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What sort of fathers are Senators? A statistical Washington reporter decided to take a census of Senatorial offspring, with especial regard to twins. In this respect the greatest father of all is Dr. Edwin Fremont Ladd, senior Senator from North Dakota, progenitor of eight children including two sets of twins. William H. King of Utah confesses to one pair of twins, born last Summer while he was abroad with Senator Ladd. Lynn J. Frazier, the other Senator from North Dakota, has one modest set of twins to his credit. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, elected by the Ku Klux Klan...
...expected that the heat from stars of the same color type would be greatest in the same parts of their spectra, but surprising differences were found. Vega and Sirius are both blue-white stars, but the maximum heat of Vega is much farther toward the violet than that of Sirius. Rigel (blue) shows two maxima, one of which is in the infrared rays, invisible to the human eye. The apparatus detects differences of a hundred-millionth of a degree of heat. That is not enough, say the astronomers. It must be sharpened to a thousand-millionth, and many fainter stars...
...forth from his present seclusion in bright and shining raiment. But the prospects for this can scarcely be called good. The so-called "radical" Republicans are expecting and expected to tie the Senate into knots; and as for the President, there are some malicious spirits who whisper that his greatest claim to wisdom lies in his decision to remain silent as long as possible. Certainly his suggestions for enforcing Prohibition were not striking. The Republican-party has several things to live down--a stupendous and indefensible protective tariff, the obstruction of the joining of this country in the International Hague...
...Lotos land and to Bohemia not as a former President of the Board of Trade and Cabinet Minister for many years; not as Chancellor of the Exchequer, associated with policies that make history; not as Minister of Munitions or as Prime Minister of England?one of the greatest titles ever known to history?during the conduct of that stupendous war. We welcome you not as a statesman of national and international and permanent achievement and fame. We honor those things, we applaud those things; but we welcome to Bohemia and to the Lotos, David Lloyd George, human being...
...their memories for the greeting accorded to Eleonora Duse,* 64, and still much alive, at her "American appearance after 20 years" at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. The great auditorium, crowded literally to the chandeliers, roared its united respect and admiration till the golden rafters rang. Duse, the greatest living actress, was accorded honor as majestic as it was sincere...