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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...published in a series of Annals, and now fill thirty quarto volumes. The preparation of these volumes occupies a large part of the force at the observatory in Cambridge. Besides this labor, a large amount of observation is done there, several instruments being kept in constant use. The largest of these are the fifteen-inch and six-inch equatorial telescopes, the eight-inch transit circle, the eleven-inch Draper photographic telescope, the eight-inch photographic telescope, and the meridian photometer...
...England reptiles include the tortoises, snakes and batracians but there are no lizards or crocodiles. There are about ten different species, of batrachians of which the largest is a kind of salamander. These creatures feed on animal food and lay their eggs in the water...
...largest of the frogs is the bullfrog, which begins life as a tadpole. When small, they live entirely on vegetable food, but when older they devour insects, which are caught by means of their long tongues covered by a sticky fluid. There are also the spring frogs, leopard frogs, and marsh frogs, all much alike, but characterized by difficult markings. The wood frog lives on land, and is difficult to catch except when it goes to the water to lay its eggs...
...annual spring elections of the borough were held last week. Great interest was manifested by the members of the university in these elections, as the issue was whether or not permission to run a trolley line through Princeton should be given. The faculty and students formed the largest part of the conservative party which was opposed to the trolley, and to them is due the large majority opposed to the project. Princeton, situated as it is in a small town, has always been known as a rural university, and it was feared that with the electric railway would come industries...
Spaldings "League Guide" for 1895 has just been issued. It is the largest and most attractive edition of the Guide ever issued. The book has a new departure in its make-up in several new chapters, one of which is the record of every game played in the League championship arena during 1894, giving the name of each of the opposing pitchers in each contest. It is made specially attractive, too, by its pictorial contents, which include group pictures of all the League teams of 1894, with other champion teams outside the League. The articles on pitching, batting, fielding...