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What is now known as the Congressional library at Washington, called by Thomas Jefferson, "Library of the United States", was founded in the year 1800. It has been nearly destroyed by fire twice; besides the volumes saved from these fires, it contains books purchased in 1852 by an appropriation of $85,000 from Congress; the Smithsoman Scientific Library; the Force Historical Library; and lastly, all copyrighted books published in the United States since 1870. It now has over 400,000 volumes and 150,000 pamphlets, and innumerable maps, papers, and engravings. In all probability, the appropriation...
Oscar Wilde is securing a cold reception at the hands of the first families in Washington...
Henry E. Rockwell, secretary of the U. S. fish commission, died suddenly of heart disease in Washington, last night...
Secretary of the Treasury Folger left Geneva for Washington yesterday...
...college bearing the romantic name of Tufts, which, we learn, is situated somewhere in the outskirts of Boston. In our edition of last Tuesday we referred to a small band of men, presumably students, who were in the habit of amusing the public every week by walking down Washington street wearing the mortar-board, an English custom aped by some of our smaller American colleges, presumably for the purpose of giving them a somewhat "Englishy" look. A Tufts correspondent of the Boston Post, yesterday, gave his college away by fathering these mortarboards. The representative of this distinguished institution gives vent...