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...there been such big news in the embalming business. In Manhattan last week, Dr. Carlos José Rodriguez Fernández, a Venezuelan dentist, announced that he has concocted "a fluid which will destroy putrefaction from the face of the earth." He has the well-preserved carcasses of a donkey, a dog and a 1,500-lb. horse once ridden by Venezuela's late President Delgado-Chalbaud as mute monuments to his success...
...Fool! Donkey! Ass!" Papa Wiener was a character in his own right. Omnivorous scholar, fanatical Tolstoyan rigid vegetarian, amateur farmer and heterodox Slavic philologist, Bialystok-born Leo Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias. Papa was dissatisfied with ordinary schools and instructed Norbert personally until the boy went to high school. Papa, a good teacher was also an irascible man, and whenever Norbert stumbled, there would come streaming down upon him a flood of invective in German: "Fool! Donkey...
...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of 16th century Yorkshire (TIME, Sept...
...Bolivia problem in her own imperious way. General Mariano Melgarejo, the Bolivian dictator of the day, had urgently invited the British Minister to attend a reception in honor of the general's new mistress. When the diplomat frostily declined, the affronted dictator had him tied aboard a donkey, facing aft, and trotted him three times around the main square of La Paz. The minister fled home and told Queen Victoria of the outrage. "Where is Bolivia?" the Queen demanded. A map was brought and the Queen was tactfully shown that La Paz was much too far inland...
...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of the 16th century Yorkshire rising against Henry VIII (TIME, Sept...