Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...part of the recent immigration from Southern Europe, which is mostly illiterate, lacking in funds, and unskilled, settles near the Atlantic seaboard, and congests unduly in our cities. According to the great slum report, from 77 to 95 per cent of the slum population of our great cities is foreign. From three to seventy times as many of the foreigners in the slums are, however, from Southern as from Northern Europe...
Debate for April 5, 1898."Resolved, That foreign-built ships should be admitted to American registry free of duty...
...Complication with the Major" by P. G. Carleton '99. This last is the only undergraduate contribution in the number which deals with college or even with American life. It seems rather a pity that the contributors to the Monthly should persist in drawing their inspirations from foreign countries...
Best general references: Associated Press Reports for Feb. 8-18; Wharton: Int. Law Digest, pp. 603, 698; Boston Daily Advertiser, Oct. 31, '88; English State Papers, '88-'89, p. 496; Foreign Relations, 1888, pt. 2, p. 1669; 1891, p. 352; Hildreth: U. S. History...
...great estate of Tollendhal, situated in northern Austria, and here a marvellous series of adventures befalls him and a certain Princess Ottilie of Lausitz-Rothenburg. The tale reminds one slightly of "The Prisoner of Zenda," in the familiar relations which exist between the young English hero and the foreign princess, but here the resemblance stops. The story moves from Austria to England and back again, and introduces a number of striking characters in both countries...