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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 513, 21 May 1909, Page 6

Y'Mummy, aro tlicro really mermaids?'*— "les, dear. They aro tbo son-fairies."— (Pause.)—" Mummy.' you do want mo to go to sea, don't you?"—" Yes, darling; -I want' you \o go into the Navy."—"Well, then, lv thinkU'll bo, a diver."—"Punch." The. Miscovovy that air may be made a* impenetrable to sho;s as a pinto of annom would scW to suggest interesting possibilities. In 4 curious experiment tried at Buo. noar Versailles, M. Hobcrt Esnault-PoltcJM ; , stood at aWisidcrablo distance. behind hit l aoroplane, tic propeller of which was coins at full speed.. and fired a numbor of shots at tho centre; Tho whirling column of air ■ successfully warded off. every bullet. When : the propeller wVs stopped, it was found that not only had tho centre escaped, but ovoa tho blades had not been touched.- Though spectators suggested that tho bullets had been flattened against tho spiral air and tho projectiles shot backwards, being thus stopped short, it was concluded that thoy had been simply turned o\it of their course. Probably tho last hjkick triho which had never seen a white man has now been dia-' ' covered in -Morimigton/Nlsland, in tho Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Tho first white manithey saw was Mr.'R\ B. Howard, Chief ' Protector of Aborigines inVQuconsland, who came in contact with themynftcr two days' searching. Tho blacks, he saVs, are-in a very primitive, state. Thoy do iiot N know the uso of tobacco, and will not cat bread, meat, or even suijar, although they readily taste any. thing givon to them. There '.is no siga whatever of disease, and although emaciated :iil?>aElieataßCeH: they aro strang. and .agila.