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...Catholic Primate of Canada. Magnificent in scarlet stole, guarded by a detachment of the Papal Zouaves, his body lay in the chapel of his palace in Quebec while thousands of those whose souls had been in his custody passed humbly before him, one by one. Then he was carried underground...
...Poison gas invented, by Prof. W. Le Lewis of Northwestern University while chief of the Defense Division of the A.E.F. Gas Service. Perfected late in the War, Lewisite never saw active service. Shells containing it are said to have been buried deep underground after the Armistice, tanksfull towed to sea and sunk. It is said to be so deadly that a relatively small amount would devastate a large area, making it worthless for crop cultivation for ten years...
Crawling around on the surface of the earth, burrowing underground, seem absurd occupations for creatures that have learned to fly. Soon men will move their houses and traffic into the upper air entirely. So predicted one Frederick Kiesler, young Viennese architect exhibiting at the Decorative Arts Exposition in Paris, last week. Kiesler had invented nothing, discovered nothing; but his artist-dream seemed hardly less logical and likely than did the skyscraper, the ocean-crossing dirigible, the hovering helicopter, 25 years ago. In the Kiesler dream, enormous steel towers arise, honeycombed with elevators. Hundreds of feet in the air vast platforms...
According to the provisions of the parliamentary act under which the road was built, it may not be broken up by electric, gas or water companies, or the post office authorities for underground telegraph and telephone cables...
...They are," he said, "the most northern people in the world, yet they are just as keen as we are. They live, not in snow huts according to popular conception, but underground in rock houses...