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Director Charles Thorn announced last week. The discovery resulted from the many cases of cramps that citizens of Biddeford, Me., developed two years ago after eating imported cheese. Examination of this cheese showed that it contained myriads of bacteria, of the lactic type, used to "start" milk turning into butter or cheese. Further study revealed an interloper, which resembled the bacteria. Dr. Thorn's bureau cultured these strange germs in milk and fed the milk to cats. In a few hours the cats were violently ill, as ill as were the folk of Biddeford, with intestinal disturbances. Said...
...With such words, Governor Pinchot passed out of Pennsylvania politics last week. He will be succeeded on Jan. 18 by John S. Fisher, a Republican who is less of a thorn to the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia stalwarts. It will be remembered, however, that Mr. Pinchot has passed out before. Once a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt, he quarreled with President Taft in 1910 and was ousted from the important chairmanship of the U. S. Bureau of Forestry. Years later, in 1922, he arose like a ghost of a rebel past, surprised everyone by being elected Governor. His administration...
...Ever since the foundation of the Republic, 15 years ago last October 10th, the problem of unification has been a thorn in the flesh of patriotic Chinese. China has been divided laterally by the Progressive and Conservative factions, sectionally by rival generals, each with his sphere of influence, his private ambitions, and his protestations of 'loyalty to the Constitution'. Each militarist has made the national chaos an excuse for 'punitive expeditions' against his opponents, while foreign powers have seen in China's disorder a sound reason for declining to treat her as an equal in the family of nations...
Last week a thorn was extracted from the side of Vassar's faculty- compulsory chapel. Even as their contemporaries at Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Princeton and elsewhere have protested in these late years of undergraduate self-assertion that religion is a personal matter, so the young ladies on their high hill at Poughkeepsie have stoutly insisted that each should be permitted to save her soul in her own way, and that the community spirit expressed by daily and weekly chapel gatherings could be expressed quite as well by academic convocations for lectures and general discussion. Last winter the undergraduates presented...
...pleasant to meet a rare type of boon, that which unravels a particularly annoying knot without snarling the string at the other end. For years the Cottage Farm Bridge and the railroad bridge beside it have been a thorn in the flesh of rowers on the Charles. They form a barrier to be passed only with great caution. Now, by a bill pending in the legislature, each of the bridges is expected to give way to a new structure with six fifty-foot spans, and thus to clear the river for rowing from Anderson Bridge to the Basin...