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Show Valuable Beetle Now. Not long ago a Washington scientist, scient-ist, an enthusiastic student of natural history, captured a fine specimen of beetle. On reaching home he, in a moment of haste, pinned the beetle to a library table with his diamond scarfpin. When he returned to the library from his dinner, he found the captive had got loose and was flying about with the diamond pin glistening from his back. Man and bug made a rush for the window at the same instant, says Harper's Weekly. The beetle got there first and triumphantly sailed away, barely eluding the scientist's hand. Neither bug nor pin has since been seen. |