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...time has come when something ought to be done to stop the theft of tennis balls and racquets which is now becoming a common occurrence at the tennis courts on Jarvis Field. Now that the Leiter Cup baseball series is finished, Nortons Field no longer offers to "muckers" the opportunity for stealing bats, gloves, etc., that it did before. Accordingly they have shifted their hunting grounds, and prowl instead about the courts on Jarvis Field. Racquets are stolen less frequently than balls, but in either case there is no necessity for such a nuisance...
...John Cass, an antiquarian and phrenologist from the British Museum. Cass tells Punjab that the right ear of the idol is the key to the kingdom, so together they break it off, and each takes half. Sthu Pid, the Chinese guardian of the idol, at once discovers the theft, and greatly frightened, is about to make s search, when he is interrupted by the arrival of Eben Roger, the Mayor of Unity, Maine, with his daughter, Lily, and her maid, Sue Brett...
...being informed by Captain Kahn of the guard, that the people are rising to demand the ear, the calls on Roger for assistance. Roger, however, is secretly presuaded by Sthu to join him in making an ear and gaining the throne. Cass, meanwhile, much worried by the stir the theft has caused, gladly makes use of an opportunity unexpectedly presented to give his half of the precious object to Princess Gara, daughter of the rajah...
...Museum. T. e. Sacred Buffalo Hide and other articles belonging to the Omaha Indians, which were stolen from their keeper just as he was about to present them to the Museum have been found in the collection of a gentlemen who had purchased them, unaware of the theft. The present professor will probably turn them over to the Museum. Important work among the Indians has been done by Miss Alice C. Fletcher, who studied the of the Pawnees, in Oklahoma, and by Dr. Frans Russell, in Arizona. Professor Putnam visited California and collected specimens of gravel in the region...
...have been returned to the library. Dr. Cameron has also paid for the rebinding of the books from which the plates were torn and has met the expenses incurred by the University in his arrest and prosecution. Of two charges originally brought against him only the indictment for the theft of the book plates was prosecuted. On this charge the court, in view of the reparation that had been made, sentenced Dr. Cameron not to imprisonment but to the payment of a fine...