Word: russia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Edwin W. Stoughton, ex-United States Minister to Russia, and a prominent lawyer of New York, died Saturday...
...said that nearly every woman in Russia, no matter what her rank, carries a cigarette case. Now and then the stranger is surprised by a pretty girl asking him for a light...
This report conflicts to some extent with one which has just reached here, viz., that instead of shipping Boylston to Russia it is to be painted red, white, and blue, and put up at the World's Fair, in which General Grant is to receive his callers and presents. The latest despatch comes from New York, saying that O'Beery has offered to give away a debt of $2,000, incurred at the last walking-match, to any man who can smooth off the blocks of Boylston in 365 consecutive days. Two men have entered, the Chinese professor and Connors...
...time and then rest for two, so as to nerve themselves for the next minute. Under the workingmen velvet was to be placed, so as to keep the chips from falling on the lawn and ruining it. At midnight they were to be carefully removed and shipped to Russia, where they were to be fastened together by a new sticking-plaster just invented by a Freshman...
Much time was then consumed in a debate upon the constitution, submitted by a committee composed of Roscoe C-nkl-ng, the Czar of Russia, and Mr. P-rnell. The frigid one in the corner, who had hitherto been silent, declared that it was too arbitrary, and also inconsistent with the popular manners of the Club. Dizzy thought that it might injure Turkey's influence in the English cabinet, or even pacify the Boers; and W-m Ang-ll H-vey of the Transcriber was very much averse to any measure that might increase the duty upon Hamburg edgings...