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...Globe - Tar and Tartar...
...Some Views of Acting" by Salvini express his views of emotionalism in dramatic are, his divergeuce from Coquelin's "mechanism" and sympathy with living's feeling of his part. "Franklin in Allegory" owes its chief interest to illustrations of old prints, "Laurels of the American Tar in 1812" is also lavishly industrated...
...needs further education. It is popularly supposed that all green papers are dangerous, and that all others are safe. In consequence, arsenical green papers have become unsaleable, and great care is taken to have them safe. A brilliant red dye has, however, been discovered, which is made from coal tar by the use of arsenic, and this enters into the composition of Pompeian red and various browns, where its use would be least suspected. Arsenic is also used to brighten other colors, and as an antiseptic in the size. Since the arsenic gets into the paper in such various ways...
Yale held a grand celebration over its victory over Princeton day before yesterday. The students marched around the campus, nine hundred strong and erected a huge bon-fire of tar barrels...
...been suggested that whereas the most objectionable feature of bonfires is the stealing of wheelbarrows and ladders to feed the flames, the corporation should erect a magazine and stock it with tar barrels and kindling wood for this purpose...