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...only in the western section of the United States, but in all parts of the world. It was in 1904, while exploring the northern part of Africa, that Mr. Furlong discovered the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor, where it had been since it was sunk by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur of the American Navy just one hundred years before...
...many complex reasons the study of the classics has sunk, with all the rapidity of a torpedoed ship, to a pitiable position in the interests of students in the modern colleges and secondary schools. Aroused by this catastrophe, the American Classical League has rushed assistance in the form of an imposing array of statistics by which, among other things, they show, as usual, that classical scholars have a higher average in all other subjects than do students who have not dipped into the rewarding, if difficult literatures of Rome and Athens. The inference seems to be that the classics...
Last week, it was renewed by Sir Charles A. Parsons K.C.B., F.R.S., at a luncheon tendered him by the Engineers' Club of Manhattan. He suggested that the shaft be sunk purely in the interests of Science with no prospect of pecuniary profit. He suggested that it be twelve miles deep, and calculated that it would cost about $100,000,000. The expense of this huge undertaking he would have borne by those all over the world who are willing to contribute to the interest of Science...
...would have the shaft 20 ft. in diameter and lined with granite, which experiments have shown would not fall in. The shaft would be sunk to different levels, in the same way that mining shafts are sunk, and it would be necessary, after we got down to a sufficient depth to have the heat pumped out. It is not a commercial project and there is no money to be made out of it by myself or any one else but, from a scientific standpoint, it should be undertaken as something equally as important as polar exploration. The spot where...
Brazil. Brazil's revolt continued. The Federal Troops scored several victories and were said to be gradually cornering their enemies. On the River Paraná a whole boatload or rebels was sunk by gunfire; many lives were lost. According to one report, the campaign against the rebels was being conducted with prudence, owing to the Government's desire to spare the lives of Federal soldiers "who are more valuable to the country than the rebels and the mercenaries in their service...