Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is much rejoicing at Pittsburg, Pa., over the amicable adjustment of the iron-worker's troubles. All the mills will resume operations on Monday next...
Amasa Stone, the founder of Adelbert College, and prominently connected with railway and iron interests throughout the country, committed suicide at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, while temporarily insane...
...were a number of copper ornaments, arrowheads composed of different substances, terra cotta images illustrative of the dress and appearance of the people, plates of mica, specimens of native gold and silver, sea shells, hatchets, together with the bones of various animals, and, above all, several specimens of meteorie iron, which are the first ever discovered in these mounds. By the aid of the stereopticon Dr. Putnam was enabled to represent a number of these curious relics upon the canvass, which with the drawings of mounds lent no little additional attractiveness to the lecture...
...length and 46 feet in width. The westerly wing of the building is to be used for special students and professors conducting experiments of great delicacy, and requiring the greatest accuracy. Every precaution will be taken to ensure the complete isolation of the piers carrying the sensitive instruments. Iron in any shape will be rigidly excluded from the rooms where experiments in magnetism are conducted. The central portion will be used for recitation rooms for students and for cabinets containing instruments. The easterly wing will contain a lecture room, a laboratory, and cabinets for storing instruments. Above the basement...
...manner of living of the farming population of North Carolina, and kept the audience in continual good humor with his apt word pictures. "No other people in the world," he said, "have developed so far the art of resting." Manufactures are rapidly increasing in importance, especially those of cotton, iron, steel and lumber. In North Carolina alone there are 40,000 square miles of forest as yet untouched. This amount is exceeded in Florida and Georgia, and equalled in Alabama and Mississippi...