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...performance it was entirely satisfactory. As everyone knows, there is little or no excitement involved in "Shavings"; there are several passages of not too heavy pathos, but on the whole it runs along at a charming level of quaint humor and light philosophy, "Shavings" himself, the kindly, absent minded toy-maker, is usually engaged in trying to unite the village feudists, Captain Sam Hunniwell and Phineas Babbitt, and eventually he succeeds when Leander Babbitt and Maude Hunniwell decide to be married. There are several other parallel themes, but the plot is not important, nor is it intended...
...most, ingenious toy is under process of construction-an instrument to simplify piano-playing for children. The inventor is Ralph Mayhew...
...match the successive notes with notes marked on pegs. These pegs he places one after another in a slot in the box. The instrument then plays the melody. The child has only to concern himself with the time, the length of the notes. From the manipulation of this toy a considerable part of the rudiments of music can be learned...
This duel reminds one of Mark Twain's experience. As a second to one of the somewhat corpulent participants, he was delegated to stand directly in his principal's rear. At the sight of his opponent's toy pistol, the duelist fainted into Mark Twain's arms, carrying away everything behind him. If one is to believe our humorist, he received thirteen wounds, only seven of them fatal, and enjoyed the distinction of being the first person injured in a French duel in twenty years...
...gypsy moth is threatening again in Northern New York and New England. The state has a special Bureau for its control and has a 25-mile zone on the Eastern border under constant supervision for the study of air currents in relation to the moths. More than 6,000 toy balloons were liberated at various points to determine the prevailing course of the winds, and 400 were returned to Albany by their finders. A motorized balloon of a new type, equipped with pumps and sprayers, is used to combat the moths...