. St. Nicholas [serial] . wnamong gigantic ruins,with a population of35,000 persons. An-tigua came to be theseat of Spanish powerin Central , in 1773 came theearthquake destroyingfifty-eight monaster-ies and churches (someof them coveringseven or eight acres),the governor-generals palace, and the cathedral. More than one thirdof the people lost their lives. The capital wasthen moved to Guatemala City. Since then,there has hardly been a year when Antigua hasnot had its earthquake, some of them beingvery violent and resulting in serious loss oflife. Hamilton M. Wright. THE MYSTERY OF
. St. Nicholas [serial] . wnamong gigantic ruins,with a population of35,000 persons. An-tigua came to be theseat of Spanish powerin Central , in 1773 came theearthquake destroyingfifty-eight monaster-ies and churches (someof them coveringseven or eight acres),the governor-generals palace, and the cathedral. More than one thirdof the people lost their lives. The capital wasthen moved to Guatemala City. Since then,there has hardly been a year when Antigua hasnot had its earthquake, some of them beingvery violent and resulting in serious loss oflife. Hamilton M. Wright. THE MYSTERY OF THE BAMBOOS A VERY curious fact has been recently discov-ered in connection with bamboos. These giantgrasses occur widely in tropical and sub-tropical regions, where they form a very distinctivefeature on account of their singular habits ofgrowth. The rate at which the bamboos develop,when they are first coming up, is simply amaz-ing. Some of the stories which travelers bringhome from the tropics about the rate of growth. © Publishers Photo Service A BAMBOO FOREST are doubtless exaggerated, but the fact remainsthat the stems shoot upward at the rate of sev-eral feet in twenty-four hours. There is, how-ever, a still stranger thing about the bamboothan its rapidity of growth. For long it hasbeen noted that bamboos very rarely they do produce their flowers, the plantalmost always dies directly the seed is set. AFrench explorer passing through a bamboo for-est in Brazil, where the plants had shot up tothe height of fifty or sixty feet, noted that theywere in full bloom. Returning the same way in 658 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLK [May, four months, all the bamhoos had course the new generation would be carriedforward by means of the seeds which followedthe blossoms. These facts are remarkable, but the most mys-terious thing about the bamboo remains to betold. When the time comes for a certain spe-cies to produce its flowers, the event occurs atpreci
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