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THE different mountains forming the southern chain of the valley of Mekka are: Djebel Fadeh, on the lower part of Djebel Kobeys, nearest to the town El Khandame, likewise part of Djebel Kobeys Djebel el Abyadh, called among the Pagan Arabs Mestebzera, belonging also to Djebel Kobeys Mozazem Korn Meskale, lower ridge of Shab Aamer Djebel Benhan, ibid.
C. De Wet, although cut off from his guns and the main body of his command by an unfordable river, was confident in his lurking place in the Korn Spruit that he could easily repeat his exploit of February 15 and annex another British convoy; yet he suddenly discovered that he had to deal not with a mere escort, but with a strong mounted force and two batteries of Horse Artillery, and he was equal to the occasion.
Korn's apparatus depends on the ability of the element selenium to vary the strength of an electric current passing through it in proportion to the brightness with which the selenium is illuminated. A new field has been opened by these inventions which are now becoming more and more numerous, since the Korn system did the pioneering.
The estaminet was full of people, brutish-looking peasants swilling neat spirits, cattle drovers and the like. I stood up at the bar and ordered a double noggin of Korn a raw spirit made in these parts from potatoes, very potent but at least pure. A man in corduroys and leggings was drinking at the bar, a bluff sort of chap, who readily entered into conversation.
Around it there assembled every noon the following companions: Solicitor of the Treasury Korn, assistant magistrate Hesselberger, assistant postmaster Kitzler, apothecary Pflaum, jeweller Gründlich, and baker Degen. Judge Kleinlein also joined them occasionally as a guest of honour. They gossiped about their neighbours, their acquaintances, their friends, and their colleagues.
"I may say," explained Kennedy as we waited breathlessly, "that another system known as the Korn system of telegraphing pictures has also been in use in London, Paris, Berlin, and other cities at various times for some years.
The author excludes syphilis, tuberculosis, rheumatism, gout, hemophilia, etc., and considers it to have been a trophic affection of cerebral origin. Cases of pneumonia osteoarthropathy simulating acromegaly have been reported by Korn and Murray. Megalocephaly, or as it was called by Virchow, leontiasis ossea, is due to a hypertrophic process in the bones of the cranium.
The Zohran chief, Bakhroudj, having bravely resisted Mohammed Aly Pasha, was taken by surprise, in March 1815, and cruelly cut to pieces by that Turkish general's order. Wady Aly, in the same district. Meshnye, on the S. borders of Zohran. Raghdan, a market-place of the Ghamed Arabs. Korn el Maghsal, of the Ghamed Arabs. Al Zahera, of the same Arabs.
Nobody here seems to know what became of him. "Joseph Korn." "That is short and to the point," said Mr. Talmadge, "but it is not satisfying. It does not state if this William A. Bodley had any relatives so far as known." "I guess the authorities did not want to bother about the matter," said Joe. "Why don't you visit Millville, Joe?" questioned Ned. "I was thinking I could do that.
There was one main street containing two blocks of stores, a blacksmith shop, a creamery and two churches. When he stepped off the train our hero was eyed sharply by the loungers about the platform. "Anything I can' do for you?" asked one of the men, the driver of the local stage. "Will you tell me where Mr. Joseph Korn lives?" "Joe lives up in the brown house yonder. But he ain't home now.
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