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...Story. On board a liner bound for San Francisco from London, in 1851, were 50 miscellaneous orphans in charge of Miss Charlotte Smith, a young English spinster. The ship also contained one O'Malley, inebriate doctor, a Scotswoman named Jean, some scoundrelly sailors and many others who would doubtless have been relevant to this account had not God broken that ship in half, tipping all its wretched occupants into an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean...
...gold in California, when Longfellow wrote poetry in Cambridge and carpenters got 16 dollars a day; when Choctaw Indians came to Christ and dying John Calhoun, his eyes like fetch candles, stood up to speak in the U. S. Senate, there came to these shores a middle-aged Swedish spinster who had written novels. Her friend Hawthorne said that she was worthy of being the maiden aunt of the whole human race; at all events her name, Frederika Bremer, forgotten now, was then known in every house. Here and there she visited, met most of the famed people...
...hero becomes governor of an island and defies any one to take from him the woman he loves. Nobody tries. The curtain falls. The Steam Roller rolls blunderingly through three acts in the form or an inexpertly written part for Janet Beecher. Miss Beecher plays an imperious and exhausting spinster whose lover went away to China years ago. In point of fact, his affections remained at home with her sister, an item which the audience learns on his return in the first act. For the rest of the evening, he drums up courage to beard the spinster lion and does...
...banns have been published of John Daniel II and Jenny Lind, spinster. Mr. Daniel is a native of French Gabon and Miss Lind was born in Kevu. The marriage is to take place in London, where Miss Lind was taken by her guardian, Professor T. Alexander Barnes, as soon as Mr. Daniel, who is now on the high seas, returns from his visit to the U. S. with his chaperon Miss Alice Cunningham...
...noble-frank esteem for the 'Herr Professor,' veneration for intellectual, spiritual labor, respect and love for learning." Heidelberg today. "Students are nowhere to be seen. True, faded corporation-caps and banners are still pinned to the restaurant walls. But they are dead relics-withered blossoms in a spinster's chamber. Of course, Heidelberg is still full of young men who attend lectures at the University. But they are not 'students' in the old-time sense; they are no longer the pampered children of the town, who may do everything, to the everlasting enjoyment of everybody...