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Some people find the cricket's song strangely soothing. To other people the insect is an unredeemed pest. Besides making a noise, which it hushes when irate insomniacs turn on lights to search it out, the cricket eats clothes, rugs, furniture, meat, bread, vegetables...
Lips. The Hahn lady's lips are red with a dye from the "Kermes berry." Kermes is not a berry at all but a bug - a reddish, wingless female insect, relative to the cochineal of Mexico, that lays its eggs on oak leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back...
...glant waterbug, or "electric light bug," as it is designated in Biological treatises, received a warm welcome at the Biology Building although no one was able to account for the long absence of the once familiar insect. Today, the bug is an interesting relic for shortly after its appearance it was sacrificed for the sake of science. It may be viewed in the bedroom of the Freshman where it is being preserved for future generations...
Last week, after ten days' study and reflection, Justice Nicholas M. Pette brought in a twelve-page decision. Ruled he: "While the cricket is technically an insect and a bug, it would appear from a study of his life that, instead of being obnoxious, he is an intellectual little fellow, with certain attainments of refinement and an indefatigable musician par excellence...
...condition them, teach them the rudiments of camp life. As civilians they were not to be put through military drills. When sufficiently toughened, units of 20 to 100 were to be shipped to National Forests where they will plant trees, clear brush, work roads, build fire controls and fight insect pests. The U. S. Forest Service has 1,000,000 man-months of work waiting to be done by the C. C. C. when recruited to full strength (250,000). Explained Director Fechner...