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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal as well as a spiritual being, the element of humor evolved by the contrast puts the heroic out of countenance. That old story fathered upon Cromwell, of his being found on his knees by a Puritan preacher whom he told he was 'seeking the Lord,' when in fact he was seeking the corkscrew which had dropped under the table, is a good illustration of what I mean. In life, as in a meanly...
...PAUL'S SCHOOL CLUB.- The annual dinner will be held at the Thorndike at 7 p. m., on Wednesday, May 2. Every old St. Paul's man in college is urged to sign the book at Leavitt and Peirce's before Monday next, at 12 m. Price per plate...
...committee on the revision of football rules held another meeting Saturday in New York. It was decided not to adopt the new system of scoring which has been proposed but to retain the old system without change...
...been fused into the glowing amalgam. In the experiments made for casting Big Ben, the great bell for the Westminster tower, it has been found that the superstition that it was the presence of silver in larger proportion which gave the remarkable sweetness of tone to certain of the old bells had no foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with which the ordinary metals were balanced one against the other, and the perfection of form and the nice gradations of thickness that wrought the miracle. And it is precisely so with the language of poetry. The instinct...
Demipho, an old man, Henry E. Burton...