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Dunstan Times, Issue 2489, 12 July 1909, Page 3

V WESSONS WHO TURN TO Alii. ! The fact that so many people disappear from London every year and leave no trace behind, makes it worsh while to recall | Iheor* of the writer of an article that appeared !n a French scientific journal. Tha author advances the hypothesis that death is occasionally actual dissolution. It is a disease, the writer maintains, but one from which there is no suffering; there is no illness or warning of approaching encii the patient suddenly ceases to exist, ananas suddenly fades from sight. Like tltearo who saw the Boojum, he softly denly vanishes away. The author says he has actually witnessed this phenomenon, and that he was at one time walking with a friend who suddenly vanished, and has never reappeared ! With such conclusive testimony he has little doubt that many persons searched for have actually melted into thin air. He further states that at the moment his friend disappeared a strong sulphurous odour pervaded the atmosphere ! SHARK’S TEETH FOR STEEL. The natives of some of the Pacific islands., Being provided with neither metals nor any stone harder than the coral rocks, of whiclthe atells they inhabit are’composed, woulc seem badly on, indeed, for material of which to make tools or weapons, were it not their very necessity has bred an invention no less Ingenious than curious and effective. This is nothing less than the use of shark's teeth to give a cutting edge to their wooden knives wrd their swords. The mouth of the shark .contains 300 teeth, arranged in five rows, all closely lying upon each other, except the ; outer row, and so constructed that as one ; tooth is broken or lost another takes its place. The teethare not only pointed and keenedged, , out are finely and regularly serrated, so that i the cutting power is greatly increased. InI deed, so great a faculty have these teeth foi j wounding that the implements and weapons 1 upon which they are used have to be handled j with great carc. The Kingmill islanders j aiake many strange articles of shark’s teeth For Chronic. Chest Complaints, ■ Woods' Great Peppcimint Cure. 1/0 & 2/0 i

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