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Paris was thrilled by the sale at forced auction for 100 sous ($1.00) of the embalmed head of Henry IV of France. Newspapers and correspondents staged a bitter fight. Some said it could not possibly be the King's head; others thought to the contrary...
...Française. His activities cover also portraiture, and life in France and India. Doubtless ,the best of Besnard's work is being saved for the Pittsburgh show, but the present exhibitions are proof of his right to fame. Such canvasses as Sous des Saules (two women robing under willows) and Le Bain Romain show versatility and suppleness...
...Overture, "The Calif of Bagdad" Boieldien 3. Ballet Egyptien Luigini 4. I. Allegro non troppo. II. Allegretto. III. Andante sostenuto. IV. Andante espressivo. Allegro. 4. Soli for Pianoforte. a. Melody in E Rachmaninoff b. Impromptu in F-sharp Major Chopin c. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca Liszt d. Jardins sous la Pluie Debussy Mr. F. W. Ramseyer '26. 5. Romanza Dvorak 6. Polka Dvorak 7. Orientale Cui Solo Cello--Mr. E. T. Payson '26. 8. Cortege from the "Queen of Sheba" Gounod
...knocked a ball with their hands over a mound of earth, or some such obstacle, and settled their debts on the spot. It is barely possible that desperate matches are played on the Jarvis courts for sodas at the corner drug store, but nothing so huge as the 15 sous game is ever heard of. These systematic days, if they have left the old scoring system untouched, have at least spread the theory of simple arithmetic among tennis players. Few can be found who would not shy at a game that might be scored as "two bits--O", "a half...
...answer comes from A. E. Crawley, an English authority. Tennis, it seems, was invented about 1200 when the usual arithmetical unit was sixty, because it was so conveniently divisible--this was before the use of decimals. It was always played for a stake, usually a crown (60 sous) per game of four strokes. Thus the winner of the first stroke was the recipient of 15 sous from his opponent. If he was a good player he won 30, then 45 (this number is still used in France to some extent) and finally sixty (our game...