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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...overflow of the Mississippi is much more serious than at first thought. Fifty thousand people are destitute, and $100,000 has been appropriated for the alleviation of their suffering...
Intelligence has been received at Panama of an appalling earthquake in Costa Rica. Advices thus far received state that four towns have been destroyed. These are Alajuela, San Ramon, Grecia and Kerdia. In Alajuela alone several thousand lives were lost. Those left alive there are homeless...
...college, has increased in value, so that it yields annually in rents $800,000, and it is constantly growing more productive. The college grounds contain 41 acres, with about 40 distinct buildings for the use of the pupils, including a chapel, dormitories and laboratories. More than one thousand orphans are here instructed, fed, clothed and cared for in every particular by the various officers of the college. They are taken at the early age of six years, some of them ignorant of the alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places...
...Eighteen thousand persons have been made destitute by the floods in the State of Mississippi alone...
...opera house at New York is to have a capital of one million fifty thousand dollars, divided among seventy-five shareholders. Each shareholder has a box but will have to pay the regular price of admission. The interior will resemble the European opera houses. There will be three tiers of boxes. The seating capacity will be three thousand, and there will be room for five hundred more admissions. The stage will be the largest in New York, allowing seven hundred performers to assemble at one time...