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...race, and in his lengthened life can use his mating energies for better things. The results are interesting when this theory of Mr. Wells is applied to the lives on alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about a bit, and die. The former survive many generations of men. They are born, they mate, and they die like the others. As for their decades of leisure, most of it is spent in crawling unhurriedly about the ooze...
Newsgatherers who incessantly harassed Prince Chichibu with questions-heedless of the fact that he was a son hastening to the bier of his father-drew for their pains only one bit of "copy" from his cool smiling lips: "I am interested in your ten-cent stores; not because of the articles for sale in them, but because of the fact that they can be sold so cheaply...
...imagined, our day had been a bit lively, so we pitched camp early in a little hollow and attempted to shake a bit of dust from our effects. We were quite ready for peace and quiet in large doses, but one of our camels commenced to gargle in a particularly painful manner. To me is was nothing but an unpleasant noise, but the way that "Ham and" and Eddie dove for that pile of rifles was a caution! It was now dark and the cook fire was burning brightly; so Eddie stopped just long enough to kick dirt...
...Battle Creek, Mich., the large Angora tomcat of a Mrs. F. C. Philo eyed a man who entered the Philo home as a metre-reader, saw the man seize Mrs. Philo and bear her to the floor, leaped upon the intruder, bit, clawed, screeched, spat, drove him from the house...
...Fair Lawn, N. J., the chow dog of a Mrs. Robert Schurer, having bitten her before, fell upon her in the kitchen when she was alone, floored her, bit and worried her until she was unconscious, fled through the house when Mr. Schurer brought a policeman, expired of bullet-wounds in the coal...