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...SALE.- Cutter Whitewing, designed by Fife, built by Lawley. Length (water-line) 32 ft., beam 9 ft., draught 7 ft. Good sailor and thoroughly comfortable cruiser...
...that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that something greater and rarer went to the making of Hamlet than to the invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse. Men have always been willing to pay the highest prices for things that were of no practical use whatever, and though a Frenchman has said that cookery was the test of civilization, we are more commonly apt to gauge it by the value set upon works whose only apology...
...first place, the writer conceives that athletic men here look on the best type of a man physically as something comparable to a "draught horse." Nothing need be said in answer to this but that the best physiques, as shown by Dr. Sargent's charts and as admitted by sensible men everywhere, are not necessarily those of enormous bulk and huge muscle. Symmetry, not size, is the test. The writer repeatedly confounds gymnastic work with the work of athletic contests and includes the former in his attack upon the latter. He makes the very popular mistake of seeing no middle...
...oppresive that several left the church early in the service, and finally one lady was assisted out in a fainting condition. The lack of ventilation may have been occasioned by the fact that the chapel being unusually crowded the people that were obliged to stand could not bear a draught. Nevertheless a little more attention to the subject of ventilation would add greatly to the comfort of all who attend the Sunday evening services...
...then in the final hours of His life, though the torture of the buffeting and scourging and crowning there was no wavering. On the cross, he refused the draught that would have deadened somewhat the pain, and chose to conquer death in its greatest power...