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...sent to college-the Rutersville Female College-the only one in the State. She stayed there two years and left, aged 15, to marry the Rev. Orcenith Fisher, a Methodist minister. She served long and well as a minister's wife and bore six children. She went with her husband to the Pacific Coast for 15 years, where he founded the Methodist Church in Oregon. In 1872 they were called back to Texas. Her husband died many years ago. All but one of her children are dead, but she has five grandchildren and as many great grandchildren...
Three Speeches. During the week, the most notable assembly speeches all bore upon the protocal: 1) Premier Paul Painleve of France asserted that his country had in no way abandoned the Protocol, expressed a strong desire to see it revived, and added, "no project for the maintenance of Peace will be effective unless it have root in the League." 2) Mr. Austen Chamberlain then again torpedoed the Protocol, in the name of Britain, declaring that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes...
...Nein!" thundered the green-police. To them the portly wafer teemed with untold cubic centimeters of explosives. Excited, they bore the package gingerly into "a courtyard surrounded by high walls." There they discovered that the senders of the package had given as a return address the name of the respected Prince Bakery in Salsburg and had cunningly concealed their death dealing substance in a juicy cake...
...curious skull that some grave-openers in Ohio stood gazing upon last week. It bore a copper nose, supplied by a mortician who evidently knew that cartilage decays and that one would not want to enter the courts of Heaven without full facial equipment. It had a copper helmet, intricately carved and fitted with copper rods a foot long for the dead man's elaborate coiffure, long since returned to dust...
...weather permits further excavations next summer, should yield treasures comparable to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in archaeological interest. The chief importance of last week's discoveries: 1) Cloths had never before been found in Mound Builder tombs; 2) the absence of weapons near the skeletons bore out the theory that the Mound Builder tombs; 2) the abgarded as ancestors of the Indians, were peaceable folk, more devoted to arts than...