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...Fewer travellers know that commercially its traffic comes from the thousands of long black barges with vast rudders and gaily painted strakes that nose slowly up & down the Seine, the Aisne, Marne and Oise bringing goods to the long city quays where hypnotized fishermen sit over their long bamboo poles. For nearly a day last week no barges reached the Paris quays from either Seine or Oise. Fifteen miles down the river where Seine meets Oise at the village of Conflans-Ste-Honorine, the barges were tied straight across the stream. Bargemen spat in the water and waited...
...most distressing experience since he was mis taken for a waiter by the convention managers who nominated him for Vice President. Next day, equipped with grappling irons and bluefish hooks, he re turned to the scene of the wreck, fished up his fishing tackle (all but his split bamboo silk-wrapped...
...without a jump down the nearly perpendicular face of a mountain near St. Moritz in Switzerland. For weeks men have curried and patted, dragged toboggans up & down, to make a flawless surface. Last week 16 ski racers stood at the top. At intervals along the course were men with bamboo poles to swish over the light snow between runs. The racers wore goggles, had no ski sticks because they knew they could not stand up against the terrific wind resistance. Their skis were 9 ft. long and heavy (45 lb.), with handholds in front of the foot-straps and canvas...
...wind was playing on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th overtones of the pipe, and the melody was being produced by the rapid fluctuations of wind-pressure." The mystery and his solution make Sir Richard "wonder whether such an effect can ever have occurred in Nature-a broken bamboo stem, for example, partially obstructed at its windward end, and so shielded by vegetation, soil, etc., as to produce a pressure difference between its open ends? The effect of elaborate melodies thus produced without human intervention would be highly magical and suggestive...
Finding no visible marks on her body, mystified Commissioner Colt orders an autopsy. Next day he calls all the suspects to his house, announces that they all have criminal records, bids them good day. Only clew to the murder is a small bamboo tube which is missing after the meeting. Going to the home of Dr. Lengle (William von Brincken) Commissioner Colt finds the tube, and Lengle dead. The contents of the tube make audiences gasp. Explanation of the murders causes natural historians to scoff...