Lanterns and Umbrellas Highlight Chinese Rank and Customs
The article explains lanterns made of silk horn and wood and ivory frames, with silk lanterns elaborately embroidered and horn lanterns painted. Umbrellas mark rank with red silk and blue cloth varieties signaling different mandarin levels. It notes gas tank explosions are unlikely due to air gas proportions and discusses humorous dialogue about success and happiness.
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Scientific American
The Mysterious Red Handkerchief Flirtation
Miss Sophia Nichols rooms near Beech Park grows nervous as an old gentleman in the opposite house waves a red handkerchief at her window each night. Her nephew Jack Brown, a college man, confronts the suitor and demands answers to the strange private flirtation.
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Cut Out by Water Remains Grand Canyon Shaping Force
Professor A R Crook rejects the idea that earthquakes or volcanic explosions formed the Grand Canyon. He states the canyon was carved entirely by the Colorado River water, with quartz sand grinding the rock. The sand, harder than the rock strata, eroded the canyon as water buried against its banks and bed.
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Colorado River
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