Word: madagascars
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...leaving a deficit of $245,259,000. The Senate Committee applied a drastic economy axe to all departmental budgets achieving a cut of $113,400,000. Revenue estimates were raised by $170,100,000 by increased taxation returns, larger contributions from French colonies such as Indo-China and Madagascar, the attachment to the budget of $3,780,000 from the Saar basin coal- mines, and $31,500,000 from French railway companies for the sale of American railway army stock. Accordingly the ordinary budget will show a surplus of $38,241,000, and the French taxpayer receive value...
...second regular meeting of the Cercle Francais will be held in Grays 17 this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. E. H. Darmand, the coach of the Cercle play to be given during the week of November 29, will speak on "Two Years' Theatrical Experience in Madagascar." Mr. Darmand is a member of the National Conservatory of France and was formerly with the Paris and Nice grand opera companies...
...will give an illustrated lecture on "Ancient Birds and their Associates," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room, under the auspices of the Natural History Society. In addition to describing prehistoric birds, such as the toothed species discovered in Kansas, and the gigantic birds of Madagascar and New Zealand, Mr. Lucas will speak of the characteristic life of the various geologic periods, especially of the Jurassic...
...greenhouse there are many rare and curious plants. One of the most interesting of these is a lace leaf plant from Madagascar, so called because its leaves are mere skeletons and look very much like a fine green lace. Among other plants in bloom is a butterfly orchid and a curious plant called the Holy Ghost plant, whose bloom resembles a tiny dove...
...about a foot and a half high. The leaves, which are entirely submerged, are from 6 to 8 inches long and about two inches wide. There is nothing to them but the skeleton, formed by a coarse net work of the veins. The plant is a native of Madagascar...