Miscellany: Sep. 10, 1923

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In Pittsburgh, Robert McLain, animal tamer, was fined $10 for flogging an $11,500 hippopotamus with a bull whip.

At Savannah, Ga., a woman who was once kissed by General Lafayette celebrated her 100th birthday. The woman was aged two when kissed Lafayette, 66.

At Santa Monica, Cal., a woman, twelve years ago tubercular, celebrated her 63rd birthday by swimming ten miles in the ocean and singing a stanza of The Star Spangled Banner just before finishing.

At Paris, the French Academy, in revising the dictionary, had to decide when...

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