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...letter told that Trotsky's departure on the day scheduled was prevented by 10,000 sympathizers who bought tickets at the station from which he was scheduled to leave Moscow and then stood like a herd of cows upon the tracks so that his train could not leave. Next day 47 sympathizers were arrested for loitering near his house. Finally, continues the letter: "The police agents threatened to take Trotsky [from his house] by force. . . . Trotsky refused to go. The police picked up his overcoat and began to force him into it. His wife tried to communicate with somebody...
...interior of Africa the fishing isn't much, so they tell elephant stories. The Uganda game department last fortnight told this one, protesting truthfulness. A hunter shot an elephant. It fell down a hill. Two other elephants of the herd following down the sharp declivity slipped in the trough made through the undergrowth, fell down the hill, hit the bottom with elephantine bumps, died. Hunters rarely kill three elephants with one shot...
...patients had the same sort of lesion on his face. All three had rather high fever, pain in their hands and in one case a swollen lymph node in the armpit. Dr. Senftner went out into the cow-yard and found the dairy-man's herd of 13 cows all sick, their udders and teats pocked with pustules. The diagnosis was: cowpox, long a rare disease among animals, as well as among humans. The treatment: applications of mercurochrome and hydrogen peroxide to the sores and wet dressings of aluminum acetate...
...descends upon the city of the miracle, capturing it, in the Fairbanks manner, unassisted. Treachery and leprosy combine to despoil him of his victory. But on his side there are the mountain girl, the girl of the shrine, and of course the Virgin. A triple play, in which a herd of cattle deserves credit for assisting the denouement, gets the Gaucho out of jail, rescues the city once more from the army of Ruiz the usurper and restores the mountain girl to the arms of her inamorata. Immediate marriage is in prospect as the projection machine stops buzzing...
Copley-Plaza--Intercollegiate Ball--9 o'clock. The thundering herd...