GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2229, 29 June 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

The peculiar ''waltzing instinct” of ostrichos, juat described by a‘South African naturalist, is a inuUlon■'running off, with a whirling movement, first one way and then the other, ami isprciuliug ‘ and oscillation of the wings. " Tile habit, an inst.iaictive plav in the young, is thought to lie connected with escape from the large carnivora.

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According to statistics collected by several librarians, books aliould not bo bound in either call-thin or Russian leather, as these are most liable to decay. On the other hand, morocco and pig-skin are most durable. Many librarians object to the use of gas, as it has a most deteriorating effect- on the bindings, the electric light being preferable. , GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE / - ACOItNS GItOAV.

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Taking up the old question of the effects of nerve stimulants upon tho capacity for work, Armaml Gautier has sliown that when kola is given to a horse fatigue seems to bo lessoned, and half a mile or.more is added to tho distance tho animal can travel per hour. It was further proven, however, that tho horse loses more weight than tho ono that has received no stimulant. This drug, like alcohol, can whip up tho tissues, but tho artificially produced energy is at the expense of the living machine.

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Tho question whether the existing method of illuminating lighthouses is, or is not, a rational one is being studied in Germany, and the advisability of :i change in the system has found many advocates. , The idea was conceived by a sea captain, who declares that a lighthouse would render far greater service if the rays of light were directed not towards the horizon, but towards the zenith, that is, not horizontally, but vertically, in an ascending column. There would be then no brilliant horizontal rays to blind the eyes of the navigator, blit only ian ever-ascending luminous column of light. It might be made to ascend to a very great height, and when -there were clouds in the sky the under surfaco of these would be lighted up and the illumination greatly magnified. The light, under these conditions, would bo visible from -a far greater distance than it is u.t present, the visibility being now curtailed by the rotundity of the earth-. The originator of the idea maintains that the illumination- from a lighthouse, the rays from which were projected vertically, would be visiblo from a distance of eighty nautical mites, and with a much- smaller consumption of combustibles. The lighthouses,he says, might easily be made distinguishable the one from the other by tho, present system of eclipses and occultatiou.