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...Dupuy, nee Helen Browne of New York, took over management of her husband's papers on his sudden death a year ago. 'Besides the Petit Parisien these include the Dimanche Illustre (the "Sunday Illustrated"), La Science et la Vie, a monthly magazine of popularized science, Omnia, a magazine for automobilists. The Sunday paper is edited after the fashion of the familiar U. S. Sunday sheet, including comic strips, many of which Mme. Dupuy imports from the U. S. Even strips involving baseball are used; and if Paris does not understand the game, well, so much the worse...
Most glittering and ceremonious of festivals was the last Russian coronation, May, 1896. Each in her gilded coach, two empresses followed in slow procession, the first, Dowager Empress Marie, to be greeted with huzzahs of adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...
...hills that frosty night, huddled in their mantles about a tiny blaze, shepherds were watching their sheep. A sudden glory fell about them, and a shape of beauty stood before them and said: "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born ... a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Then for a moment all around stood a multitude of heavenly figures crying: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace...
...spread of the epidemic and the prevention of danger to those who are affected by it is entirely dependent on the care exercised by those who are taken ill with Influenza. Trued Influenza is characterized by a sudden onset of illness with fever and general body aches and pains, particularly backache and aching behind the eyes. This may be associated with nose and throat symptoms...
...strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...