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With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
...tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten" was joyously celebrated at the bomb town of Hankow with a splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census takers had just announced that Shanghai is now the sixth largest metropolis in the world (2,726,046). Celebrants in many a Chinacity...
...started at 10 p. m., as I had determined to use the moon and climb all night. . . . We dispensed with a lantern, Hans helping me admirably, with knee and shoulder, and guiding my metal peg to its foothold with the precision of a chess player moving a pawn. We . . . arrived upon the summit at 7:30 a. m. . . . Then came the long terrors of the grim descent-always worse than the ascent for the legless man ... it was over at last...
...Come on down here, Governor, and put your foot on Virginia soil," cried a man. The candidate descended and let a flagman shine a lantern in his face so that the Virginians could see what he looked like. The light gleamed on his gold fillings. The Virginians cheered...
...Marne in a lecture to be delivered in Room 110, Pierce Hall, at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Colonel Naylor is among the foremost of the army historians and lecturers, having devoted much of his time to this sort of activity. "The Marne Miracle" is illustrated by lantern slides that show the successive situations leading up to the frustration of the German effort in 1914 almost at the gates of Paris...