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...Newark, N. J. one day last week a wrinkled old Negro with a fuzzy grey head sat on an ash can on Market Street, his bushy grey beard on his chest, one leathery hand extended for alms. Arrested, he was taken to the station house. The desk sergeant began the routine of booking him. Name? John Torthi. Birthplace? Lynchburg, Va. Date? June 4, 1824. The desk sergeant looked up astonished. Was this old fellow 107 years old? The Negro nodded his head, explained that he had been a slave nearly 40 years before being freed by the Proclamation of Emancipation...
...told her I was going back to Elizabeth at dance. She got very mad. She threw a rock and hit me in the chest. She cried she was going to tell on me. Then she got a knife out of her bag and tried to cut me. I threw her down and took.the knife. I hit her with a rock and cut her neck. . . . Then she got up and walked few steps, then fell down. Then I felt very bad. I cried. I went to horse and made horse travel fast away from...
Last week died N'Gi, famed gorilla of the Washington zoo. Ill two weeks with a chest cold, he was kept alive in an oxygen tent until one lung gave out and he succumbed to "general collapse, weakness and total loss of appetite." N'Gi was five years old, had no known living relatives. He lived longer than any other gorilla had ever lived in captivity in the U. S. His body was taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; his brain will be kept in the Smithsonian Institution, beneficiary of a $3,000 insurance policy...
...Three years later Dr. Gustav Killian succeeded in safely running a metal tube into a patient's lung and peering down the bore. Just as Elias Howe perfected the sewing machine by putting the hole at the front end of the needle, Dr. Jackson simplified throat and chest investigations by putting a tiny electric light at the front end of the tube which he saw Dr. Killian demonstrate in Philadelphia. Thus he could clearly see the smallest details of dark recesses, and reproduce them in drawings of exquisite details. (He is notably skillful at freehand drawing.) If he could...
...priest forces Peter to let him come home. Fergus has at last caught on to Peter. He keeps a quarter of a mile distant from him whenever they walk the road to town. One day he catches up with his brother-a bull is kneeling on his crushed chest. The shock of Peter's death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian...