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...extension of the limits of the great dictionary of the English Philological Society, which will now much exceed Littre's famous work. The work, it is well known, is under the editorial charge of Dr. Murray, and he has thirty able scholars as assistants. Beside these, more than one thousand readers in the English speaking world have assisted in gathering quotations from every important book in the language. Prof. March of Lafayette College has been the American editor. An exceedingly interesting history can some day be written of this great enterprise-the greatest perhaps of its kind the world...
...York at 12 o'clock last night. Hart of Boston deposited his entrance fee of $1000 at the last moment, and was allowed to enter. It is expected that this race will be the greatest on record, as four of the contestants have beaten Rowell's time. Many thousand people witnessed the start...
...University of Pensylvania has over a thousand students. Plans are now being made for a new library building, with lecture and reading rooms, and it is endeavoring to secure from the State a new museum and an observatory...
...Wilde: I read with shame about the behavior of those ruffians at Rochester at your lecture there. When I see such things here in the civilized portion of my country, and read the coarse comments of the Phillistine press, I feel like thanking God that my home lies three thousand miles further on, and in what is called the wilderness. Should you get as far as Oregon in your travels, go to my father's. You will find rest there, and room - as much land as you can encompass in a day's ride, - and I promise you there...
...will furnish a direct line to Boston, and when extended, as it is proposed eventually to do, will include Brookline, Somerville, Charlestown, and other suburban towns. It is said that there is not travel enough to sustain two roads. There certainly ought to be in a city of fifty thousand inhabitants; and if there is not, then let the one survive which gives the most to its patrons for their money. Nowhere was competition in horse-railroads better illustrated than at the time of the formation of the Highland Railroad Company. The Metropolitan had almost entirely disregarded the numerous petitions...