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Show QUEER "FACTS" About AuliuaU Tol.1 by Upl s of rhllUIliU School. A teacher In one of tho public schools of the Quaker City who has u senso of humor, has culled some re-makaule re-makaule bits ot Information from her examination papers. Question bearing bear-ing upon the habits of animals were found to be particularly amusing One smnll boy declared, in a fit of poesy, that "tho Hon Is the queen of beasts " I'rom another more practical "tbo lion has a great big mouth, and roan something fearful." Ona evident ad- mlrcr of tho world-renowned hero. Colonel Cody, tolls us "tho buffalo la tho one animal ot tho temperate zone, which belongs to the Wild Man," and adds "The hurso Is an animal what plays and dames as soon as he hears music" Another brilliant one gives the somewhat startling Information that "tho rhinoceros has a stone nose," and that "dogs Is a domestic animal, which diews bone." We aro also told: "The llama I a beast of burden and wa get clothes oft lis back." Another animal evidently In the clothing business busi-ness Is the soal, which, wo are Informed, Inform-ed, "makes coats " Upon other sub- Jects tha answers were equally ns en- jWt lightening. The miner, wo learn, "nl- 'IB ways had a donkey to pull him out or KS the mine, which Is full ot gas nnd M chokes him." Ona futuro citizen In- iXj form us that "tho chief ocvupatt.-n ot W Philadelphia la taking ferry boats M across tho river." . W |