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During the fire on Saturday, one of the Harvard men who were especially active in rescuing stoves, potatoes and children, was seen to enter the side room of a house, put a dent in his hat, place his scarf awry, and then emerge with a halo of courage and self-abnegation playing about his features...
...terrific wind storm prevailed at Leavenworth, Kansas, between 12 and 1 o'clock Saturday morning, and Mt. St. Mary's Academy, four miles south of the city, suffered terribly. The main tower was blown over on the dormitory, crushing in the roof, and killing a number of the children and wounding others...
...Mary Konig of Boston, in a fit of desperation at the desertion of her husband, yesterday killed two and severely wounded two others of her children, besides attempting her own life...
...Vienna special says: Further intelligence from Balta gives the details of the anti-Jewish riots there on the 11th inst. The town was destroyed and 6000 families are homeless, and children and adults are dying from starvation...
...after living two days in this apartment that the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot told his wife that to know the Butterfields was a liberal education. Phillpot's great trouble at home is that he cannot keep his own wash-rag; if the children get into the bath-room before him in the morning, they invariably use his wash-rag, and the consequence is that Phillpot's heart leaps for joy whenever he visits strangers and has a wash-rag all to himself; and then Phillpot has been strongly impressed by the portrait of Mrs. Butterfield over the mantel-piece...