Promptly on the hour he would proceed through the corridors armed with a huge metal gong in one hand and the gong stick in the other. Passing outside the dassrooms, he would beat his tattoo until the professor ceased his lecture and the students moved on to the next room on the program.
"Sea Cow" Now Extinct.
The last arctic "sea cow" was seen in 1854—about a century after the first discovery of the species by white men. When full grown, the creature weighed as much as 8,000 pounds. These animals frequented shallows at the mouths of rivers in herds, and while feeding, they drove before them their young, to protect the latter from danger. So tame were they that one could stroke their backs without objection on their part.
Unfortunately, their flesh was good to eat, resembling beef. Whalers got in the way of depending on them for a natural course of events they were wiped out.
Rats Pay for Killing.
Herts county (Eng.) council's rat inspector and five rat catchers have in a year killed 200,000 rats. The sale of the skins recouped the council for the cost of the rats' destruction.
22-Year-Old Hen Still Lays.
Wick, England, holds claim to fame.
It boasts the possession of a twenty-two-year-old hen which has laid an egg weighing 3½ ounces. The hen is a common barnyard fowl owned by James Shlpton, the town shoemaker.
The egg is on what to do when bilious.
Eat no meat and lightly of other food.  Take three Chamberlain's Tablets to cleanse out your stomach and tone up your liver. Do this and within a day or two you should be feeling fine. 