SWITZERLAND: Embarrassed

In the New York Times last week appeared the following special despatch: "GENEVA.—Professor Damian Buck of the Einsiedeln Monastery has been informed by a former pupil now living in Madagascar that he has forwarded to the Professor a lioness aged nine months as a present. The monk is greatly embarrassed by the gift."

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