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...celluloid cup performing the function of lenses and inserted in the eye-socket so that light can reach the optic nerve of a blind man has been invented by Professor Katz, a Rus-sian opthahlmologist, according to newspaper stories from Petrograd. The withered tissue in the front part of the ball has been cut away and the semi-artificial eye inserted in eight patients, with restoration of sight. A reputable journalist ? Mr. Samuel Spewack, of The New York Worlds-sponsors the announcement and claims to have seen the operation demonstrated...
American eye specialists are sceptical of the cure and are waiting for further particulars. Some frankly believe it impossible. The method has not yet been published in medical journals or before scientific associations, although lack of such facilities in Russia is explicable enough. Rus-sian physicians who have seen the process are divided as to its merits. Professor Katz is reported to be eager to send technical descriptions and photographs of the operation to the Western world, but he will not leave Russia to demonstrate...
...Kalinin insists that no political capital will be made out of her visit. She is coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee of the Rus-sian Red Cross Society. Her purpose is to appeal for aid for the famine stricken orphans of Russia. "Firstly and chiefly," said she, "I want to thank the people of America. . . . We have millions of orphans who need clothes, medicines, education, books - everything - as well as foodstuffs, and Russia...
...mile-3, H. P. White; 7, H. C. Burdett; 6, G. L. Baker, Jr.; 15, C. H. Williams; 4, H. B. Hewitt; 5, H. W. Barker; 10, D. H. Bradlee; 8, H. H. Brown; 11, T. C. Bebee; 9, W. E. Putnam; 1, L. G. Colman; 14, F. A. Rus sell; 12; S. P. Orton...
...effect prduced on U. S. by these undesirable classes is socially bad. (1) Their low standard of living makes it impossible for native workmen to compete without lowering their own standard. R. M. Smith, pp. 131-140. (2) They have introduced the pernicious sweating system. J. A. Rus, "How the Other Half Lives, " pp. 121-124. (3) An excessive proportion of our criminals and paupers is foreign born or of foreign parentage. H. C. Lodge, Century, Sept. 1893. (4) They are very illiterate. W. E. Chandler, N. Am. Rev. Jan. '93. pp. 6-8. (c) Our system of government...