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...society, has a number of stories told at his expense. Here is the latest: He asked a clever young lady if there was not a river near Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...
...bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list came up yesterday in the Senate, and was laid over...
...Yale News proposes that to vary the monotony of the present system of study, a one-hour lecture be held on the matter contained in some one of the best New York morning papers, in place of the ordinary recitations. The News editor maintains that as a good newspaper is the best common educator known, with a competent man to discuss the various topics in the paper, no better training in the science of government and foreign policy, and in modern and contemporaneous history and literature could possibly be obtained. He also holds that such a course of lectures would...
...feature of watering-place hotels next summer will be "sun-parlors," built of glass and exposed to the rays of the sun on all sides...
...bicycling. Winter, in our opinion, is the time to give the bicycle a rest and to be contented with the old-fashioned sleigh. Bicycling in the proper seasons is a most healthful exercise and a very fascinating manner of progression, but in the winter it is entirely out of place, and seems like having picnics in January. If winter riding be practicable, the Columbia Bicycle Co. should immediately establish an agency in Greenland, and introduce their machine among the Esquimaux...