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...There is no day corresponding to Sunday, and only a few holidays in the year. Busily as they toil, these people are never in a hurry, are never nervous, and are not given to worrying; but are steady, cheerful, and sober. They rarely quarrel, and even if they do, seldom come to blows. There will be a little queue pulling, some calling of hard names, and then the bystanders will quietly separate the combatants. It is not physical timidity, but a sensitive consciousness of the disgrace of fighting, that keeps them from engaging in brawls. That they are not cowards...
...YALE AND PRINCETON FOOT-BALL MATCH.Yesterday the long-expected foot-ball match, for the championship of the American colleges, was played by the representatives of Yale and Princeton in the presence of at least thirty thousand spectators, assembled in the new coliseum. A more sanguinary and exciting struggle has seldom taken place, and the list of killed and wounded reflects great credit upon both colleges. The match was played in accordance with the Roughby rules, one of which provides that the clubs used by the players shall each be four feet long, made of the best oak, loaded with lead...
...scientific, and the best literature of the day. He has an excellent memory and a large trade. Some of the characters which he has devised for memoranda are said to be curious enough. It is the shape and size of books that are his chief guide, and he has seldom been known to make a serious mistake...
...which he has attracted certainly give some claim to his title of "America's favorite actor." On Monday and Thursday he will appear in "The Gladiator;" Tuesday, "Othello;" Wednesday, "Brutus;" Friday (benefit of the actor), "King Lear;" Saturday matinee, "Ingomar;" Saturday evening, "Jack Cade." This will be an opportunity, seldom afforded, of seeing the tragedian in almost his entire repertory...
...light, airy sulky, and repaired to the Fair Grounds lying just outside the village. There was no one about. We should have full swing. The track was not in the best of order, but I remarked to Bucephalus, as I patronizingly patted his neck, that really we so seldom touched the ground, it made very little difference to us what condition...