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...morning at daybreak she died. Her body was taken to Paris. In a crypt 20 miles from Paris, her remains were placed beside those of her husband. Only witnesses were her daughters, son-in-law, a handful of intimate associates. One by one, in silence, they filed past the casket and each laid on it a rose. The world Press rang with acclaim for the greatest woman scientist in history...
There is a poetic tradition that he who opens a gold casket "shall gain what many men desire." Last January President Roosevelt sent Congress a gold casket. When it was opened it contained a brand new vest-pocket-size dollar, desired by many inflationists. Silverites soon began to clamor for a second precious casket from the White House. For a long time the President demurred. Last week to keep the peace he sent a silver casket to the Capitol. When Congressmen lifted the lid, they found its contents to be: three sops, a new tax, and some consoling generalities. There...
...opening of the silver casket was promptly followed by a slump in silver futures, largely due to the stamp tax on speculation. In Colorado, silver men said that the President's silver bill gave them "nothing at all." Britons deplored the comfort given to the heresy of bimetallism. Frenchmen applauded the President's political savoir faire and shrugged their shoulders at the grotesque thought of bimetallism. Japanese peeped that bimetallism was impossible. Germany studiously explained that bimetallism does not work. Only foreign word of praise came from Shanghai. Mr. Tsuyee Pei, manager of the Bank of China...
...Georgian chieftain. But Borodin dropped dead at a fancy-dress party, leaving Prince Igor unfinished. His friend Glazunov wrote down the Overture from memory, and most of the orchestration was done by hardworking Rimsky-Korsakov. Music has remembered Borodin longer than Medicine. But on his casket buried near Tchaikovsky's, Rubinstein's and Dostoyevsky's is a silver inscription: "To the Founder, Protector and Defender of the School of Medicine for Women...
...Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water on which "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, her illiterate grandfather-in-law, made his start as a ferryman and founded the family fortune...