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...towering lump of limestone called Gibraltar, British military authorities last week arrested a German student named Wupperman, whom they suspected of photographing fortifications. Wupperman was released after brief examination, but the quiet dignity of the procedure was soothing to the pride of His Majesty's troops. It atoned somewhat for the undignified time they had lately had with another offender. An Englishwoman and her daughter had been attacked and troops had been called out to hunt down the attacker-one of Gibraltar's famed Barbary apes, last wild monkeys in Europe...
...month ago the New York Stock Exchange discovered that of the $92,000,000, "U. S. Government and other marketable securities," which Allied Chemical & Dye put down in a lump sum among "current" assets on its balance sheet, the largest part consisted of the company's own stock. Forthwith the Exchange ordered Allied stock be stricken from trading on Aug. 23, if in the meantime Allied did not give its stockholders more & better information. A grave defeat was this for Orlando Franklin Weber, autocrat of Allied, who for a full year had urbanely held the Exchange's Listing...
...were one of the greatest collection ever made even in old California. He also owned $7,500,000 worth of the Anaconda; his million acres in Mexico pastured 48,000 cattle; and he would have bet any amount of it all on the landing of a fly on a lump of sugar. He went to the Senate on the appointment of a man he had fought for the Governorship. President Cleveland preferred him to Senator Leland Stanford. (After his death Phoebe Apperson Hearst did almost as much for the University of California as the Stanfords did for their private university...
...neutrons resulted when alpha particles struck lithium atoms confirms the Einstein Formula, Dr. Bainbridge declared. The Einstein Formula which Dr. Albert Einstein reached through recondite logic, looks simple: Mc² equals E.* It simply demonstrates that mass and energy are interchangeable, that heat can bundle itself into a lump of coal as well as a lump of coal can dissipate into heat...
...Stratford, Tex., Farmer Ed Hart found a 4-lb. metallic mass which seemed a fragment of the meteor. The material was cold and not embedded in the soil. But green wheat and grass around the lump were scorched...