The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1922, Page 11

Police ‘Bugs’ on Bugs Go ‘Buggy’ ‘ Studying Dodo, the Dope Fiend DR. CARLETON SIMON ° AND THE BUG WHICH THRIVES ON MORPHINE. Dr. Carleton Simon Knows All About Morphine Beetle, but Rest of Narcotic Squad Is Stumped. By Joseph S. Jordan. Dodo, the coleopterons hop head. world by the whiskers ce Department backed into f doubt a beetle-loving delights in dop: est ordinary dope fiends; don't know what to do with Be that as it may, they won't ut him. te beetles of various kinds— @ lot of vurious kinds. Some of them feed) on peur trees, others on pea trees. Some of them like just trees. Dodo. is in the keeping of e Commissioner Carleton With members ofthe Narcotic in duily uttentanee: fe was Ith the rest of his fa smiled at tho lack of scientific knowl- edge, displayed by the detectives, and, just to show them that they were atl wrong, all the beetles died except Dodo, who fattened on morphine. Then Dr. Simon sent the remaining wonder to the American Museum of Natural History, where he was shut up in a box of morphine und ate almost everything but the box. There wus six dollars’ worth of the drug in the box, and he ute «three ddtlurs* worth of.it, ‘They sent him back to the Police riment with a memorandum that tA big, walking, talking doll for the Christmas tree. a|Face and hands look like porcelain—made ily out of their home, like u profiteer- tis landlord and tried e would do, Squad de- Mc Cutcheon'e i, Fifth Avenue, 34th and 33d Streets Ay The Dainty Gift of Lingerie Sorr as gossamer—delicate-hued as butter- s From far lands overseas we've exquisite, hand-made Lingerie for Christmas gift-giving to lovely women. 2% You'll find delightful pieces: and sets at whatever price you wish to pay. fly wings! brought th of composition and unbreakable A de- lightlul toy the kiddies will love, at a real Meil Order redueti 2 inches high ‘lls everywhere at $3.00. ill mail doll prepaid And Our Famous Strolling Bear... .. Money dock tf not satisfied Tip Top Toy Co. 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Mooney. “You don't mean an oriba- and I don’t mean a katydi You ought to send the Rand School with Others suggested that th an atlas beetle which ts a ental coleopterous insect of metallic green, familiarly known as the chal- cosoma atias, if you know what mean. It was dectared to be fron Orient vecause of its fondness twice the size he was when he arrived] 20.STORY STRUCTURE from Washington. ON HERALD’S OLD SITE > professors aay ; er he is .# related | prese: », which destroys!’ na icon by boring {nto the rind. One of the city’s landmarks, the cld Herald Building at Broadway, Sixth Avenue, 5th and 36th Streets, is to pass into history. Ground will be broken next spring for the eree- ton of a twenty-story building on the “Rind,” ed Lieut, Mooney of uad, “Not for this y call him that because norphine on the pork,” Marty McCue, the Rogers, Peet Company took a twelve- year lsase on portions of three floors fronting on 35th Street and ninety. five feet cach on Brongway and Sixth avenue at $160,000 « year The frm will have proportionate space in the new building and will retain tts nresent position. ———<»—___ HIS NAME Is LEGION. dope. alte. $4.00 This Prof. Miichler, entomologist of the it was said. readily identified A scientific photographer ug addict as a dermestes cul- Evening World caught the in action. It would bite into “That's a terribi body or anything,’ Mooney. “He must hate done a awful amount of damage to th museum.” “It's only jealousy,” said * 9 ‘barene | sion and rot! over in slumber t dreams of the dope flend. * thing to call any- All beetles bite. hind climbs McCue, the celebrated cole who happened to be at head at the time, “You know a deri lives on specimens in natural hist nuseums and destroys them.” A dermestid.” echoed phine cube and go right through it. Then Dodo would Dodo didn’t remain asleep long. He - The identity of the old building wil) } vicholae "C. I « men of science and to Squad of the morphine lov pterous hop head. Gianna rinsr AID. 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