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JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe-Putnam ($3.00). A pattern of shot felled a yellow-headed vulture, which had swooped upon a spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog), in whose food canal lived an opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live...
...time of Salamnbz, and that the advent of the bob post-dated that era. The special cable to the New York Times stated that the "importance of such a discovery is evident." The most evident thing about it all is that if Count de Prorok wants to poke about in African sands for buttons and hairpins, it is utterly harmless...
Died. Harry Furniss, 70, famed caricaturist; at Hastings, England. He cartooned for Punch and the men he drew "came to look more and more like his caricatures"-Mr. Gladstone adopting a high poke collar, Mr. Balfour's legs growing longer and longer...
Bide Dudley- "He could tell that old poke about the chicken crossing the road and take six encores and three bows on it. That's how funny Ed Wynn...
During this time Coach Winsor will school his charges in overcoming the weakness which appeared against Yale last Saturday. Harvard was not able to cope with the poke-checking which the Elis on the defense used almost entirely to break up the Crimson forwards...