Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Calligraph pen, which shades and has a fountain holder, retails at $4. The pen is gold; several grades of it are kept in stock...
...geography. The special schools are devoted respectively to the subjects of law, medicine, and art, engineering, etc. Besides there are government schools for the blind, those supported by the various Christian communities, both native and European, and the almost infinite number of "Free schools" attached to the public fountains and maintained by the same charitable foundation as the fountain. Every visitor to Cairo is familiar with these. Passing a fountain at almost any time of the day, he will be pretty sure to hear from the building connected with it the babel of many infantile voices, pitched in all keys...
Comes from the fountain's distant flow...
...Howells' new novel, "A Woman's Reason," which will be begun in the February number of the Century Magazine, promises to resemble some of his earlier books rather than his last. The first instalment opens the story in Boston among familiar streets - the Common, with its "Brewer Fountain and its four seasons of severe drouth" - and concerns itself with a Miss Helen Harkness, who "danced through Harvard," (mystifying statement) was graduated, and proposed to by several of the men of her class, whom she judged were all silly, and accordingly refused...
...Boston, and saw a funny-looking creature with a "mortar-box," I believe it's called, walking the street. At first I thought it was a Chinaman, or belonged to the Humpty Dumpty Troupe, but my cousin said that he was connected with the Tuft's Soda Fountain Manufacturing Company. At present I am very much occupied, for I am taking painting and drawing lessons, have a dancing master, take piano and singing lessons, go to riding and swimming schools, have a lady teacher for French and German, and a love of a gentleman teacher in Italian and Spanish...