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...eating wolves roam the central and southern provinces, according to information from Rome. During the past two months, several human beings have been devoured?a soldier returning from leave, at Palena; a woman, on a country road. At Vito, on the lower slope of Mt. Vesuvius, females of a church congregation were obliged to barricade themselves in the church while the men attacked a waiting pack of hungry lupines...
...fact is that Japan is laying the foundation of a permanent colonization on the Pacific slope, which will spread quickly to other parts of the West...
...ideal caterpillar tractor for divisional artillery, the highest speed pictured in their most optimistic dreams was twelve miles an hour. In the meantime, the Holt Manufacturing Co. has already produced an ordnance tractor that can attain a speed of 30 miles an hour and can negotiate a 45-degree slope without difficulty. Incidentally, it can be driven submerged in water up to the driver's chin...
...problems will be explained. The field work in the first half of the course will consist of plane and topographical surveying, levelling, determination of meridian and latitude, and map making, while in the last four weeks problems in railroad construction will be taken up involving preliminary surveys, final location, slope staking, and estimates of quantities and cost...
CALIFORNIA: A new crater broke out on the east slope of Mount Lassen, which is in violent eruption. Mount Lassen, in the extreme northern part of California, is the only active volcano in any of the states. It became active...