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...cafe where he can smoke, drink and play cards. He remains in his room as little as possible, as it is always uncomfortable and generally uninhabitable. If not at a cafe he is sure to be at some brasserie. The brasseries can be described briefly as cafes of the lowest character. Then, again, there is the masked ball, where the students congregate Thursday and Saturday nights - not only to make fools of themselves but to commit the grossest excesses. Refinement seems to be banished by common consent from the Latin Quartier, and to one who has determined to reside there...
PRICES.The aim of the society is to supply its members with goods at the lowest possible prices, subject only to the addition of a slight percentage to cover expenses. As the price of each book and every article of stationery is determined, relatively to the ordinary retail price, by the terms of the various agreements that have been made by the superintendent with the firms by whom we are supplied, it would require a detailed statement of these prices to show the exact advantage of the members of the society over other persons...
...other stores, so that instead of the exhorbitant prices which prevailed before the foundation of the society, and which in part led to it, there has actually prevailed among the retail dealers of stationery in Cambridge a rivalry as to which should sell these articles at the lowest price...
...Boston papers sold at Memorial, the Herald has the largest circulation, about sixty, including morning and evening editions, being sold each day. The Advertiser comes next, with a sale of thirty. The Journal and Transcript sell the next largest number, while the Globe and Traveller are the lowest on the list. In Cambridge the sale of Globes is smaller than that of any other Boston daily...
...population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose one of those mushroom mining towns, where every other house is a saloon, and every saloon has a faro bank; where "shooting scrapes" average five, and "hands up" twenty, a week, and the lowest wages paid are $5 a day. Of course, I went at once to Bodie...