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...will necessarily be cautious hereafter in staking any great hopes on any other amateur, such as Oscar Wilde even. So much for any claims Mr. Wilde may have upon us for any promise or any achievement of his own. Aside from these considerations, society justly claims and exercises the right of providing laws of social conduct for its members and of punishing infringements of these laws. Mr. Wilde has infringed these laws; and the public has passed and is executing judgment upon him in its own way; a way somewhat harsh and severe it must be admitted, and sometimes reprehensibly...
Secretary Folger is looking about for some one to take the position of assistant secretary of state. He finds considerable difficulty in obtaining the right sort...
...students and townsmen of Oberlin have subscribed over $200,000 towards the temperance reform, now in progress at that place. A resolution was adopted, petitioning the legislature to grant to college towns the right to restrict the sale of intoxicating liquors, and also disclaiming all purpose to use violence...
...pugilist, Ryan, is suffering somewhat from his bruises, but will probably be all right...
...sporting grounds of the Philadelphia Ball Club were recently completed. The grand stand will be divided into three portions. The centre portion (reserved) will be furnished with six hundred iron folding-chairs with perforated board seats. In the rear will be seven private boxes seating eight persons each. The right arm will seat seven hundred and sixty, and the left arm nine hundred and eighty persons. This gives a seating capacity in the stand for twenty-three hundred and ninety-six persons. Along the Columbia avenue side of the grounds will be first-class open seats-having foot rests...