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...fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after day they searched for it high & low without success. Then one day the school manager heard the piping behind him, turned and beheld its astonishing source-a small, greyish brown mouse...
...first found by South American Indians, then in Russia. A century ago the Imperial Russian Government tried coining platinum but it proved too valuable and the coins were melted down by a greedy public. Fifty years ago this greyish white metal sold for $5 an oz., a quarter the price of gold. Then uses for it began gradually to be found, in jewelry, in electrical machinery, in chemistry. Before the War platinum rose to $45 an oz. Russia produced 95% of it, recovered up to 300,000 oz. a year. The War shut off the Russian supply, sharply increased...
...Medical Association Journal last week was news: The inside of the normal stomach "presents a brilliant picture-glistening, bright, orange red. The apparently normal gastric mucous membrane often contains some hemorrhages and pigment spots. The significance of these is perhaps not yet entirely clear." Stomach ulcers are yellow or greyish white, stomach cancers dark brown or violet...
...March the two Negroes' feet were puffy, greyish-purplish clumps of gangrenous flesh and they both would now have been stone dead if a Raleigh surgeon had not amputated their four limbs halfway to the knees. In the Charlotte court house last week these stumps were Exhibits A, B, C and D in the State's case of criminal cruelty against Captain H. C. Little of the convict camp, three of his guards and Dr. C. S. McLaughlin, camp physician...
Down a corridor in the Senate Office Building one day last week strode a squat, husky, red-headed Washington newshawk named Robert S. Allen. Outside the big Senate caucus room he spotted a thin, greyish ex-Washington newshawk named Paul C. Yates...