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Further work with electrification of plants, by Prof. R. B. Harvey, of the University of Minnesota, has convinced him that glassed-in commercial greenhouses will be eliminated in the future by underground rooms heated and lighted entirely by electricity at a moderate cost...
...arrived in the shape of that now famous pamphlet, "Why the Bulldog is Losing His Grip." From a hasty glance at his opening fire-works, it appears that "Gundelfingery" has forced its way to the fore against tremendous odds. With a complete spy system among New York publishers, an underground railway of insidious rumors at the college, and a stiff resistance among the college papers, Yale managed to keep his great book, "The New Fraternity", still in manuscript; in manuscript until the heroic author "deluged both the Yale faculty and the undergraduates" with cards. Apparently this injection had its desired...
Bill Brennan, heavyweight fighter who has been knocked out so many times that his cauliflower is virtually of an underground variety, was flattened out in Omaha for what will probably be his final flattening. Billy Miske was accountable and the event occurred in the fourth round of a scheduled ten-round bout. Immediately Brennan was suspended by the Nebraska Boxing Commission for palpably poor condition. Some months ago Brennan announced his retirement. The purse which tempted him to reappear was withheld and will probably be turned over to charity...
...geophone, an instrument invented by the French during the War to detect sapping operations of the Germans underground, has been developed by U. S. Engineers for rescue work in mines, gauging tunnel borings, etc. It contains diaphragms like a seismograph, which transmit the most delicate vibrations to the observer's ears. Sledge pounding can be detected 3,000 feet through solid rock, and ordinary talking through 50 feet of coal...
Commerce and art can be successfully mixed it seems-in London. The Underground Railways Co., which runs London's great tube system, has made its poster advertising unique in the world for the high quality of its designs by foremost artists. It is all due to Mr. Frank Pick, enlightened business manager. He gave Frank Brangwyn, the great etcher, a chance to exhibit his powerful lithographic epics to millions. He placed before the public G. Spencer Pryce's impressive studies of the life of the poor and the working classes. But he used with equal tolerance the irrepressible...