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...greatest engineering feats of modern times, picked by Ralph Modjeski, famed Polish civil engineer, and son of Helena Modjeska, the tragedienne (Popular Science Monthly, June), include two canals, two bridges, and two dams...
...A.S.W. Rosenbach, famed U.S. bookseller, purchased a fine collection of Napoleonic relics, once the property of the Abb Ange Paul Vignali, one of the Corsican priests sent to minister to the ex-Emperor on the isle of St. Helena...
...Helena's Boys. Mrs. Fiske, eternally and fragrantly youthful in her own spirit, has gone to the side of those playwrights who devote three acts to putting the younger generation over their knee. One of the widow Helena's sons is a young shrub who is in danger of being plucked from preparatory school for loudly summarizing a patriotic address as "Bunk!" The other writes for a magazine ai which free love is the burning creed. The widow's prescription for curing them of the New Freedom is as follows...
...recorded and two cen turies of debate have discredited their fantastic imaginings. But it is conceivable that the Simmons party may find ruins and relics of an ancient civilization in some of the islands. They will visit in order the Cape Verde, Fernando de Noronha, Trinidad, South Georgia, St. Helena, and about 40 other Atlantic islands, only a few of which are inhabited, thence entering the In dian Ocean. The schooner will sail over 20,000 miles...
...awards to Sam Higginbottom and Dr. Louisa Helena Hart...