottery and tear bot- tles, were found there, but gold ccins were not current before the time of Darius the Great. Moderation. The Sunday -school class was sing- ing "I 'Want To Be An Angel." "Why don't you sing louder, Bobby?" asked the teacher. "I'm singing as loud as I want to be angel," explained Bobby. e - The man who breaks the law often finds that the law evens thiugs up by breaking him. His Sweet Tooth. Akabah is at the southern end of the great Wady Araba, which runs down from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aka - bah, and up which Moses and the Israelites made their way toward the promised land of Canaan. On one side is the sea; on the other sides aro the high, precipitous mountains over which Col. Thomas Lawrence led a force of ten thousand Bedouins ou the morning of July 6, 1917. The Turks and Germans, writes Mr. Lowell Thomas, were so overwhelmed by the feat of the Arabs In breaking through the mountains that they were ready to surrender at onto. Immediately upon our arrival In Akabah, said Col. Lawrence, a Ger- man officer stepped up to me and saluted. FIe spoke neither Terklsh nor Arable and did not know that there was a revolution, "What is it all about? Who are these men?" he shouted excitedly. ' "They belong to the army of Shoreef Hussein, who le in revolt against the Turks," I replied. "Who is Sheroof Hussein?" the Ger- man erman asked in perteot English. "He is ruler of this part of Arabia," I replied, ' "And what am I?" "Yost are a prisoner." "Will they take me to Mecca?" "No, to Egypt." "Is sugar very high over there?" "Very cbeap," "Good!" And he marched off, happy to bo out 01 the war and headed for a place where ho could have plenty of sugar. • Rebuffed, A Dutch pastor makes it a point to welcome any strangers cordially, and one evening after the completion of the service he hurried down the elate to station himself at the dear, A Swedish girl was one of the strangera in the congregation. She is employed as a domestic in one of the Yeahlonable homes, and the minis- ter, noting that she was a stranger, stretched out his hand. ale welcomed her to the church and expressed the hope that she would be a regutar attendant. Finally he said that if she would be at home some evening during the week he would coli, "T'ank you," she murmured tash- fully, "but Ay have a fella." A slice of lemon in a cup of tea will counteract any bilious effect, The Best -Known Bank Notes Tho Bank of England is` by all odds the most widely known paper currency in the world. The canny "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," as the Bank of England is called, lasues her notes only in one term, which has been maintained virtually without change ever since 1694, when the "Old Lady" commenced to do littleness. Go whore you will in any part of the civilized or half -civilized globe, and you -need not want for money If you have in your pocketbook one of those plain -looking squares of white paper upon which the promise of the "Govo- nor and the Company of tate Bank of England" to pay the bearer the sum of five pounds is engraved. The paper used for the manufacture of Dank et England notes Is like no other paper known. For nearly two hundred years it has been manutac- tared for the bank by the same firm of paper makers. It is made of fine linen outting8, and the process of its manufacture la It carefully guarded secret known only to the most trusted employees at the makers. It la of a peouller whiteness, and its cries) texture is readily reoogratetble by these accustomed to handle money. It is very tough; and a tolled note Is Said to bo eapab10 of sustaining a Weight of fifty pounds without tear. ing. Tib paper le made In oblong shape, lust the size of two notes, Orbited elite by aide, and for this rea- son a !lank of England note always has throe rough or dockie edges and one straight one where the two.notoe baro been out apart. Curlonely enough, the note lg not a egattl thioknesa all aver, but is 'Tette forced" in one portion of the upper left -hand center, where a vignette of the figure of Britannia is printed, It would require very sensitive Angers indeed to detect this alight additional ARE PLANTS ABLE TO THINK NOTE THE BEHAVIOR OF CLIMBERS. Possibly the Potato is Rumba.. ating on Prices and Profiteers. The extraordinary behavior of cop tain plants, known as creepers and climbera, suggests a remarkable Intel• llgence, which Makes one think that they have reasoning powers, The struggle foe existence in the plant world 1s keen, and a constant warfare is waged. Certain plants, lu bygone ages, Lound that they were being strangled or destroyed for lack of air and light be- cause they possessed no strong verti- cal stem. They could not sustain themselves erect, and unless some means of reaching the lite -giving light and air were found extinction must follow. Climbing to the Light. So they started, to climb up their living neighbors or surrounding ob• emits of greater height than them- selves, and Nature assisted by de- veloping in them powers of twining round or clinging to something that would support them. Some plants evolved a twining habit in the stem itself, Othersevolved tendrils, others aerial roots, and others again prickles or hooks. Tho morning glory is nu example of the stem -twiner; the pea, vine, and vegetable marrow of tendril climbers; and ivy of aerial roots; and the goose - grass and blackberry or bramble of the thorns or prickles. The most highly developed, says Darwin, are the tendril -bearers, and very extraordinary Ls the almost hu- man intelligence displayed by these pleats, "Watch the delicate tendrils of the marrow -plant trained up a support, or the white bryony. Their tendrils are exceedingly sensitive to contact. They move round and round until, almost suddenly, they seize some object of support, and in an incredibly short space of time throw several coils around it. Now, if the plant Is In a position ex- posed to gales, it autems to know that it may be tore away from its support, so it starts at once to make a tight spiral aprlug in about the centro of its tendrils, very similar to the main- spring of a watch. By this spring the strain is relieved. With Sticky Feet. If the trained marrow•plant is in a sheltered position it does not often de- velop _ these spiral springs, as if knowing they would not be needed. Again, watch the climbers in search of support. They do not run nut in a straight line where ,the chances of finding a support are limited, but sweep with a revolving motion regu- larly round and round as far as they can reach, thus being afforded oppor- tunity of finding an object around which to twine, denied them had they not this power. It is a curious fact that some climbers wind themselves round rho support in a right -hauled way, others in a lett-handed way. The honey- suckle and hop move round always In the direction of the hands of the clock; the scarlet -runner and the morning glory always in the contrary direction. Tho Virginia -creeper (A. Yeitchil) develops at the tips of its tendrils a aeries of sticky pads, which adhere firmly to any smooth surface, to en- able it to climb up smooth wails, for which purpose ordinary tendrils are useless. Perhaps the most extraordinary evi- dence of reasou,ing power or instinct in a plant is seen in the common Eng- lish plant, the sundew. The plant is carnivorous. It catches insects and eats them. A British scientist made an, in - thtoknese in one note,• 'but when a teresting experiment with this plant, dozen or so new ones aro bell tightly A few inches from the hairy leaf of a together the increase in bulk is easily sundew plant he suspended a tiny felt. fragment of neat, This he at once The Bank of England never pays photographed, and thon waited forty out the same note twice. It you pre- minutes, atter which time the leaf of sent a cheque in the paying depart- the sundew plant haul bent over, and ment and immediately redeposit the was appreciably nearer to its dinner. notes in the receiving department, Atter the elapse of another tarty those particular notes aro retired and minutes the plant was close up to the immediately cancelled, After being neat, some of its hairs actually toueb.- ea,ncelled they are held by rho bank tug it, and a little later tee leaf es - tor a tow years, atter which they are burned. There are some curious atones re- lated about Bank of England notes. In 1740 a note for thirty thousand Tho edges of the leaves aro provided pounds was lost by being drawn up with spikes, and may •be compared the chimney by the draft, and the to a human south, half -open, the owner of the note, who was one of the spikes corresponding to the teeth, It direotars of the bank, was reimbursed an insect settle upon eno of theeo for the amount lost, Some years al- leaves it closes in a few socands, and terwards, when the director was dead then digests the Initeet, and hie holies was being demolished, ' —.-. sea .....-.-.,- the roto was found intaet in a orovlee of the chimney, It was presented by `bI Serpents. the director's heirs, and paid, though There etre plenty, 0f real sea see :tot without protest by tire bank. A pants, and of alt snakes they are tee butcher in 1837 requested a ball of Mese re: E`_ieua. five thousand pounds on ono of two In tropiadl w'tters they are vastly twenty-flue-thansaneactnd notes that numeroase especially En rite Indian were tsetled in that year. Such a Ocean, where titer are often seen leer - Image nate to the poseeaslon of a plain a.Ily by hurutre.ds, swimming at the butcher naturally paused oomment, surface of the water. They urn six and It wag pointed out to him that he to eight foot long, very fleece antewilt Was lasing a email tnoonie in interest commonly attach huinan beings, tie long as lie kept his Sunda tied up Their bodlos aro flat and almost thus. The man's only answer was wholly filled by the lungs, that he biked the,tooke of the twenty. • flvo'thousand'pound note, and that he 'Pitere aro more motors for hire (halt lJrtvate ears in ham. tiroly enveloped its meal, anal was left to digest it: Another plant, called Venus' fly- trap, catches files in a kind of trap, had another just like it at Holme,