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Lamplighters went out of fashion when electricity came in. Last week members of the American Physical Society, meeting in Chicago, heard Professor Charles Tobias Knipp describe a new kind of electric light which may bring lamplighters back, set them to lighting lamps with electricity once every six months. Professor Knipp had made a flask of pyrex glass of 22-litre capacity, with a stem two metres long and 70 millimetres in diameter. He pumped out the air and moisture, filled the flask with nitrogen gas, sealed it. Around the stem he wrapped a wire, touched the wire...
Said Professor Knipp: "I am continuing these tests. It seems like electrodeless cold light. If I may freely speculate, some day these afterglow lamps may be made that would burn for six months, at no cost of electricity...
...opera by another British conductor had its première last week in Munich. Samuel Pepys was its name, Albert Coates its composer. Librettists Richard Price and Lieut.-Col. W. P. Drury concocted a characteristic Pepys plot out of their imaginations, had the scampish Samuel entertain an actress, Mistress Knipp, with wines and spinet-playing; had Mistress Pepys return inopportunely but not until Mistress Knipp had time to disguise herself as the Merry Monarch Charles II honoring his Secretary of the Admiralty with a visit. Müncheners greatly liked this synthetic Pepys given them in the translation...
Austin Scholarships,--A. P. Black of Gainesville, Fla.; C. W. Chenoweth of Moscow, Idaho; J. M. Cline of Schenectady, N. Y.; A. Constans of Northampton; E. D. Fagan of Los Angeles, Calif.; A. R. Knipp 2G, of Baltimore, Md.; C. D. MacIlroy of Milo, Mo.; F. O. Nolie of State College, Pa.; L. H. White of Williamsburg...
Austin Scholarships to Lester M. Beattle of Northfield, Minn. (English); Howard F. Bigelow of Kalamazoo, Mich. (economics); Arthur R. Davis of Middlebury, Vt. (chemistry); Jose M. Hernandez of Norman, Okia, (Romance languages); Arthur R. Knipp 1G., of Baltimore (physics); Robert R. La Follette of Terra Haute, Ind. (history); William T. MacCreadie of Northfield, Vt. (mathematics); Charles M. McCurry of Georgetown, Ky. (English); Howard B. Poole of Boulder, Colo (Romance languages); and Ernest E. Stanford of Cleveland, Ohio (botany...