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...Morain, Prefect of Police, was on the spot. Amid jeers, hoots and hisses; he lectured the students: "You are free to manifest your opinions, but you must not resort to acts of violence...
...following day, amid more cheering, the Premier made his first speech. Referring to the "yellow press" for having circulated false news about his illness, said...
...extra sixpence, the Chamber of horrors can be visited. Amid blood, treadmills, gallows and guillotines may be seen most of England's famed criminals, some in the act of the crime, some just after it, some being executed. It is probably the best value in thrills that London can offer...
William Beebe, with his marine expedition aboard the steamship A returns (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, Mar. 16), having perused the Sargasso Sea amid high waves, and drawn up from great depth small fishes-red, black, silver, transparent, luminous, stalk-eyed, snake-jawed; but being continuously disturbed by high waves which scattered the Sargassum weed, secured in one haul in his last day there five Amphioxii (believed to have been the intermediate stage between invertibrate and vertibrate life). They have a cartilaginous backbone. The value of the catch is that hitherto Amphioxii have seldom been known far from shore...
...like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen lamp turned his eyes, glazed with horror, upon the erstwhile screaming woman. They looked at each other with a wild conviction. The City of New York was utterly destroyed...