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...musical comedy song-might well have gone back to another inventor of Bologna, Italy, who lived centuries before Guglielmo Marconi. This wight was a butcher, too fat to fight but keenly alive to the tortures of hunger which soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived the notion of supplying many of them with chopped beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily...
Thomas L. Butcher, President of the Kansas State Teachers' College,' offers an interesting if slightly illogical explanation of the present football phenomenon. Commenting on William Allen White's editorial in the Emporia Gazette denouncing the extreme popularity of the sport, President Butcher says that the game is valuable even in its modern overemphasis because it has replaced a greater evil--the practice of hazing. "Football is a blow-off valve for collegiates", says Mr. Butcher. Instead of leading the President's cow to the chapel platform the students now indulge in athletic worship, sometimes to the exclusion of all else...
...lion bounded in at the door. Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...
...stupid unromance of banditry never loomed more starkly than when six greasy Mexicans kidnaped during the week a retired Long Island butcher, Jacob Rosenthal...
While a handful of Mexican bandits were kidnaping the retired Long Island butcher, Joseph Rosenthal (see above), over 3,000 Mexican Yaqui Indians were doing their best to kidnap that doughty one-armed warrior, General Alvarp Obregon, onetime (1920-24) President of Mexico...