a schoolboy was asked to write a sition on "Man and Monkey," he i that everyene spmng from a monkey and the only difference today'is that some didn't | spring as far as hers. the unknown wilds of New report of the discovery of a singular race of men that walks like apes. ae doin the marshes, these men have bers of the exploring party hand, the marshes are cov- that prevents navigation in onkey-men have built huts in organs of prehension alone are use- , thelr lower limbs have almost r . These natives have only feeble and thered legs and feet, while the chest and arms sre of normal development. They can scarcely ytand upright and they walk like large apes. giving the impresion of cripples who have been deprived of the use of their lower extremities. This reported discovery of a tribe of apelike is of particular interest in connec 'on with the startling theory of Prof. A. Linckewics, a noted savant of Vienna, who is the author of a remarkable book entitled, "The Beast in Man." "Nan. is not only descended from monkeys," decla; Prof. Linckewics, "but monkeys are de- scended from a mace of prehistoric - men who, from being overcivilized, finally sank into berbar- {ism and from thence into savagery, eventually becoming monkeys again. "The world is now in the second stage of hu- i he 3 i : 2 f 1 The Chimpanaes Grows to About Five Feet in Height. It Has Large Ears, Distinct Eyebrows, Eyelashes and Whiskers, In Length of Arms and Number of Teeth It Approximates Man. man evolution and, unless false culture is pushed aside and normality asserts itself over the mod- ern tendencles toward destruction, the earth in another 2000 years will be again peopled by monkeys." In explaining his "pre-Darwinian" theory Prof. Linckewicz, who is now in his 80th year, claims that archaeologieal discoveries in China, Egypt, Russia, Italy and elsewhere prove conclusively that a civilization older than the Atlantic Ocean existed when what is now the United States was a sea. a "The human race which inhabited the earth at that time," he says, "was the result of fifty cen- turies of evolution from the primeval ape, and was far more highly developed than is the civiliza- tion of today, although along different lines. "At that stage, for instance, telephony had been replaced by telepathy, and it was possible for a business man in China to send an order to an agent in Scandinavia simply concentrating the processes of his the on the subject and transporting his mind for the moment to the other end of the earth. "This faculty is at present retained only by a small' group of Hindu philosophers in India, who have been remarkably successful in thought The Gorilla Inhabits Central Africa. It Is About Six Feet in Height, Massive of Body and Limb, and Is Greatly Feared for Its = Ferocity and Strength. transference and in othe¥ directions, such as the ability to simulate death for a period as long as seventy years, after which they emerge with a completely new brain' whereon are received im- pressions such as the brain of a year-old child' would receive. These men are then practically reborn, and often live a normal lifetime there- after. They cannot, however, repeat the ex- periment. ! "The pre-civilized were in regular communi- cation with certain of the stars, but it is not possible to say with which particular ones, al- though the Grecian legends surrounding plan- etary gods are undoubtedly founded on legends which have survived in the form of graven serip- tures from the First Human or First Pre-Ape period. "Finally this race became super-human and the limit of their brain capacity having been over- reached their intelligence suddenly smapped. There is also reason to believe that they were steeped in debauchery and became non-procrea- tive, so that when the final disaster came about their numbers were reduced to a few million, re- siding for the most part in the warmed climes. MARVELS You Can PERFORM. OAP bubbles, always regarded as an amuse } ment of childhood's days, lately have been receiving the attention of scientists and many novel and marvelous results have been ef- ( Soeted. The soap films are now so dexterously manipulated that they are made to present effects more spectacular than one ever dreamed of. Bub- bles are built into all kinds of freak forms such ' @8 houses, bridges and even castles. - How wire frames, by being tmmersed in soap solutions, ave made to produce the most unique and fantastic impressions is explained in Science 'and Invention by Joseph H. Kraus, who has ex. ( Perimented with films of this nature, the object being to produce a film which when would last indefinitely. ! At first, the experiments were rather diseour- {'aging, but finally the film was floated on water {Se effects imaginable, and the marvelous colors | veloped seemed to even upon nature. a a oapLots Sven pun nature, US 476 by SLY experiuigier in the following simple t Three ounces of amyl acetate ave purchased from-the druggist and placed in a £ vial. Ordinary eelluloid which may be by immersing pisces of camera film in water to remove the emulsion, is then \ and introduced into the the Mquid therein comes eut up ~ vial, until formed, for use. The mode of procedire 1s to make a loop * cirele three inches across by twisting a piece copper wire togpther, leavi about eight inches of wire to on as a handle. ® This Ear then bent into such a shape that it will not inter. fere with the removal of the film. A A good way to do this is to place the circle upon a table and bend the handle downward over the edge of the table. This curve is then changed by twisting it outward and then up- ward. The wire circle is afterward immersed in a bowl of water and a single drop of. the amyl acetate and celluloid solution is allowed to fall into the water; the drop instantly spreads over the surface of the water and forms a film and floats on the water. It will be seen that at first very pretty iridescent colors form near the edge of the film. These colors gradually spread, which spreading can be forced by blowing at the surface of the film. After a short period the surface becomes ser. rated and the serrations become more prominent as the experiment proceeds. Finally, when the la: of these serrations has become about one- half an inch long, the wire frame is centred un- . der the film and lifted carefully, in this way re- moving the film intact. It will be found quite diffienit to succeed at first, and it is best to start with smaller frames, but after a while quite large filir , can oe EY 3 t difficulty. suspended in some free of dust and within a wee! the film will develop a very in: 50 are 3 teresting effect which very eas-".' With BUBBLES luloid film to make the solution quite thick. To a similar quantity of acetons, about one ouncé of powdered white soap i§ added. The solutions are allowed to stand for 36 to 48 hours. These solutions are then mixed together until of such a consistency that they can be blown with an ordinary clay pipe in the same manner as Soap bubble, a bubble about four inches in diameter being the maximum size produced. The ends of the pipes are then stopped up with a wooden plug or with wax and the stems inserted into racks. It will be found that after allowing them to remain this way for 24 to 36 hours, a quick snap of the pipe will separate the bubble and the same can be caught upon a stretched cotton sheet. Thereupon, the bubbles can be built into all sorts of fantastic forms. Houges can be erected, bridges built and castles permanently made as shown in the illustration. In order to do this with a marked of success, so that if the castle or the object built is to be moved, and not to break, it will be necessary to moisten the point of contact between two or more soap bubbles with a very little of either of the solutions just men- tioned; either with the amyl acetate and celluloid solution or with the acetone-celluloid solution. In this manner, the.bubbles will last intact .~for upward of three years. Is MAN Really REVERTING | to the MONKEY? RETR a - ] Orang-Outang, the Original "Wild Man of Borneo," Is Massive In Form, Weighs About 250 Pounds, and Reaches a Height of About 4}; Feet. It Has Been Taught to Imitate Man. "Following six or seven centuries, when the world was peopled by half-wits who destroyed the cities they had built, pulled down the mighty civilization their forefathers had raised, engaged in bloody wars among themselves, and finally be- came again what they had been in the beginning --a race of monkeys. Ls "To prove the truth of this it is necessary only to take a new-born infant and place . it among monkeys for its first fifteen years. By that time it will have absorbed all the habits of apes and will be only half-human. It will never have learned the power of speech except insofar as it will chatter like a monkey. It will not be as agile as a monkey because it will have no tal, but should it be mated to an ape its children will be wholly apes. "A monkey, therefore, is a human idiot de- graded by centuries of insanity." Why More "Male ' Babies Are Born After Great Wars O explain why after and during the war there should be p greater overplus of beys born than is noticed in more normal times, George Whitehead, author of "The Psychology of the Woman Question," writing in The London Sphere, assigns the foll reasons: he reasons for this apparent thoughtful. ness on the part of nature in lessening the death rate after a heavy toll has been levied through an epidemic on the one hand, an greater number of male babies to pleted ranks of adult males caused other, are that an epidemic naturally the weakest infants, and those ravages are thus of a relatively grea stamina than is normal. Therefore, bel er, they are more able to resist the subsequent tacks of ordinary childish ailments, and less by death than would be the case among chil dren whose numbers included the comparative weaklings carried off by the previous epidemic. "Why male babies are born in greater num- bers after a war can only be explained with less certainty. Reasoning from analogids su the lower forms of life among insects, mothers as a rule result in greater numbers than usual of male births; while, as convincing experi- ments have demonstrated with rabbits, frogs and birds, a rich diet, etc., stimulates the tendency tec female births in an astoflishing degree. ; "Males can be produced at will by relative starvation of a certain polyp, while rabbits fed with lectithin (a nutritive substance from the white of an egg) furnish a remarkably high percentage of female births. The tadpoles of frogs, usually yielding 57 females to 43 males in 100, when fed with beef yield 78 females per 100, when fed with fish 81 per 100 and when fed with frog-flesh yigld 92 females per 100! "Although one cannot, of course, reason strict. ly from animals to humans, it is indeed a fact that during a siege or at other times when food is relatively scarce or innutritious, or when a period of nervous stress obtains for the mothers, boys are born in greater numbers." How the SENSE of SMELL SOLVED the SECRET of SILVER-PLATING cle and wondered how the silver got on to it? In the beginning it all came about through an accident, Two famous scientistz were one day in their laboratory, experimenting with electricity. What the particular experiment was is immaterial, but just after they had set up the whole of a' compli- cated apparatus it was found that one of the wires leading from the electric battery ' had broken. It was necessary to put in ow wire. But time was pressing, and it wi ssential to get the experiment done. Then one of the chem- ists remembered that acidulated water would condi or carry electricity as well as a wirs. A drop of acidulated water was spilt so ths the two broken ends were just poking inte it The switth was turned and the drop of water (id its pagt well. Everythiv.. went splendidly. After the experiment had been going for some tirze, Davy, who was one of the two chemists, thought he smelt that peculiar salty-swest odor of a gas called hydrogen. Both men started to hunt for tho origin of thet unlooked-for gas-- | {ae you ever looked st a silver-plated arti- - they knew that there could not possibly be a leak- age of hydrogen from any of the retorts, snd ' that the gas was not produced by the action of thelr machine, At lzst they found it.' One of them, bending low, had caught his nose just over that little drop of water, and there the smell was strongest. They examined that infignificant drop through a mag- nifying glass and saw hundreds of tiny bubbles literally leaping from the end of the Wire. These little bubbles rose to the top of the drop of water and there emptied their contents into the air. All the hydrogen they smelt was eom- ing off from this place. The two men then set up an apparatus re: sembling that of the water-drop--that is, they ' passed an electric current through a trough of water. Bubbles immediately sprang from beth ends of the wires dipping into the water. They had made a great discovery, Water--which eon- tists of hydrogen and oxygen--could be split ur into its different constituents by electricity. They improved their apparatus, and made ex- periments not only with water, but among other things with = liquid called silver nitrate, which is silver dissolved in nitric acid . The silver nitrate was broken up in the same way that water was, and the wire by which the electricity ran from the trough was coated with silver. From this the great industry of electro or. silver-plating has sprung up. Nowadays, the article to be plated is connect ed straight up to the negative wire. It is im- mersed and a current passed. On taking the article from the solution it is found coated with a thin crust of shining silver. Catching INFLUENZA from SHEEP demie of so-called "influenza" in the Journal of the Royal Amy Medieal Corps. The epi- demic raged at Lahore in the Punjab in the end of 1919, among the 111th Madras Labor Corps, the men of the cattle depot, and the 14th (Mad- ras) Labor Corps. The epidemic, according to The Lancet, appeared clinically to be a recrudes- cence of the influenza which had occurred in 1918, but this time there was no notable outbreak any- where else in the Punjab, or, indeed, in the whole of India; further, it was confined entirely to units in the north end of Lahore cantonment. The cases were numerous and mortality high. The outbreak began gradually in end of September, when the dry season commenced, and Rav. 21 there ue been 754 cases and 280 per cent.). symptoms were in- fluensal, broncho-pneumonia was frequent, and the sputum contained pneumococci, diplococei catarrhales, staphylococci, streptoecocei, ete., the influenza bacillus was never found. - On Nov. 19, 196 deaths having already oc- curred, the Teportes, Maj. J. Mackenzie, 3. AM Toone is an interesting account of an epi- was separated from the cattle depot only by a road; also the 14th Labor Corps a fortnight after it had sent 50 men to work in the cattle depot. The disease was supposed to spread among the sheep by contact, but to have been carried to men by dust (it spread to them immediatel commencement of the dry season in September), by flies or by contact, and to man by coughing or sneezing. prising that so great a loss of sheep should not have been talked about and the moral would seem to be that any such mortality among animals should be reported to the | 'authorities, particularly the army medical au in all garrisons, in case action on their part should be necessary. "CLEANING A CLOCK EN a clock stops it is a mistake to sup- « pose that it must at once be taken to the