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...regular price of admission. The interior will resemble the European opera houses. There will be three tiers of boxes. The seating capacity will be three thousand, and there will be room for five hundred more admissions. The stage will be the largest in New York, allowing seven hundred performers to assemble at one time...
...Primer geology class, 3333 A. D. Object lesson. Professor - "What is this which I hold in my' hand?" Class - "We are not prepared." Professor - "It is the tooth of a cat given to the college in the nineteenth century. How long tails had the cats in that age?" Class - "Seven and one-half feet." Professor - "Yes, this tooth proves that some were over twenty feet in length. What else may we learn from this?" Class - "That's as far as the lesson went." Professor - "Well, it also shows that cats could once drink milk. Now, man sometimes drinks milk. Therefore...
During its first year's work last year the Society for Political Education has received fees from 1500 members. Seven auxiliary societies have been established, of which two are in connection with colleges. The course of reading for next year will include Blanqui's "History of Political Economy," Jevon's "Money and Mechanism of Exchange" and Mill on "Liberty...
...When the Doctor died, at Hasewood, Virginia, in 1831, the medal became the property of his widow, who finally transferred it to her only son, George Lafayette Washington, who had married the daughter of her brother, Rev. John B. Clemson, of Claymont, Delaware. George Lafayette Washington died six or seven years ago, leaving the medal to his widow, Mrs. Ann Bull Washington, of whom it was obtained by fifty citizens of Boston, who subscribed a sum of money in the total sufficiently large to induce the widow to part with it. While the civil war was in progress George Lafayette...
...Seven deaths from a boiler explosion in Atlanta...