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...have shown so much interest in animals as those who have just returned from expeditions to Australia and South America in search of specimens. Such travel has its compensations. There is considerable distinction in being on terms of familiarity with a live cassowary, to say nothing of a wallaroo. These men derive great satisfaction from pacing the deck with the paw of a wallaby tucked under one arm, and a cortege consisting of a duck-billed platypus, a green opossum and wombats trailing in the rear. One ship brought a huge tortoise, the last of his race, giant lizards, penguins...
...profitless labor, but they will relieve the jammed Patent Offices everywhere. The hordes of perpetual motion machines, trick safety-pins and mechanical dolls that flood these departments represent untold effort by their perpetrators, and no less wasted energy on the part of those who have to catalogue them and search the archives for previous patents. Wisdom in the choice of a subject is certainly as important as subsequent ingenuity in design...
...Abandon Search of River...
...Beef Trust and La Follette diatribes against the Standard Oil Company have been silenced for the moment by the clamor about sugar. Wicked men, it would seem, are holding up the price of the consumer's dearest luxury, it is merely necessary to find the wicked men. But the search goes on from producer to jobber and from broker to consumer, each solemnly shaking his head and pointing to his neighbor. The last man in line with some consternation raises his eyes in significant reverence to an economic law. New committees set out on the quest every day with...
...forces and the funds for prohibition enforcement are not sufficient for the search of every foreign vessel...