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...minute a woman becomes pregnant certain hormones appear in her urine. If she wants to make sure of her pregnancy and can afford the expense, she may send a vial of her urine to her obstetrician. He will have a laboratory associate condense the specimen and inject some of it into the belly of a $1.50 virgin rabbit or a 20? virgin mouse. After two or three days the laboratory associate will kill the rabbit or mouse and examine its ovaries. If the ovaries are swollen, that shows that the woman is pregnant. The obstetrician then sends her the report...
...people of Naples reserve their most pious transports for their patron San Gennaro (St. Januarius), Bishop of Beneventum who was martyred about 305 A. D. In the treasure chapel of Naples Cathedral are a silver bust believed to contain San Gennaro's head, a reliquary holding two vials of what is supposed to be his blood. Last week brought the feast of San Gennaro. Into the Cathedral thronged clergy, civil officials and masses of Neapolitans. On the altar stood the silver bust. Bearing aloft the reliquary an officiant brought it within San Gennaro's view, turned it upside...
...miraculous liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius usually occurs 18 times a year. Sometimes the solid mass in the vial changes to a red fluid in two minutes. Never does it take longer than an hour. The success of last week's exposition led Neapolitans to interpret it as a good omen for the birth of the daughter born to the Crown Prince and Princess of Italy...
Near Miles City, Mont., Cowboy Mike Vial roped a steer, got his right wrist and left thumb caught in his lasso. Mike Vial got his thumb free, but the cavorting steer almost pulled his right hand off. To free himself, Mike Vial finished the job with his jackknife, rode to a hospital. Said he to attendants: "You can tell 'em the yearling cut my hand off, but it didn't get me out of the saddle...
...clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping on foot. Like other Russian troops, Budenny's men had been promised a four-day loot of Warsaw, took no officers prisoners. Each Kosciuszko pilot carried a vial of potassium cyanide in case of capture...