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Is That So?
By EUGENE BURNS
Rjnger-Naturaiiit
Accustomed as are . . . I air is moist and shrinks when it
yet, it s a strange world. Con-jjs dry. When your stairs some
sider: before the white man set- Umes" creak at nighti tnat-, be.
tied in North America mere
were more different languages
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spoken by the native tribes of
Indians than there are today by
all the immigrants of countries
our government recognizes.
There is no sound in space for
the simple reason that there is
no air for sound waves to travel
on.
All mammals, including mem
bers of the cat family, cannot
see in pitch blackness. But when
there is a little light such as
that from starlight, they can see
quite well.
The first horse we know of to
day once lived in what is now
Wyoming. He is known as the
Dawn horse and was eleven
inches high. His fossil remains,
discovered by Dr. Frederick
Brewster in 1903, are now in
Amherst college museum.
Ducks lay their eggs in the
early morning. If you want to
be sure to collect duck eggs
keep your ducks confined until
around 9:30 a.m.
Jade got its name because
people once believed it cured a
pain in one's side. The Spaniards
called the stone piedra de ijada,
meaning "stone of the side."
San Francisco's original name
was Yerba Buena (good herb).
Honolulu's. Fair Haven, Los
Angeles' El Pueblo de Nucstra
Senora la Reina de los Angeles
de Porciuncolo.
One-Tenth Under Ice
More than two-thirds of the
surface of the earth is under
water and of the third remain-
about one-tenth is covered
with ice.
The earth, truly, is a middle-
sized planet: four are larger
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and
Uranus; four are smaller Mars
Venus, Mercury and Pluto.
To reach space, space travel
ers will need to go only half the
dislance between New York and
Washington, D.C. Space is
marked by an imaginary line
only 120 miles above the earth.
Golf was once illegal in Scot
land. Men were supposed to
spend their spare time practic
ing archery, the principal
weapon of war.
You. can start a grass fire by
simply leaving an empty glass
bottle on the ground. The bot
tle's curved sides may concen
trate the sun's rays upon one
spot and the resulting heat can
set the grass burning.
Listeners sitting fairly close
to a TV screen can hear the
speaker before many of the peo
ple in the speaker s audience
can hear him.
Wooden Parts Change
The wooden parts of a house
and its furniture keep changing
size. Ihis is because wood con
tracts with the cold, expands
with the heat, swells when the
cause they are shrinking in the
cooler air.
For some more amazing facts
of the world around you, read
Surprising Facts by Frances N.
Chrystie (Watts, N.Y.). And for
a bonus:
Manhattan island weighs less
today than it did when the Man
hattan Indians lived on it. This
despite the millions of tons of
steel, stone, concrete and human
bodies. The weight of the soil
and rock that have been dug
out and dumped to make way
for subways, sewers and water
lines, building excavations is
more than all the things that
have been added.
(Copyright, 1357,
by Euqene Burns
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the best nature observation, or
the best question on nature and
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Oregon Airports Due
Help in Seal Coating
Salem OP The State Board
of Aeronautics will assist vari
ous Oregon cities in seal coat
ing airports runways it was an
nounced today.
Board Chairman Ralph Scrog
gin, Lebanon, said under provi
sions of a program approved by
the recent legislature the board
will pay up to S3.000 for the
cost of materials used in seal
coating one runway at each air
port. DOCTOR CAUGHT
Flat Rock, Ind. HP Dr. J. A.
Davis had the surprise of his
life. He caught the measles. "I
had them a day before I knew
it," he said. He said he probably
caught them from a recent case
he treated.
Nehru Charged With '
Corrupt Campaigning
New Delhi W An inde
pendent candidate who stood
against Premier Jawaharlal
Nehru in India's general elec
tions last February filed a peti
tion Thusrday charging the Pre
mier with corrupt campaigning.
Sitaram Khemka, heavily de
feated by Nehru, charged the
Premier denied political parties
or individuals other than those
connected with his Congress
Party the right to broadcast
election addresses or use other
means of communication.
ADVERTISING MAN DIES
Philadelphia W George
H. Reichard. 75. retired Scripps
Howard advertising executive,
died Thursday.
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Dog Banished;
Woman Goes, Too
Tampa, Fla IW A 35
year-old woman secretary plan
ned today to leave town in order
to remain with her German
shepherd dog which has been
banished from Hillsborough
county for allegedly biting five
children.
The dog. named Ranger, was
granted a reprieve from execu
tion by City Court Judge Bob
Johnson, provided Mrs. Martha
Allen removes the animal from
the county. Mrs. Allen, who
must stand trial for failing to
keep the dog confined, said she
will move to St. Petersburg, in
Pinellas County with Ranger.
ALWAYS EXCUSES
Greenport, N.Y. HP An
investigator on the staff of the
Suffolk county district attorn
ey's office was a little late get
ting to work Thursday. The in
vestigator, Harold R. Freeman
explained that when he got up
and reached for his trousers he
discovered they were gone. So
was his badge, gun and $75 in
cash.
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