Word: wateringly
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...taste is for something less invigorating. Not having the means of diluting the stuff, however, he is obliged to use it full strength, at the risk of actually becoming robust. In dining, when excessively hungry, he has been known to look at a lily in a glass of water for fully five minutes, and then waddle away and loosen his waistcoat. But such gluttony is very rare with the great aesthete, and ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking. By the exercise of constant care he thus avoids overloading...
...spring floods in the Southwest are doing great damage. Large portions of Arkansas and Mississippi are under water. Many people have been drowned, and the loss in live stock is enormous. The levees are breaking all along the Mississippi, and fearful results are apprehended...
...that Oscar has retired to the obscurity of the "far West," acknowledges its ignorance of the meaning of aestheticism, and gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture...
...athletic grounds of Yale are to be on the banks of West River, at a good elevation above tide water. Thirty acres have been purchased, the college authorities advancing one-half of the sum required, securing itself by a mortgage. It will have tennis, archery, cricket and foot-ball fields, and three base-ball fields, and under the bluff will be placed the rifle range. West River itself will be much improved for boating. The grounds will have shaded walks and drives, making a veritable park out of it. These are the coming delights of our sister at New Haven...
...large portion of Gallatin County, Ill., is overflowed. The water is still rising...