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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Technical Books and Scientific Apparatus.
AMERICAN LEAGUE-Uhi- Has the event indicated in the cago 2, Boston 3 (ten innings); following paragraph from the The American mail has brought strait 1, New York 5; St. Louis Manchester Guardian. baan an us the following two letters from 4. Philadelphia 0. Claveland &,ticipated by Lenin's death? the Mr. C.A. Tapper, consulting en- Washington 2.
report is at present unconfirmed: gineer, of 542-33 Monadnock NATIONAL LEAGUE-Phila-Historical students will watch Block, Chicago, which speak for delphis 1, Pittsburg 2 (12 innings); with keea interest for the themselves
Brooklyn 11. Chicago 7; Now rumoured retirement of Leninj Chicago, June 27.
York 7. Cincinnati 3; Boston 4, from the leadership of the Russiko: I was very much interested St. Loui■ 5, *
revolutionary movement. Revolu. to read on page seven of the
tionary movements must always May 27th issue of your valued
AMERICAN LEAGUE—St. depend greatly on personalities, paper a referance to the pro- Louis 10, Philadelphia 1; Chicago since they have no fixed deter- posed formation of a Technical 5, Boston 2: Cleveland 2. Washing the negation of regular political minate principles, being, indeed, Musem for Hoogkong. Should too 4; Detroit 2, New York 0. the plans for this ba cansum-
NATIONAL LEAGUE-Phila-systems. Our great seventeenth maled, it will afford me great{delphia 7, Pittsburg 8; Brooklyn 7, jcentury revolution was a case in pleasure to contribute to it | Chicago & Now York 2. Cincions: point. Those who made up their very considerabla number of 3, Boston 8, St. Louis 9.
minds that resistance to the volumes of the latest works on
second Stuart king was necessary JOLY 23. engineering, architecture, con-
proceeded on one line, the essence | NATIONAL LEAGUE-New struction materials, mining. York, 4: Cincinnati 1: Brooklyn 1. Parliament. When those leaders of which was the domination of metallurgy etc. and to sub- Chicago 4, Boston 4, St. Louis 1. were supplanted by Oliver Crom- scribe to some of the best tech- AMERICAN LEAGUE-Boswell an entirely different system nical journals for it. I think ton 1, New York 1: Philadelphia was established, with the army as that friends of mine, among 2 Washington 11: Chicago 10, the dominant factor, and, just as manufacturers both here and Cleveland 6; St. Louis 6, Detroit Lenin has been the mainspring abroad, would also be willing.11. at my request, to donate nesded
lof the Russian revolu scientific apparatus.
tionary system, so Oliver was the St. Louis, July 19-The msdsinspring of the Commonwealth system. Yat within a very short.
ROGER BREAKS HOME PUN
RECORD OF N. L.
The best
Among my earliest experi ences in the Orient, as a young era National League record was time of Cromwell's death his engineer, were numerous cour surpassed to-day when Hornsby system collapsed entirely. The tasies shown to me by officials grabbed his twenty-sixth bome French Revolution was a revolu and residents of Victoria; and run of the season against Boston tion of personalities. Each phase I have alwafe had a warro spot with one man on base. in my heart for your progres-previous modern National League ities of the chief actors, from took its colour from the personal. sive hospitable colony. Hence, record was Cravath's, who made Mirabeau, from Danton, from I shall welcome an opportunity twenty-four homers in 1915. fo reciprocate
Marat, from Robespierre, from indicated.
Philadelphia, July 19.-Walker | Napoleon Bonaparte. In Ireland St. Just, and, at last, from knocked his twenty-second and we have been calling one system. twenty-third home runs today of Collins and another system De Stocker.
Valers In Russia we are at a loss till we are given a name to substitute for Lenin.
4.5
above]
Chicago, June 28.
WALKER HAS 23.
JULY 24.
I am afraid that when you read my letter of June 27th you will regard it as an attempt at bamor: but, if so, the joke is NATIONAL LEAGUE-Now certainly on me. When I first York 2. Pittsburgh 3; New York
lanced through the issue of 11. Pittsburgh 4. May 27th my attention was AMERICAN LEAGUE-Wash- attracted to the heading. "Aington 2. Philadelphia 4: Chicago Technical Museum." and I fail. 2, Cleveland 5. ed to note that it was in the column of "Twenty-five years 480."
No other games. NATIONAL
JULY 23,
A benevolent desire on the part of the late M. Heary Bataille, the eminent Franch, dramatist, to encourage the literary drama is likely to be frustrated by an UB- foreseen obstacle. In his will M. Bataille had left a capital aim the interest on which would enable
LEAGUE-St However, my offer holds. Louis 8. New York 9. Pittsburgh a technical museum is now in 5, Brooklyn : Coicazo 6. Boston existence I shall be glad to con- 13, Cincinnati 15. Philadelphis 11.Acailemis Goncourt to award a tribute to it, ss suggested: Dr. AMERICAN LEAGUE-Phila- if not, to the same when one isdelphia 0, Cleveland 4. New established. Perhaps, there-York 0. St. Louis 8; Boston 1. fore, my ludicrous error may Chicago 3: Washington 5, Detroit take a good turn after all.
8.
STANDING OF TEAMS: NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L. 33 34 35 40
As Hongkong does not boast a Technical Museum, we have; communicated the contents of the above letters to the Registrar New York of the University, who states that St. Louis the Engineering Faculty's library Chicago is badly lo need of being Cincinnati replenished, whilst gifts of Pittsburgh apparatus are always acceptable. Brooklyn Professor Middleton Smith is to Philadelphia communicate with Mr. Tupper Boston
36
47
51 +4 45
42 46 30 53 28 57
with a view to the Eniversity AMERICAN LEAGUE being benefited by the latter's kind
L. offer.
CORONET'S NEW PROGRAMME,
St. Louis
33 37
New York
52
Cleveland
50
40 45
Detroit
Chicago
40 45 44 46
40 48 40 52
Washington Boston Philadelphis 34 49
yearly prize of 10,000 francs for the best play by a young drama- tist. The prize was to be a sort
of counterpart to the yearly prize
for the best novel, the awarding of which is the chief function of the Goncourt Academy. But, Fet. ambitious French dramatiste are .617 at to have the benefit of this 615 stimulus to high literary quality 540 in their work, for the Goncourt 536 Academy have fooad that .505 under the carefully worded 477 terms of the will of their 361 founder they are not permitted 329 to offer any prize but the prix de Proute, and that if they get any Pet legacies they must go first to 597 increasing the yearly value of 565 that prize, secondly to augment- 526 ing the very modest stipends- 521 about £80 a year which each .488 member of the Academy receives,
FLASHES FROM THE STATES.
454 and thirdly to acquiring a per- .131 manent home for the Academy. 407
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Comedies and The Derby..
Frenchmen who are acquainted with the monumental dictionary Most of us would like to have, been there when the whips were
of the French Academy, a cor respondent suggests, will probably cracking and Cantain Cuttle was
accept the definitions of English winning the 1923 Derby. But
words in Mr. A. Reynolds's guide probably, if we had gone there, if we had fought our way to Epsom
At times we fear that the old-as the French dictionary, is a to England as ample. A cavern, and taken our place in the crowd, timer's contemp: for the rising ide and s
vide" is 80 wa should not have seen the generation is heartily raciprocat- famous race more clearly than it ed. Long Beach Telegram.
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astonishing thing that the camera rescue Germany from ber marke AD illustration of "s'entro coupet" (staff needs a holiday once International Labour Office and
empty space." The word the old Adam in him, but after of a young actress who is about "bosse" is illustrated by the all, when one reflects how much to play the heroine in what might is depicted in the remarkable The trouble with grasping hands phrase "les deux bosses du married quan can learn from his quietly be called a revival of topical gazette which has jus across the ses is that son of the dramadaire," but this animal is wife, there is sound sense in the A-Dell-phi drama; and a sprained arrived from home and is being are 100 grasping-Norjalk Fira kind of camel with a single truant's acquittal. screened as one of the items of the ginian-Pilot.
ankle over a rucked up carpet askractive new programme which The babit of going to the bottom up." The Academicians giva surely one of the most advanced down centre is rumoured, in pro-
are of things usually lands a man on the Coronet management
and explain that scale of rewards and punish-end to do with the happy artistic screing to-day. The race around top-foot awi
emploi is the "usage" of any-ments so varied as to put all development of the cource is shown in the usual (Boston),
thing, while they define "durse" academic tuition in the shade. way and then when the leading The radio religious ser-
matinee idols." horses are nearing the winning vice will never be popular, be-a space of time," and "temps" But in England many thousands post every movement of the actual cause the women can't see each But apparently the immortals school on the ground, we be founded at Geneva for officials of As the "duree of happenings of married men attend Sunday The Internations! Clab just flolab is shown by a series of re- other's bate-Washington Forl.
anticipated Einstein, seeing that lieve, that the home teaching the League of Nations and of the tarded motion pictures. It is an The problem of Europe is to
man bere achieved.
and Russis from her Marreads, "parallel lines which cat week.
one another!"
others has already a membership Homour predominates in the Columbia Berori.
drawn from 30 nations. It must) rest of the new programme. There Like some of the religious var-
Sir J. B. Robinson, whose hold the record among clubs for is a bright little farcecomedyiety we have observed, the busi- The Swiss Executive, whose peerage has aroused extensive linguistic capacity, for, between Her Vawilling Husband", with eas revival is full of backslid-system of government the Irish comment in the South African thom, the members speak & huo- charming. dorable Blanche Sweetings.-Columbia Berord.
Free State is sending semi-press, started prospecting for dred languages. Genova has given in the chief role and there is also] Doyle says people are straight official delegation to study at first diamonds in Griqualand in 1859.
a finely-equipped building as Harold Lloyd in "Now or Never" in the next world. What else band, evoked the warm admira I asked the native," be'relates, headquarters, and the members, Which is accounted one of that could one expect on the spirit tion of Sir Horace Rumbold when "whether they had asen any are debating whether roof bogoggled comedian's "zippiest fevel Newspaper Enterprise British Minister at Berue. "Their pretty stones, and at last I found garden should be added from
Association,
attention," said he "is unremit one man who had a diamond. It which to look out across the Quail Prosperity must have stopped tingly engaged by the most was small stone, but when I du Mont Blanc to the Saleve and somewhere down the road to talk delicate mechanism of govern-offered bit £10 for it be refused the Alps behind. to the millennium that prohibi-ment; by wheels within wheels to part. I increased my offer to Mr. F. C. Wade, the Agent-tion promised -Columbia of Federal or Cantona) attributes £12 but still be refused. I asked ¿General in London for British| Record,
and prerogatives; by endeavours him what he would take for it oricket matches on record must Among the most curious (Colombia, who is now in Canada, It isn't likely that business will to preserve the counterpoise be- and he said twenty gut have been that announced in the severely criticizes the Dominion ever attain full speed shard," tween two, not to say three, nothing less. I sent off to the Kentish Gazette of 1794. A Government for, apathy with with a tax hurdle to be negotiat-nationalities. These plain, un nearest farm, bought twenty singular game of cricket sald regard to immigration. He says ed at every quarter.-Columbia assuming men bring to their goats for £7. 10s, and so got the Gazette,"
arduous duties a rearkable possession of my first diamond."
is to be played Kenthusiastic, bat'everywhere olsa Our ides of a proper osval degree, of fact and sagacity, and
on May 6 in Linsted Park be The has found apathy and pessi-ratio-Great Britain, 00000; form an Executive as able and
tween the Gentlemen of the miam. If Canada is to remain United States, 00000; Japan, 000 efficient as any I have seen at struggle it should be encouraging Dale fer a guines man. The In these days of theatrical Hill and the Gentlemen of the British, or even retain Canadian France, O; Italy, O; other natiqns work in the many cocotries Inews to the dramatic aspirant whels to be performed ou nationality, an effort is urgently() each.-Deba Magazine,.. have resided in.” „pended to get British stock, · Mr. Luckily for the public, neither Wade has found small knowledge capital nor labour is so inhumen of or interest in, the Empire as the other says it is-Borton jettlement scheme at Ottawa. Herald.
fforts.
EMPIRE SETTLEMENT. ►
he bas found the Prime Minister Record
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that a fall on the stage on the horseback." If the match was first appearance is considered & actually played under the con pleaded marriage as an excuse of this kind is held to have been bare ipvented pole, with extra That French schoolboy who sign of good luck. Au accident ditions named we may claim, to for playing truant had much of largely responsible for the success) disculties.
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