Small Water Creature Lancelot Oddity of Nature
The lance lot, a tiny slender creature inch and a half to two and a half inches long, burrows head first into sand in shallow water and lies on its side on the surface. It lacks eyes and ears but may have smell and taste. It has no head or limbs, a simple stomach and liver, no true heart, and colorless blood circulated to gills. Review of Reviews.
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Lance Lot
Lower Creatures Avoid Forms of Locomotion
In an address at the Wagner Free Institute of Science Philadelphia Professor Samuel Schumacher argued that the euglena is the simplest known form of animal life. He described lower life as indistinguishable between animals and plants in quiet waters and explained locomotion in primitive forms and worms.
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Samuel Schumacher
Professor Schumacher
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Pashfinder
Origins of Mother Goose Rhymes Traced Through Folklore
Pathfinder Magazine notes the Mother Goose name may stem from French folklore with Queen Goosefoot as patron of children. It asserts the rhymes are English in origin, new verses added from English folklore, and doubts the existence of a Mrs Goose in Boston.
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Goosefoot
Charlemagne
France
Mother Goose
Boston
Charles Perrault
England
Pathfinder Magazine
Dream Invention Promises Daylight Moving Pictures
A Budapest book binder claims a dream inspired invention makes moving pictures visible in daylight. The device projects images on a rapidly spinning disk with dark green and blue paper strips radiating from the center. Experiments prove the invention a success and it is already patented. The inventor cannot explain how the idea arose.
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Budapest
Oscar Wilde Declines 100000 Word Story Offer
An American publisher asked Oscar Wilde for a 100000 word story with a fixed price. Wilde replied from New York that he cannot write such a story, noting there are not 100000 words in the English language and expressing delight at the contemplation of the request.
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Oscar Wilde
New York
Bali Men Steal Wives The Island’s Ancient Abduction Rite
The Family Herald describes Balinese practice where suitors abduct or purchase brides after secret courtship. A staged act may be forgiven after brief hiding and a negotiator’s apology, but a third failed visit brings banishment from village society.
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Bali
Normal College Notes Details Faculty Changes and Projects
May T Hayden, formerly assistant professor of primary education, visited the Normal college this week. She resigns to join Bloomsburg State Normal School at 8600 annually, with increases to 4500 in six years. Emilie B Paper resigns as penmanship instructor. successor to be named. First carload of new library furniture arrives, desks and chairs for classrooms. Grades for summer sessions are being processed for state and county superintendents and students. Frances Forsgren ends year as textbook librarian. Ela Hammerness to take over. Repairs to residence halls underway. Swimming pool construction bids to be opened in Helena on August 29 after postponement from August 21.
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May T. Hayden
Normal College
Miss Hayden
Bloomsburg
State Normal School
Pennsylvania
Helena
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