Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1905 — The Vital Question. [ARTICLE]

The Vital Question.

The teacher of the class in history war. describing to the children the opening of some of the ancient tombs in Egypt, and enumerating several of the interesting antiquities therein discovered. “To show you how wonderfully many of those things have been preserved,” she said, “I may mention that in one of the oldest of those tombs a jar of honey was found. It could not have been less than four or five thousand years old, and' yet In that jar of honey was a flea, in perfect preservation.” “Was it alive?” asked one of the little girls, with a breathless Interest not entirely unmixed with alarm.