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BOSTON MUSEUM. - 7.45 P. M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. For the rest of the week, Boucieault's "Jeanie Deans; or the Heart of Midlothian," from Scott's novel...
...spectators soon tired of them. The pulling of the Seventh Regiment, Company B, was, as usual, the most scientific of any of the teams, and they secured easy victories over the teams from the Boston Fusiliers and the Chelsea Rifles. The drill of the Providence Bicycle Club was most novel and pleasing; but the polo on skates was not amusing; nor was the tennis, which was played in a court much shorter than the regulation length, thus preventing any skilful plays, as the contestants had all been practising in courts of the usual dimensions. The conduct of the crowd...
...Irish were in need of funds to help carry on the glorious work of exterminating, "bloated bond-holders," and that he (Mr. B.) could feel for the poor; Mr. Gl-dst-ne declared that Dizzy must be pensioned; his lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called for charity, though not for cash, and that, at any rate, he had shown up Thackeray to the world; whereupon Mr. F-lds called upon his lordship to retract the insult to that great novelist, saying that to slander his (F.'s) friend was to slander...
...Dean, on hearing himself mentioned, looked up from his novel and smiled affably. "Be seated, gentlemen," said he. "What will you take?" We took, and passed out. Not far from the Deanery was a five-story brick ice-house. In one end of this was confined an unhappy creature, loaded with chains. He sat on the remains of a dead and gone steam-radiator. Near by stood a tall clock which counted the hours of his captivity, except when he neglected to wind...
HINTS FOR HOME READING. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York, 1880. This book, we imagine, may do good in very illiterate families, that have never attained to higher reading than the dime novel or New York Weekly. The most valuable information in the volume is the quotation of Emerson's Three Rules of Reading, - beyond this there is little that is instructive. There is, however, much that is amusing. Henry Ward Beecher, for instance, advises all readers to shun history, as being little better than a fairy tale. Joseph Cook also makes many characteristic remarks in two papers that...