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...that it is now no uncommon thing to find half the editorial space in a morning journal, or a long article in a leading review, devoted to the last kaleidoscopic change in a European cabinet, or indeed among European nations. Unless the reader, anxious to keep himself posted on current events, is quite well acquainted with the different forms of government in use in different countries, he soon becomes hopelessly entangled among Gallicans, Legitimists, and Republicans; a vote of want of confidence leaves him as unsettled as it does the cabinet against whom it is directed, and even the Sublime...
...tastes and interests to be eternally at war, it really seems a pity that we have not yet adopted that admirable feature of Greek polity, - ostracism. It is my fortune to be a member of a certain society, in its elegance and refinement truly Attic, or, to use the current slang of the days of the Regent, "perfectly Corinthian." I need not say that I refer to that well-known organization, the R. E. T., - Rapid Eaters of Tarts. We have occasional meetings, at which are performed certain mysterious rites, which no earthly power could ever persuade me to divulge...
...good on the whole. We find in it an interesting account of the invention of a new process of telegraphy. Professor Bell, of Boston University, is the inventor, and "he is able to transmit the sounds of the human voice by means of induced vibrations in an electric current. The pitch and quality of the voice and the sounds of the vowels are transmitted perfectly, and part of the consonants are so distinct as to be easily recognizable. The Professor brought out an invention last fall by which writing might be transmitted in fac-simile characters by telegraph...
DRIFTING alone with the current, one is not apt to notice the progress he is making, to see clearly where his journey is to end, or towards what shoals and snags his boat is directed. Here in college we have been drifting along in this manner, we have not stopped to think over how far we have gone; and now when a voice from the bank utters a timely warning, and points out to us o r real condition, we are startled...
...young officers who are now in Cambridge, its cost being estimated at $25,000. The fees from the students in the University amounted to $168,541.72, $102.884.78 coming from the College. I think that the rents are included in the income from property, which was $218,715.30. The current year will show a large increase from the students, which will counteract the diminution of income from the depression of business...