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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12506, 6 April 1909, Page 4

Miss Etta Amend,. an American girl, is the lieroine of what is probably the. most remarkable escape in an automobile accident oh record. Her machine was by an engine, hurling her into the air. She alighted on the engine pilot, and was carried some distance. Aside from a flight cut on the forehead she was uninjured..- ."..■.. -,". •-. - :".■' Frofessor Ray Lankester writes in the "Daily Telegraph" orijthe origin and>--authentic attributes of those nightmares of the nuisery, dragons. The animal,- he says, was in point of fact nothing more, terrible than the familiar; .rhinoceros, . converted, by some..artist either from- fancy given by a traveller, into, the awful and death dealing creature which' we see quartered in the Royal Arms. The dragon;; 'likewise, claims a snake 1 - as its first" ancestor, but owing, to the terrorand superstition -with which the primitive tribes regarded the snake, it became in time transformed into the dragon.; Yet .the belief in these crea"tures his given us many beautiful stories, carvings, and pictures, having a child like sincerity and a concealed symbolismswhich give to the tvondrous creatures charm and attractiveness,-, remarks ; the Professor, 'and for this. reason they will always remain of lfuman v value.