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...years had dealt severely with them. . . . Their skeletons had virtually disintegrated during the many decades since they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint knife...
...close of the Russo-Japanese war, the coral-and-sapphire-buttoned mandarins of Her Celestial Majesty the Empress Dowager signed a treaty guaranteeing the security of Japanese subjects in Manchuria, promising not to construct any Chinese railroads parallel to the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway or prejudicial to its interest. At China's request, the terms of the treaty were kept secret. The world has long known of its existence. Violation of it was Japan's excuse to the world for the invasion of Manchuria. Last week it was published...
...Australia of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in letters to the department. The expedition, which is under the direction of Professor W. M. Wheeler, left this country on July 25 last year. Excerpts follow, telling of a trip made by Dr. Allen and Schevill to a little-visited coral island off the central coast of Western Australia in search of reptiles and other species. Dr. Allen wrote: "I thought you might like to know of our side trip out to Houtman's Abrolhos or the Wallaby Islands, a little group lying some 50 miles off Geraldton, the type locality...
When the Florida State Legislature passed, over Governor Doyle E. Carlton's veto, a bill to legalize parimutuel betting, Sports Gallagher & Dwyer last spring formulated plans for a track to compete with Hialeah. They bought a disused dog-track at Coral Gables, got Frank J. Bruen, onetime Hialeah general manager, to run it for them. When the State Racing Com-mission met last fortnight, it cut Hialeah's customary racing season of 45 days to 36, gave the new track a non-conflicting schedule of 37 days, starting on Dec. 26 before the Hialeah season and resuming after...
...made on December 30 after the annual dinner of the society at its meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The recipient retired from teaching at Harvard in 1912 and has since been living in California. He has lead many geographical and geological expeditions from Cambridge and is an authority on coral...