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STUDENTS will please bear in mind that the annual sale at auction of imported sporting prints; steeple chases, cock fights, etc.; also mezzotints, caricatures, etc., will take place at Lewis J. Bird Co. 's Auction Rooms, 32 Bromfield street, Boston, one week commencing Nov. 1. It will pay students to wait and see this collection before purchasing wall ornaments...
...fastened a platinum disc, at such an angle as to be parallel with the side of the lamp. At the top of the lamp and directly connected to the metallic side, is the anode pole, and at the top of the cone is a glass tube with a cock-stop, so that the air may be exhausted. This glass tube is also fastened in with plaster-of-Paris and bound by a metallic ring. A circular wooden disc is fastened in the inside of the metallic cone, to prevent any collapse of the sides on exhaustion. By this construction...
...SUMICHRAST.NINETY-FIVE.- The following men please be dressed at the gymnasium at 3.30 sharp: Walker, Whittemore, Wads-worth, Sears, Knapp, Floyd, Lambert, Winslow, Cassatt, Hitch, Pierce, Cock-rell, Thompson, Livingood, Phelan, McNear, Cook, Raymond, Kaven, and Peabody. Every man who has not been examined, must be before one o'clock, and every man who cannot be on time must let me know...
Broad jump: F. Frothingham, T. Cock-ran, J. H. Goss. S. M. Hammond, C. B. Pinney, H. B. Lee, C. B. Rice, L. P. Sheldon, C. Wheeler...
...suit was not fortunate, so he returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle was burned and one his children (for he had married an Irish wife) perished in the flames. His own death followed soon, on January 16, 1599. He was carried to Westminster...