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...subject of Professor Hall's lecture in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last evening was "The History and Theory of the Steam Engine." The lecture was illustrated by stereopticon views and drawings. The history of the steam engine was traced from the early age down to its present state of perfection. Two hundred years before Christ, a primitive steam engine was used by priests to perform miracles. It took eighteen hundred years to make any advance from this apparatus...
Edward Augustus Freeman, the celebrated historian, died in Spain last Wednesday of small pox. He was born in 1823, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, at the age of 22, and since devoted himself to literature, his greatest work being the "History of the Norman Conquest of England...
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...well-to-do burgess and it is probable that his education was the best that the Stratford grammar school could afford. When only 18 years of age he married a woman eight years his senior, the daughter of a farmer who lived in the country near Stratford. Three children were born to them, Suzanna and the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet, the similarity of whose name to that of "the Dane" will at once be noticed, was Shakspere's only son and it is probable that the father's affections were strongly centred on him. However, he died when only...
Geological Conference. Papers by Mr. S. Berry, "The Age of the Cincinnati Anticline"; Mr. A. P. Brigham, "The Lower Helderberg Group"; Dr. T. W. Harris, "The Apexes of Folds." Geological Laboratory...