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Between 10 and 11 o'clock the schooner Alice M. Ridgeway, Captain Snow, from New Bedford, passed between the rock on which he was standing and Gooseberry neck. She was at the nearest point, from a quarter to half a mile away from him. Rupert made all the signals of distress that he could in his exhausted condition and Captain Snow saw them. But the Ridgeway had a deck load of empty barrels which the captain says would have been jeopardized if he attempted to lay to and lower a boat. And he passed on without any attempt to render...
...purpose of having them bound over to keep the peace; also, he was about to order a coffin immediately, in which to keep the pieces when the machine went off. The student, when the man had got far enough along in his story to propose a visit to the nearest life insurance office, remarked that there was only one explanation for the curious phenomenon - his chum kept a dog which was in the habit of laying in the corner of the room, near the wall, and the wagging of his tail against the foot-board probably produced the mysterious noise...
...struggle to decide what profession to select; they are born with a genius for some specially, whether it be for law or art or invention. But these are few. Most of our young men have to choose that for which they seem most fit, or which lies nearest at hand. But the training for specialties is to be put off; life is too varied to permit of being all devoted to the study of one specialty. A wider range of knowledge should be entered upon and pursued until the last moment that can be spared from beginning the special training...
...Friday night was discovered by a roundsman on Main street. Noticing through the side-lights of the operating room the reflection of a bright light, he forced open the door and saw the flames breaking through the partition that separated the "dark room" from the reception room. The nearest box was at the junction of Main street and Putnam avenue; but for some reason he was unable to open this, and much time was consumed while he made his way to Harvard square. There is little doubt but that the fire was caused by an overheated stove in the dark...
...every person in the great congregation, assembled to do honor to the memory of so good and great a man; and, secondly, the presentation of so appropriate a tribute of the love and esteem in which Dr. Walker was held by one of his parishioners, who considered him the nearest to perfection of any man she ever...