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POISON GAS FROG
, CAPTURED ALIVE
Others That Bark Like Dogs
and Squeal Like Pigs
Brought to New York.
GET 200 LIVING SPECIMENS
Strange Reptile* Captured In Santo
Domingo by Dr. and Mrs. G. Kings
ley for American Museum
•f Natural History.
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New York. —Specimens of many
curious reptiles, including a huge tree
frog which releases poison gas from
its skin and another giant frog which
harks and growls like a dog and
squeals like a pig have been added
to the collection of the American
Museum of History by Dr. and Mrs.
G. Klngley Noble, who have just re
turned frem a three months’ scientific
expedition across the Island of Santo
Domingo.
Forty of the biggest lizards in the
world, which bear the closest resem
blance of any living creatures to the
giants es the dinosaur period, were
captured and are now living in cages
in a hot room in the museum.
The poison-gas frog attains a weight
of about ten pounds. Its feet have
devices like the suckers of an oc
topus, which enable it to climb ver
tically the sides of trees. Its habitat
Is full of large snakes which would
probably have extinguished this ex
traordinary frog long ago, except for
the frog's development of the novel
device of perspiring a corrosive milky
liquid which blisters like a touch of
diluted carbolic acid and fills the air
with a blinding vapor and an intoler
able odor. This frog is less effective
at a long range than a skunk, but
would otherwise mske a well-bal
anced adversary in a match in their
particular specialties.
Has a Curious Biography.
In addition to an Interesting per
sonality, this frog has a curious biog
raphy. Born In mountain torrents, It
lives its early life attached to rocks
like an abalone or a muscle and
spends Its adult period iu trees. Mak
ing a curious sound, the female comes
dewa from the trees in egg season
and deposits small objects among
stones by the edge of the stream.
These are eggs. They absorb water
and swiftly grow to the size of a
marble, one laying of eggs soon being
as large as the frog which laid it.
Hatched out as tadpoles, the young
aters wriggle to the rocks and swift
mountain streams, attach themselves
to bowdlers in the heart of the cur
rent and hang on till they have at
tained frog’s estate, when they set out
for the trees and walk up the sides
like files. These frogs would prob
ably Interest connoisseurs who have
acquired a taste for frog’s legs. They
have drumsticks like a turkey’s.
These and other frogs and animals
were the subjects of Intimate photo
graphs showing their family life, their
methods of eating, sleeping and court
ing. The photographs were taken at
night with a flashgun. Automata
flashlight pictures have been taken
before of Ilona and other large anl
mala, but this Is the first time the
portraits of strange frogs have been
done in this manner.
The other curious frog was a
smaller kind, which live in deep
jungles, where they would get lost
and never find their friends except for
the tremendous power of their voices.
They climb to the tops of trees and
bark furiously so as to be heard at
great distances. The first barking
frog that was caught did not wriggle
and try to escape like the ordinary
frog, but startled his captors by open
ing his mouth wide and squealing like
a pig. This frog lays its eggs on the
ground and they hatch out fully
formed frogs Instead of tadpoles.
Lizard Hunted With Dogs.
The big lizard, of which only one
specimen was ever known In this coun
try, was hunted with dogs on the
shores of a salt lake 100 feet below
aea level. They reach a length of
five feet and a large weight. They
have enormous heads, powerful jaws,
three rhlnoceros-llke horns, a wide,
gaping mouth with a deep indigo In
terior, a red tongue and little pink
horns like bits of coal set all over the
face. The skin is like thick rich silk,
with a beautiful blue-green sheen.
The teeth, luckily, are short. Doc
tor Noble was bitten in the hand by
one, but was not badly injured. If
they possessed teeth to match their
Jaws, his hand would have been am
putated. The big ones were an over
match for the dogs and could only be
shot and brought back dead. The
dogs, however, could catch and bold
the smaller ones until the members
of the expedition eame up to help.
This big lizard is called the rhi
noceros Iguana, being named after the
horns. They have a crest of spines
which runs from the back of the neck
to the tail. In motion their powerful
muscles move impressively under th*
loose fancy-silk covering of skin.
A total of 200 living specimens am,
large numbers of skins and specimen*
in jars of alcohol were brought back
The expedition was financed by the
Angelo Hellprln Fund, and the mate
rials will be Installed In the museum's
hall of reptilea, now under construe
tlon.
Switzerland Is the best-mapped
country in the world.
\ Blown 15 Feet Into Air,
Suffers Slight Headache ♦
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j Cleveland. —Blown 15 feet in- ?
? to the air and escaping with a i
i slight headache was the expert- !
f erne of Eugene Porter, thirty- *
I eight, when a japanning oven J
? exploded. On alighting. Porter f
i grabbed a tire extinguisher and i
i had most of the tire which re- *
? suited from the explosion put *
I out when the tire companies ar- j
* rived. i
1 “Hurt? No sir, not me. I’m J
| as natural as ever," Porter de- f
i dared. 1
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WOULD SAVE SEA MAMMALS
Committee on Conservation of Marine
Life Urges Treaties With Coun
tries on Pacific Coast.
San Francisco.—Fifty years ago a
“lime-juicer,” as the big square-rigged
sailing vessel of that time was called,
would have to steer a careful course
along the south Pacific coast at certain
seasons, if he wanted to avoid destruc
tive collisions with the California gray
back whale. Along the coast line could
be seen elephant and fur seals, and
closer In were great tortoises and sea
turtles, while above wheeled the
Heerman gull.
Such destruction has been wrougnt
on these sea creatures In the last half
century that there is a campaign on
to have the State department negoti
ate treaties with all countries border
ing on the Pacific to prevent their ab
solute extermination.
One of the great mammals, Steller’s
seacow, already has joined the great
auk, the dodo and other storied crea
tures of a dead age. Only 18 years
after its discovery this animal disap
peared from the ocean, due to the ac
tivities of hunting expeditions. Moved
by the nearness of a similar fate for
the walrus, the elephant seal, the sea
otter and the southern whales, the
committee on conservation of marine
life of the Pacific, a part of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement
of Science, has started the campaign
to have the State department act.
THE ROAD TO YPRES
1 nisi Msg
On the gates of Ypres are notices
posted by the burgomaster reminding
the passerby that 200,000 British sol
diers lost their lives in defending
Ypres. A counterpart es these signs
is being posted on the Dover road, the
gateway to London bridge and the city.
This milestone is eight miles front
London bridge and Includes the data
relative to the British losses at Ypres.
GOATS DESTROY HULA GRASS
Hawaiian Legislature Will Be Asked
to Supply Funde te Exterminate
Animate.
Honolulu, T. H. —The island* of
Maul and Hawaii in this group c«a
taln 108,000 wild goats, or one goat
to every two and one-half acres, ac
cording to a recent “census” taken by
C. S. Judd, territorial superintendent
of forestry. The territory would he
obliged to spend $50,000 to extermi
nate these animals, which are destroy
ing grass and forest cover, and the
next legislature probably will he
asked to appropriate this amount for
the purpose, he said.
The estimate of 108,000 goats was
based upon a recent "goat drive,”
which boy scouts and soldiers con
ducted on a ranch on the island of
Hawaii.
Dentist Finds War Bullet.
Seatorla, Miss.—G. M. Evanston,
Confederate veteran. Is displaying a
souvenir of the Battle of Gettysburg,
for which he had been searching fully
fifty years. He w-as wounded three
times at Gettysburg, one mini* ball
striking him In the head. Surgeons
were unable to find the shot. After
more than half a century he began
suffering with a tooth and had It re
moved, but was not relieved. Several
days later the dentist found the ralnle
ball protruding from the gum where
the tooth had been.
Asks SIO,OOO for Lost Smile.
Buffalo, N. Y. —Joe Bevilacqua asks
a jury for a SIO,OOO award because he
never again can smile. In an automo
bile collision a year ago the boy’s face j
was cut by glass and be permanently
lost control of the muscles that reflect
a glad heart. |
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
PSYCHOLOGICAL
TESTS ARE USED
Natjon-Wide Survey Shows In
struction Now Given to Em
ployees of Corporations.
RATIN6 SCALE IS OF VALUE
Systematio Training of Workers to
Promote Efficiency It Gaining
Ground in American Com
merce and Industry.
Pittsburgh.—Systematic training of
workers to promote efficiency Is gain
ing ground iu American commerce and
industry, according to a report pre
sented to the convention of the Na
tional Personnel association here by
the committee ou psychological tests
and rating scales, of which Dr. E. K.
Strong, Jr., director of the bureau of
educational research, Carnegie Insti
tute of Technology, is chairman.
The report, dealing with psychologi
cal tests and rating scales as used by
the training staffs 'of corporations,
embodies results of a uation-wide sur
vey and shows that 70 out of 102 com
panies questioned give instructions to
their employees. Thirty-one of these
companies, which include Industrial
and public utility corporations, life in
surance companies, bunks and rail
roads, employ psychological tests to
measure Intelligence, aptitude and
progress.
Appreciate Value of Tests.
Twenty-seven companies "have some
proof of the value of psychological
tests and rating scales.”
"If only the companies reporting
training work are considered,” si ys
the committee, "we find an equal y ;r
--centage—6Be—6B per cent —of both indus
trial and public utility companies are
using psychological tests, and approxi
mately 19 per cent are contemplating
their use, whereas twice as many in
dustrial companies—29 per cent —are
employing rating scales as are public
utility companies—29 per cent.
“Psychological tests and rating
scales are used today by a consider
able number of corporations, and It
s very evident that their use is being
xtended within those companies and
o still other companies.
“A few companies are now satisfied
hat these devices are really worth
bile, and have Incorporated them as
art es their regular machinery of ad
iinistration. A larger number of j
ompanles are feeling their way and
ire trying them out, usually upon re- j
tricted groups of their employees. But !
he great majority of companies are
ot using them at all, although a few j
•f these are now interested and will
-y them in the near future.
“It is clear that a high corelation
xists between the use of these de
ices and the existence of profit in
heir value. This should be borne in
dnd by those who have maintained
hat their introduction depends upon
selling’ the management and should
-mphasize the need for clean-cut sta
istical evidence that they are worth
vhile.”
Te Value Tests.
Members of the committee which
onducted the Inquiry included repre
sentatives of colleges, life Insurance,
manufacturing, merchandising and
public utility effort In New Yerk,
Pennsylvania and Chicago.
“Possibly,” concludes the report, “the
most Important functions te be per- j
formed for next year by a committee
such as the one presenting this report,
are, first, to discover the variety of
tests now being employed, and. second,
to present such data as is available
proving the value of psychological tests
and rating scales."
SABY FOR PRICE OF GOOSE
Budapest Mother Arrested in Peultry
- Yard While Trying to Bell
Her Child.
Budapest.— A woman was arrested
in the poultry market here while try
ing to sell her six-month-old baby.
Evidently 1b the deepest of despair,
she offered the child for the price of
a goose.
“Surely,” exclaimed the woman,
“some one wifi pay the price ia poul
try for a good, healthy child.”
A mas was making an offer te the
woman to relieve her of the lafant
when the police interfered and took
the woman Into custody.
Blindness No Handicap to Him.
New York. —Three years ago Au
gustine F. Mhshh, who Is blind, was
denied admission to Columbia univer
sity because of the belief that his
handicap could prevent his attaining
required scholastic standards. Today
he Is enrolled In the college of law !
and holder of one of three acholar
shlps the college offers.
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| Mean Man Steals Village’s
Only Pair of Handcuffs
Youngstown, O. —The village
of North Lima, near here, has
lost Its only pair of handcuffs.
When last seen the nippers, firm
ly clamped on the wrists of a
mysterious and intoxicated
stranger, were speeding south
in a 12-cyllnder car operated
by the stranger’s pal.
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Short Line May Put
On Gasoline Service, j
Moultrie, Ga., Nov. 27 —Ac-1
cording to an announcement
made by President J. N. Pidcock, i
of the Georgia, Ashburn, Sylves-!
ter & Camilla, that railroad may !
in the near future buy a passen- 1
ger car propelled by a gasoline
motor to lake care of the passen
| ger traffic on that railroad Mr. i
Pidcock stated that a car about
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the size of the average street car j
is being manufactured and has!
been tried out successfully on a *
number of short line railroads j
The cars get their motive power
from large automobile engines
and can be operated much cheap
er than a steam train can be. If
one is bought it will be put in!
service between Camilla and Ash-|
burn. Operation was resumed
on the G. A. S. & C early in
June after it had idle for
nearly a year. The mad former
ly was the old Hawkinsville &
Florida Southern. Since the new
corporation took it over, exten-|
sive improvements have been I
made in the road bed.
666
is a Prescription for Colds, Fe
ver and LaGrippe. It's the most
speedy remedy we know, prevent
ing Pneumonia.
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In Use For Over 30 Years
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Bowels. Intestinal Cramp
Colic, Diarrhoea
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Runabout, regular - 269
Touring, regular - 298
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