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...Mount Morris, N. Y., a joker put a tack on the chair of Angelina Ceronit, who sat on the tack, squeaked, contracted blood poisoning, died...
...flames were in the stalls now. The horses were neighing above the battering thunder of their hoofs. In the stable-yard a crowd of men ran about, shouting for water, making mad shadows in the light of flames. Joe Cavens, a jockey who had been suspended for whipping his mount's head in the homestretch of a race, ran three times through the stable door and each time came out with two race horses prancing beside him in an ecstasy of terror. At last his clothing caught fire; he beat it out with his hands and stood with the rest...
...have long been in favor of shortening the game from eight chukkers to six. The short game would be cheaper because it would save ponies. A good pony costs from $1,500 to $10,000 and to make a showing in crack company a rider must have a new mount every chukker. The question of six periods was brought up last week but not decided...
...devoted but unprepossessing lover is killed in a duel just after she has finally agreed to marry him. Masha's adulterous transports with a visiting lieutenant-colonel are ended when the regiment marches away. Maria Germanova plays Masha-a big, dark woman who laughs hysterically as her desires mount above her repressions and who whimpers like a wounded animal when her lover departs. Chekhov's humans are like impatient beasts of burden who see vaguely beyond their beastliness. Each is forever at odds with a sorrowful, unyielding desperation...
...Jasper for a few days to carry on additional research under the auspices of the Shaler Memorial Fund. A party consisting of Professor Raymond, Dr. L. W. Collet, Dr. Parejas, Mr. Augustin Lombard, and Mr. Hutchins spent the next few weeks in the Athabaska Valley and the vicinity of Mount Robson, extending the investigations which had been begun during the progress of the summer school. The information obtained will serve as the basis for a geological report on the area which will eventually appear as a Shaler Memorial Research publication...