Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — More of the Wonders of Science. [ARTICLE]

More of the Wonders of Science.

- “Hush!" said the great professor, holding up a warning finger as the reporter entered. “Don’t disturb me. I am about to make a wonderful discovery. I have been studying at this problem for years, and now at last the solution seems to be almost within my grasp. I have strong reasons for believing that the sting of a male wasp is at least one and two-thirds less severe than that of the female. If I can only obtain pecuniary means for prose-

cuting my researches a year or two longer I am almost positive that I shall be able to place mankind forever in debt to me for furnishing undeniable proof of the correctness of my theory.” Bowing low, the reporter humbly backed out of the presence of the great man and then rushed away to give to the world assurance that science was again about to lay her slim white Anger upon the Ups of Nature and bid her divulge another of her marvelous secrets.