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...Vienna, Prof. Maximilian Langster, famed mesmerist, advertised that he would perform feats of hypnotism "hitherto unattempted." A "big crowd" marched to his theatre. There a policeman smilingly agreed to submit to Langster's eye. Having hypnotized him, the professor handed the policeman a stick, said: "This is a revolver. Shoot!" In a daze the policeman threw away the stick, seized his own revolver, shot three of the audience. He then leaped from the stage, attacked the spectators, seized several, herded them together, told them they were under arrest, drove them before him to the police station...
Stray X-rays escaping from a laboratory or doctor's office and endangering the health of persons in adjoining rooms will have their teeth pulled by an invention of Maximilian Toch, Manhattan chemist. Metallic lead sheathing has been used in such rooms to keep the rays in, but this is costly and the heavy metal requires special strengthening of building walls. Toch's method is the use of a barium compound in the plaster or paint on the walls of the X-ray room, barium being impervious to the rays...
...charging him with attempting to kill Eckartsau, Executor of ex-Emperor Karl's estates. Count Hoying denied the charge, characterizing it as an attempt at political revenge. He admitted, however, that he had charged Eckartsau with "wilfully sabotaging" settlement of the Habsburg estates. Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria in 1854. Empress Elizabeth was a great sportswoman; she was beautiful; moreover she had the brilliant intelligence of a Wittelsbach. From her arrival in Vienna she unwittingly offended Viennese society because she rode horseback, because she tried...
...Ochs, Ahad Ha'am and Abram I. Elkus, Albert A. Michelson, Henrietta Szold, Jacques Loeb, Luigi Luzzati, Leopold Auer, Cyrus Adler, Herman Bernstein, Lee K. Frankel, A. I. Kook, David Belasco, Samuel Gompers, Israel Abrahams, Max Reinhardt, Joseph Rosenblatt, Sir Alfred Mond, Milton J. Rosenau, Jakob Wasserman, Jascha Heifitz, Maximilian Harden, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Otto Warburg, Jacob Epstein, Joseph H. Hertz...
Died. Refugion Limon, 89, at Monterey, Mexico. In 1867 he was one of the firing squad who executed the Emperor Maximilian...