SUBMARINE VOLCANOES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 93, 1 April 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

SUBMARINE VOLCANOES.

Occasionally there, appears. a great wave sweeping across the calm surface of the . ocean in the fairest, weather and when no wind is blowing. There are few perils of the sea to be more dreaded than such a'wave. Fortunate* ly these are very rare, yet more than once a ship has encountered one. The cause of there singular waves isbelieved .co be some disturbance of a volcanic nature at the bottom of the sea. Volcanoes exist in. the ocean as well as on land ; in fact, nearly, all the volcanoes known are on or near the sea eoasfo. It is easy to see that an unheaval at the sea bottom'may start a billojr at the surface of the water, when we remember that huge waves have been sent clear across the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco .by volcanic shakings of the earth on the borders of Asia. The world under water is not only three times as extensive as that which is covered only with air, but it possesses many of the same great natural phenomena on a scale which is perhaps proportionately vast, but of whose existence we- are made aware of only by such indications as the volcanic ocean waves that ships occasionally encounter. CHINESE NEWSPAPERS. Most of the newspaper equipment in China comes from Japan. The presses used are cheap cylinders manufactured after European and American patents. As human power is the cheapest, they are equipped with treadmills. Theee, rays '‘The World's Work,”- are operated

by men who paid at the rate of Bs. a month ,in our money. The type constitutes :v proportionately larger part of-the initial outlay than is necessary with us. The Chinese have no alphabet, and every idea is represented by a separate ideagraph. The system is not, however as complicated, as suggested by. Mark Twain’s statement that it required forty years to a "pi” of Chinese type. The paper is usually the piorest quality of tissue that will hold ink; it also is manufactured in Japan Even with this saving, the povcity of the people often makes original methods of circulation necessary. In some places the same editions are successively distributed to different sets of subscribers, boys being employed to gather up the papers as soon as they have been read and carry them to another set of readers. Perhaps the most cosmopolitan newspaper service in the world is What which is found lon the Tientsin-Pekin Railways. The Chinese newsboy will supply, you with anything from Fischietto and Fliengende. Blatter to the San Francisco Call. The Chinese dailies usually sell for ate«in or eight cash a copy—a little less ;than a farthing. j AN UNFAMILIAR BUILDING. A young American was studying medicine-in Paris. He had been at the gay. capital for over a year, when he was visited by his father." showed the old gentleman about (the city, pointing out to him its chief beauties, .architectural and otherwise, and finally they mopped before a many-pillared tuilding. “What place is’that?" asked the parent.

’I dent know,” replied the young student, *'biit there is a policeman, and we will soon find out..”

They crossed over and put the queetjon. “That messieurs,” said, the man 1 ‘"‘is the medical school,*’