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...Egyptian locust's] permanent breeding grounds are unknown...
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...Berlin last week an amorous he-locust was allowed to utter his mating call in front of a radio microphone. In another room the delicate sound was so perfectly reproduced and broadcast that a she-locust, duped, at once took wing, flew into the loudspeaker, bumped her head...
This is the first revision of the Prayer Book since 1892.* The revisory commission, appointed by the General Convention, is headed by the Rt. Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, Bishop of Massachusetts, who ranks as a moderate liberal. Rumors that John Pierpont Morgan, Senior Warden of St. John's, Locust Valley, L. I., heavy contributor to the diocese of New York, is to pay the publication costs are unfounded. What Mr. Morgan will pay for is a limited edition, on heavy paper, large type, handset, to be distributed to Bishops and deputies to the General Convention...
Charles Augustus Stone lives during the winter on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; during the summer at Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...