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...Pittsburgh last week, a householder discovered a six-in. garter snake trapped in a spider web. The snake dangled helplessly while the spider skipped up and down his rope, biting at his opponent viciously. After two days the duel ended. The snake was dead. In Burlingame, Calif., a snake and a spider lived together in a bottle at police headquarters without hostility...
...coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist who had reviewed him unfavorably. He was a Dreyfusard when merely to be a Jew in France was dangerous...
...threat of a duel was injected by General Balbo who lisped fiercely: "I consider this a personal insult which Signor Costamagna is at liberty to reply to in his own manner...
...Honor man. Two Englishwomen giggled at M. Poiret's costume. Offended for his friend. Artist Arnaud rebuked them: "Mesdames, you have insulted a genius." Up rose one James Clark, U. S. escort of the Englishwomen. "Monsieur," said he, "you have insulted two ladies." Legionnaire Arnaud challenged Clark to a duel with rapiers. Mr. Clark, demanding his right as the challenged party, stipulated fists. M. Arnaud replied that if Mr. Clark wished a vulgar brawl he would send his chauffeur to fight him. Mr. Clark hit M. Arnaud on the chin. Gendarmes separated the two. M. Poiret went home...
...mailing you under separate cover a pamphlet. "The Cash-Shannon Duel." After reading the fair account of their duel in your issue of May 30 I thought you might be interested in it. . . . Col. Cash was my father...