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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fond of hunting and fishing, and in the season, Monticello never wanted for game while its master was at home. Monticello was not the home of his boyhood, but was inherited by him in his early manhood. The care of the estate was a pleasure to the young man and he showed the liveliest interest in the cultivation of the crops and the navigation of the river near which Monticello was situated. He took especial care, too, in keeping up his different account books-his farm book, his agricultural book, his weather book. There are many curious entries...
...remembered-is reached. The connection between these links is so slight sometimes as to be more amusing than impressive. To the reviewer's mind it takes a good memory to learn to remember according to the system here given. Its use seems more apparent in the education of the young, who generally do not need it, than for failing memories...
There is some danger that Roberts college, the American school at Constantinople, will be closed on account of the hostility of the grand vizier. His hostility is caused by his belief that the young Turks who are educated there go out into the world with very liberal ideas antagonistic to the government methods and theories...
...FRANK D. SOMERS, the tailor at 5 Park street, Boston is adding a large room in the rear of his present store, owing to the large increase in his business since opening the young men's department. The spring stock will be the finest ever imported, and the prices will be found only a trifle more than is charged for poor style and work. 10 per cent. reduction to all members of the university...
...poems and make his characters perfect representatives of the qualities they typify. Achilles, the type of heroic might, violent in anger and sorrow, capable also of chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable too his types of women-"Androwmache the young wife and mother who in losing Hector must lose all-Penelope loyal under hard trial to her long absent lord; the Helen of the Iliad, remorseful, clearsighted, keenly sensitive of any kindness shown her at Troy; the Helen of the Odyssey, restored to honor at her home at Sparta...