Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1882 — The Naturalist Accounts for It. [ARTICLE]

The Naturalist Accounts for It.

A Rhode Island naturalist, who had kept a log of wood in tbe water a long time for the purpose of gathering a colony of barnacles, was surprised to find, on taking it out, that it was wholly free from these marine parasites. "How do you account for it?” asked a friend. And the naturalist answered thoughtfully: “They may have mistaken the log for a Connecticut book agent.”— Brooklyn Eagle. It has been proven beyond a doubt that the Atlantic coast once grew oysters larger than flour barrels, but no man can say whether they put any more of him into a church-festival soup than at this day. Probably not.