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...officially ended last week with big meets at Valencia, Vitzria, Barcelona, Madrid. When all the figures were in, it became known that during the season six matadors were gored or trampled to death and three picadors crippled. Bombita, acknowledged king of the Spanish and Latin-American arenas, fractured his skull racing by auto to Seville for the last spectacle of the year...
...gust of wind wrapped the lady's skirt round the " joy stick " or control column. Frantic efforts to disentangle it failed, and in a wild swoop the seaplane struck the water of the lake with terrific impulse. A sliver from a wing strut pierced the pilot's skull, but the unconscious woman and the other passenger, suffering from a broken leg, were promptly rescued...
South Africa. A skull believed older than that of the Rhodesian man of the Broken Hill mine has been found at Belingwe, near Bulawayo. Sir Arthur Keith, who estimated the age of the other skull as older than the Neanderthal man (50,000 years), will examine it. If further remains are found in South Africa, it may prove to be one of the earliest homes of the race, rivalling Java...
China. The third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History found in Mongolia the skull of another dinosaur, the titanothere, besides other choice fossils...
Pithecanthropus erectus, the 500,000-year-old Java ape-man and first of humanoid type discovered, whose thighbone, skull-top, and grinding teeth are in the private possession of Dr. Eugen Dubois, of Amsterdam, the discoverer, will be placed in a public museum for the benefit of all scientists, if a movement started by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, succeeds. The fossil remains have not been exhibited since the 1894 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...