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...goes at the rate of fourteen miles an hour. In the afternoon embark on a steamboat which makes between fifteen and sixteen miles an hour. (These statistics I glean from time-tables, which I studied carefully before leaving Christiania.) On board the steamboat I talk affably to the passengers around me. They are very good listeners, but no conversationalists. They say nothing to me, but only smile and shake their heads. Finally I ask a gray-haired man the name of the lake on which we are sailing. He replies thoughtfully, "Most always on Sunday." I repeat my question, thinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

Dress, white tights, orange and black bands around knees; stripped to the waist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGATTA WEEK AT SARATOGA. | 10/2/1874 | See Source »

Pouring vigor and life all around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODE. 1874. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

...Tyro, for the benefit of curious readers: "It appears that at Vassar College there is one day in the week called "Onion Day,' on which all the ladies indulge in raw onions, as a health promoter. It requires upwards of fifteen bushels of this high-toned esculent to go around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

...present case. The old gentlemen and middle-aged females who object to tobacco on principle seldom find their way into Lower Massachusetts; and it is safe to say that not one in a hundred of those who do frequent the room really dislike to have tobacco smoke around them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE READING-ROOM. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »