Word: mender
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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George Gabriel of New Haven has left a will bequeathing $30,000 to his wife. At her death $15,000 of this sum will go to Yale College. Gabriel was an umbrella mender, and it was not supposed that he was worth any such amount of money...
...declaring journalism a profession in which the work is hard and disagreeable and the recompense is small, is the result of so many being in journalism who are wholly unfit for their positions. Some men, the writer thinks, can earn no more as a journalist than as a mender of roads. Thus ability and adaptability are as important here as in any of the other occupations. Able men are well paid; others do not earn good pay, and very naturally cry out against the profession. It might be added, too, that not a few, who say newspaper men are poorly...
...continued, was a religious and educational garrison, founded on English modes and governed by rigid rules. Punch and "flip" were forbidden, and any student out after 9 P. M. was "adjudged guilty of whatsoever disorder might occur in the town that night." At Harvard Mrs. Foster was made stocking-mender at a salary of pound 12. Students were allowed a pound of meat and a pint of beer at dinner, and a half-pint of beer at night. For supper they could choose between a half-pint of milk and a biscuit. They were given clean table-cloths twice...