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...restaurant of the estimable Lin Hing, at No. 2, the Bowery, Manhattan, there assembled last week 15 notable Chinamen who proceeded to found the Chinese Aero League of America. President of the League Dr. Tien Lee Huang announced for next August a 10,000-mile air race from Dallas, Texas, to China, for a purse of $50,000 offered by Col. W. E. Easterwood of Dallas, Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling...
...With unique ingenuity, he literally found money growing upon trees and gave Haiti a stable currency. He encouraged trade, organized an enormous commerce in sugar, corresponded as an equal with European kings and built a fortress, on the top of a hill near his capital of Cap Hai'tien. In 1820, when an army was marching on his palace, Henry Christophe sent his children away and shot himself dead, with a golden bullet...
Despatches told that Feng's armies held last week, a line stretching roughly from Nankow to Yuchow, thus fending off their mountain sheltered base at Kalgan from the expected attack of Chang and Wu originating at Peking. General Tien Wei-chun was moving from Peking last week upon Nan-kow pass (26 miles northwest) ; and Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, Wu's principal field commander, was preparing to advance upon Yuchow (100 miles west of Peking...
...origin of cretin is traced by some to the French chrétien, meaning "Christian," hence "innocent." The Latin Christianus, again, was probably a translation of the older cretin, from crete (craie), a. chalky fuller's earth found in Crete, used by the Romans for coloring the face, especially by actors. A common mark of cretinism is a sallow, yellow earthy complexion...
...Chinese Government told the foreign Diplomatic Corps at Peking that the Military Governor of Shantung had been dismissed; last week President Tsao-Kun promoted the dismissed man to a higher military rank and to membership in the honorary body of retired officers. This made the Diplomats angry, as Tien Chung-Yu, ex- Military Governor of Shantung, was held by them to be personally responsible for the bandit outrage which occurred near Tsinan last May. Obviously his promotion to a higher rank was a flagrant violation of the spirit contained in the last Chinese note to the Diplomats (TIME...