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This new official recognition, combined with a little necessary livening up in the mental attitude, gives every assurance that the ghost industry of Great Britain can hope in the near future to compete on equal terms with the Mayflower relic monopoly in America, and, with Pilgrim spoons and Pilgrim shoebuckles being dug up in every corner of the States from Orono to Texarkana, even the most ambitious ghost could not hope for a brighter business forecast...
...proposed expedition of scientists into the wilds of Patagonia to secure--"dead or alive"--the much-talked-of Plesiosaurus, the reported living relic of the--mesozoic age, has met with unexpected difficulties: the Argentine Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has taken a firm stand against any such desiccation of natural wonders. This stand has astonished not a few of our great American dailies which have been prone to ridicule it as the result of superabundant Latin sympathy for the feelings of the "saurus", who--having since before tertiary times led a life of untrammeled prehistoric ease...
...more equality of treatment; the passman does not fall into the slough of ignorant content which the English universities offer him. In the result the average man fares better than he does in England, while the progress of the man of genuine capacity is sacrificed to this doubtful relic of Jeffersonianism...
...carpers at Harvard's football schedule this year will have to take a back seat now that the schedules of the spring sports have been published. The talk of "olderdown" games will have to be a relic of the past, for contests have been arranged with some of the best teams of the East, not to speak of long southern trips to Annapolis and Charlottesville for the baseball team, Washington and Norfolk for the tennis team, and matches at Cornell for the crew and the lacrosse team...
...Ireland's behalf, it was seriously moved in the English House of Commons that a committee be appointed to investigate and report upon the American institution of lynching, while only this past week a Boston paper publishes a reprint from a French daily expressing astonishment and horror at this "relic of barbarism in America...