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...Coolidge appointed C. Bascom Slemp of Big Stone Gap, Va., and the announcement was received by politicians as a distinct surprise...
...Walter Fewkes, of the Smithsonian Institution. 8) In mounds at Albany, Ore., remains which indicate, in the belief of Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the University of Oregon, that the American aborigines, following the coast southward from Behring Straits, spread fanlike over the continent through the Columbia River gap...
Germany wants more money. She has a horrid gap in the budget. What can she do? Possibly nine-tenths of the population of the world are millionaires in German eyes. Then they must be taxed. This cannot be done, but a brilliant Hun thought put a wonderful scheme of taxing foreign words. Thus if anybody prefers "hotel" for " gasthof," "coiffeur" for " haarkünstler," " restaurant " for " wirtschaft," he must pay for offending the populace with these horrid, florid words...
...lives of those who watch the fixed stars, but the announcement recently made of the discovery of 850 new nebulae by the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru, dispels that impression. That and the other station at Mandeville, Jamaica, in their observations of the Southern nebulae are filling a wide gap in earlier astronomy. From the central Observatory on the outskirts of Cambridge bulletins and plates of the discoveries are distributed...
...Bird inhabits a curious building on Bow Street, and during, the winter months refuses to be tempted from the comfort of his tiled nest, even when summoned by Telegram. The Ink-Pot's den is a short distance from the Bird's cage but what a gap it is in fact. Strangely enough, the Bird was originally drawn by Ink from its neighbor, but that is never admitted--not even by the Ink-Pot, whereupon the cover was clapped on; after a small tempest and flapping of wings, he was released. That is the reason for his present bedraggled condition...