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Burrowing Worm. Also found was a worm which burrows into the human leg, like a hookworm. The boil-like infection which it causes finally breaks, leaves the head of the worm protruding. Any attempt to pull it out suddenly ends disastrously, as the worm breaks in the body. Natives draw out these entozoa, often ten feet long, a few inches per day, reeling them on sticks as they emerge...
There were a million flowers on display, and not a bug or a worm or a weed. Those who went early enough saw a Miss Doris Humphreys perform an interpretive dance (to violin accompaniment) on $1,000 worth of turf, heard a Miss Frances Johnson recite an Ode to Spring, applauded while Mr. Mei Lan-fang. China's greatest actor (TIME, Feb. 24). accepted a tulip bulb named in his honor...
Passionately extolled were Yamato Furs: "artificial furs . . . absolutely safe from worm damage, as they are not made of woollen materials . . . but . . . silk . . . having an extremely good flexibility and they never shrink...
...foxes on the Dalton farm were troubled by few of the worries that beset fox-farmers now, such as parasites, ear mites, worm trouble, tailmites, thieves. They were killed, usually late in December, by the weight of a man's foot placed over the lungs or heart so as to leave no blood stains on the fur. Their skins were sold at fabulous prices until fur dealers in Prince Edward Island investigated, bought Charlie Dalton's business and 20 pairs of Charlie Dalton's foxes for $500,000. The highest price ever paid for a fox skin...
...eyes and died. Exhibitor Frank said she was sure he had been poisoned. Aside from this incident the show went on with proper dignity. Amid the smell of chlorine that effaces the natural smell of dogs, flanked by rows of booths where biscuits, whips, brushes, blankets, Spratts food, worm medicine and Old Trusty were offered for sale, hundreds of thoroughbreds paraded through Madison Square Garden to be judged...