Word: mounting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a little guide to Cambridge in general, and to Mount Auburn Cemetery in particular, published by Moses King. It contains a history and description of the cemetery, and many views of its monuments, and biographical notes of the noted people buried there. It is the only guide book of its kind now published. It has thirty-one illustrations, and in paper covers sells at thirty cents a copy...
...land opposite the Longfellow house, and to erect upon it a statue or other memorial to the memory of the poet. It is also designed by the association to buy the Longfellow house, should it ever leave the hands of its present owners, and keep it intact, as Mount Vernon is kept - as a living and unchanging reminder of the great poet. The association is conducted by men eminently well qualified for their position, both from their personal distinction and their long and close knowledge of Mr. Longfellow. The president is our present minister to England, James Russell Lowell...
...stories told at his expense. Here is the latest: He asked a clever young lady if there was not a river near Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...
...Mount Allison Academy in Nova Scotia was burned yesterday...
...what has since been called "Maquaso's Mount...