Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notorious gang of Irish thieves and highwaymen have had their nefarious schemes brought to light in the Cork assizes...
...void for unreasonableness, such unreasonableness must be demonstrably shown. It must be plainly and palpably unreasonable; in prosecutions to force or apply by-laws, courts will give them a reasonable construction with a view to sustaining them; the rule or by-law in question, viewed by the light of the circumstances and the law applicable in such cases, cannot be declared void for unreasonableness; the matter sought to be stricken out, and which, for the purpose of the motion to strike out, must be taken as true, does not render the rule in question invalid, nor have any legal effect...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan 19, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, light rain or snow, followed by partly cloudy weather; southerly to westerly winds and lower barometer; slight rise in temperature...
...owned by a Boston gentleman, who is said to have paid $25.000 for them. The largest one is a characteristic sketch by Detaille, a group of soldiers, a scene in the late Franco-Prussian war. The first feature that one remarks in the picture is the beautiful play of light. Although the coloring does not affect one favorably, yet the fine draughting and grouping of the figures show the masterhand of the man, who, with De Neuville, leads this branch of the French school. The second is one of De Neuville's, a much smaller picture, equally attractive both...
...students of smaller American colleges. At Cambridge an undergraduate's apartments consist of three large chambers, with a small pantry. The main room is a fine, airy place in which breakfast and luncheon are served by a private servant. Attached to this room is the little pantry, used for light working and storage. Two other rooms open out of the main apartment; they are about ten by fourteen, one employed as a study and the other as a bed chamber. A recent writer says of life at an English college, that it is intellectually far stronger than that...