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...varnish or coating of some sort can be devised. For the last two years we have been in negotiation with an expert at the Art Museum, and some of the banners are now in his hands for treatment. Owing to the experimental nature of the work, and the press of other business, the affair has progressed very slowly. But the Committee has thought it best to wait two or three years if necessary in hopes that the experiment will succeed, rather than commit itself to the only other alternative, the preservation of the banners between sheets of glass,--an alternative...
...gesticulates, he says nothing which is not true. In the editorial congratulating last year's editor-in-chief, Mr. Sheldon, on the impending production of his play by Mrs. Fiske, there is also a touch of pomposity. But the congratulations are all the more a propos, now that the press reports and reviews of the opening night are at hand. The Advocate itself is to be felicitated on the success of one more of its sons...
...poetry, Mr. Nickerson's "Ballad" is pretty in thought and execution. Mr. Bell's "Sonnet" has lost its fifth line somewhere on the way to press--an important line giving the clue to the protagonists of the octave. But even without knowing exactly who or what they are which "amid the darkness shine," one is justified in saying that it is a good piece of verse displaying Mr. Bell's usual facility in handling the sonnet form. "Before Morning" by T. S. E. fails in effect; one is jolted, not impressed. "Marah" by Mr. Pulsifer is better. Mr. Greene...
...Press stand--Hudson, J. C. Willetts, Ryder, Williams, Kno, C. D. V. Royal...
...following is as accurate a table of the vote by states as it was possible to obtain at the time of going to press: REPUBLICAN. California, 10 Colorado, 5 Connecticut, 7 Delaware, 3 Idaho, 3 Illinois, 27 Indiana, 15 Iowa, 13 Kansas, 10 Maine, 6 Maryland, 8 Massachusetts, 16 Michigan, 14 Minnesota, 11 Nebraska, 8 Nevada, 3 New Hampshire, 4 New Jersey, 12 New York, 39 North Dakota, 4 Ohio, 23 Oregon, 4 Pennsylvania, 34 Rhode Island, 4 South Dakota, 4 Utah, 3 Vermont, 4 Washington, 5 West Virginia, 7 Wisconsin, 13 Wyoming, 3 Total, 322 DEMOCRATIC. Alabama, 11 Arkansas...