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...Cooper's blueprints contain his plans (published last week) for an ancient scheme never yet effected on a large scale-"letting the ocean do the work." Along the Pacific Coast one occasionally sees a battery of barrels or floating cylinders sapping a mite of Ocean's strength as they are slid up and down on ratchets by the incoming rollers. There are still visible along the Atlantic Coast, relics of crude paddle-wheel tide mills, which worked only with the falling tides and kept their operators up at annoying hours as the tide changed its time of fluctuation...
...Protestantism has been this, that any time anybody got a new idea in doctrine or ecclesiastical polity, he went out, if he had power enough, and founded a new denomination to represent it. ... A hundred and more denominations in this country, competing, overlapping, each insisting on some minutiae, tithing mite, anise or cumin and neglecting the weightier matters of the law. And so far has this historic policy gone that one denomination of Mennonites is distinguished from all others by the fact that it thinks wearing buttons wrong and wears hooks and eyes instead. "Against this policy of Protestantism...
...remember very well. Or so young that they never saw Maude Adams at all. Other people matter, of course, but not as much as the youngish ones. They all loved Miss Miller. They never noticed that her voice was a shade shallow and twangy, or that Wendy was a mite too old, or Hook a spot stagey. Being modern children, they might have been disappointed had the company been more impromptu and not quite so technically competent...
Some of her works were written in collaboration with Mite Kremnitz, one of her maids of honor, sometimes under the pseudonyms of Dito et Idem: Aus zwei Welten (1884), Anna Boleyn (1886), Edleen Vaughan (1894), Sweet Hours...
...dollar given will keep a child alive for a month; ten dollars will keep a child until the next harvest. Even ten cents will be gratefully received and will help nourish one of the starving. No matter, therefore, how restricted a student may be himself, he can contribute his mite to those who need it most. When well-off fellows reflect that the price of a theatre ticket will feed a little boy or girl in Vienna or Warsaw for a month, he can hardly doubt how to spend...