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...mounds are of almost indefinite age-how old is not known and probably never will be-but everything goes to prove that they were constructed long before the discovery of this continent. In the centre of several of the mounds were altars composed of alternate layers of clay, sand, stones and ashes, no cement being used with the stones, which varied from the size of a hen's egg to several dounds in weight. The tops of the altars were concave and filled with fine sand, a portion of the burnt clay having been evidently removed. Judging from the solidity...
...spring and foot-ball in the autumn, and that will be all." This is certainly a gloomy prospect. But even at the worst we should hardly be reduced to this, as a large part of Holmes field is unfit for building purposes on account of a deep quick-sand. But any such encroachments on the fields now devoted to athletics are indeed "in strange contrast with the enthusiastic indorsement of home athletics given by the athletic committee and by the president in his annual report." The athletic committee recognizing that the erection of the new Physical Laboratory on Holmes field...
...California and Nevada mining camps, fascinated by this feverish life, I chanced to hear of Bodie, "the latest strike," as they called it. Not far from Mono Lake, in the great desert that lies to the east of the Sierra Nevadas, and more than a hundred miles through the sand from the nearest base of supplies, some one had found a rich deposit of gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose one of those mushroom mining towns, where...
...authorities to a communication signed '83, which we give in another column, with reference to the use of one of the cellars of Hollis as a mortar-trough. Wishing to ascertain for ourselves the facts of the case, we visited the cellar in question, and found it filled with sand, troughs, tools of all kinds, and, in the centre, an immense hogshead filled with foul looking water...
...apart from the annoyance caused to the occupants of the building in the manner described by the communicant, it would seem that the dampness necessarily engendered by damp sand, mortar and stagnant water, would be very detrimental to the health of those occupying the rooms over the cellar. This in itself calls for an immediate abatement of the nuisance...