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Evening Star, Issue 18698, 29 July 1924, Page 6

Snail growers find it difficult to interest their friends in their hobby. They cannot understand indifference or aversiia u from snails. They aro interesting, they arc of ancient lineage, they have dignified manners, and industrious habits. Being great eaters, they meet' their just reward in being eaten. Birds extract then.’ substance, woodrats eat them, insects suck their juice, carnivorous slugs prey .upon them, and, lastly, man gobbles up what is left. The notorious forgetfulness of artistic genii was amusingly demonstrated when Teodor Chaliapin, the Russian singer, had to stop the I’aris-Boulogne express in which lie was travelling. Under the impression that it was his day to leave Paris for his concert in London, and his luggage being already packed, he hurriedly drove to the station and boarded the train. When about forty-five miles out of Paris he remembered that ho had really left a day too early. The express stopped, and Chaliapin returned to Paris by car-.