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Yesterday afternoon the balls of Cambridge tolled forth the sad news of the death of Henry W. Longfellow. The poet departed this life at a quarter past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at his residence on Brattle street. He was born at Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807. He prepared himself for college at the public schools of his native city, and entered Bowdoin at the age of fourteen. Having taken the usual course of four years he graduated in 1825, and for some time devoted himself to the study...
...objects very smartly because we say "to the manner born," instead of "to the manor born" (we suppose). "Such is culture," it says. The Era is, we fear, a little too previous. We do not care to discuss questions of Shakespearean text-interpretations in these columns, and we will only refer the Era to the discussions of the best critics on this matter, and it will see that we have plenty of justification (besides all common sense, etc.,) to sustain us in this reading...
...leaves a widow and six children, the oldest of whom is sixteen years of age. Nothing is known as yet as to what arrangements will be made for his funeral, but it is probable that his body will be embalmed and sent to China for interment. Prof. Ko was born in 1838, and consequently was forty-four years old at the time of his death...
...This is doubly impressed upon his mind by his life in public schools, and finally becomes a very part of himself. He is taught to believe that the only requisite to success is education, and that in this country there is no such thing as being to the manner born. This feeling of personal independence is one of the most marked distinctions of the American mind, and its absence in the poorer and even middle classes of other countries is well known by every student of foreign character. It is, then, because of this that the vast majority of Americans...
...baby elephant has been born to the elephant Queen of Barnum's circus, at Bridgeport, Conn...