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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8342, 31 January 1913, Page 10

It has been suggested that a bull frog, “eighteen inches long and with tho girth of a full-grown rabbit,’’ which has just been killed in Georgia while attacking a chicken, had possibly ea caped from one of the numerous centres which exist in the United States loi the artificial improvement of the animal world. From one of these quite recent, ly the “invention” of a frog two feel high was reported, and sheep and oxen of'elephantine proportions are promised in the near’luture. At Chicago University Professor Tower, an eminent zoologist, has succeeded in breeding _ a beetle, gorgeously coloured and with a perfect passion for music, but so gigantic that its Frankenstein, in communicating to the scientific world tho biological methods which produced tho insect, regretted that its capacity for destruction and offence was so enormous that it would be dangerous to allow it freely to propagate other beetles of like dimensions. Manager—Trimble won’t give us any more orders, eh? Traveller—Well he didn’t say bo in bo many words, bnt that’s what he gave me to understand. Manager—How so?' Traveller—He kicked me out.