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...ancient Romans. The collection is excellent, as showing the progress of the Roman art of coinage, and though not as complete as could be desired is still very instructive. The coins are all well preserved. The most interesting coins in the collection are specimens of the as: The oldest is placed at the date 400 B. C. It weighs six ounces, is worth, intrinsically, about ten cents and is made of copper. Half a dozen of them would make a pocketful of change, and if one had occasion to carry five dollars' worth of as's about a horse...
...plain cases which contain these literary rarities. Perhaps the most valuable and most incomprehensible to the majority of visitors are the Biblical manuscripts. There are about ten in one case, not the least of which cost three hundred francs. They range from the eighth to the seventeenth century. The oldest purports to be of the eighth century, and, "if so, is the oldest manuscript on the American continent." The majority are pictured manuscripts, and the gorgeousness of illustration is indescribable. Especially notable is the diversity of colors. Indeed, the chief aim of the artists seems to have been to produce...
Luther Roby of Concord, N. H., the founder of the New Hampshire Statesman, and probably the oldest printer in the State, died yesterday, aged...
...Ohio University is the oldest educational institution west of the Ohio. Its charter was given in 1804, and it began operations in 1809. The income consists chiefly of rents derived from the university lands. A recent increase has been made in the rents, which is equivalent to an additional endowment...
...annual dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi society was held last night in Boston. The Alpha Delta Phi is the oldest and one of the most honorable of the college Greek-letter societies. Established in 1832, it celebrated its semi-centennial last year. It is established in about twenty of the leading colleges of the country, and numbers among its members who take an active part in the society, some of the most prominent clergymen, lawyers, professors, journalists, and other professional men in the country. The annual dinners attract large numbers of members, of whom there are more than...