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...Abel has not yet used his invention in human experiment. It has been employed with considerable success on dogs and a few larger animals. Until it is perfected, the usual doubts abound...
...Operas abound in fights of all kinds, and always have. There is a sword-fight in Tristan, a bullfight in Carmen, a dagger-fight in Cavalleria Rusticana, a gunfight in The Girl of the Golden West, a Chinese axe-fight in L'Oracolo, not to mention word-fights of staggering intensity, especially when a prima-donna screams in Italian and a baritone roars his defy in French...
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...savages. Mrs. Rice intends also to visit a school for Indian children at Sao Gabriel Mission, Brazil, which she established on previous trips. Under Spanish fathers, this school has metamorphosed the life of the community. The region is also a happy hunting-ground for ethnological studies. Curious native customs abound. Records of them and specimens of their culture will be collected for the Peabody Museum of Harvard. The cannibalistic tribes are strangely modern in some of their practices. Wife-beaters are abhorred, and twins are considered a disgrace to the mother who bears them...
Allow me to express the hope that your administration of the great office to which you have been so unexpectedly called will abound in satisfaction of many kinds...