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...lover of nature or one interested in back-wood characters often fascinating. Mr. Bolles, as usual, gives the birds a good deal of attention and he seems to have been unusually lucky in seeing birds that we see here only once every half dozen years, siskins, pine grosbeaks, crossbills etc. His description of the logging camp is very good. The life of the loggers is not attractive though it would be interesting to accompany Mr. Bolles and study it for a day or two. Some of the back-wood customs are decidedly novel, for example we are told that...
...mechanical engineering building for the Yale Scientific School has been delivered by the contractors for occupation. The entrance of the building is the only part not yet finished. The furniture which is of cherry settees and large hard pine tables, have been put in and all the machinery for the mechanical department is in position and ready for immediate use. It is expected that the entrance will be completed in about two weeks, when the building will be formally opened...
...senior class of Dartmouth College has elected the following class day officers: class marshal, G. D. Price; assistant marshal, G. B. Coon; orator, E. B. McDuffee; address at tower, W. S. Brigham; address at the college pine, W. R. P. Emerson; class poet, M. P. Thompson; class prophecies, C. L. Weeks, old chapel address, H. E. Andrews; address to undergraduates, J. W. Putnam; campus address, W. S. Thompson; floor manager of commencement ball, F. W. Lakeman; address to the president, W. F. Gelger; address at Bema, Henry Folsom; chronicles, D. C. Bliss; commencement president, W. C. Belknap; secretary and treasurer...
...Cary building is finished throughout with hard pine and presents a neat and fresh appearance. The plastering has been colored a deep brown, which harmonizes with the rest of the building. Nearly every window is protected on the outside by an iron grating and an odd feature about them is that the sash slides up into the wall...
...beam 7 feet, draft 30 inches aft, 18 inches for ward, cockpit for and aft, accommodation for from fifteen to twenty passengers. The hull is made of white cedar planking, copper fastened throughout, but the keel, frames and waining are made of white oak. The decks are of white pine. The boiler is of sectional steel pipe tested to four hundred pounds hydraulic pressure. The engine can develope fifty horse power at six hundred revolutions. A speed of six teen miles continuously on a consumption of one hundred pounds of coal an hour is guaranteed. A light canvas awning stretched...