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That the recent steady rise of railroad securities was not without good grounds, the annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission has clearly shown. While the unprecedented volume of traffic threw heavy tasks on the roads, they have come through the year with "unequalled performance" of service. While rates have been in some cases decreased, at an estimated saving to shippers of $500,000,000, the heavy traffic has proved profitable to almost all roads...
...Saunders, after presenting the different things in regard to sound which would be considered,--its being formed, transmitted, received by the ear, and the operations of the brain,--and after making several remarks about its formation and transmission, made use of a remarkable instrument, which in the dark room threw a dot of light on the screen. By means of revolving mirrors, this point of light was made to sweep continuously across the screen, forming a continuous line. By a very complicated mechanism, this ray of light was acted upon by a diaphragm at the funnel end of a large...
Circuit Judge Fisher, of Chicago, threw a bomb among the numerous sturdy opponents of birth control in that city (who include Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.), when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there...
America's premier salon of native art, the winter exhibition of the National Academy of Design, threw open its doors. More than 1,900 persons thronged the galleries of the American Fine Arts Society on 57th...
Last week, when this can of guaranteed Mascagni was opened, Emma Calve sat in the audience. But Lucrezia Bori, of tender voice, sang the violet song and threw the cherries...