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...long time after railroads became practical for travel there were no provisions for sleeping. People sat up or slept in. the floor filth. Then, in 1836 the Cumberland Valley R. R. of Pennsylvania built some bunks into a second-hand coach. Travelers could use the roller towel, basin and water provided in the rear of the car. It traveled between Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pa. Later innovations were straw ticks, blankets, cuspidors. Travelers used their carpet bags for pillows...
...This second-hand furniture business has now almost entirely disappeared because the university has adopted the policy of furnishing all the college rooms. The college has decided to furnish all of the college dormitories and will have nearly all of them equipped by next fall. This policy has brought about the expenditure of nearly $200,000, for chairs, tables, beds, desks, chiffoniers, bookcases, etc.,--the largest single furniture order, we believe, ever placed in New England...
...third novel Major Hamilton Gibbs has continued his struggle to put down on paper his reactions to our late friend,--the War. In "Labels" he has written what must be almost an autobiography, since its pages are too starkly intense to allow of much second-hand material...
...woman. The city agreed with Mr. Fippany, too. Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk dealer. He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing...
...second-hand copy of Bierwirth's "Beginning German" bears silent but eloquent witness to the spirit of progress in German A. On page 15, opposite the sentence where Anna is being introduced to Charles, there appears in the margin this comment: 'O Lord, how do you say this?" And on page 115, where Charles and Anna say they are not looking for anything but aren't you looking for something? the margin is illuminated by this note: "O mein Gott, wie sagt man dieses...