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...heart of the Sahara Buchanan suffered internal injuries owing to a fall. Carried 50 miles to a French outpost by natives, he was cured by a doctor in Algiers through the medium of wireless...
...Malcolm Bird, associate editor of Scientific American and secretary of its committee, has returned from London, where with Conan Doyle he investigated the claims of William Hope, photographic medium, who in sittings at the British College of Psychic Science produced photo- graphs with at least one distinct extra face. Bird's conclusion, after careful scrutiny of conditions, was, "To me the probabilities seem good that the picture constitutes a genuine psychic phenomenon." Others claim to have caught Hope, however, in substituting prepared plates...
Last week in the offices of the magazine, George Valentine, a medium of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was tested by members of the committee and the editors. In a darkened room lights flitted about, and six "spirits" of departed Indian chiefs and others were evoked, which tapped the sitters with their paraphernalia. Electric connections between the medium's chair and instruments in an adjoining room, a dictograph, and clock watches proved that the medium left his chair whenever the spirits moved. Mr. Houdini, who was concealed in the room, declared the seance the rawest of fakes. " I have never encountered...
...first the idea of Latin, even of "simplified Latin" as a common medium of expression, obtains none too sympathetic a reception. It is difficult for the average American to conceive of a person actually speaking Latin, even if that person were Macaulay's schoolboy himself and the language had all its gerundives and supines omitted. Professor West, however, approaches the problem from a new angle. He does not suggest Latin because of any inherent advantages, but arrives at his conclusion only after a careful examination has exposed the impossibility of using any other language either modern, or ancient, or artificial...
...There are several features", Mr. Harding said, "concerning a Reserve Bank branch in Cuba which grow out of the intimate connection between Cuba and the United States. It is, in the first place, the only foreign country in which all transactions are carried on in dollars, and whose circulating medium and legal tender are entirely American currency. Moreover, the government of the United States exercises a quasi-guardianship over the island which makes it entirely different from any other available banking field...