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Thais. Mme. Jeritza opens the Metropolitan opera season Monday, Nov. 5, in Thais (Massenet). Aida (Verdi) will be given on Wednesday; La Tosca (Puccini) on Thursday; Die Meistersinger (Wagner) on Friday; Romeo et Juliette (Gounod) on Saturday afternoon, and Rigoletto (Verdi) on Saturday night...
Unfortunately this coal was costing sixty cents more per ton. Obviously, now that the voters minds were no longer preoccupied by the shadow of an empty bin, it was a propitious moment for Governors "Al" et al to despatch notes of protest. Their suggestion that she has been collecting from this monopoly, netting her fourteen cents a ton, is worthy of consideration. Also the demand that the operators themselves absorb a large part of the increase, in the light of such flexible profits recently betrayed in gasoline production, is excusable. Both of there are being considered by Governor Pinchot...
...September advice is cheap and is only too likely to be valued accordingly. "You must not be too frequent patrons of the Cambridge-Boston subway" explains one advisor, inspired by a sudden revolation of truth, while a second echoes Gambetta's saying "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail," and a third urges you to "accomplish something" if you would be a true son of Harvard. As for the advisors, official and otherwise, who visit you in the privacy of your room; no one can guess what they will tell you and what mysteries they will reveal...
...Rouen, on the Seine, there opened an Exposition Régionale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, giving a complete cross-section of the arts and crafts of France throughout the ages...
...habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds...