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VOL. LI AURORA CAUSED BY BUGS, SAYS OSBORN Former Governor Explains Cause of Northern Light*. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. —Northern lights or aurora borealls are uot, us has been represented by many au thorities, manifestations of electrical activity, they reflections of the sun shining on icebergs. They are, or at least may be. the incubation of mil lions and trillions of phosphorescent insect! vorae. 'That is the theory advanced by Chase S. Usborn. former governor of M.chlgan, who for 50 years lias ob served and studied the phenomena. The skies In this vicinity have been brilliantly Illuminated severul nights recently with the aurora bo real is, flaming, streamers sweeping the skies in spectacular displays. This "sky writing" caused many inquiries to be directed to Mr. Osborn. Pointing to the fact tliift-the anror» borealls Is but one of the mysterious / celestial Illuminations In addition to the sun, moon, planets and sturs —the others being the aurora australis and the zodiacal lights—Mr. Osburn said that the cause of these are not knn\v'n. He was definite, however, in stilting that the northern lights are not a re flection of the sun from Icebergs. "The most popular theory of trlie causation of these lights Is that they are uiaghetlc or electromagnetic," he sold. "'lt would seem that thjs Is Uly based, for there Is little beat accom panying them. They are light with out heat, such as the firefly omits. "There is a slight warmth accom panying (hem, but not a* much as one would expelt of electricity. Also they al®^silent, except for a low -singing or swishing sound. Also they show some of the prismatic rays atid : elec tric light does not, so far as I nni aware. *Vhe -magnetic terrestrial disturb ances 0b not siwaysattend the auro- 1 ra. Very often, too, there are "severe ' magnetic disturbances when there is no aurora. , "A causation that appeals to me and whfttti 'laartglnal so far m I know ia ifhat amy may he the Incubation of millions and trillions of phosphores cent Ingecttvorae. This would ac count for the swishing, for nhe colors and for the wavy motion in the atmos phere *antt for the 'light without heat ,4 lt is notable that whenever the northern lights OCcur la good volume there is a wann, spell (following them within 48 houra; very often. In ifacl almost arways, accompanied by pre cipitation. "In this connection it -may 'be v*. called that In the Arctic and sub-Arc tic regions there are vast incubations of aerial Insects and that they often full to the ground and coVer It. Some- | times they are red and are-called "red | snow.' These may be related to the i colors aa shown in the aurora." Japanese Like Films ) That the Japanese are as enthual astlc about mpvlm; pictures and movie stars as are the film fans In America 1 was recently evidenced by a prize con- 1 test for the most popular Japanese clneraa player. The contest was con ducted by the Ml.vako Shlmhun of Tokyo, one of\jie leading amusement newspapers of the capital, und the winner. Miss Nobuko Satsuki, received 1,313,553 votes. Both male and fe male players were eligible. Miss Sat »nkl is nnterffor hor "vnmp" roles. Oldest Man in World is 140 London.—A man Who claims to be one hundred and forty years old and to be the only living person who saw Napoleon was described to the Royal Geo graphical society hy H. St. J. B. Philby, former British represen tative in Transjordanla. His name is Hojj Tahlr. and he statee that he was bom In Mecca, and went to Palestine at the age of twelve or thirteen. In 1709, when Napoleon was In Syria. "He la sound enough in wind and limb," said Mr. Pbllby, "and has an enormous appetite, and. strangest of all. an Indisputable power of mastication with the aid of what purports to be u newly sprouting, but still Invia ible. third set of teeth. "The only serious weakness In his dalm Is that bis offspring afford no relevant evidence n' bis age. as he declares that he committed matrimony for the first time at the age of seventy or thereabouts, and be has re cently married again." Mr. Pbflby added that while Hajj Tahlr claims to be one bun dred and forty, be ssys that he vas bora la the year 1215 of the Mohammedan era or A. D ISOi bleb would make his sge no nndred and twenty-four. / THE ALAMANCE (JI .RANRR ! Totttd Away Fortune in Playftd Scuffling To have i boojt worth considerably more than a thousand pounds thrown at one's head Is an experience Which does not fall to the lot of many. It happened, however, to Or. Adolf Ehren felt. i It haa just been announced that the Hungarian National museum has ac quired this book by private treaty. Al though It was on Sotheby's catalogue at a reserve price of £I,OOO, It Is stated thyt\rhe price actually paid la much In excess of that sum. The book Is the first printed In the pvnr toncue. and Is known to col- Imnrs as the Codex Ehrenfelt. It ciirtfulus 81 pages and dates from the yefcr 14"0 Its former owner, Doctor Ehren felt. it Viennese lawyer, came Into pos session of the book In jin unusual way. In ISSt he wns n student at Nyltra, In what WHS then northern Hungary. One day,, while he was wrestling with 'a "Tijwnlon. tlHs book was.hurled play fully ar Ills head and he pocketed It. 11 fits only many years later that he rediscovered It. examined' It, and be invare .of Its unique character • f eat value.— London Tlt-Blts. . . ' !'•* ' - • r :r" to Dance Through Life A striate creature, rbe dainty May fl.v. One of the strangest things Is that It ?ats nothing from Its cradle | to the moment of Its death. Thrust Into a world where nearly i every living thing is constantly In search of food, the May fly goes Its way with never a thought of food, writes \V. A. DuPuv in Nature Maga zine. Surrounded by creatures that lie In, wait and devour each other, the MDy n.v eats noi ihir thinks of eating. It does not even poss'e&s a mouth vith i which It might eat If It felt so dls | posed. It comes Into the world with i a certain amount .of vitality In Its 1 frail body. It dances gwyly until that I strength Is gone, and dies. Equally strange Is the birth of the l May fly, a birth which almost any ob server may wltneig; If he happens to be sharp-eyed by the waterside almost anywhere at Just the right minute. If he wntches closely he may see many tiny creatures as big as bouse flies emerging from the mud at the bottom of (the lake or stream. f More Oranges, Fewer Grapefruit, Tangerines Washington.—>A preliminary esti mate of the orange crop In Florida by the United States Department of Agriculture Indicates 10,900,000 boxes, excluding tangerines, for 1925-28, or about 600,000 boxes~more than the re- I vised estimate of the crop last year. i Tangerine production Is placed at I 000,000 boxes, or 100,000 less than last j year, and grapefruit, 7,500,000 boxes, or 700,000 less than last year. The total preliminary estimate foj | citrus fruits Is 19.000,000 boxes, com pared with a revised estimate of 19,- 200,600 boxes last year. These esti* ; mates ar& of the commercial car lot and express movement, and exclude the usual loss from drops. Decreased production of grapefruit is attributed to light and spotted set ting of fruits and to the fact that there will be more over-vised fruit than usual. Unless market conditions are such that the large steee can be' uud sold, they will cither' move by truck or be lost from drop-1 ping. the department says. Razors and-Wot Water The bureau of standards says tbat • bere Is no real basis for the state ment rhat pouring hot water on a razor Made will Injure the steel from wbtch It Is made. In general, razors are very hard, and It Is possible that In some uses the continued application of oiling; water would exert a slight •'inperlng effect, thereby slightly i»ft»ning the blade: however, in gen nil It Is believed that the influence •f hot-wnter applications would mere . y "mmsob** hardened steel without iMu-rlal rhutigf in hardness. The > it ere of seasoning by hot water • H*n «ppll«*i to different steels is not I' nndemond. but it is qoestlonahle •» > be cutting elge of the blade uf.Vrted at ail. Cat Followed Matter \ «trnng ia)«• of homing Instinct nn*mal* Is reported from Tyldesley, ■ i•! Iro. F.nrinrd by the London ''••He* Inspector Atkinson, who Was • n;fj transferred from Coin* to y il-slfy.• about 40 miles away, took ith hita kja cat It was missed and a **- days ffterwsrtl he received n let *' from Oolne police station stating i the cat bad returned to Its tanner woe. Inspector Atkinson told a reporter •■at th * 'ft rook tear days to mate | »ie jotit ney. itnd he took It back agafa, I It *a» born at my house," he said, ■ 'and It regularly .accompanied mo «• j mjr rotuds at GRAHAM, N. C„ THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 12,1925 ■ *—l-'—» » » » t, «- t «■ « « i s .1. t. t i » t. t.l **» • * » • « • TTTTTTTI riJi r rr il how ; VARIOUS KINDS OF BIRDS j 11 HAVE FORMS OF SPORT.-- j ;; The member*- of an exploring - party In the Far North tell of I ; | (laving had * lot of fun with a j • > party of ,«uks —or,, rather, the J ; [ auks -had fun with them, I'd j say; for a crowd of these un- j j galnly birds would waddle up j | one side of thfe tent in their j I heavy, awkward way, until they j | reached the ridge pole, and then, •] ! what do,you. think they dldT ] ; Tobogganed down on the other i . side! So writes Hallam Hawks- J ; worth In his article, "Work and [ • Play In Blrdland," In St. Nich- • ; olas. ; • Crows have a game that's • | really Interesting. I don't know * ; Just what to call It It's a kind • . of handball, I should say, the ! ; "hands" being the bills of the ■ ; players. You'll see a whole I | crowd of crows In the air and " . one will hove something In "his . | bill—a white flint pebble, may- [ ■ be—and fly away with It as ■ I hard as ever he can, with other | • crows In hot pursuit. Presently • some of the other fellows will I | overtake him, fly around In • , .front of him, flap their wings ! | In his face and do everything • . they can to make him drop It. I | (That's what we call "Interfer- [ . ence," Isn't It?) Then there's ■ | a rush and a scramble to catch j • the ball before It falls to the • ) ground, and the lucky boy la, In • turn, chased about. AH of the kinds of play I've ; been telling you about so far ; ! are' Just plain play, as far as | we can see. and nothing to * . do with the business of life, dlf- • | feeing In that respect with the | • play of the kitten with the ball • | of yarn. The kitten Is really ) • pretending that ball is a mouse. • ) Bnt the birds also, gome of ! • them, have forms of play that ; ! are directly related to their fu | ture professions. For example | those poetic cousins of the 1 | crows, the ravens, have u game j t of aolitalre with sea-urchins. A ■ ; sea-urchin Is a little shelled sea ! . creature and la a part of the • I raven's bill of fare If the raven ■ happens to possess a villa by the • ! »««• The raven's way of prepar- ! > Ing his little friend for dinner ] . Is to drop him from it height on • • some convenient stone so that | . the nrchln's shell MPenks open. ■ ' Then, In the lanfeurge of the * , welMralned butler, "Dinner 'la • | served, sir I" ; • Vet you will often see a ra- • ven i carry one of these sea- ! • urchins aloft, drop It, and then ; I flap down and catch It before It • cap reach the ground; and he ; . will do this over and over again. . . The kitten's game, you see, \ ; played by a raven. (I have called this little game ] I "solitaire," for although the sea- • • urclftn takes a part In It, In a ! way, the raven really does all ■ ; the playing.) I Hawks have a game of citch ; ; In which two take part Mates ! ! will play In the air In this way j ; with a snake that one of them • , has caught Flying to a great [ ; height, the possessor of the tld- • > bit will drop It and the other ) | will catch it. Then the two • • will change places, the pitcher \ ; becoming the catcher and the ■ • catcher, pitcher. ! Tragedy of Razor Blade« Those who are puzzled to know what to do with used safety razor blades may find a hint In the follow ing. says the London Mall. A young and pretty girl approached Battersea bridge. 3he held something tightly in her left hand. When she reached the middle of the bridge she stopped and looked around. j Only one man was unywhere near, nnd he. apparently, was not paying nny attention to her doings. In a (lash she raised her band and flung some thing Into the rivpr below. It glittered and shone as It ~ fell, and the man. gazing over the bridge In cariosity, -aw that It was a small glass phial of rhe sort In which powdered bath salt* are sold, twelve in a box. His curios ity overcame him, anil he overtook the gfrl. "Do tell me what yoif threw Into the river." be begged. "My husband's razor blades." was the astonishing an swer. Earth Given Great Age Prof. Henry Kussell of I'rinceton inlverslty conjectures that the earth is 8,000,000,000 years old, basing bis theory on a computation of the time it took tbe Colorado river to carve out the Grand canyon. Also be cite* aa a gauge the time it .takaa uranium to decompose. It takes a speck et urn alum 560,000 years to decompose, and by studying the lead beda M»« world, which are uranium has disappeared arrives at his w» the wtt.l age. -j CALX, FOR WAR ON HAIR SEAL Amphibian* of Pacific Coast Declared Pest. Olympla, Wash.—Hair seals have In creased In recent years to such num bers that they are becoming a serious menace to the salmon fishing Industry in the Northwest. As a means of getting rid of the menace, Arthur S. Elnarseu, formerly with the Washington state fisheries de partment, hus suggested that the aid of American sportsmen he enlisted In a drive against the animals. Sportsmen, he opines, would find seal hunting a game worthy of their sWll. Puget sound Indians formerly hunted the seals for food and material for moccasins, and the seals consequently have greatly Increased since the disap pearance of the Indians. In a recent 4jcck Mr. Kinarsen reports he counted 7.G00 sunning themselves on the benches at low tiile. Rookeries In variably are established at the mouths of salmon streams and the seals take heavy toll of this food fish. Feeding tests have shown that an adult seal re quires about thirty pounds of llsh for a meal. At present the only checks on the increase of the seals are the opera tions of the few professional hunters who pttrsue 'them for the $3 bounty offered by the state, and the occasional' forays of local sportsmen. Mr. Kinarsen declares hunting seals Is a very keen sport. The seal Is a sagacious animal and persecution leads to extreme wariness. The fact that there Is such an element of chance discourages any great effort to ex terminate the animals by professional hunters. SHAFT TO PILGRIMS IT—7-FJT—n ' ? ita'ti k " ,■■■ - r -7~" *" This monument to the Pilgrim fathers was uftvelled recently at Im ftilnghaui, England, near the spot from which the Pilgrims set sail for Amer ica, via Holland, In IGO9. It Is sur mounted by a block of granite from Plymouth "rock. Coach Properly Defined Now that the coach has become a large factor in motordom. the question Is raised us to what Is meant by the term. The Society of Automotive En gineers defined It:. "An Inclosed islnjfle-eompartment hedy, similar In appearance to tlje sedan, with two close-coupled cross seats tpr four passengers. There Is a luggage compartment or space for a trunk at the buck of the body. There Is no glass In the rear quarters. The conventional type has two doors only, the forward seats being divided ami the right-hand seat tipping forward to give access to the rear cross seat. ' Koine models have two doors on the right-hand side, there being two Axed cross seats."—Exclange. Flyer Is Attacked - in Air by Eagle New York. —Lieut. James M. ISevard. who completed his an nual 15-day training period as a reserve aviator at Mltchel field recently, told u story of an ae rial encounter with an eagle, in wtilch he emerged the victor with one of the eagle's tall feath ers as s trophy. While 3,000 feet over a great bu!d\eugle swooped down and fastened Its claws In bis leather helmet. The propeller blast cafriad tba bird away. Puvtrd exhibited a character istic barred eagle feather and scratches on bis helmet to tbe loubtlng ones. ' WHY Macedonians Are Haunted by Fear There are many other lovely moan tain districts in Europe, and In some respects Macedonia recalls the scen ery of the Scottish highlands. But there Is nowhere else In Europe where you are conscious of the same strange brooding human spirit It Is partly fear and partly poverty. But there Is also an element of men ace and savagery never far behind. You see It in the eyes of the passers by,. of the little village groups. You hear grim stories of banditry, now ominously reviving after a pause of half a century. That Is, I suppose, why the Greek government Insisted thnt we should enjoy the company of ten gendarmes, cheerful men, but generally so far In the rear that we had to rely upon their spiritual support alone, says Harold Spencer In the London Tele graph. Fear-rthat Is at the base of this spirit pervades Macedonia—the Inherited fear of a population that has been burassed and ravaged for centuries, and expects to be harried and ravaged again. has be come defensive, and It Is expressed In the behavior of the sheepdogs—ani mals that come from afur across the fields rushing swiftly at your motor and almost leaping into the car with deep hayings, only giving up the pur suit when they are quite exhausted. Those dogs remind one of the wexves of Russia. This Macedonian fear becomes an alarmed curiosity us the people watch your car. What are jotf there for? What honest purpose could bring ■ man possessed of his senses to this forlorn land? What kind of oppressor are you? A landlord, a taxer, or an evlctor? Do you come to sell weapons? To kidnap men? Those are the fleeting shapes and forms taken by the fear of Macedonia. Remember that It is only twelve years since these people were subject to the caprices of any passing Turkish pasha or bey, and that since then, they have been bandied about between the ambitions of new Christian states. Even today they are being visited by murderous bands. No wonder there Is fear In Macedonia. Why Gold Is Getting Scarcer Every Year The world's annual output of gold Is enormous and Is greater at the pres ent time than It was 20 or 80 years ago. Even so, there 1s not enough to go around as the basis of sound money or exchange. The reason for this is the large quantity of the precious metal used In arts snd crafts, and boarded or lost. Jewelers are the heaviest consum ers. Every yesr they work up neatly ISO tons of gold, scarcely an ounce of which Is ever recovered for other use. Goldleaf also absorbs huge amounts, vast quantities being used Iter plating other metals snd for ornamenting pot tery. Bnt IT is in China and India that gold Is most largely withdrawn from financial use. A form of piety In Is dla Is to regild the dome of some re ligious building. Such an operation often absorbs 160,000 worth of gold. Not long ago an India rajah used 17,- 000 English sovereigns to form cen ters to each minute pane In the win dows of his palace. Between £2.000.000 and £3,000,000 sterling In gold vanish yearly in In dia, and quite as much In China. This Is all burled, and ss a rule the owner dies without revealing the secret of his hiding place; consequently the gold Is lost, sometimes forever. Sparrow Bait Lures 4,400 Cats to Death Tokyo.—The Tokyo police recently srrosted a man charged with killing 4,400 cats by'baiting them with live Sparrows. He is Mlnoklcht Noguchi, nnl his operations, be told the police, I have been confined mainly to the HODJO district, where cats are as scarce as steam heat in Japan. The police were at a loss to know why Noguchi had s penchant for snar ing csts until he explained he was the official supply source of catgut to artisan* who make the samlsen, or three-stringed Jspsnese musical Instru ment. which Is covered with catgut In addition to having strings of that material. Noguchi says he gets about 2V4 yen each for catgut yielded by one cat, abovt sl. , He cap buy live sparrows for a cent or two each, and often one sparrow brings in more than two or three cats, especlslly If he Is quick enough to rescue his bait before Tom gnaws It too extensively. The cat trapper was released when the police failed to And an ordinance covering baiting of cats by sparrows, however disastrous it may be for Tom who lives in a land where ditgut la in sorb demand. JUNIOR RED GROSS AIDS PEACE RYDIG GROWTH Gains 142,000 Members in Year in Schools Throughout - United States. A sew high level tn peaee due membership of the American Julor Red Cross ia recorded for IM6 —its ranks numbering 5,738,648 school girls j and boys—e. gain of 142^)00. This unique and powerful children's organization started as a war meas ure, but today Is one of the greatest Influences fos» pace ever known. An increasing participation in local pro grama of service baa featmed their year's growth. It Is Indicated thai to a greater degree than ever papOa In the schools are performing individ ual and collective acts at —i ih u to a true Red Croas'sptrft. The success of the Junto* miwg program, launched last year through co-operation of the Serv ice of the Red Cross, has led to » de termination to make It a regular fea ture of both these branches* , An oats Land ing feature of Iha Juniors' work this year was the par ticipation for the first time of a Junior Red Cross worker in the disaster re lief operations following the tornado In Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. Schools In many more fortunate local ities displayed a keen Interest to sending toys and books for the nse of the children In the disaster area. The Junior Red Cross porgram has flourished not alone to settled con munltles, bnt has been extended to Indian schools, sad to native Utoakin schools where many Eskimo children undertook Junior work. In addition, the international correspondence be tween schools Is proving more and more popular. American schools an now corresponding with those to thir ty-tour countries. Strong Membership Appeal In Red Cross -Disaster Relief Asking themselves "What if disas ter should visit oar cttyT* the Isadtng citizens of many conns unities of the United States bar* adopted tb* Sosnt motto to "Be Prepared.'* Impressed by the frequency and ths wide range of peace time i iilsailllsis to their country, they hsve their communities with the thorough ness which normal conditions permit, against the' possibility of a time when there will be no chance for thought or plan. Red Cross Chapter* to many localities are similarly prepared. Why Wisdom Teeth Nature arranges that the apparatus of body nhull l>e sopplied to as lii accordance with our needs and de velopment. And HI tike baby lirst grown Its "milk teeth," « temporary set Just strong enough to enable It to take the soft food natural for Its age and digestion, und light and small enough not to Inconvenience Its mouth. As we grow older and need harder food, these teeth fall out und our real set appears, not all at once, byt with additions wccordiftg to our needs an 3 the growth of orir jaws. Last of all , come some teeth which today oar habits hardly need, and which there fore are held back, till last, and when oar Jaws have room to receive them. Often, Indeed, they fall to come at aIL Why Sounds Go Upward A famous scientist who made many experiments on the audibility of sound at .various heights from the ground as lie ascended In a halloon gives us the following Information: A man's shout was Iteard at 1,000 feet; the sharp note of the mole cricket at 2.300 feet; the croaking of frogs lo a marsh at 8,000 feet; the roll of drains and maslc of an orchestra 'at 4J500 feet; the crowing: of corita and notes of church bells at 5,000 feet; the report of • rifle and the barking of a dog at 5,900 tea t ; the noise of a railway train In motion at 8,200 feet, and the whistle of a, locomotive at 10.000 feet. NO. 41 FORMER WIFE SUED AS "POISON PEN* Ask $250,000 of Woman of Four Romance*. ——— ■ 49 New York—lndicted tor sending • poison pen letter through the malls to Arthur H. Marks, millionaire tire and organ manufacturer, Mr*, Lydia Lock# Dornblaaer, singer, la being sued tot 1250,000 for defamation of character by Mrs. Marks, formerly Mrs. Mar garet Hoover of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Dornblaaer has bees married four times. Marks was her third hus band Her second was Orville Harold, Metropolitan opera tenor. Her pres ent husband has been described ss S bond broker and her private secretary from whom she Is estranged. Ha is a good looking youth. Her first husband was A. W. ("Prince") Talbot, race track gambler, whom she killed at Reno In 1900. Bbe waa acquitted because of his death bed statement that the shooting was accidental. Federal authorities revealed that tbo singer's sister, Mrs. Frances Adam* wife of a Joplln (Mo.) merchant, had been arrested and released on bail there as the actual sender of tbo Bote. It wns mailed from BeilefontslMt ; Ohio. July 30, by a public to whom It is charged, Mrs. Ada ma had given It on a train. The text of the letter Is withheld. Marks settled (400400 on Mrs. Dorn blaser when they were divorced last fall, SIOO,OOO of which was pot to trust on coadltlon that she would sot annoy him for five years. The good behavior pact was first broken shortly after the divorce, counsel for Marks avers, when she attempted to pala off s bogus child on him. Court proceed ings In New York resulted la the child being returned to a sanitarium in Kan sas City. The good behavior fund was cot h half as a result of the paternity charge. Marks' lawyers say, and has now beat cancelled entirely. Counsel for Mrs. Dorahlaser sold the poison pen charges were an sttnaft by Marks to get out of fulfilling the trust fund sgreement Raise Level of Entire English Town Fire Feet Nortbwlch, Knglsnd houses bodily several miles end towns some yards along the level has often been done, but raising a whole to— five feet Is something new. This Is claimed to have been so compllshed by the servejot ef (Ms town In just under three yearn The entire business portion ef Northwich, Including tec streets, thine banks, the county court and 200 stares and houses, have been raised to eonn teract the effect of subsidence caused by the brine pumping which proceeds continually In the salt mines under the town. There has been no stoppsge of busi ness and only eight buildings have had to be demolished because they coatd not be safely lifted In raising operations, parts of ths lower brickwork were removed and small hydraulic Jacks Inserted. Ass ists' stores were lifted so canftallp Mhnt not one bottle was disturbed. The town bridge was raised five feet at each end to bring U up to tbo new level of the town. How Rain Is Formed Water vapor—l. e„ water in an in visible gaseous form —Is the only at mospheric gas that plays a distinctive part In the production of westher. ssys Nature Magaslne. Besides being the source of clouds, rain, snow, dsw, etc. It influences the temperature of tbo atmosphere In several important ways. The smount of it found In ths air varies greatly from place to plnas and from time to time, ranging fro® 0 small trace to more than 4 per osnt sf tlie volume of sir. Mile* of Flying Ants Invade Adirondack* Saranac Lake, K I.— A great column of flying ants recently passed down the Raquette Blrar valley section of the Adlroo dacks. A cloud of insects esti mated to be four miles kmc re quired an hour and s quarter t» pass given points. Amazed resi dents at first believed the cloud was smoke from a forest fire. The ants flew in great section* but the sections were never man than a few feet apart . After the passing of the col umn, the river surface was cov ered with the bodies of thou sands of Insects that bad flown too low. Tbe ants were about a quarter of an lack long with tbe exception of the queeM which measured a half Inch. Fly ing ants are new to the Adlree dscks
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