INTERESTING ITEMS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 29, 14 April 1911, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS.

V Science takes j|iant strides in thesflT days. Timbuctbo, it is announced, I is to be linked--up with the rest of t the world with fvireless telegraphy, | An itinerant f Iruit-vendor In the streets of Berlin makes his rounds with a small motor-car, and, thanks to his does a very gootf trade, : I

Flies are not the only things found in amber. In a big mass of clear amber, dredged up "out of the Baltic ‘ Sea, there was ; distinctly visible in its interior a | small squirrel—fur teeth and claws ’intact.

An ornithologist who has given much study to; the subject states that the longing bn the part of a bird to migrate is a fever in the blood, which works itself off in a fortnight or so if the bird be unable to leave with its; congeners.

The green ants, of Australia make nests by bending' leaves together and uniting them with a kind of glue, hundreds having been seen on one leaf drawing it to the ground, while an equal number waited to receive hold, and fasten it. - (

A husband in Finland has no claim to anything earned by his wife, who may, moreoverj „by ante-nuptial agreements, retain all she has as well as all she may acquire, and mayi reserve to herself the privilege of managing her property and its income'. j

It is one of the hopeful signs for the future—and one which those who have analysed democracy and described its perils have not sufficiently appreciated that it responds promptly and unmistakably ■to those who speak to it, not in veiled fiattery, about rights, hut in appeals \ to do one’s duty.—-" Times.”