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...Zeno. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be annoyed to learn that ectoplasm is not taken seriously by the producers of this singular melodrama. In the middle of a second act seance various ectoplasmic entities wander about the darkness sicklied o'er with the pale cast of greenish spotlights. It is subsequently explained that the entities are bogus and controlled by wireless from the next door attic...
During the spiritualistic proceedings somebody robs the safe, locking therein one of the best detectives in the play. When the lights finally begin to glow stock is taken and the deed ascribed to " Zeno." Zeno, it seems, is an important individual among criminals who has been making matters unpleasant for the local police the past six months...
Xenocrates and Zeno of the Eleatic School contended that all Being was one and unchangeable, and that decay was non-Being. Parmenides had a similar belief. Opposed to these ideas was the doctrine of eternal change or transition, ceaseless flux and flow. Democritus, accepting in part the doctrine of Parmenides, evolved the Atomic philosophy, which treated from a scientific point of view, still lives in the atomic theory of today...
...athlete or boxer who lived in Athens in the time of Euclid and Archimedes. He was not by profession a poet, but when he came to Athens he soon saw that there was something better to live for than boxing. So he put himself under the instruction of Zeno, a Stoic philosopher. But since he was a poor man he was obliged to work nearly all night to support himself. He was summoned before the Areopagus because he had no visible means of support, but when the council learned the true state of affairs, they commended him and made...
...Zeno, Aristotle, & Co. (whom some of our citizens will remember as successful speculators during the late war) are the enterprising managers of this Hippodrome, and to the travelling agent, P. T. Aristotle, Esq., is due much credit for the excellence of the side shows. Compared to the gigantic concourse of human beings that gathered in the Theatre of Dionysus last evening, all previous audiences seem small in the extreme...