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...snake charmers are an impoverished, filthy, untouchable lot of Jogis. With woven baskets containing their trained pythons or cobras they traipse about villages and towns. For an anna or two the charmer sets his serpent on the ground and blows through his pungi. The pungi is a bottle-shaped gourd with two reeds or bamboos inserted. One tube has finger stop-holes and emits a shrill penetrating whine. The other has no holes and gives out a drone. Snakes have no ears. But under their skin they have two primitive ear drums and through those the Indian snake feels...
...that had no back door. He was tried for rebellion, sentenced to life imprisonment in a hot cell in Egypt. After 22 years Parliament remembered that this fighting man was still alive. Judged him harmless, let him out. He spent the quiet evening of his days playing with a gourd rattle in the door of a hut. He died...
...pound watermelon, perambulating in a tin washtub was sighted by railroad men at Fitchburg, Mass. They told reporters. Agog at its clearing papers, which named President Coolidge as the addressee, the reporters heralded by wire the approach to White Court of the ponderous aqueous gourd. ķAt White Court the President presented Lieut. Reginald de Noyes Thomas, of Boston and Squantum, Mass., with the Herbert Schiff Memorial trophy for having been aloft last year 583 hours "without serious accident," longer than any other naval airman...
Entered in the 440-yards run with Captain Shea of Pittsburgh, are: Captain J. M. Murray of Dartmouth, M. Gustafson of Penn., H. Staub of Columbia, W. J. Carto of Dartmouth, all of whom placed in this events last year, and 103 other quarter-milers including E. O. Gourd...
...East Africa. These tribes are from three separate African stocks and speak three different languages. There are also some specimens from the Somali negroes, of Northeast Africa, and from the Mombasa region of South British Africa. The collection consists of spears, clubs, shields, war-knives, clothing, musical instruments, dishes, gourd vessels, spoons, corn-mills and other household utensils, pipes, adzes, and necklaces made of iron, seeds, and from the shells of ostrich eggs. All of the objects are interesting as illustrating the customs of the tribes from which they came...