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Show Stream of Cold Water on Love's Young Dream Dr. Horace Day was asked to resign re-sign his chair of biology at Howard college because he expressed certain doubts about Noah's ark and Jonah and the whale. Doctor Day said at a Birmingham reception : "I suppose these doubts of mine have caused some people pain. Well, isn't it worth a little pain to clear the air, to see straight and true? "A Birmingham young lady was proposed to by an epic poet. "'How much do you make, Virgil,' she asked him, 'out of your epic poetry?' po-etry?' "'Well,' Virgil said. 'I only made $04 last year, but, oh, darling, there are other things in life besides nKtney.' " 'Yes,' the young lady answered. 'Yes, Virgil, there's the poorliouse.'" Detroit Free Press. |