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Something New Under the Sun
Mr. Prince, of New York, has invented a "Fountain Pen" which bids fair to prove of great utility inasmuch as one can write with it a quire of paper without…
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Reformatory Life Has Not Dulled Love for Thrills in Miss Opal Isley
Leg Is Broken in Fall While Trying to Escape From Girls’ School.
REFORMATORY life has not dulled the love for thrills in Opal Isley, 17.
The latest episode In Opal’s exciting young life was a fall from the third floor of the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont several days ago, while trying to escape, it was learned today. She lies in the Robert W. Long Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg. A doctor attending her said Miss Isley ran 100 yards before she was forced by pain to drop to the ground.
The girl is under sentence for complicity with the robber band, led by her mother, Mamie Isley, who took several thousand dollars in cash and Liberty bonds from the Alert (Ind.) State Bank In May, 1921. She is pretty. Detectives declare that her mother used her as a tool.
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Rain and Hail
SOME DAMAGE IN LAKE COUNTY CORNFIELDS BY LAST EVENING'S STORM REPORTED. A storm came upon this vicinity about 7 o'clock last evening and there were several heavy showers before the…
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Lighthouses Illuminated by Electricity
Prof. Faraday, of London, in the Philosophical Magazine for April, expresses a favorable opinion of the electric spark for light house purposes, and states that the experiment, last winter, in…
Kirkland Ferry Robbed
Purser Office is Looted of $500 in Fares
Sneak Thieves Enter Place as Boat Docks Across Lake
Door is Broken Open
Purser Matson Had Gone Out to Collect Tickets
Thieves broke into the office of Purser M. Matson on the ferryboat Lincoln Monday morning, as the boat was docked at the Kirkland end on the 7:45 run, and escaped with $500.
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Street Rowdyism
Mr. Editor:—Will you inform me through your columns, whether that part of the city bounded by Hudson, Varick, Charlton and King streets have been by any act of the city…
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His Gold Stars Will Be Worn on Thursday
The two gold stars that Charles W. Albro, the third oldest carrier In point of service In the Providence post office, was to receive today, will not ornament his uniform…
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Universal Protection from Lightning
Prof. Olmstead, of Yale College, is confident in the generally expressed opinion that telegraphic wires have an important effect on electricy. He says:
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The Dramatic Artist and the Terrible Marine Monster
The Semaphore of December 22 says:
While the steam packet Le Claire was on its way from Marseilles to Algiers, with 400 passengers on board, it encountered a strong gale from the south-west. In the middle of the night a tremendous sea struck the ship, swept the deck, penetrated into the cabins and engine room, and threw every thing into the greatest confusion. In the midst of the general panic, while the crew were making every exertion to rid the interior of the boat of the superfluous element, a terrific cry was heard from the second cabin: “Help! help! the shark is gnawing me!” screamed, in a voice half-suffocated with terror, an unfortunate dramatic artist, who, awaking in a cold bath, had found in his arms a sheep, which had been precipitated into the cabin through an opening made to let off the water.
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Buddhist MSS
Original literary monuments written in the old language called Pali, used by the Buddhists in their sacred books, are exceedingly rare in Europe. The Imperial Library here and the Royal one at Copenhagen are the only establishments possessing a series of MSS. in that tongue. This extreme scarcity is owing to the great reluctance the Buddhist priests evince to intrust their religious writings to Europeans, or to allow them to copy them. Two years ago the Imperial Library succeeded in purchasing a series of MSS. of this kind, and valuable on account not only of the number of volumes, but also of the contents, which are extremely curious.