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...esteemed contemporary] for solution by the class in Freshman Physics : What velocity must a locomotive have to pick up a deaf man walking on the track and fling him so high that six cars pass before he comes down? A mother standing at the gate calls to her boy who is exactly sixty-eight feet distant. It takes two minutes and twenty-two seconds for the sound to reach him. - Find from this the velocity with which a woman's voice travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time; she has to kiss seven persons...
...interest : The youth who can use his hands well will rarely resort to a knife or a pistol, as the fist is much quicker than any concealed weapon, and, like the Irishman's shillelagh, never misses fire. The simple fact that boxing teaches self-reliance to a boy ought to be recommendation enough to paterfamilias, who should encourage his son to become proficient in the art of "hit, stop and get away." A broken head is soon remedied, but a cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust of a knife has cost many a life, and any one who resorts...
...Allen, LL. D., has been its president. His administration has been wonderfully successful. He still retains his place and influence at the ripe old age of seventy-four years. Mr. Girard defined an orphan as a white child whose father was dead. The mother who commits her fatherless boy to the care of this board may visit him or he may visit her once in six weeks; or she may never hear of him again till she reads his name in print as a lawyer, doctor, artist or member of Congress. Though no clergyman is welcomed to even enter...
...vociferous match-boy has come again with the pleasant weather and his renewed effrontery...
Officer Chiardi of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was a complainant in the Harlem Police Court recently against a little Italian boy named Giacinto Conzoni, whom he charged with picking cigar stumps and old tobacco quids from the streets. When the boy was asked by the magistrate what he did with the stuff, he said that he sold it to a man who made cigarettes and plug chewing tobacco of it. The boy was committed to the Catholic Protectory...