Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1920 — Page 3

LIZARD EGGS HIGHLY PRIZED

Theos of th* Water Monlter Are K» / teamed a Delicacy in Many Parte / of Malay Peninsula. The water monitor la one of the standbys of the natives of India, Ceylon and the Malay peninsula and Island and the eggs of this species of tllsard are mors highly prised than j hens' eggs. You might shudder when you sud* ’ denly confronted a water monitor In i the jungle. Not so the native, hunt- ' Ing its eggs and rejoicing to get near ’ such treasures. The monitor is equipped with a long yaked tongue, extending from a sheath like a snake's. It la one of the largest of existing lizards, reaching a RLigth of seven feet, although Its nearest relative, the gigantic Australian ' monitor, grows from twelve to thirty i fast long. The monitor lays twenty or 1 more white, soft-shelled eggs in hoi-' low trees, and in Burma these bring a much higher price than hen’s eggs. “The monitor is well fitted for its lite,” says a writer in the Scientific American. “It is a swift runner, able to overtake the speediest mammals, turtles and snakes on which It feed* It often startles hunters by 7 crashing through the jungle, making ' as much noise as large game. It climbs / trues for squirrels, birds and their / eggs. At other times it may be found digging along stream banks for the eggs of the crocodile, of which It is most fond. Either in running or swimm|ng it can leave Its enemies far behind. If surprised when up a tree it drops into the water, swimming with - powerful strokes of its flattened tail, which acts as oars and rudder. When being captured it fights with teeth, i daws and tail. “The natives term the monitor *Ka- ; bara-Goya.’ Although it is harmless and non-polsonous, it is used to produce deadly poisons. The Singalese : aye experts in brewing a deadly poison termed ‘Kgbaratel.’ [ “They extract poisons from venomous snakes, adding arsenic and other drugs, boiling the combination in human skulls. And here the monitor coeimi in as a part of their supersti1 They tie three monitors on three aides facing the firs. Then they tor- , meat the monitors with whips and ' make them hiss to cause the fire to blase up. The natives believe that \ the kiss of the monitors adds to ths . poisonous quality es the deadly brew."

Making Airplane Moro Handy.

. From Dayton, 0., from whence camo /the news, at first Incredible, that the ■ problem of mechanical flight had been f solved, now comes the news, almost I as hard to believe, that there has been and successfully tested there ■ 'A propeller for airplanes that has something of the diversity of action possessed by the motor organs of birds. The Vanos of the new propeller, it Is । reported, are not Immovable on the / central shaft, but can be more or less ■ changed as to angle with that shaft tai meet the aviator’s will or need. / H thia has been done without intro* /fiudng weakness that goes with com- ‘ plartty es mechanism, the operation I of airplanes, especially at the enorI monely important moment of start- , tag and alighting, will be improved axh actly whore it most needs improveAlready wonderful things are I done with these machines, but the aparrow that fllesjto and stops on a tab F egraph wire or a slender twig does I something at which the moot skillful I aviator hitherto has looked in hopet3mm envy. _ __ That a propeller with movable vanes woind permit the emulation of the ' bird's achievements In rising and i alighting is Mt obvious, but it certain- », ly would bo a step toward the ideal / airship

Of Course Ho Wants Money.

X oerman professor In whose f*m- * Uy * young Englishman wan living when the war broke out has now sent -to the boy’s father a bill which the London papers find amusing. The studeparture, on the outbreak of hostilities, was hurried, as can be Imagined, and he was for long quite busy as a soldier and officer fighting gyminn Now his proud parent is reminded that not only did the boy owe tom ething for board when he went away, but that he had made what custom counted a contract to continue boarding till the end of the scholastic bale year. Also, he requested to remit J English mopey, which the German proF; feasor prefers, evidently, to that of his / own country. / dThe episode is not quite as funny as tthe London papers seem to think it Is, Ntpr lodging and board received do cremate a debt, but the plea for recom- - panse for the broken contract is naive inth® true Teutonicway.—New York Times.

Defined - All Right.

The third-grade teacher was readlag “Chanticleer" to the children, (hie boy did not seem to be giving attentiop an d she thought perhaps he did not understand the story. , So she decided to find out by a series of questions. The first one she asked was: "William, what is a chanticleeiT’ a minute William was confn—d He wriggled in his seat and then knowledge camo to him and he joturaed: “Why a chanticleer IS a Aw that crows."

His Sensation.

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Personally we are willing to loan our /last red to Europe.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. The only cheap thing these days is the life of an American in Mexico.—Philadelphia Press.

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