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Next March, Turkey's old and clumsy system of weights and measures gives way to the metric system. The unit of the new system is called the archius, and is equal to the French metre...
...gifts of Mr. George I. Seney, of Brooklyn, to Wesleyan University now amount to $550,000, and he proposes to give $100,000 more, on condition that an equal sum be raised to increase the endowment...
...show great ability with little material. There are heads without number, ideal, real, wise and otherwise. "A Saucy School Girl," by S. R. Burleigh; an "Ideal Head," by Fowler, and a weird, strangely effective, but well executed study called "Astarte," by F. W. Freer, and many others of equal merit. Passing across the common, one comes to Doll & Richards'. Here, on entering, one sees a beautiful exhibition of Chelsea faience. Going up stairs one finds a fair collection of paintings, a pleasant relief from the black and white exhibit just left. Among the most noticeable, are a saloon picture...
...kept pace with equal feet...
...last chorus is generally acknowledged to be one of the best, if not the very best. It reminds one of a certain Song without Words of Mendelssohn, the fifth in the third book, but it does not suggest plagiarism, rather an equal and similar inspiration. The dramatic effect renders it a "worthy culmination to all that has gone before...