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Notwithstanding we have several lantern-jawed seniors, no member of '83, in having his pictures made, has emulated the example of 82's most striking case of attentuatedness. When this physically thin individual sat for negatives, he stuffed his cheeks with cotton, in order to give himself a fictitious appearance of a homo vivus and to remove the suspicion that his photograph was the picture of a skeleton clad in senior clothes...
...manner of living of the farming population of North Carolina, and kept the audience in continual good humor with his apt word pictures. "No other people in the world," he said, "have developed so far the art of resting." Manufactures are rapidly increasing in importance, especially those of cotton, iron, steel and lumber. In North Carolina alone there are 40,000 square miles of forest as yet untouched. This amount is exceeded in Florida and Georgia, and equalled in Alabama and Mississippi...
...necessity for keeping up those manufactures, gradually brought about the policy of protection, which culminated in the tariff of 1828. To illustrate the subject, Mr. Taussig, in the three succeeding chapters, gives historical accounts of the three most important branches of industry to which protection has been applied - cotton, woollens and iron. In the final chapter is a summing up of the results of the investigation and their application to the subject in hand. "Although, therefore, the conditions existed under which it is most likely that protection to young industries may be advantageously applied, . . . little, if anything, was gained...
Prof. Cooke in his chemical lecture to the freshmen yesterday, performed some interesting experiments with gun-cotton, gunpowder, dynamite...
...steamer Hudson from New Orleans was on fire at her dock in New York yesterday morning. The vessel, and her cargo of cotton, molasses, etc., were damaged to the amount...