LITTLE BITS OF NEWS
The Caspian Sea overflows twice every year, and strands millions of fisfe—sufficient to feed the whole of Central Asia, if advantage could be taken of the immense resources given by Nature.
In the Colorado desert there are rainstorms during which not a single drop of water touches the earth. The rain can be seen falling from the clouds high above the desert, but when the water reaches the strata of high, dry air beneath the clouds it is entirely absorbed before falling half the distance to the ground. Birds fly because they, have the largest bones of all animals In proportion to their weight, and their bones are hollower than those of animals that do not fly. Air vessels also enable them to blow out the hollow parts of their bodies when they wish to slow their descent, rise quicker, or float in the air. The muscles that move the wings of birds downwards in many instances are a sixth part of the weight of the whole body; whereas those of a man are not in proportion onehundredth part so large.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 20
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185LITTLE BITS OF NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 20
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