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...hydraulic principle, but has but one cylinder for all four men instead of one cylinder for each of four men, as is usual on hydraulic rowing machines. The two bow men pull on one yoke, and the two stern men on another. These yokes are pivoted on a cross head to the piston. By this arrangement the two bow men and the two stern men must pull exactly alike. It can be seen whether they take the stroke at the same time and pull alike...
...always a profit, and generally a good one. Teaching is a much more remunerative business in England than in America. The master's salary will ordinarily range from $1200 or $1500 a year to $7000 or $8000. No one knows exactly what the income of a successful house or head master is, for he is paid not a salary by a board of trustees, but in fees and perquisites. But well-informed Englishmen credit the head master of Eton with an income of $15,000 a year, and probably it is not less in the case of the head master...
...only serious complaint is that the service in the dining room is not as good as it should be, that some of the waiters are careless and others incompetent. I must say that it seems to me very heroic treatment to decapitate the steward when a change of head waiter may cure the trouble, when indeed it looks very much as if such a change had already very considerably lessened the evil. The hall is so much better now than under the steward who held office when I first joined the Dining Association, that I cannot look forward with...
Toddlekins (compassionately): - "'Shat so, P'fessor? 'Pon m'soul, sir, 'fraid that's very bad sign. Only makesch my head ache. Try Poll'narish, sir." - [Chaff...
...Head money...