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...Graduates Performance, Saturday evening, March 4, 1876 at Beethoven Hall, Arthur Sullivan's operatta of "Cox and Box" will be given by former members of the H. P. C., for the benefit of the N. E. Hospital for Women and Children. In connection with this also will be given the monologue "The Elixir of Youth." Ticket; for sale at box office on and after Friday, March 3. General admission, 75 cents...
...gods could not of itself raise them. When Munnee and Boshor discovered this, they spat upon the earth, and a great river sprang forth which divided the world into two parts. On one side of the river they placed all the men, and upon the other side all the women. Munnee then took his place among the women, and Boshor among the men. At the end of a year the miraculous power of Boshor enabled her to bring forth as many female children as there were men, while the commerce of Munnee and the women produced an equal number...
...clip the following from the Tyro, and, in return, warn the fair editors to beware. Such poems are terribly disillusive, particularly when coming from the mouths of the fair muses themselves; even though it be true that, with women, wie an jeder schlechten Waare, die Aussenseite mit falschem. Schimmer uberzogen ist: immer verbirgt sich was leidet hingegen was Jeder an Prunk und Glanz erschwingen kann tragt sie zur Schau, - for we hate to be impolite in the vernacular...
...City of Peking," as I recently heard, has been condemned as unfit for sea in a little more than a year from the time of her launching, and is being rebuilt. If such is the condition of American companies, who can wonder that sensible men and women prefer to trust their lives with the English lines, who, at least, "assume a virtue if they have...
...Table publishes a long article against dancing. The writer thinks that the introduction of this profane amusement into the mixed college society of the West would tend to change "sober, intelligent, earnest, religious young men" into "fast, wild, and irreligious" characters; and to make of "virtuous, modest, Christian young women," "young women either insipid and fond of frittering away their time reading love-stories and dreaming about young men, or else bold, unchaste, and immodest." The terpsichorean efforts of this author have probably not been attended with success...