Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ah, Paris has her seamy side! The grand boulevards, the stately buildings, the culture, fashion, wealth, gaiety, are what we usually see. But in the old quarters of the city are dark, crooked streets and dens of shamelessness and crime. There are quarters over which Ignorance and Vice brood like...
The fancy seizes us to follow one of its victims on his wandering journey from the time when he enters the river to that when he is lifted from its bosom and borne to face the jostling crowd before the glass. How gaily the body floats! The last spark of...
I was in a strange house. The room I was in (so well as I now remember) was large and pleasant,-a homelike room. As a devotee of Hygeia I noticed the hardwood floor and the rugs. With my weakness for the creature comforts I remember the blazing open fire...
Of course there is no necessity of making a verbatim report of a lecture, but by taking down quickly the more important portions, we would be able to give better attention to the rest. If a knowledge of short-hand writing were to benefit a man only while in college...
Parisian students created a serious riot at the funeral of Jules Valles, the revolutionist, last Friday. A delegation of German Socialists occupied a place in the funeral procession, bearing a wreath of violets, adorned with a red scarf, and hanging from a long pole. The emblem bore the inscription, " From...