Natural Science News. 



VOL. II. No. 12. ALBION, N. Y., APRIL 18, 1896. Weekly, $1.00 a Year 



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Post Prandial Pot-pourri. 



Dear Mr. Editor: — Appreciat- 

 ing the fact that in most of the 

 scientific articles of the present 

 day, the great (I am) and little 

 (me too) enter too largely into the 

 substance, the writer of the follow- 

 ing alliterating lines has shown 

 that sense and science may be of- 

 fered without a single pronoun, 

 personal or otherwise. 



As will be seen, the following 

 article is largely scientific, and 

 while it refers to Botany, Birds 

 and Fishes, also relates to Peda- 

 gogy, Philosophy, and Pugilism, 

 and is further embellished with a 

 Fin de siccle love story. 



Truly Yours, G. S. 



Peter Pettigrew, person, Po- 

 dunk, Pennsylvania, possessed 

 Priscilla, Pandora, Phyllis, Pati- 

 ence, Polhymnia, Prudence. 



Pleasing Patience peeled pota- 

 toes; pared pippins, prepared 

 purre, pie-plant pies, parsnip 

 poure, pungent pot-pourri; patched 

 parasols; pressed pantaloons, par- 

 ti-patterned petticoats. Patience 

 possessed peculiar predilections. 



Pleasant, pacific Prudence pro- 

 duced purple passamentarie, 

 princely pourpoints, pourlaines. 

 Prudence possessed poetic propen- 

 sities; penned paracrastic poems; 

 preferred pentametric parodies. 



Pretty, pensive Phyllis preserved 

 peaches, pomegranates, pumpkins, 

 persimmons, pineapples; picked 

 peppers; pitted prunelles; picked 

 pecans, pawpaws. Phyllis posi- 

 tively proved preternaturally prov- 

 idential. 



Paradorical, penetrating, phil- 

 harmonic Polhjmnia, phrenologi- 

 cal prestidigitateur, palmistry, 

 phrenology; possessed philomnisi- 

 cal propensities, pronouncedly 

 paradisaic. Polhymnia performed 

 pedagogical prodigies. 



Popular, passive Priscilla plant- 

 ed petunias, paeonies, pelargoni- 

 ums, pansies, polemoniums, poten- 

 tillas, portulacas; proscribing phen- 

 ogamous pyramidals; preferring 

 procumbent, pdyandrus, polypeta- 

 lous, pubescent perennials. 



Preoccupied, prurient Pandora, 

 proverbially prophetic, pursued 

 psychology, palaeology, palaeontol- 

 ogy, penology, phonetics, peizom- 

 etry; prepared peculiar phosphor- 

 oscopic phenomena. 



Pittsburg, Pennsylvania posses- 

 ses philosophers, politicians, phar- 

 macists, puritans, pugilists, ped- 

 dlers. 



Parson Pettigrew provided plen- 

 tifully; possessed potential, parent- 

 al propensities; palpable precise- 

 ness; pondered paternally periodi- 

 cally; perhaps premeditated pre- 

 sumptively. Pater-familas, possi- 

 bly perceiving poverty, privately, 

 precursorially proceeded; patheti- 

 cally pleading: 'pre-eminently prec- 

 ious posterity, presupposing prov- 

 idential proposals, primordially 

 promise positively. Provoking 

 procrastination produces personal 

 punishment, perchance proving 

 peculiarly parnicious.' 



Prosaic, peripatetic, prevaricat- 

 ing Philetus Peterson, principally 

 peddled Peterkin's Panacea, pil- 

 lules, pancreatin, prickly-pear po- 

 tions, pennyroyal, podophyllin pel- 

 lets; provided pleuritic plasters. 



Petulent, piratical, pusillainmous, 

 pugilistic Philander Palmer pum- 

 meled putative pugilistic promiscu- 

 ously, practiced plestrical pastimes, 

 pteriplegistic pursuits; played pen- 

 ny-ante; plunged profoundly; pun- 

 ished poorly prepared players; prof- 

 fered plutonic pleasures; plunder- 

 ed puerile personages; pillaged 

 philanthropic people. 



Pertinacious Phillip Pyrrhus, 

 Philadelphian previously, phar- 

 macist, promulated pharmacody- 

 namics; purified permanganate pot- 

 ash; prepared paraldehyd, perfum- 

 eries, paregoric, ptomain prevent- 

 ives, psychtics, peptogenic prepar- 

 ations, presumably pleasing phar- 

 maceutists, physicians, pharmacol- 

 ogists, principally pharm acopolists. 



Profound, pansophical, pedantic 

 Paulus Pericles, panegyrist, pro- 



thonotary, philosophised prodig- 

 iously, preferring physicological 

 prosyllogisms, psychopannichismic 

 problems. Pericles pre-conceived 

 precarious pseudongyms; pre-es- 

 tablished patrongymics;. plausibly 

 precipitated pandemonium prag- 

 matically; provided pioneers prai- 

 ries; pitifully plundered plaintiff's 

 plethoric pant's-pockets. 



Parsimonious, pachydermatous, 

 puritanical, phlegmatic Patrick 

 Polybidas passed prolonged periods 

 patiently pondering; prayed power- 

 fully; penned prohibitionary pas- 

 quinades; puffed prohibitory pas- 

 sages; profaned paparchy profuse- 



Plebian, pagan Petruchio Phi- 

 sander, polemic philosophiser, pro- 

 fessed pantheism; proscribing pre- 

 destination, parthenogenesis; pur- 

 porting pessamism; presupposing 

 platonism (parenthetically); plag- 

 iarizing patrician piety purity. 



Phineas Paddingion, painter, 

 painted portentious paradoxical 

 phantasmical panoramas, princi- 

 pally presenting piscine pastimes. 

 Phineas practiced piscatorial pleas- 

 ures; pursued pisciculture; pleas- 

 ing pastimes, poorly productive 

 pecuninarily. Phineas ' possessed 

 piscivorous peculiarities, preferring 

 puffers pilchards, pimelodus, pro- 

 testing pike-perch, pompanos, 

 pickerel. 



Phineas presented Parson Petti- 

 grew's people partridges, pickerel, 

 paintings. Polhymnia's papa pos- 

 sessing piscivorous preferences, 

 perdivorous proclivities, presum- 

 ably permitted Phineas's presump- 

 tive presentations. Phineas per- 

 sisted, propitiated Polhymnia; play- 

 fully proposed. Polhymina prom- 

 ised. 



Prosaic pill-peddling Philetus 

 proposed, pinching peach-painting 

 Patience. Peterson's peculiar pro- 

 pensities precluded possible peace- 

 able procedures. Patience plac- 

 idly, proh pudor.' Philetus pen- 

 sively — 'prcemohitus pramunitus. ' 

 Patience prevented powerful prej- 

 udice; promised. 



Pugilist Phi'raider presupposing 

 prior proposal preposterous, por- 

 ing proudly, proclaimed prefer- 

 ment. Philander possessed poten- 

 tial philogynic propensities. Pa- 

 tience positively precluded possi- 

 bilities. 



Pharmacologist Pyrrhus pleased 

 peaceful Prudence; penned poetic 

 prescriptions; proffered perfumer- 

 ies, pomades. Phillip proved per- 



