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inp To JUDGE BY SOUND Mas Not Equipped All Crea- \Aime with Vocal Organs Commen- surate With Their Size. is a very curious fact that the sounds are not always made py the largest animals. 'The roar of * lon exceeds in sonorousness the of the elephant. Anyone who had only heard, without seeing, a bullfrog, might well suppose that Its fearful voice, breaking the silence of the night, ust certainly come from the throat of 2 animal of formidable dimensions. Perhaps the most remarknble case of vocal power in an animal is that milian forests was a kind of loud me tallic clunking, that sometimes rang through the trees, and the Grim of which the traveler was unable to dis- cover. Whenever it was heard, the na- tives cowered with fear, ascribing it to a supernatural origin. Possibly the nolse was so loud that they missed its 1 location by searching only for some | ml of corresponding physical dimen- N a. British Land Changing Hands. Land in the British tsles is changing hands at the rate of 100,000 ncres a | week, well-informed real estate deal , ers estimate. By the end of this year some $100,000,000 in land deals will mount-red by a traveler in the high- lands of Borneo. He was informed py some natives thit they had heard a tiger roaring in the neighborhood. Buch news is always startling to a stranger in the Jungles, and bardly less so to the natives. An investigation was accordingly set on foot, which resulted in the discov- ary that the alarming roars had been emitted by a toad! - This toad of Bor- neo, however, Was by no means an or- @inary member of the family. It meas- ured no less than 14% inches around the body. That the natives should not have recognized the true source of the sound . shows that the existence of such roads was either unknown to them, or at any rate, they had never discovered the remarkable vocal capa- | a hee. bilities of the animals. proved a success. In this relation Bates tells of an In- | A hose was attached to the exhaust eldent that occurred during his trav- of an automobile engine and extended eis along the Amazon. . Among the [down the hole, By use of a liberal many sounds heard in the dense Bra- wixture of gus the rodents were killed. Large estates are being sold, mostly In small lots. One of 10,100 acres In Into 96 farms. Syndicates are getting In their work. One estate, valued at $500,000 was sold to a syndicate for land to another syndicate for $1,000,- 000. Qnly 3,000 ae Involved. Tenant farmers are pressing for op- portunity to own the land and large Inndowners are nvalling theinselves of the chance to \get out\ at high prices. Gas Woodchucks. | Winsted, Conn.-Gassing wood- cbucks is the Intest method of exter- minating them In Massachusetts. The [idea was tried out on the farm of El- {bert L. 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