FIRING OVER A
SCORE OF MILES
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CNew York World.;
The French estimate of the distance
trom which the Germans dropped shells
in Dunkirk is 23 1-2 miles. Fire at
such a range has long been a topic of
popular Interest as a possibility It
Is now a fact.
Traveling swifter than a rifle ball,
a shot fired at such a range is nearly
two minutes on Its way. At 45 degrees
elevation It rises more than two miles
above the loftiest mountain, higher
than man can mount In a balloon and
live, before It begins to descend.
The fire that wrecked the Antwerp
forts was delivered with much more
uocurate- aim, almost vertical, at fair
ly short range. The great guns of
warships cannot be elevated more than
10 degrees This is one reason why
the allies landed armies at the Dar
danelles. Plunging tire from batteries
at closer range should be more effec
tive Against Turkish forts than the big
guns of the Queen Elizabeth. No war
ships could shell New York from a
distance at sea equaling the range of
.and urtllery.
It Is hard to hit a small mark at
utlf a mile, and harder to hit a big
>ne at twenty miles. The German are
probably satisfied without having ae
omplished a military object, with the
noral effect of their feat—and there
is always a chance that a great shell
nay hit a vlt pot. Our army ex
perts say thu k i .mge of thirty miles
possible wi j. sent-day ordnance.
Dius Constaii a le might be bom
barded from the shore of the Black
sea, Trieste from Itullan soil, Ceuta
nun Gibraltar, Sardinia from Corsica,
Dover from Calais. This Is why the
iermun shots at Dunkirk were heard
iround the world.
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THE TRAVELING MAN
lE. VV. Howe's Monthly.)
You have all heard about the gay
traveling men, who do nothing but
t ide about all day, exchange Jokes with
people, eut banquets at hotels, and
lllrt wltl^ pretty waitresses. I saw a
tot of traveling men on the trip; all
of them intelligent and well behaved.
Many of them seem to make the dif
feient towns in automobiles, and
those 1 saw were either quietly writing
tip orders in hotels, or washing the
mud off automobiles in garages. If i
wanted to know the road to a certain
place. I was told of a traveling man
who had driven in from the place that
day, and 1 looked him up. I found all
of them polite and intelligent.
Two-thirds of the successful busl- j
ness men in this country were trained
on the road; there is no other train
ing equal to it. it not only makes gen- J
tlemen of rude boys, but it gives them
a business education that can be ac
quired in no other way. If you want,
to know about important tilings, talk '
to a traveling man; he is a professoi
in tlie big school; and when he gets'
back to the place where he spends'
Saturday afternoons and Sundays, nt j
one admires a home and wife and
children quite as much as he does.
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THE DOGS COLD NOSE.
(Cleveland Freas.)
tv lien your faithful old dug pokes
Ills nose into your bund, even your
infection cannot prevent a shiver.
Why is It?
When the body ol a dog is so warm,
why should this one spot be different
ii om ail the rest of him.
The old fable tens us that when
Noah tiled to get all the animals Into;
the ark some of them were trouble
some, and he had to get a dog to help
him drive the last to enter the ark>.
There was no room left, so the dog
had to stand in the doorway with his
,.ose outside in the wet, and it lias,
never been warm since.
Science gives quite another explana
tion of the matter. The coldness of a
dog's nose, says science, is due to the
fact that it must he kept moist all the
time in order to sharpen his sense of
smell. And, as the moisture is cooled
by the air. it keeps his nose cold all
the time.
In addition to the olfactory or smell
ing nerves inside a dog's nostrils, the
whole black membrane around the
nose Is very sensitive, and this sensi
tiveness can only he retained by mois
ture. Thus it Is that when a dog's noso
le dry and warm ho is 111 and needs
doctoring.
TEMPERATURE OF THE OCEAN.
(American Magazine.)
Keccnt discoveries of oceanograph
ers, Ashing at a depth of threo or four
miles, have boen made with the steam
er Albatros. Of the varying tempera
tures of the ocean Mr. Moffett says:
"The Albatross also makes records
of deep-sea temperatures. These tem
perature observations prove that the
ocean has a far more limited range of
heat and cold than the land. Its maxi
mum surface temperature being 96 de
grees Fahrenheit, and Its minimum
about 29 degrees Fahrenheit in the
most frigid depths, the ‘cold puddles'
between Greenland and Norway. The |
average ocean temperaturo at a depth
of 600 or 700 fathoms Is 36 degrees
Fahrenheit.
‘"One of the mysteries of the sea Is
u regular nightly temperature rise of
null u degree ut a depth of 1U0 fath
oms. This unaccountable temperulure
\uiiulioii lias been observed by the i
Albatross over and over again."
PAY DAY IN THE TRENCHES. j
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(Pittsburg Dispatch.!
i lie pay department of the British
at my now employs nearly 700 officers
and about 7,000 clerks. This Is nearly
ten times as many people as were re
quired for the work in times of peace
i ne housing of the constantly growing
staff of the paymaster’s office was one
.if the first difficulties, nnd the Lon-|
don main office has moved twice since
.he war began. Lately It has taken to,
adding private houses to Its office
area. Much of the time since the 1st
,f August the whole army pay organ
ization has worked day and night.
The soldier receives his pay, If he
wishes It. not only at the front, but
jven in the trenches. The cash, In
/rench currency notes, is issued by j
,iis company officer In the field, and
io accounted for on tho so-called "ac
quittance rills." Every soldier carries I
his pay book right through the war.
As far as possible he Is paid weekly.
Men In the advanced trenches draw
their pay almost as If they were In
.he barracks at home.
STRANGE ANIMALS.
The fossils found in the Ogalalla and
Arlkaree formations In the Platte val
ley, show that western Nebraska was
inhibited In what the geologist terms
late Miocene time by animals of very
different types from those living there
now, and also that very different phy
sical conditions prevailed at that time,
in place of the dry, barren plains of
today there were numerous streams
and swampy lowlands.
The Arlkaree formation contains
great numbers of bones of a peculiar
type of animals called ChalUcotheres.
They were larger than a large horse
and had a horse-like head, long front
egs, and shorter hind legs, but every
| loot had three toes, each of which In
place of a hoof bore an enormous claw.
An equally strange form of Miocene
timo Is decrllko animal called Syn
dyocreas. Its head somawhat resem
bled that of an antelope but was longer
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| mil had fuur horns, the larger pair,
uvt i- the eyes, curving inward and the
smaller pair, nearer the muzzle, curv
ing outward. Camels were common
in North America during the Miocene:
! epoch, and several form* have been
tound. One was about the size of a
i sheep and Is supposed to be the an
, testor of modern camels and llamas
' ’-'thers were large and had long necks
Uke the giraffe. All these ancient j
camels had hoofs like cattle, not broad
j cushioned feet like those of the ■ ^
of the present day. Rhinoceroses were
aboundaut, and hundreds of specimens
'( Teleoeeras, a very heavy bodied.
• hurt limbed type, have been found.
The proboscidians, of which the ele
phant i» the best known type and the
only living representative, became
prominent during the Miocene epoch,
when a large mastodou called Trlllpho
don was common.—.(Overland Guide
book. United States Geological Sur
vey. )
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