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...claims for expenses connected with the illness of Gen. Garfield have yet been presented, although the time for filing them has expired Judge Taylor, Chairman of the committee on claims, says that none of the physicians will receive $50,000 as reported. He thinks that $10,000 ought to be paid to Bliss...
...person orders toast, for instance, he cannot have warm toast, instead of some stuff that tastes as if it had been toasted several days before? Why is it that if a person happens to arrive a few minutes after half-past-five he has to eat cold vegetables or none? And why is it that if a person orders a steak, or some griddle-cakes, they come up either burnt to a crisp, or not half done? It seems to me that either we should have new cooks, or else those in our employ should have a special superintendent appointed...
...Nation pays the following high compliment to a Harvard professor: "Prof. Paine has written a considerable number of works for the concert stage, among them an oratorio, a mass, two symphonies and a concert overture; but none of these, in our opinion, equal in originality of conception and scholarly treatment his music to Sophocles' tragedy, which to our taste is the most finished specimen of musical workmanship produced in this country. . . Prof. Paine's music is his own. It has individuality of style, and his themes impress themselves on the memory at once, and gain a beauty by repeated hearing...
...making themselves conspicuous in the eyes of the public, a few comments clipped from the columns of the Boston papers may be of interest to our readers. Nearly all are of the opinion that it was a good joke, and nothing more. The Herald of Wednesday morning said: "None of the Harvard boys made any disturbance upon entering. All sat quietly throughout the lecture, and, save by their absurd dress, they were a credit to the audience. . . . The intention of the immature young persons from the Harvard freshman class to disturb the lecture by appearing in the midst...
...that the principal part should be delivered in Greek and the rest in English, seems but a poor and incongruous imitation of the manner in which our English tragedies have been lately represented by Rossi and Salvini. In their case there was some excuse, but in this we see none. Mr. Riddle would become as notorious, and make as much sensation by reading his lines in English as in Greek, and, moreover, would not give any ground for the charge of affectation. Since this manner of conglomerating languages seems to have become so popular on the American stage, we shall...