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...treated as his predecessors were and his followers will be. He was carefully measured and sketched. Then Mr. Morrill smeared his head with vaseline to get a plaster cast. Next he was skinned. While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist glued the tanned skin, sewed up seams, inserted made-to-order glass eyes. After a little further grooming Ador Tipp Topp stood last week as big and alert as ever...
...larger than a turkey. It could not fly. Nor did it run when chased. Its flesh was nauseous. Man and the hogs he later imported to Mauritius exterminated the dodo in the 1680s. Not for two centuries did naturalists collect enough bones of the extinct bird to reconstruct its skeleton. There were no remnants of its flesh left after that lapse, and very few of its feathers. But enough pictures and written descriptions existed to satisfy bookish students of natural history...
During the last four years there has hung an almost life-size picture of a skeleton in the office of Mississippi's short, wry-faced Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Across the skull was written large: MIKE CONNER. Last week the Democratic voters of Mississippi nominated Mike Conner to enter the executive mansion at Jackson next January, rip down the skeleton, replace his foe, Governor Bilbo...
...sweetheart, Alma Graham, now has one daughter. At 23 he was elected to the State House of Representatives and, with the aid of Governor Bilbo during a previous term, elevated to the Speakership where he served eight years. Later he and Governor Bilbo quarreled politically, which accounts for the skeleton. Off the stump Mr. Conner is a good-natured, well-to-do, cultured gentleman, a member of the Methodist Church, owner of the finest private law library in the State...
...lies behind the demolition of the old schoolhouse, Dressmaker Willow's "handsome diploma from the Sims School of Dressmaking," the Young Men's Club ball in Firemen's Hall. Like its skeletal column, Personals comes to no conclusion, merely ends; but the author has padded the skeleton, dressed it up into an ingenious semblance of life...