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...programme for this evening (Friday) is "Your Life's in Danger" and "The Follies of a Night." To-morrow afternoon (Saturday) will be presented the "Virginia Mummy" and the burlesque "Anne Boleyn." The Pierian will furnish more of that excellent music of which we so lately had a specimen at their concert...
BELOW is a specimen of orthography and geography at a recent examination for admission to Bowdoin College. The written papers on Geography contained the following: "Nare ganset," "Pernobscot," "Florady," "Mississuri," "Iterly." The Catskill Mountains were credited by one writer to Vermont; by another to Pennsylvania. The Alps to Asia, by a third. Berlin was set down as the capital of Spain; Geneva was transferred to Italy. The Rhine was said to flow into the Atlantic, the Danube into the Baltic. An example comes to our mind of a candidate for admission to Harvard College giving the width of the Amazon...
Bearing this statement in mind, and taking the specimen copy referred to above, together with the inference, evidently intended to be drawn, that all are of a similar nature, what kind of a set of examination papers would the writer in the Courant leave us to conclude are presented to candidates for admission to that beloved institution for which he is a champion? Undoubtedly the author has paid more attention to the sarcastic style in which his piece was written than to a fair and comprehensive discussion of his subject...
...other is a fine specimen of the skill of "The Master E. S., 1466," the earliest-known German engraver. Hardly known either, for it is uncertain what his family name was, and it is only supposed that he was the first to use a rolling press and make copper-plate engraving his occupation...