“A snail’s pace,” hitherto a remarkably indefinite phrase,
has at last been exactly defined, thanks to the experimental
philosophers of the Terre Haute Polytechnic. After putting half
a dozen of them through their paces, and making all necessary
differentiations, it was ascertained that a snail can travel
exactly a mile in fourteen days. Hence, it will be seen that
it is about nip and tuck between the snail and the boy when
you send the latter to a grocery past a vacant lot where the
other boys are engaged in a game of baseball.--Cincinnati
_Enquirer_.
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