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...Brass Monkey.Hovts' "Brass Monkey," opened their engagement at the Boston theatre last night to an overflowing house. Great applause greeted the company. The scene of the auction room in which most of the play took place is one of extraordinarry ingenuity of detail and thoughtfulness. Pretty dancing and gay costumes were seen in abundance. George Marion, as Josiah and Flora Walsh as Baggage his daughter, divided the honors...
SHERIFF'S SALE.- Taken on execution, and will be sold by Public Auction, on Wednesday, the 8th day of January, 1890, at 11 o'clock a. m., at the carriage warerooms of Francis L. Chapman, rear of No. 10 Brattle St., near Harvard Sq., in said Cambridge, the following described personal property, to wit: 1 cherry table, cloth top, 1 arm chair, 1 half arm chair, 2 cherry book cases, 1 oak chair, 1 window seat cushion, 1 oak bedstead, 1 bureau, 1 commode, 1 spring bed, 1 hair mattrass, 1 feather pillow, 1 bolster, 1 lounge, 1 sofa pillow...
...TUPPER, Manager and Photographer.SHERIFF'S SALE.- Taken on execution, and will be sold by Public Auction, on Wednesday, the 8th day of January, 1890, at 11 o'clock a. m., at the carriage warerooms of Francis L. Chapman, rear of No. 10 Brattle St., near Harvard Sq., in said Cambridge, the following described personal property, to wit: 1 cherry table, cloth top, 1 arm chair, 1 half arm chair, 2 cherry book cases, 1 oak chair, 1 window seat cushion, 1 oak bedstead, 1 bureau, 1 commode, 1 spring bed, 1 hair mattrass, 1 feather pillow, 1 bolster, 1 lounge...
...Princeton library has been enlarged since the beginning of the college term by the addition of 335 books, most of which have been bought at auction. The department of History has been benefited greatly by the new books. The "Stories of the Nations" which has excited so much favorable comment have been added entire. Kinglake's Crimea in eight volumes and four volumes of Browning's Tuscany have been given to this department. The department of Biography has been enlarged by Peigrot's French Biography; Politics, by Carson's work on the Centennial of the Constitution. To the department...
...there was a reading room in No. 3, where also an annual auction of old books, for the benefit of indigent students, was held. In 1878-79 this room was occupied by a member of the class of '79, who earned his living by tutoring and by the sale of text-book and stationery...