Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — AUTO ADVENTURES [ARTICLE]

AUTO ADVENTURES

(By Walt Mason.) When first a fellow learns to drive, he says, “Great Scott and man alive! This heedless scorching is a crime; its ‘careful’ does it, every time. Because one’s car has speed and power, he hits up 50 miles an hour, and in the gloaming he is found, where he has hit the fertile ground; his car, a torn and tangled wreck, its fragments wrapped around his neck. Since I have all the time there is, I don’t intend to scorch or whiz. I’ll jog along a steady gait, and try to keep my head on straight.” At first he travels sanly slow; but after seven weeks or so, ,he hurries up its choo choo cart, and tries to tear the roads apart. Then I, and other idle rich, behold him seated in a ditch, the steering gear pusheu through ais hat, and with a broken leg or slat. We comb the casting from his hair, and take him to the surgeon’s lair. He says, while bones are being set, “I’ll get another car, you bet! But no more scorching will you see—six miles an hour will do for me!”

Every one who keeps an aquarium knows that it is advisable to place a few snails in the tank, not only because snails are interesting in themselves, but because they are good cleaners, says the Popular Science Monthly. If the keeper of the aquarium Knows that too much sunlight will produce too much plant growth, and has placed the vessel in a partly shaded place where the proportion of light and shade is about right, the snails, if they are numerous enough, can then control the growth. Nature has provided them with a peculiar anatomical structure resembling a narrow ribbon, which in detail is like the band of teeth on a carpenter’s rasp. Under the microscope these so-called "lingual ribbons” or tongues are seen to be set thickly with rows of sharp-edged teeth which are themselves toothed and which rasp off microscopic plants and harry them into the mouth.