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...painted frog from the Amazon, whose jewel-like skin contains poison used by natives for arrows and darts...
Last week the Ellensburg frogs were becoming as talked about as the jumping frog of Calaveras County. From accredited scientists came serious assertions that they might be so many Rip van Winkles. Geologist George Beck of Ellensburg's State Normal School went to the Jordan home to see the monsters, said that these frogs might be early Eocene Age. "Just like seeing angels," he exclaimed...
Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to hibernate, been washed down & down by seeping water to the extraordinary depth at which they were found...
...last week's Archives of Physical Therapy, Dr. Hans Weisz & associates of the University of Vienna reported that they spread out a frog's tongue until it was very thin, and kept it in that shape by lacing it to a U-shaped glass rod. This arrangement enabled them to see and prove that ultrashort waves heat only the flesh and do not alter the blood vessels of that part of the body exposed to them, and that the electricity produces no effect other than that of pure heat, an important fact for physiotherapists to know...
...personnel of the band includes Poley McClintock, the frog voice drummer, and the MacFarland twins, saxaphonists and hecklers while Scotty Bates provides additional comedy...