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...appeared in the Japan Times. A party of Japanese soldiers were out on scouting duty, when they observed a much larger party of Chinese, apparently bent on the same mission, approaching them. Concealing themselves, the party of eleven Japanese waited until the right moment came, then rushed forth and threw themselves upon the Chinese, engaging them in hand-to-hand conflict. At the end of the affray, some of the Chinese had taken flight, while the remaining one hundred Chinese were lying slain upon the ground. The dispatch added that the leader of the valorous band of eleven had suffered...
...moment! . . . Here now the orchestra is well into it; here is that sforzando where the flutes blew out a gasket last Saturday night-they have taken it at 45 miles an hour and without a quiver. There is that crescendo rising to a high whole note where the cello threw a tire the time before that with a swoop and a triumphant scream from 20 strings they are over it and gone...
...Union threw in their hands, went on strike. Said one of their picketing placards: "We can't get much spinach on salaries...
...weeks out the favorable breeze freshened to a furious gale that threw the little bark high ashore on "an uninhabited and dangerous reef known as Wake Island." Before the storm pounded her to pieces, passengers and crew, thankful to be alive, recovered bit by bit stores and cargo-burying the latter deep in the coral sand. But their thankfulness turned to horror as the most intensive search produced no fresh water. Deciding to leave this dread, lonesome spot, they labored for three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty...
...anything from snakes to other shrews. Other of Zoologist Sanderson's beasts were no less odd. He captured several varieties of frogs that changed color and one that grew hair. He got into a fight with a herd of drills, which are a kind of baboon, and they threw rocks at each other until he scared them off with a series of Rugby calls...