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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which he was standing and Gooseberry neck. She was at the nearest point, from a quarter to half a mile away from him. Rupert made all the signals of distress that he could in his exhausted condition and Captain Snow saw them. But the Ridgeway had a deck load of empty barrels which the captain says would have been jeopardized if he attempted to lay to and lower a boat. And he passed on without any attempt to render assistance. Within a mile and a half of the rock upon which Rupert stood is a light ship attached to which...
...certainly written some of the prettiest bits of this sort which have appeared this side of the Atlantic. His contributions have appeared for years in the columns of the Argo, and the Acta has quickly fallen into step with him, so that now every issue brings its load of rondeaux and ballades. This fall Mr. Sherman has tried the rondel and huitain with more or less success, although now he seems to have reached his rope's end. The following is perhaps the best thing he has put out this year...
...steamer Cedar Grove, from England for Halifax, sunk off Canso, N. S., Wednesday night in the midst of a heavy gale, after striking a rock. A boat's load from the ship are missing...
...writes to the London times, appealing to the public for help to defray the cost of the defence of Arabi Pasha, as, he says, the trial has assumed the character of a great state inquiry, and his (Mr. Blunt's) financial back is not strong enough to bear the load...
...mayor's to get it off. There used to to be some knockers in college then. Two or three of them would tackle a whole crowd, and fight till they cleaned them out, or got laid out themselves. Once a few of them cleaned out a whole car-load of men and made the driver of the car turn around and go back to Cambridge on the same track he went in on. Stirring times then. We don't have any of them now. The fellows have toned down of late years. We don't have anything...