Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1917 — Looked .Like Cigarette Butts. [ARTICLE]

Looked .Like Cigarette Butts.

From the French front comes the idle a night advance to be under-, taken with all possible secrecy when “officers apparently caught their men In the enormous offense of smoking cigarettes in the' darkness, presenting poi nts bflightvtsfhieforH®liy‘hUndretl yards. No man xyas seen actually smoking. but the officers thought they saw glowing stubson the ground. Closer Investigation showed the supposed stubs to lie little luminous centipedes, glowing with a mild phospborvseettcedfke that of ' the glow worm or the firefly. Entomologists iihve identified the centipedes as identical with a species native tg, England. Playing the piano by ear might, not sound so bad if we didn’t have to isteu (<> it in tin* salue way.