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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...programme of the Mott Haven games will consist of 100, 220. 440 yards, half-mile and one-mile runs, 120-yards hurdle-race, one-mile walk, running high and long jumps, pole-vaulting, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, two-mile bicycle-race, and tug-of-war for 600-pound teams...
...Bavaria to a young architect, he chained, was the advice we, of all nations, needed most to heed: "Build your spire first! The others will see to it that the nave does not remain unfinished"-advice the very reverse in purport of the popular maxim of "penny wise and pound foolish...
...gold medal valued at $100, and the events will be as follows. Running 100, 220, 440 and 880 yards, and 1 and 5 miles; 120 yards hurdle race 10 obstacles 3 feet 6 inches high; walking 1 mile; running high jump; pole vaulting; throwing the hammer and 56 pound weight, and putting the shot and Graeco-Roman wrestling...
...afraid of robbers. On the street he always wore the same cap and red neckerchief which served him in his last years, and in his pockets he carried crumbs with which to feed birds, of which he was very fond. If he had anything to carry, were it a pound of sugar from the grocery, white grapes for his favorite chickens, or his clean linen, it was always wrapped in a blue and white checked handkerchief of huge dimensions...
...pewter, an arrangement which saved breakage, and had the additional advantage that when the mugs and platters got bent out of all shape, the pewterer took them back as old metal, and a new stock of "dishes, sauces, and porringers" was laid in, the cost being ninepence-halfpenny a pound...