Word: china
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Miss Wreckless to Old Scruples, who is looking at a plaque of her painting : "Now, that's mamma; such a bother as she was; we have no oven and had to have her fired out of the house." And Scruples, who is not versed in the technicalties of china painting, goes off in doubt whether it is worse to be unfilial or to talk along. - [Life...
...announced by Chinese papers that Mr. Yung Wing, who graduated at Yale and has lived at Hartford until within a year, has, on his return to China, been appointed chief magistrate of the city of Shanghai. People who thought Yung Wing did not amount to much because he never rose to the proud eminence of captain of the Yale base-ball nine, will now see that they were mistaken. - [Philadelphia News...
...Pacific Mail Steamship Company has recovered $83,333 33 of the government for carrying the United States mails on the line to China several years...
...announced by Chinese papers that Mr. Yung Wing, who graduated at Yale in 1854, and has lived at Hartford until within a year, has, on his return to China, been appointed chief magistrate, or taotai, of the city of Shanghai. Mr. Yung Wing's case is remarkable, from the facts that he is a professed Christian, has an American wife and wears no queue...
...York, the first of the year, which will be called Life, and is to be run and contributed to by the bright set of young Harvard men who have distinguished themselves of late in the lightest literature, among them E. S. Martin, who wrote "Sly Ballades in Harvard China;" Robert Grant, author of the "Frivolous Girl;" Attwood, who wrote "Manners and Customs of ye Harvard Student," and Wheelwright, author of "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge." Mr. Mitchell, who wrote the "Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert," is to be one of the leading editors...