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Alligators & Hot Resin. Pinto had at least nine lives, and needed all of them. He was five times shipwrecked, 13 times put to slave labor. In China he was kept for two days, waist-deep in water, in a cistern crawling with leeches. Another time he put in 26 days in a lice-infested prison cell. The Burmans tortured him by dropping hot resin on his skin. A humane man himself, Pinto decided that his tormentors were simply retaliating for the brutalities that rakehell Portuguese had first inflicted on them...
...marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted as the pieces of the True Cross of Christ...
Safe Deposit. In Peoria, Ill., at the depth of the coal strike, truckmen delivering a load of precious coal to the William H. Friedrick house aimed at what they thought was the cellar chute, learned too late that they had dumped it all into an abandoned cistern...
Benton had been wanting to paint salty, sociable old ex-Editor Hough for quite a while, he said, "but I figured I'd have to lead him up to it gradually. We were having some bourbon and cistern water at his place when I told him, 'By God, I'm going to paint your picture.' We had a good time at it. After we were finished for the day we'd have a drink and then I'd take him home and we'd have another drink...
...idea what to do to get along without a cistern has been successfully rigged up by Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down...