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There will be a debate. For the Island side, Takaiso Matsumoto 2GB, who has had teaching experience in the Mikado's universities bears the cudgels. For the Dragon, Robert Dunn Wu '37, relative of his country's ambassador to the United States will answer the bell. A general debate, open to all, is to follow the principal speeches...
...Philadelphia, the city zoo acquired two Komodo lizards from the Dutch East Indies, tried to feed them raw hamburger, found they would eat only eggs. The keepers forthwith filled empty eggshells with raw hamburger, fed them to the dragon-lizards, found they didn't know the difference...
...males only in autumn, is so prolific that if all descendants of one aphid could possibly survive throughout a summer, their mass weight would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...
...Manhattan's Chinatown, strings of pasted together dollar bills were dramatically swallowed by a cavorting paper dragon on Double-Ten, and Chinese Ambassador to Washington Dr. C. T. Wang, whose Chinese Embassy Relief Fund at 40 Wall Street handles contributions, was able to announce that $2,000,000 has already been raised among Chinese in the U. S., remitted to China...
...German sailing bark Libelle (Dragon Fly), laden with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last...