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...CONTEMPORARY asks, - "Is mumps singular, or are they plural?" Both. When you get mumps on both sides of your face at once, they are plural, but they make a person look singular. - Niagara Index...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...Professor Harman was explaining to a darkey in Piney Woods the cause of the eclipses of the sun and moon. Listening awhile, he exclaimed: "That's what they told me at home, but I did not believe them; for I thought if God created those things, he would make them run clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...Cambridge for Princeton Thursday evening, 13th inst., intending to play the New Haven professionals on Friday and the Princeton University Nine on Saturday. Owing to some difficulty in obtaining accommodations at New Haven, the men did not get a very good night's rest, and in consequence, did not make as good a display as they should have done in Friday's game. They were met in the morning by several of the Yale Nine, who very politely drove them about the city, showing them among other things their new boat-house, a very fine building which cost about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY GAMES IN NEW HAVEN AND PRINCETON. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...witty reply: "Then you would loudly asseverate that you know of no way in which anything comes into existence except by participation in its own proper essence, and consequently as far as you know, the only cause of 2 is the participation of duality; that is the way to make two, and the participation in one is the way to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHENIAN HIPPODROME. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...character "Clarence Fitts," colored servant, was taken by Mr. Millett, who was fully up to the standard in his impersonation and whose guitar-playing was a feature of the play. Mrs. Foxton was represented by Mr. Seamans, whose appearance on the stage was the signal for applause. His make-up was in excellent taste, and he certainly made a very handsome lady. Two fine bouquets were thrown to him from the audience on his first appearance. The other characters were very well impersonated, especially that of Miss Arabella Pepper, a part which Mr. Lyon took with great success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEATRICALS. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »