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...Political cartoons-a far surer sign that something may have happened-greeted Senator Borah's salvos. He was pictured dragging a shuddering elephant to a water trough. He was shown pointing at a chained elephant with angry little eyes, and shouting: "From now on you're a camel...
...occasional murmur. It began vigorously in 1878, with the founding of the Anti-Tobacco Society in New York; it sank this year as Kansas, last state with an antitobacco law, repealed its pertinent legislation. The sequence recalls 17th Century Persian history; Shah Abbas made his tobacco-using courtiers smoke camel's dung for punishment; his grandson Shah Sen poured hot, melted lead down the throats of tobacco merchants; another Shah, Abbas II, found smoking pleasant and canceled old Persian laws...
...Nevada, on dry beds in Lake Lahontan, near Lovelock, were found the remains of a human settlement evidently of Asiatic origin for it had camels. Piute and Shoshone Indians have legends about a wise race that lived in the Nevada desert. In 1833 a white trader found a live camel in an Indian Village. The Lake Lahontan settlement appeared to have been exterminated about 200 years...
...Lima, Peru, a man, drunk & sleepy, fumbled at the latch of an enclosure at the zoo. He wanted to go to sleep. So did a camel in the enclosure, and killed the man. No one knew the man's name. (Camels bite as well as kick...
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