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PUDDING THEATRICALS.- Principals in Act II at 2. Full chorus, (including Pirates...
PUDDING THEATRICALS.- Principals in act II, at 2. Full chorus at 4 and 7. Everyone must come...
...suburbs. For 250 years the Mamelukes in Cairo ruled Egypt with an iron hand, and cruelty and bloodshed were common. Nevertheless art flourished greatly in their reign. It was only seventy-seven years ago when the last of the Mamelukes were destroyed by an act of treachery. The traveler on his arrival is struck by sights common in Modern Europe, and in fact Modern Cairo is nothing more than the European quarter of the city. The streets are broad and the houses and grounds beautiful in this new part. The best view is obtained from the citadel which overhangs...
...approving private schools. He alluded particularly to the effect this provision would have upon the relations of the Catholic and the Protestant portions of the community. The breach between the two divisions of the population should be closed as much as possible; but the inevitable tendency of an act giving the public authorities the right to supervise private schools would be to widen the breach to an alarming extent. Whenever the election of a school committee happened to come up, everybody would go to the polls knowing that the approval of parochial schools would come before the committee then elected...
...city itself is very old and has been in possession of the Turks for about a thousand years. The population, like most Turkish cities, is extremely varied, and one can meet there representatives from all European nations. The city abounds in dogs, which act as the scavengers of the place. The houses are huddled together, small and badly ventilated. They are built of stone and have few windows. The roofs are flat and covered with a sort of cement which is water-proof. The richer natives have houses with tiled roofs. The soldiers of the city are poorly...