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NEW YORK, July 31. – Flo Ziegfeld has given out his specifications for the 1926 model girl of the chorus.
She will not be a blonde.
She’ll not be so thin as the 1925 girl and she’ll have, therefore, a curve or two, and dimples.
She may be a little taller.
Tokio, Saturday.
General Oku estimates the Russian losses at Ta-shi-chao at 2,000 at least. Immediate withdrawal alone averted greater disaster to the Russians. The fighting round the fortifications on Tai-ping-ling was desperate. It was there that the Japanese sustained the heaviest losses. Their casualties in the entire engagement are estimated at 1,000.
The Russian defences were the beat the Japanese have yet encountered. Folds of rooted-in trenches were extended round the steep bills, and gun emplacements protected by wire entanglements barred the ravines. A hundred and twenty guns barred the progress of the infantry. On Sunday a single Japanese detachment succeeded in penetrated the Russian line, but was driven back. The Japanese artillery, being at disadvantage, was unable to make any impression on the enemy.
On the night of the 10th of January, when the flames were raging with their utmost fury through the fallen ruins of the Pemberton Mills, at Lawrence, Mass., and the Washington Mills, together with other buildings, being in great danger, Mayor Saunders, of that city, deeming the force of the firemen present insufficient, forwarded a dispatch to Manchester, N. H., for assistance. The call was nobly responded to. By orders of Chief Engineer Hunt, the “Amoskeng” was sent. The dispatch was received about half-past twelve. No engine was in readiness at Manchester, and a dispatch was sent to Lawrence for one. An engine was started from Lawrence, went to Manchester, took a train with the steamer, its horses and company, and a carload of firemen, and returned, accompanied by Mayor Harrington and a part of the engineers. In just two hours and eight minutes from the time the telegram was received, the Amoskeag was at Lawrence, playing fou, streams of water upon the fire. The distance in twenty-six mules, making fifty-two miles travelled by the locomotive, which, with the loading and unloading of the machine, is remarkable time. Even amid so much terror and confusion, its arrival at the ruins was greeted with enthusiasm. And the firemen, who were nearly worn out with exhaustion, welcomed it with hearty cheers. It remained at Lawrence during the greater part of the next day, doing good service at the ruins.
When Francis Duke of Bedford, in the reign of the first Charles, proposed to erect a place of worship for his tenantry in the then thinly populated locality of the Convent-Garden, he called to his councils the celebrated Inigo Jones, suggesting, as we find it recorded, that “anything—a barn would do;” an expression sounding more of the prudence than of the piety of the said Francis. The architect took the hint, and thence arose, in 1640, the Palladian structure of which we now behold a duplicate; the original building having been destroyed in 1795, through the carelessness of some workmen engaged in its repair. The contemplation of this edifice has given rise to a shrewd suspicion on our mind, that the above venerable anecdote relating to its origin may have been the after-thought of some architectural critic, whose admiration for the designer of Whitehall was stronger than his respect for the memory of the Duke. Be that as it may, the structure, for several years, was merely known as the Chapel of Ease to St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, until 1645, when it was erected into a separate living, and, in the year of the Restoration (1660), the patronage was vested in the Duke of Bedford; the whilom chapelry becoming known as the church and parish of St. Paul, Covent-Garden.
VICTORIOUS IN INTERESTING GAME OF BASEBALL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT ARMY BARRACKS
One of the most exciting baseball games of the season was witnessed yesterday afternoon on the Army barracks diamond, when the Coast Guard aggregation won over the Liberties, a local civilian team, in a close score of 3 to 2.
