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XIV. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, a comparatively late period, Coryat visited Venice, and in his Crudities gives a full and interesting account of its courtesans, who then numbered, he says, at least 20,000; the revenue they brought into the State maintained a dozen galleys. J. Schrank, Die Prostitution in Wien, Bd. I, pp. 152-206. U. Robert, Les Signes d'Infamie au Moyen Age, Ch.
A man named Schrank who said that he had been led on by what he read in the papers, waited for Roosevelt outside a hotel in Milwaukee. This was during the campaign and Roosevelt was leaving the hotel to make a speech in a public hall. As he stood up in his automobile, Schrank shot him in the chest.
This is exactly the same proportion as Tait found among prostitutes generally, half a century earlier, in Edinburgh. It is instructive to see here the influence of a dreary climate and monotonous labor in stimulating the appetite for a "life of pleasure." In Vienna, in 1873, Schrank remarks that of over 1500 prostitutes only 615 were born in Vienna.
Haliday, remarking on the opinion of Linnæus and Schrank, who referred Campodea to the old genus Podura, says with much truth, "it may be perhaps no unfair inference to draw, that the insect in question is in some measure intermediate between both," i. e., Podura and Lepisma.
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