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From the trustees of the Mary Hemenway estate, has been received an original ancient Mexican manuscript on native agave paper, date 1531. It is especially valuable as being one of but three extant. The drawings and text are the work of the native interpeter or scribe, officially employed by the Spaniards to draw up grants of land, deeds of transfer, etc. The text is in Nahuat or Mexican language, written in Spanish characters, and refers to the appointment of an alcalde to a certain village and the determination of its boundaries...
...Drama of Scribe and his school...
...sporting reporter has pointed out to him a 'varsity stroke, or third-base, or half-back, who has failed in the recitation room; whereupon the news-hungry scribe immediately writes up two or three columns on the proverbial stupidity, of oarsmen, base-ball and football players. Since the great professional, Renforth died in his boat, ten years and more ago, the material for a sudden death article has not been wanting...
MLLE. BERNHARDT has wisely decided to finish out her engagement in Boston, notwithstanding the dramatic scribe of last Tuesday's Echo, who damned her with faint praise, and gave the world to understand that she has no genius...