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Cox (PALMER a Canadian author)

PALMER, a Canadian author and illustrator. He was born at Granby, Quebec, in 1840, and was educated at Granby Academy. In 1863 he went to California, engaging in railroading, contracting, etc., and writing for newspapers. He arrived in New York in 1875, and took up writing and illustrating for children's magazines and humorous books. His works include: "Squibs of California," "Hans Von Pelter's Trip to Gotham," "How Colum- CRABB ing the sub-order Brachyura, order Decapoda, comprising many genera, distinguished from the lobster and other macrurous or long-tailed decapods by the shortness of their tail, which is folded under the body. The mouth has several COYOTE pairs of strong jaws, in addition to which the stomach has its internal surface studded with hard projections for the purpose of grinding the food. The stomach is popularly called the "sandbag"; a little behind it is the heart, which propels a colorless lymph (the bus Found America," "That Stanley," blood) to the gills ("dead man's fin- "The Brownies, Their Book," "Brownies at Home"; "Brownies," a spectacular play in three acts; "The Brownies in Fairyland," a musical cantata; "Brownie Primer," etc. an