Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1882 — The Use of Toads. [ARTICLE]

The Use of Toads.

Toads have been used by entomologists for the acquisition of minute nootnrnal insects difficult to catch. A number are turned oat at night in a district where rare or desired insect is known to exist. In the morning the reptiles .re recaptured, and either deprived of their spoils by a little gentle pressure, or killed and ransacked. If they conld also be made subservient to anatomical science b,v providing oar cabinets with osteologies! preparations of the minute vertebrate, so difficult to set up, the poor amphibians would prove of greater value to students than if they really wore that mythic precious jewel in their head which the exiled dtike ascribed to them.— The London Field. A Milwaukee clock stopped at the moment Guiteau was hanged, and nobody con make it go again.