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...Normal taxes: 2% on net income up to $4,000; 5% on net income from $4,000 to $8,000; 6% on net income over $8,000 (present rates, 4% up to $4,000 and 8% above that...
Professor Cons, of Princeton University, will talk in the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston at 11 o'clock this morning, on "Souvenirs de Guerre". Professor Cons has been lecturer at the University of Berlin and French precepteur at the Royal Court of Russia. He has recently returned from a visit to the sections in which he fought during the war, including Vordun, Lorraine and Belgium, and he will talk, in French, of his impressions...
...banquets, panoramic rides of rescue, fort-storming, and cavalry charges of fighting patriots succeed each other. Deep touches of pathos, and fleeting moments of humor--some ridiculous, some gruesome--are mixed through. The scenes are all emotional to the extreme. When the play is over there is hardly a normal heart in the theatre. The effect is much the same as that of a football game, leaving every spectator limp from exhaustion...
...permits X-ray photography of the organ later. The chemical name of the substance is calcium tetrabromphenolphthalein. The drug is injected into a vein. Three hours after the injection it begins to appear in the bile which collects in the gallbladder. Strangely enough, better photographs have been obtained from normal gallbladders than from those which are diseased, but this in itself serves as a means of diagnosis...
...Except that while in the latter case it often made for a homogenous Parliament of able if unscrupulous men, in the case of the Student Council it only produces a heterogenous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members and who exert all their serupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...