Word: plaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...optical parts of the telescope are three-the eye-piece, the object glass, which is twelve inches in diameter and a plain mirror of eighteen inches in diameter, set in front of the object glass. Focal length is sixteen and a half feet. The telescope tube is rested permanently upon two stone piers, one near each end, and twelve feet apart. About five feet of the length of the tube projects into the observatory building and the remainder is out of doors...
...well as the superintendence of its erection to him. The machines have been selected with a wise consideration for the class of patronage which an open-air gymnasium will receive. The list includes chest weights, high and low pulleys, balance swings, breast bars, set, standing and double swings, plain ropes, rope ladders, crossrope ladder, rings, single trapeze, long plain ropes, standing and inclined ladders, climbing, slanting, and standing poles, giant stride, quoits, vaulting poles, hammers, shots and heavy weights for "throwing" and "putting." The idea is a progressive one, and deserves the success it will doubtless meet...
After describing the architrave, metopes, triglyphs and frieze, Dr. Wheeler touched upon the peculiar feature of the architecture of the temple known as the horizontal curves. The cellar is raised two steps above the floor of the outer colonnade. Above the columns of the cellar the ordinary plain architrave is found, but rising above this is a continuous frieze, unbroken by metopes. This frieze is sculptured along its entire length...
...LOST-A plain gold ring. Finder please leave at Leavitt and Peirce...
...Ingersoll Bowditch, a well known resident of Jamaica Plain, died at his residence last Thursday. Mr. Bowditch was well known in scientific circles and published several editions of "Bowditch's American Navigator." In 1849 Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M., and in 1886 at the 250th anniversary added the higher degree...