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...Joseph's in fluence was felt. As often before, he secured most of the cream. He expressed his intention of transferring it to the U. S. Very possibly Maecenas Huntington, who ever seems to know what he wants, will presently receive of the cream the topmost layer, which again very possibly was already contracted...
Last week a smallish, modest man, with shaven head, oval, slightly pock-marked face, long, pointed, waxed mustaches, promenaded from his Lhasa villa to the Potala, most magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its gold-vermilion finials, now caught by the last reflected glow of the sunken sun, soared 436 feet in air his ancient palace, crowning a green-clad mountain. The Grand Lama passed within...
...very pleasant; but, far more interesting was an interview some newsgatherer obtained with one William Scott, aged 70, a housepainter, of Creswell, Ore. It had been Mr. Scott who, when the University's registration book was first opened in 1876, had had his name written on the topmost line. The second and third students to register were his sister Mathilda, his brother "Ron." His grandfather, Capt. Levi Scott was the university's first janitor. His father, William J. J. Scott, it was who loaned $2,000 to keep the sheriff from foreclosing a contractor's lien...
...this route, His Highness was informed, seven Italian guides and a priest ascended the Matterhorn in honor of a Catholic "Holy Year" (1901), Pious, they planted a cross and celebrated Mass on the Hag's topmost excrescence (14,780 feet). Intrigued, Prince Chichibu snap-shotted the spot on which was performed this (to him) heathen act of faith...
...narrow slanting eyes peeped last week above the topmost crag of the famed Wetterhorn.* Seven hours before, three Japanese and five Swiss guides had set out from Grindelwald. He who peeped royally from the summit, was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado. As everyone knows, he has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles (TIME...