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...notorious Bulgarian sadist, Colonel Kousmazov, has quelled several riots by killing various suspected young men under the eyes of their parents and then forcing the latter to kiss publicly the hands of the dead. . . . Dogs were allowed to fight over the bodies of these men for days afterward. . . . On another occasion suspected young men were tied with ropes and dragged through the streets behind trucks until they died...
...class. A fact in the notebook is worth two in the head is the watchword of the educational mechanist. And there is of course great truth in the principle for facts in the notebook are convenient when approaching examination prescribes review, and they don't get in the way afterward...
...family gardener fired the young Paul's imagination with tales of how he had served as a drummer-boy under Frederick the Great. At the age of "eighteen-and-a-half" Paul had won his way through military school to lieutenantship in the Austro-Prussian War. Said he, years afterward, "I made no choice of a profession. To fight was 'the only thing to do,' 'eine Selbstverstandlichkeit...
...himself, he started the first U. S. newspaper that a laborer or mechanic could buy for a cent, a condensed sheet for business men, a complete sheet for business men's wives-the Penny Press of Cleveland. He resolved to "keep close to the people" and ever afterward did so, not by sensational pandering, crocodile tears or condescension, but by keeping himself clear of things not near the people, and by remaining a gentleman. When he handed over 24 newspapers that he had built up in 15 states, to his son, Robert P., four years ago, he asked...
Captain George Leigh Mallory, just three years ago, gave a lecture at the Union in which he showed pictures of Mt. Everest in the Himalayas and said that his next expedition would win the hard fight and reach the top of the mountain. Shortly afterward he tried again to reach the summit and 800 feet from his goal the swirling snow hid him from those far below who were watching with powerful telescopes and he has never been seen since. Captain John Baptist Noel who was with the expedition will give a lecture at 8 o'clock next Thursday evening...