Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — High-Flying Eagles. [ARTICLE]

High-Flying Eagles.

There are t wo animals that puzzle naturalists more than any others. They are nature’s submarine and aeroplane, the whale and the eagle. It is known that whales occasionally descend as much as 3,000 feet below the surface of the sea—a depth at which, by the pressure of the water, they ought to he crushed flat. Why they are not injured scientists have yet to discover. It is this pressure which prevents a modern submarine descending even 300 feet, let alone 3,000. Eagles have been seen through telescopes to fly with apparent ease from 30,000 to 40,000 feet above sea level. At that height no huifaan biing can live, owing to the rarefiejation of air. How the birds live and fly at far greater heights than man can endure for long ie a question still to be answered. —Pearson’s. • -x ♦ ■ There are about 80 operations in the manufacture of a gold pen.