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...okapi is remarkable; cheeks and jaws are yellowish-white; forehead and muzzle chestnut red; large, ass-like ears red fringed with black. The neck, shoulders, barrel and back vary from sepia and black to deep red; the belly is blackish; the tail bright red with a black tuft. The hind quarters and hind and fore legs are pale cream color, but marked with purple-black stripes, which give a zebra-like effect...
...hands for handling objects, rather than for locomotion. The gorilla has retrograded in some respects. Once it was an arboreal ape, and walked nearly erect. But its increasing weight (300 pounds) drove it from the trees to the ground to seek fodder on the surface; its hind legs were not able to support its body alone, so now it uses its arms as crutches, more like a quadruped...
...America, Mr. Hamilton tries to trace the origin of the myth that authors are also necessarily speakers-"but for the good natured curiosity of American audiences to see British authors in the flesh, I doubt whether a single one of us would have ventured ever to get on his hind legs and stumble through a speech...
...remaining feature of the Honor List was the award of the First Class Kaiser-i-Hind* medal to two Americans: Sam Higginbottom and Dr. Louisa Helena Hart. Mr. Higginbottom is principal of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, a branch concern of the Ewing Christian College of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Dr. Hart is an American missionary at Arcat...
...Kaisar-i-Hind medal means the medal of the Emperor of India. It is gold and is awarded for distinguished public service in or for India...