To quail el with one peison to please another is to meet what we meut—the displeasure, of both Owls aic not leally wise, and the icason that they seem so is because ne\er move then ejes. Tin's thoj cannot do, as then cjeballs are fixed immovable in tile sockets. ' * The icmains of the Arsinoitherimn were uneai thed at Fa} um, in the .Libyan Be- < „ sort ■ The Aisinoitherium is one of the' most Temarkable land manials of Ancient Africa, and, indeed, of .the known'fossil ( world. A few y-ears'ago it was undreamed of by scientists. . It was the brute-King of the Fayum two to three millions years -. ago. The monster was named after, the Egyptian Queen Arsince, the second wife of Ptolemy 11., and after her death.the natron c;odde£s of the Fayum- In life the animal stood about six feet high,,and'was nearly ten feet in length. - J -^, The Woman in the Moon is to be. » seen at any time between first quarter- '- and full moon. The face of her" is turned eastward, says Garrett P. Ser- "- viss in his new book, "Astronomy With 1 the Naked JEye." The outlines of her ■" foiehcad, nose, mouth, and chin are- , formed by two seas —the Sea of Show,-, ers and the Sea of Clouds; the eye is _ indicated *by one of the small, dark, oial plains nearfthe center, while the seas of Serenity, Tranquility Fertility, * and Nectar arrange the four on,theAop ~- and back of her head. 'Like a jewel on * ,_ lid- bosom blazes the great ciater ring J T\cho. -But let mortal men despair'of3»' : - her, -for she has never loved anyone -k v hut Bndymion. > - . ..' - - M
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10096, 13 March 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)
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