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Saj'S one of our entomologists: "A man had been in several times 

 saying that he wanted a colleciion of dragon flies identified. Finally I 

 told him to bring them in the next Saturday afternoon when I should 

 have a little leisure time and I would identify them for him. 'Ob/ 

 said the man, *I haven't caught them yet.' " 



Is the objection to any increase of fare a sign that everybody is 

 feehng fed up? 



Visitor (interested in the Tide Pool Group): "What is that httle 

 green spiny animal there?" 



Mr. H.: ''That? Oh, that's only the Strongylocentrotus droeh- 

 bachiensis." 



Woman to Attendant: "Will you be good enough to tell me what 

 the word palajontology means?" 



Attendant: "Begorra, Mom, that's more than I know meself." 



A sailor on leave was heard to say to his companion who was stand- 

 ing spellbound before the model of the malaria mosquito: "Aw, come 

 on. It's a fake. Never was a mosquito as large as that." He was less 

 credulous than the lady who exclaimed, on seeing the same model: 

 "Gracious! In what part of the world do mosquitoes grow to that size?" 



Printers' errors are often funny. There w^as the prin'^er who, in 

 satting up an eloquent tribute to our soldiers, used, in his first proof, the 

 term "bottle-scarred veterans," and who, through some accident, cor- 

 rected his final copy to read "battle-scared ve'erans." But not all the 

 credit for the mistakes we see every day belongs to the printer. Care- 

 less writing accounts for many. We quote a few gleanings from English 

 papers, collected by an English paper: 



"To be let. Charming little gentleman's pleasure farm." 



"There was one summer when he lived by himself in a lonely old 

 houseboat on the Thames, from which he paddled himself ashore every 

 morning in a top-hat." (This called forth a comment from Punch to the 

 effect that the only drawback to this kind of craft is that it accommo- 

 da'es only a single skull.) 



"Wild Animals. I have been told that when men are attacked and 

 killed by wild animals there is no sensation of pain. Can anyone who 

 has had experience confirm this?" 



