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...have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations seem to show that they came from the land of the rising sun, and found, in the country of the mound-builders, a hopelessly savage people. With the aid of the magic power which they drew from the sun, they gained complete control of the whole region, but they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation that even the divine power of the gods could not of itself raise them. When...
...said that many of our wise and enlightened legislators, in Congress assembled, cherish in secret a belief that the government of the United States has only to print on a piece of paper the magic sentence, "This is a dollar," to make that hitherto useless paper as valuable a measure of value and medium of exchange as the standard dollar of coin. It is in something of the same spirit that successive classes in Harvard College have voted "that the office of chaplain shall be considered as of more importance than before," and by this vote men of character...
Before the audience had ceased applauding this jeu d'esprit the band struck up "Old Dog Tray," and Diogenes, the famous prestidigitateur, entered the ring with his magic...
Overture, Don Giovanni. Vintage Song, Mendelssohn. Voyage, Mendelssohn. Titt'l's Serenade. Chorus of Priests, from the Magic Flute. On the Rhine waltzes, Keler Bela. Sleep, thou Wild Rose, Abt, Turkish March (probably), Mendelssohn; and solos for piano, flute, and violoncello...
Draws every heart within its magic powers...