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...summoned Inventor Haas to Washington, asked for a demonstration of his device, consisting of a leather thong to which was attached a small leather-covered cylinder. When suspended over gold-bearing ground, the indicator was supposed to vibrate. Explained Septuagenarian Haas: "I call it a mineral vibrator. . . . The principle on which it works is affinity with affinity. I have to have a gold affinity to detect gold. . . . My instrument is loaded with affinity. ... I tune in with my gold vibrator. It is like a radio. You dial until you get a certain station. . . . When I take it in my hands...
...lake at whose bottom her bones were found. Perhaps she was on a raft or in a canoe, or crossing on ice. She was wearing shell pendants in her hair, around her neck. From her waist hung an apron of strung shells. A dagger of antler dangled from a thong. The Minnesota girl's bones might never have been recovered if a scientific digger had not asked a practical digger for help. Professor Jenks had arranged with the Minnesota State Highway Commission, which was putting a road through Ottertail County, to watch for fossils. Finder of the Minnesota maid...
...first he tried to subsist for 47 days on sea water, two sips a day, which he stole down the mountain to get. "It contains minerals," he explained. But his stomach had troubled him so he changed to fresh water, carrying heavy stones for penance on a thong about his neck. Then he had hanged himself by a thong under his armpits, but the thong broke and he fractured his ankle. Then he buried himself to the waist in earth. Faint though he was, God still would not come. That taught him humility...
...Finsteraarhorn, 14,026 ft., the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps. Down to the famed Jungfrau Joch Hotel. Up the Schreckhorn, 13,386 ft. Down to Grindelwald. FOOD. A steak as thick as the climber's thong-bound wrist. Such was the Alpine exploit performed in one day last week by Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, first Alpinist to scale either the Finsteraarhorn or the Schreckhorn this year...
...Thoring Thong...