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...this green hill, a shrine...
...nation's birthday party, which should have been somewhat of an occasion, has been a flop. From its opening last May, amid the glory of Shrine rituals, the Sesquicentennial at Philadelphia has proved a grim burlesque. It is now dragging itself to a timely death and the chief, the only attraction which remains is the fact that a celebration of such low vitality could have so long endured; and even this wonder is is explained by the presence of contracts preventing an earlier closing...
...Rosenthal was, in fact, greatly respected by his friends in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was a member of the Olympic Lodge, Kismet Temple, Ancient Order of the Mystic Shrine of Brooklyn, and owned several tenements which he kept in exemplary repair...
...fortnight ago devout peasants, bourgeois, knelt for 100 miles on both low banks of the river between Warsaw and Rostkow, Poland. On a vessel proceeding slowly up the stream to the Catholic convention at Warsaw were two golden shrines encased in oaken caskets about which 200 priests busied themselves in continuous devotion. One shrine contained many bones of Stanislas Kostka, patron saint of Poland's youth. The other shrine housed his remaining bones which were presented to the Catholic Church at Zakroczyn, where the saint's uncle was a onetime governor...
Priestley. The ceremony to be performed in Chemist Priestley's memory at Northumberland, Pa., at the "shrine of American chemistry," was to include an address by Dr. Charles A. Browne, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry, on Priestley's life and work. Dr. Browne would tell of a somewhat indigent, stammering, nonconformist minister, born in Yorkshire in 1733, shifting about England from one small parish to another, teaching school besides preaching, and performing experiments of "natural philosophy" in makeshift laboratories. Extremely versatile, never idle, he learned all that his contemporaries knew about electricity and wrote...