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There is a bad leak in the roof of Harvard Hall...
...brig Addie Benson has arrived at Provincetown, having on board the captain and fourteen of the crew of the ship Screamer, who had been rescued in mid-ocean from their life-boats, after the sinking of their ship from a leak...
...destroy all remembrance of former suffering and discomfort from cold rooms, in the minds of many occupants; and, consequently, complaints are beginning to be made of some minor discomforts and inconveniences arising from steam-heating. Complaint is made of the noise; and one Yale man writes: "They frequently leak all over the carpet, and they don't give the look of comfort to a room which a fire does. But the plan has its advantages: A room can be heated in a very short time, and the temperature regulated easily, though I have always noticed that the rooms heated...
Behold us at sea. The second day out the great American Humbug broke her screw, and also sprang a leak, because one of the side plates had not been properly fastened...
...Biler," sort of base-burning stove tipped over. Cylinders, like teapots. Driving-wheels about the size of the largest felt hat you would see in the College Yard. No cab; Bill "straddles" the rear of the "biler." No smoke stack. Leak handy. No bell or whistle; Bill probably "hollers" when he sees anything on the track. Whole made of pine-wood, newly shingled and lined in spots with tin. Name, "Sunny South." Rest of train, baggage and smoking (cards and whiskey) car, size of a royal octavo coffin; palace car, like an Irish jaunting...