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...plot is of a rather more substantial character than that of most light operas. Don Manuel, the young and handsome Alcayde of Seville, is desperately in love with Farina, an orphan maid of lowly birth. As Farina is the ward of the Grand Inquisitor of Seville, it becomes necessary for Don Manuel to ask the consent of that pompous functionary before pressing his suit. The Inquisitor, however, has designs of a nuptial nature on Farina himself, and to put his rival out of the way he shows Don Manuel a prenuptial contract made with a fierce Moorish chieftain when...
...taken it will leave only the two blocks between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Sixteenth Streets of the plateau between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Park undisposed of. The remainder will be taken up by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which has the Leake and Watt's Orphan Asylum tract, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth Streets, and by St. Luke's Hospital, which last week purchased the block between One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fourteenth Streets. The property consists of a great ledge which will afford excellent foundations...
...Hill was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 7, 1818. His father was a tanner, and at one time served as judge of the court of common pleas. Dr. Hill was left an orphan at a very early age, and his success in after life was due entirely to his own efforts. When twelve years old he was apprenticed to a printer for three years. After he had served his term, he attended the Lower Dublin Academy near Philadelphia for a year, and then was apprenticed to an apothecary in New Brunswick for another twelvemonth. In 1839 he entered...
...whereas the authorities seemed satisfied with this meagre action, the students were and are not satisfied. Every time an orphan or insane asylum is burned down and a number of inmates become victims to the fiery element, the students in the tall dormitories tremble and sigh for better protection. As was said earlier in the year the staples nestling in the woodwork of the bedrooms fail to give complete confidence that a fire would not bring disastrous consequences. There fore, why should not the authorities jump at the chance to prevent fires entirely, since a ready means for so doing...
Girard College, Philadelphia, more properly called a training school for orphan boys, has an endowment...