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...native ape, the only one known in the New World. 2) Skull and jaws of a gigantic camel, much larger than the modern Bactrian. It is attributed to the Pliocene period (about 1,500,000 years ago). 3) Skull and bones of three-toed horses, fossils of a dwarf rhinoceros, a giant pig, and the moropus or clawed ungulate, all belonging to the lower Miocene period (2,000,000 or more years ago). The Nebraska fossil fields are among the richest in the world. They were discovered in 1877 by James H. Cook, an old Indian scout, the first fossils...
...truth is, he does not dwarf the rest of the performance at all. Every act is a masterpiece of its kind. Everyone has heard of the Wooden Soldiers, and of Katinka and her inexorable polka, but in vigor of execution, in recognition of artistic requirements and in sheer merit, these two most popular scenes scarcely outdo the others. The music throughout is so far above the level of the American vaudeville that one hesitates to apply that classification to the Russian counterpart. The voices are really musical,-except, of course, when they are intentionally harsh for obvious effects...
Among the other recent gifts to the University are several made to the Fogg Museum. Mrs. Henry H. Sherman has given $6000 for the purchase of the "Dwarf," a picture by Goya, and a number of other benefactors have given the museum sums totalling over...
...Princeton's attitude in regard to the track games, and in fact to any branch of athletics in which she claims that men in the college department alone are eligible, may aptly be compared to the position of a dwarf who considers that he is doing a favor to a giant by entering into a contest with him, with the big man's hands tied behind his back...
...prospect of federal aid has already, in some places in the South, diminished local exertion in support of schools; and the result of the aid proposed by the Blair Bill would be to dwarf the energies of the States.- Saulsbury in Congressional Record, Vol. 17, part II., pp. 1945-1946; Senator Ingalls, abid...