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...Smith's descriptions were most vivid and clear. What, said he, could be more picturesque than an old fence, every fibre of which has been whitened and softened by wind and rain until it shines like finely woven silk? The weeds cluster in the patches of earth at its foot, worms eat their way through every splinter, and where some particularly ugly old stump disturbs the eye a little bit of vine peeps gaily over the top and offers its services to hide this blot and leaves at its death a golden patch of color...
...members of the Yale '96 freshman baseball team have received as trophies blue silk flags, suitably inscribed...
...SILK umbrella, with natural wood handle and steel, was taken by mistake from the stand in hall of Memorial, on October 28. Please return to M. M. B., 890 Main street...
LOST.- Between Ash and Mt. Auburn streets, a small black silk bag containing money. $5 reward for returning same to owner, at 153 Mount Auburn street...
...schools which will probably be represented are the following: Nobles' School, Boston; Waltham High School; Brown and Nichols School, Cambridge; Malden High School; Roxbury Latin School; English High School, Boston; Hopkinson's School; Newton High School. The prize for the school winning the most points will be a silk banner worth fifty dollars, and the winner of the tournament will receive a gold medal. The winners of the Interscholastic Tournaments of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard will be invited to play at Newport during the summer...