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...Court of Inquiry into the wrecking of the Shenandoah adjourned last week???probably for good. If the Judge Advocate of the Court decides to call Colonel Mitchell a second time,* the Court may reconvene. The final testimony was that of experts as to wind stresses, strength of the airship's frame...
...patents became a bit too onerous a sideline for statesmen. The Patent Office* was created and began to number the patents it issued. Between 1836 and 1893 ?57 years?500,000 patents were counted out; between 1893 and 1911?18 years?another 500,000 patents were granted. Last week???13 years since the 1,000,000th patent was granted?the 1,500,000th was issued...
Having received the idolatrous praise of Chicago, Feodor Chaliapin, Russian giant, bestrode the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, last week???first in the opera, Boris Godunov, made famous by him, and then as a ruffianly and ill-behaved Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust...
Fifteen years later Jeannette, successful, has risen as high in her firm as a woman could. She is getting $50 a week???nearly half as much as her successor would start in at if that successor were a man. She is lady bountiful to Alice's children. But the spice has gone out of her work, for sex-discrimination keeps her from the higher rungs of the ladder and her only human contacts are the vicarious ones with Alice's family, with her roommate, with Mitxi, her cat. Stung by an impulse she does not wholly understand, she attempts...
Have you an average high-school boy or girl in your home? If yon have, do you know that the boy goes to the movies 1.23 times a week???the girl 1.05 times per hebdomadary segment? Never suspected it, did you? That is to say, you may have known about the one time, but as for the decimal fractions?well, it's wonderful what those young people are able to put over on the oldsters...