Word: eng
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempt was made last evening to blow up the local government building in Westminster, Eng. Considerable damage was done but no lives were lost. It is generally believed to be the work of Fenians. An attempt to blow up the office of the London Times was also discovered and frustrated...
...second annual international match at Rugby foot-ball between elevens representing England and Wales was played at Swansea, Eng., Dec. 16, and the English won by two goals and four tries to nothing...
Cambridge University (Eng.) thinks her prospects for next year's race with Oxford are rather dubious. Her trial eights have been selected...
Bochm's statue of Carlyle was unveiled Friday on the Embankment at Chelsea, Eng., where he spent the last forty years of his life...
...table of the principal libraries of the world, in the latest volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the volumes accredited to the principal college libraries are as follows: Cambridge (Eng.) University Library, 200,000, besides a total of 266,500 volumes belonging to the separate college libraries; Trinity College, Dublin. 192,000; Edinburg University, 140,000; Glasgow University, 125,000; University College, London, 100,000; Oxford Bodleian, 400,000, besides a total of 306,000 among the several colleges; British Museum, 1, 500,000; Sarbonne (Paris), 125,000; Berlin University, 200,000; Bonn, 225,000; Breslaw University, 350,000; Erlanger University...