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...obtain the stock on the San Francisco Mining Exchange. But last week when Mr. Villeneuve decided he wanted 1,000 Dix Butte he did none of these things. He simply went to the New York Mining Exchange of which he is a member, bought the 1,000 shares from Benjamin M. Berger, fellow member, for 40? a share. And in so doing he completed the new market's first transaction, for another exchange was last week added to Manhattan's already long list...
...Lieut. Woodward Phelps, 28, married, son of Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps who is Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H.; by his own hand (revolver) aboard the U. S. S. Northampton in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Three days prior his Annapolis roommate and cruisemate, Lieut.-Commander Benjamin F. Staud, had killed himself similarly off the China Coast...
Pleased and proud was many a Reno divorcee to learn that the judge who had freed her-George A. Bartlett of the Washoe County District Court-had last week been renominated for another four-year term. In the Nevada primary Judge Bartlett had led Benjamin J. Curler, one-time judge, by a majority so large as to assure his re-election in November. Well did each divorcee recall Judge Bartlett's warm friendly chambers on the second floor of the ornate courthouse where her decree had been granted-the pictures of the judge's family and dogs...
Pulsations. Cosmic dust, electrically charged atoms, moves through the electro-magnetic fields of the universe, said Benjamin Boss, director of the Dudley Observatory, Albany, discussing his theory of cosmic evolution. This dust condenses, forms giant stars. After a brilliant period, the stars lose mass through radiation, eventually return to atomic clouds which condense into more stars. As the sun travels through cosmic dust, its radiation varies. Earth's bombardment of electrons comes from the sun, travels along the lines of the earth's magnetic field. Striking in the magnetic polar regions, these electrons maintain the negative electric charge...
...always has the industry enjoyed stability. When Benjamin Franklin advocated lightning rods in 1747 people thought the whole idea was stupid, sacrilegious. But finally there came a boom. The whole country became lightning-rod-minded. In 1885 a body of scientific men studied the Washington Monument, already hit a few times, and recommended conductors for it. Wide-awake salesmen made a racket of the craze, slapping useless pieces of metal on roofs. Gradually people became aware of the fact that lightning was striking even where the so-called rods were. The rods were thereupon denounced as expensive folly. About...