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...first day of September, in the year 1715, a high court official appeared on a balcony of the Palace of Versailles, holding his staff of office. In a loud voice he cried to ) the people: "The King is dead." Then he broke his staff, threw the pieces away, took another from a waiting attendant, cried: "Long Live the King!" In this way was the death of Louis XIV and the succession of Louis XV made known...
...sing. He had lent his voice to a benefit for Russian refugees, organized by the Baron von der Hoeven. As Baritone Tcherkassky opened his mouth, someone upset a bottle. Other diners with bottles, imitative, upset theirs. Some, lacking bottles, dropped plates. A red-faced individual at a corner table threw a coin to Tcherkassky; a hundred others with coins, catching the wit of this gesture, also hurled their loose change to him. He sang one song, began another. The uproar continued. But Tcherkassky finished his program...
...Cheron, France, a gravedigger dug all morning, finished a hole for a coffin, threw up a spadeful of earth which struck a neighboring tombstone. As he bent again to his spade, this loosened stone fell, brought down a pile of earth over him, crushed him beneath it, smothered him to death...
...earthquake which rocked Cambridge and the entire eastern part of the country about 9.30 Saturday night threw the stylus of the University seismograph in Peabody Hall off the east-west component of motion, according to Professor R. A. Daly G. '95, of the Department of Geology, but did not prevent taking a record of the shock...
...most bibulous who punched Herr Engel in the left cheek. Herr Engel, resentful, struck his assailant with his cane. Both men picked up chairs but Herr Engel was able to parry only three of the legs, receiving from the fourth a gash across the eye. Herr Engel, it appears, threw the truck-driver under the table and although his assailent was withdrawn from the restaurant without further trouble by some of his more sober friends, Herr Engel vows he will bring charges...