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Mosquito Bane. At Atlantic City, N. J., Dr. William Rudolphs of Rutgers told the 13th annual convention of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association that, after four years' study, hs had found he was safe for two or three hours from the itch-producing proboscides of mosquitoes, no matter how ravenous, after smearing on his epidermis: 14 units of ordinary insect-powder extract and 96 units of vaseline, cold cream or face-powder...
Last week the National Kindergarten and Elementary College of Chicago published a tabulation of conversations recorded in 30 U. S. and Canadian kindergartens over a month's time. "I" was the word used most frequently, averaging 1,044 times; "the" was second, 616 times; "teacher" came eighth; "what," 13th; "mother," 24th; "father," 80th ("papa" appeared entirely obsolete). "Please" and "thank you" were almost unknown. City children knew fighting words and slang. The size of an average kindergartner vocabulary was not made public after this laborious study...
Proposal No. 2. The American counterproposal was for cancelation of about $200,000,000 of accrued interest, bringing the French Debt down to something like a round $4,000,000,000. Interest was to begin at ½% and increase¼% each year until the 13th year, when it would reach 3½%, the remainder of the principal to be paid off with that rate of interest over a period of about 62 years...
...same time Jack scored his 13th century of the present season, thereby equalling another record made by another famed cricketer...
...gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read : MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE. McAuliffe, who did not need, as a matter of fact, the efforts of his unsportsmanlike supporters to rattle his opponent, added one more to his lead, took the match on the 13th green...