for not a single hidden article escaped detection.—The Technical World Magazine.
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The high prices of meat were indirectly responsible for the arrest of Elmer McClain, a workman in a local factory, in Kokomo, Ind. At the noon-hour McClain sat down with his lunch-pail among his fellow employees and brought forth a piece of fried chicken. The presence of such a high-priced article of food in the lunch-pail of a man of McClain's circumstances created much comment among the other workmen.
The report spread to the street, and in a little while had been circulated throughout the city, finally reaching the ears of Schuyler Stevens, who had lost some chickens by theft the night before.
Stevens informed the police, who, after an investigation, arrested McClain, who admitted that he had stolen four pullets from Stevens.
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See Evidence, Providential; Theft, A
Check on.
DETERIORATION BY DISUSE
Among the many startling disclosures with
which scientific investigation has made us
familiar, one of the most extravagant is the
discovery according to which the nose is
said to be gradually losing its power to discharge
its traditional function in the case of
the civilized peoples. When the sense of
smell vanishes altogether—as, it is affirmed,
will infallibly be the case one day—the organ
itself is bound to follow its example sooner
or later. It is, no doubt, a fact that the
olfactory sense is much keener in the savage
than in the civilized man, and it is reasonable
to conclude that the more we progress
in civilization the duller the sense will grow,
and as nature never preserves useless organs,
when the nose loses its power of smelling the
nose "must go."—London Iron.
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Determination—See Ability, Gage of.
Determining Factor Unknown—See Mystery
of Nature.
DEVASTATION
What a pity it is to see a garden given
over to a herd of swine that tear up the
beds, trample on the seeds, wallow among
the flowers, spoil the fruits! This is the
spectacle that is offered our eyes every day
by that beautiful and divine garden of
Youth when it is occupied, devastated, pillaged,
by the lower instincts, the coarser appetites.—Charles
Wagner, "The Gospel of
Life."
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Development, Arrested—See Deformity.
Development of the Ear—See Practise.
Development, Slow—See Retardation.
Device for Safeguarding Freight—See
Theft, A Check on.
DEVICE THAT DECOYS
Several years ago The National Geographic Magazine published a description of the
angler fish, well known along the New England
coast because of a device by means of
which it lures and catches other fish. This
device consists of filaments or tendrils resembling
seaweed, which are attached to the
head.
When the angler is hungry, it hunts out a convenient place in shallow waters, where its color and markings make the fish indistinguishable from the sea-bottom. Here it lies quietly, often as if dead, while its floating filaments, kept in motion by the tide, decoy other fish, which never discover their mistake until too late to escape from the angler's merciless jaws.
A bulletin by Theodore Gill, "Angler
Fishes, Their Kinds and Ways," recently
published by the Smithsonian Institution,
and from which these notes are
obtained, says that the most extraordinary
of all the anglers are those that
carry lanterns to see with.
"Some stout-bodied anglers resorted to
deep and deeper waters, where the light from
the sun was faint or even ceased, and a wonderful
provision was at last developed by
kindly nature, which replaced the sun's rays
by some reflected from the fish itself. In
fact, the illicium (a prolongation of the
spine) has developed into a rod with a bulb
having a phosphorescent terminal portion,
and the "bait" round it has been also modified
and variously added to; the fish has also
had superadded to its fishing apparatus a
lantern and worm-like lures galore.
"How efficient such an apparatus must be in the dark depths where these angler fishes dwell may be judged from the fact that special laws have been enacted in some countries against the use of torches and other lights for night fishing because of their
