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...other exquisites got into warm baths before they cut theirs. The warm water was to prevent the final chill of death. The Greeks drank hemlock. Chinese spite their neighbors by drowning themselves in the neighbors' wells. Other Chinese methods: over-smoking opium, sucking in a sheet of gold leaf to clog the windpipe...
Nichi Nichi, famed Tokyo daily: "Leaf-lets distributed by the plotters indicate they were extremely worried regarding the economic situation...
Appearing, as it did, on the topmost pinnacle of the new Memorial Chapel, without explanation of its form, the gold-leaf plated wind-vane has caused much inquiry, some people even questioning whether it was a fisk's tail surmounted by a harp. It was learned late last night that the vane is in the shape of a penant flying in the wind, and is copied from a medieval lance. The cap topping the mast is made up of two Greek crosses...
...fairer place than even Cambridge town, which is not difficult if he remembers his Cambridge. Inasmuch as he plans to sojourn here for some weeks far from the madding crowd it will be best to describe this place for his readers. There are no Georgian Houses with gold leaf and emblazoned shields, there are no Georgian cafeterias, there are no Deans, and there is no scaffolding to hide the works...
...sales tax on manufactures, but Canada has and Chancellor Chamberlain has long been fixing his dark eye upon Canada. In urging Britain to abandon Free Trade he recalled on every possible occasion that Canada had adopted tariffs. He cried from many a hustings, "Why should we not take a leaf out of the Canadian book...