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...Observation, Introspection and Biography; 2) School and College Records; 3) Psychological Laboratory. In Part I are recorded the habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier...
...Congress of Berlin France was encouraged by Bismarck to seize Tunis. Three years later the French took advantage of native disturbances to occupy the center of the ancient Carthaginian empire. Italy had long regarded Tunis as her own property, where 50,000 Italians lived and prospered. As Bismarck had planned, this act by France drove Italy into alliance with Austria and Germany...
...League of Nations asked for a ruling as to its competency to deal with the question of German minorities in Poland. It appears that the Polish Government has been expelling German colonists from their holdings in Upper Silesia. The Germans, following a practice inaugurated by Bismarck in 1886, occupied holdings granted by the German Colonization Commission (an organization for the Germanization of German Poland). The Polish Government now considers these holdings as its property under Article 256 of the Treaty of Versailles; it will not recognize leases granted before Nov. 11, 1918, by the German Government to German nationals since...
...Bismarck's plumbing, like Bismarck's politics, inadequate for Cuno...
...Cuno. The Cunos do not like dwelling in the Chancellery made famous by Bismarck, because there are not enough bathrooms. The Chancellor resembles Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania Railway?a person of unpretentious manners and simple directness in approaching an issue. Herr Cuno says: "We are foolish to continue to pour our money into the unoccupied district to encourage resistance. But the French are foolish to be there, and so long as the French will be foolish, so must...