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...poisons, etc. At a moderate estimate, 30 trillions of bacteria are excreted from one human body each day. Yet these 30 trillions weigh, on the average, only two ounces. The biggest known microbe is the bacillus bütschlii (found in the cockroach), which may be 50 microns (one 500th of an inch) in length and about one-tenth as wide. Among the smallest is the bacillus influenzae (0.8x0.3 microns), although the filterable viruses are believed to consist of ultramicroscopic organisms very much smaller. The most active bacteria move about .0012 of an inch a second. In proportion...
...needed for the completion of this library has already been received or is pledged. Gifts . . . keep pouring in and will continue to come until the end is reached . . . to give to his Majesty, the King, and His Eminence, our beloved Cardinal, the joy and happiness of celebrating the 500th anniversary (1925) of the foundation of the University of Louvain in a completed library, that will stand as an everlasting monument to American interest and American affection for Belgium and her people...
...This work is being done at the request of the Public Library of Philadelphia, which has undertaken the task of compiling a list of all the incunabula in the United States, and the places where they may be found. This list is to figure in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg of Maing, the inventor of printing
...sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and enjoyed in these schools, the oldest of which (Winchester) has just celebrated its 500th anniversary. Where is there a school in our country where on a Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical education of the boy? My experience has been with American boarding-schools, that...
Dixey celebrates to-night the 500th consecutive performance of Adonis in New York...