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Through Misery Street. 'At Brundisium, slaves raised Poet Virgil's gilded litter to their shoulders, marched off toward Augustus' palace. The road led through the slum of Misery Street...
...hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with a lion cub, Sickles gave a litter...
Laboratoiy workers consider the hamster's laboratory qualifications practically ideal: it is even more susceptible to human diseases than the guinea pig. The gestation period is the shortest known for a mammal-15 days, 21 hours. It begins to mate by its 43rd day, bears its first litter at the age of two months. Thereafter, until the age of one year, when it stops bearing, it can deliver a litter of two to 15 young every month...
Silver Lining. In Juniper, N.B., Fred Grant, annoyed by crows, set out a box trap for them, caught instead an escaped silver fox which dropped a litter of five in the trap...
Later, TIME Correspondent William Gray went in, poked about, saw this aftermath of battle: "A Filipino woman, carried past on a stretcher, muttered: 'I am so pleased.' Two Chinese boys came carrying a litter with four small boys on it. One, maybe two years old, with stick-like brown arms and legs and glazed eyes that stared, was dead, or dying...