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Alcyone, Asterope, Electra, Kelaine, Maia, Merope and Taygete were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleïone. According to one Greek myth, the seven sisters were pursued so ardently by Hunter Orion that Zeus changed them into a constellation of stars, the Pleiades. One of the seven is dim because of mourning for a sister who married a mortal...
...variable star was reported last week by Harvard Observatory. The cluster is draped in a veil of diffuse nebulosity which may vary the brightness of certain stars by interposing streamers of varying thicknesses. Observations by Dr. William Alexander Calder disclosed that in a year the seventh Pleiad, now called Pleïone, had diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact of its variability does support the legend...
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg. pro-Monarchist candidate, had two things in his favor in the Presidential election: 1) Several speeches made, last week, by Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, leader of the German Peo ple's or Industrialist Party, in Hindenburg's behalf, which removed all doubt on the attitude, not only of his party, but of the Government; 2) public denial that U. S. bankers had threatened to withhold credits from Germany should the old soldier, nearly 78 years of age, be elected...
...illicitly manufacturing British Pfunden and American Dollaren, a number of Russians were arrested in Berlin. For some time numerous peo- ple have been swindled by this gang...
...time, and has enjoyed himself very much. Just before going he had begun another plan for helping the American Academy of Science here. Nobody ever saw any sign of money in his life, except as he could use it for the good of education or to help other peo- ple, and whenever it happened that any man at Cambridge died, whose family needed relief, Mr. Agassiz was always to the fore. A nobler, higher or more useful life no man ever lived, and withal he has kept the very warm respect and affection of his classmates and his numberless friends...