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...year is worthy of my notice; worthy of being placed beside January 1 as a date from which I may reckon. Upon this day I begin my annual April wanderings. For a week I shall roam wildly upon the highways and byways of the land, and seek out the rarer nooks to meditate upon the beauties and kindred affections of the spring...
...Roosevelts, with wild tales of riding surly, pack-yaks, and with first-hand news of the 750 birds and 250 animals "of great scientific value" that they had collected, including spiral-horned Ovis poll (Marco Polo sheep), goitered gazelles, shaggy ibexes, shaggier Asian bears, long-haired tigers and smaller, rarer fauna, scarce or unknown in U. S. museums; just as James Simpson, president of Marshall Field & Co. (Chicago department store), was congratulating himself and being congratulated that the expedition he had financed was a complete success and a great contribution to natural science; just at this point, last week...
Thereafter, who knows ? If he reaches 15,000 ft. in his present depth vehicle, Dr. Hartman proposes an even stronger, more complicated one to reach Ocean's nethermost pit. There is known to be oil beneath parts of the seafloor. There must also be rarer minerals, unimagined fishes, unguessable vestiges of the planet's youth. And even should nothing of "practical" value be found, the divers may experience the exaltation of explorers as intrepid as any that ever served Science-silent, in an abyss off Darien...
...diamonds," said Donahue, "five . . . six . . . seven." But Neutz, holding ace, king, queen, jack and four low spades, and supported by his partner, went up to seven spades, began to play them. On every trick Donahue discarded a diamond; he had held 13 of them, a perfect hand-many times rarer than a hole in one at golf. The stupidity of his initial bid robbed him of a chance...
...named the verseform after the country which lies just west of Tipperary, is not known. But the limerick was developed and popularized by Edward Lear 80 or 90 years ago. He was a young artist of 20 who had just published some colored plates of the rarer Psittacidae (parrots). The 13th Earl of Derby went up to London thereupon and lured Lear to go down to Knowsley to draw Derby's private menagerie. While there, he wrote some poems for the delectation of his patron's young grandson, the 15th Earl (to be). These included the first limericks of record...