FROM THE MAGAZINES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 14

FROM THE MAGAZINES.

FIGHTING SONS OF A FIGHTING .'■ , ' •:.-.' ■ RACE. / : ;.": : ; : , v .;■, '- In eho*ing their .wilijngnese to take a man's part ■in , the protection. of their homes »nd in the-.endeavour'.to rhelp to BBiietain , the great Empirp- to ill belong, V Australians are setting .4 [worthy example, not only, to the Mother C6untry,'but to the Whole of the British Ploiner, in "United Service Magazine." : , '_. '~ ' SCIENTISTS , STUMBLISfG-BLpCJK, Gravitation is still the stumbling-block to the physicist which it has been these many years. How can he explain■a.universe when he is unable to give a reasonable account of the cement which holds it together Science Monthly/? tfew York. , " v- , ■ : :- > ■ HOBBY FOR BRAIN-FAG. rnysically, mentally, andof^moralljy a good hobby is a business man's salvation. When; hie mind Has been strenuously at work for many hours, he has used up a large quantity of life force. If then he turns -.id his hobby for; a change, his brain experiences • a relief, and the jaded parts get rested.—"Business Man's Magazine." TASTE FOB MUSICAL THUNDER, The music of more modern composers who hate out-Wagnered Wagner, who with added din and tumult of .orchestral thunder hurl masses of strenuous sound down the spines. of their listeners,: has weaned away many admirers in giving them newer, bolder, and more vivid musical' sensations.—"North American Review." J ■' : "■■''■' " -'-''j ;' '' :.. :■-: ■' ■■■■:' TEE WHTIE MAN'S BUftDElf. Is civilieation to sc.y definitely that when the African'native has kept him' self, or made his womk keep nim, they have no further claim upon him? The white man shall do tile rest. He shall preserve the peace, thdt the tribes may l>i odjKjr and multiply. His watchful and foreseeing eye shall make provision against famine; his science shall grapple with pestilence,, and cure ■ disease. Far, from his home or. from his family he shall hew. the trees and dig the- wells and build the roads, with anxious heart and "in the sweat of his .brow," according ito the curse laid upon the child of many wants, while the child of few wants watches him from the shade and thinks him mad.T—Winston Churchill iv the "Strand Magazine" for May. . ' • , A REAL TtJMBLEft:, ; > ..',. ; A tumbler which will insist on reverting to an erect; position, no matter how frequently it is knocked over, appears to possess admirable merits. It will be news to many people that this.wag the: original form of drinking tumbler—hence the name. They were composed of thin horn, and weighted with a bulbous mass at.the bottpm; vi , The idea of their use old drinking customs required that the, ale should be drunk, at a draught ! (for its presence: in the tumbler would cause, it ta overbalanced and gpill its contents), and there was the.advantage possessed by the tumbler ,of not rolling out of reach when' knocked about during Strand Magazine." MOTORING HEALTHFUL. ; • What is the effect of motoring upon the human body and health generally ? High-speed travelling, it is maintained, disturbs the nervous equilibrium, while other dire ill-effecte are popularly stated to arise from rapid movement along the highway. But "Chambers'a Journal" points out that scientific research proves the contrary; and that it tends to cure [many disorders which otherwise defy treatment, or the palliation of which is only temporary, ia shown by the investigations of M. A. Mouneyrat, who recently read nn interesting paper upon the subject before one of the learned societies of France As a result of his experience, lie flnds that motoring improves the skin acts as a powerful ftimulant to the' blood, is an exceUent means of tonuur un the blood-cireulatnff syetem, the nervous that^ho , " 6 !"? ,^ 0,,^,1ffac ia'ia *$m> t*at should be extensively followed by nmT- L r "? from Beveral common srrs te of e^^, a er mU ' day One aJ Uft a d B red *** : '. KnilNG A DBVTLHSH ! mm tojive the fish a delr field I^^ _The plans developed perfectly—the w! W "^v 8 ?° od ' the fi»h half fuied the boat with his first splash, and then rushed £way in a great swinging drcte so thatV 15 minu^s it w<w . sloop to cut across andlc*tch Z when by some maaoeuvring it became possible to pass the inboard endbrTt™e I tone up to her bo\ysprit. After that it was a flght to c finish, with the devilfish on one end of the Ike »nd the tehton sloop on the other. For a long-while it seemed as though the devil-fiSihad the better of it. Hβ towed,'that big boat eteadily into the gulf for three hours and 20 minutes. It was exactly like being in tow of a fair-sized tug. The progress j of the boat was not fast, but as steady I is if it were being driven by the Irene's own engines. V ■ ■'.-,-'■:'. It may. be fair to remark that killing a devil-fish entails as much genuine muscle racking hard work as any task-on earth. It is much the same as pulling for hours against a poke of oxen who are 'moving off entirely;, indifferent to-one's 'futile efforts. The devilfish will not letsimple towing tire him. If ]effc to himself, he will sound to bottom, and after resting proceed on. ad infihitum. It is to prevent such' resting that one must work constantly by hauling:the tow in close to him. thereby, frightening him to constAttt effort. :If "he■-■'can. ; lw strained t() tlic point, of wcakeniri"!, • ili<sn he may l>q hauled close enough to," harpoon aaain. '