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...feature of the number is the unusually large number of body articles. They are generally amusing, particularly the "Fables" and "In a Grape-Arbour." The shorter "Jokes," however, are even better...
...arroused against the College on the part of the owners of the property. As a matter of fact, all of the fences scaled were as intact after the so-called "pell-mell on-slaught" of the hounds as before. Indeed, the whole extent of the damage was that a grape-vine was slightly torn from its fastenings and that a flowerbed in which there were no flowers was trampled down...
...Melancthon, with his robes about him, is expounding some knotty point of doctrine to the grave monk beside him. The end of the sixteenth century finds the gay court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres, Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy of mymphs satyrs, demons, goblins and bats. We move forward to the 13th of June, 1613, and ill starred Frederick of Bohemia, with his bride Elizabeth, daughter of James of England, heads a stately...
There is a Harvard colony in Lake county, California. These graduates are devoted to grape growing. The San Francisco Chronicle says that the native's look with wonder upon the oarsmanship of the Cambridge colonists...
...institutions which are good in themselves, it is liable to much abuse, and the members of societies ought to be extremely careful that they do not bring upon themselves public displeasure by such abuse. Societies gotten together for the sole purpose of the consumption of the juice of the grape are hurtful in the extreme; although they may give at the time some passing pleasure, yet their whole effect is necessarily abnormal and unproductive of any good results whatsoever. Let the society system be protected by all and saved from abuse, that it may remain in the public mind...