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...Thei pound his dore and in his key-hole roare...
...Syracuse University has recently been presented with a watch about three hundred years old. The watch weighs nearly half a pound, troy weight, and keeps very good time...
HOLLIS HALL, which so narrowly escaped destruction on Wednesday last, was built from an appropriation of Pound 3,000 made by the General Court in 1761; and received its name from the Hollis family of London, whose benefactions to the College are so well known. Dedicated in the presence of both branches of the Provincial Assembly, it was named by Governor Bernard; after which, Taylor, a "Junior Sophister, pronounced, with suitable and proper action, a gratulatory oration in English." Its existence has not been uneventful. Struck by lightning in 1768, its honest old frame survived the thunderbolt...
...regard pictures, and decorations in general, as convenient inventions to fill bare walls; they appear to decorate their rooms, if they take the trouble to decorate them at all, with little more appreciation and intelligence than were used by the wealthy gentleman who purchased his library by the pound...
...crest of Christ Church. Some myrmidon of the Inland 'Revenue discovered this circumstance, and a few weeks ago Mr. Brantingham received a windy rigmarole of a legal summons to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and show cause why he should not forfeit the sum of pound 20 in that he did 'in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five to wit, at Christ Church, Oxford, wear and use Armorial Bearings, for the wearing and using of which a license was required, without having a proper license...