We have just received the last reports from the outlying districts, says the "New Yorker."
In Racine, Wisconsin, an aeronautical engineer checked up on the angels appearing on Christmas cards and found them very unscientific. A 175-pound angel, he estimates, would have to have a 26-foot wingspread and would need to run two miles for a take-off. This, incidentally, sup-piements something Aldous Huxley wrote back in 1928. "A ten-stone angel," remarked one of the d acters in "Point Counter Point," "if he wanted to fly as well as a duck, xi would have to have a breastbone projecting at least four or five feet."
In London, the French radio was heard to report that the LocH Ness Monster had struck a mine and that pieces of its gigantic body had been washed ashore on Scotland's west coast.
In Pottstown, Pa. Miss Elizabeth Sloan married Lieut. Frederick M. O'Neill of the Army Air Corps in a gown made from parachute silk.
In Philadelphia, Dr. B. B. Fulton of. North Carolina State College described a newly discovered North Carolina fly which spins webs to trap. spiders.
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