Word: colts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supreme court of the Pow-Wow, the oldest club, is Glover, Moras, Hubbard, Frothingham, Clapp, Prentiss, Ellis, Codman and Wigmore. The following are on the superior court: Storrow, Goodale, Davidson, Trask, Bickford, of Harvard, '85, Cowles, of Oberlin, and Colt of Williams...
There was once a colt who could run pretty well; a horse, who made it his business to run, and excelled in it; a mule, who could kick, but whose running powers were small. The colt engaged the horse to instruct him in running, and was making good progress, when the mule stepped in, and, declaring that the horse was introducing a tricky and dangerous spirit, discharged him. "I, myself," said he, "will assume charge of the colt's education in running, as well as the other things," But the mule was lame, Moral: Was not the mule kind...
Charles B. Richards, superintendent of the Southwark Iron Works at Philadelphia and formerly of colt's armory at Harttord, will become professor of dynamic engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, beginning in the spring...
...Keene's colt, Blue Grass, was winner of the Ascot biennial stakes yesterday...
...race for the Epsom gold cup of five hundred sovereigns in plate or specie for three-year-olds and upwards was won by Lefevre's horse Tristran, Hamilton's colt City Arab second, Ellesmere's horse Wallenstein third...