SWIMMING
A new swimming club has been formed under the auspices of the V.M.C.A., and it will commence with forty members. The officials have been elected as follow:—President, Mi. C. S. Faulkner; vice-presidents, Messrs. R. Baker, S. G. Hill, and E. Rixon; committee, Messrs. C. Sawyers, K. Sword, de Malrnanche, and M. Anthony; hon. secretary, Mr. G. H. Gillott; captain, Mr. K. Bolton.
Insects dc not steer by shifting the abdomen from 6ide to side, as has bean supposed, but by pressure from changing tho angle and force of wing-beats.' This is the conclusion of a professor at Erlangcn, after making close observation of the flights of dragon-flies, boos, and other insects, by means of light passing through a shuttered slit. Direction, it was observed, was changed without abdomen moveAccording to estimates of the fuel administration, tho amount of natural gns wanted in the United States in a year was equivalent to £240,000,000 worth of artifi- 1 cial city gas.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 84, 6 October 1920, Page 3
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