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...Hotel Raynaud, Paris, an obus, or mortar shell, surviving from the war of 1870 and used to break coal in the cellar, exploded after 50 years of service, wounding a workman and breaking the plumbing...
...Elihu Root calls attention to the widespread misuse of leisure, particularly among those who have recently acquired it. In a world in which the workman no longer has the joy of "perfecting his works" but merely the delight of pulling a lever 897 times an hour, he must save his soul in his leisure time if he is to save it at all. His difficulty at present is that he would rather lose his soul than his spare time. And Mr. Root says he can't have both...
...popular feeling against picketing and interfering with non-union workers. This is, of course, a great mistake on the part of such unions as allow it, and it is fortunate that its instances are rare. Most of the trouble between strikers and scabs is not with the honest workman desiring only his day's wages, but with professional strike breakers--men who are transported from one strike area to another, and who are paid enormously increased wages to take a sporting chance in a picketed district...
...seemed even in college days when Professor Taussig tries to simplify it for our benefit. To many the Tariff is the one safeguard we have to balance the difference between the cost of production abroad and in this country, thus protecting our manufacturing industries and enabling the American workman to get better wages and live on a higher plane than his fellow workman in Europe. Today, the middle West is urging the imposition of Tariff duties on products of nature such as oil, cotton, wool, hides and other agricultural products, claiming that the day for protection of manufactured goods alone...
...Seville", after languishing for a century and a quarter in a remote Irish castle, has been found, neglected, unwashed, and uncared for and now brushed up and tidy again is about to resume his rightful place in the galleries. Only a day or so ago a Nova Scotia workman stopped in at a little shop to buy a picture which had taken his fancy. After taking it home and cleaning it, he found an entirely new surface revealed, declared now to be a Rembrandt, and therefore worth thousands...