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One And Another

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
January
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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The khedive of Egypt has sent Richard Hardinjj Davis the Order of Efïyptian Merik Clarence Kin;,', the geolosfist, has vevy speedilv recovered fcom his mental raálady, and is about f.o leave tli(! Bloomingdale asylum, where his friends placed him, once tnore in g-ood health and cheerful spirits. Mrs William Thaw of I'ittsbursr has presented a traet of 1,100 acres to the city for a park. She stipulates that it shall be called Lyndhurst Green, ami reserves the rigdit to build a public fountain on it. Thre is to be another college centennial next June, that of Bowdoin, up in Maine. The oration is to be delivered by Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller of the United States supreme court, and Arlo Bates is to read a poem. Appreciative paren ts and friends are inundating Dr. Edvvard Everett Hale with reports of etiildren's sayings which Dr. Hale was said to be collectinpr for philosophieal purposes. The statement, Dr. líale says, was an entire hoax. Mme. Uernhardt introduced an innovation at the Renaissance theater in Paris recently by the manafrer not to allow women wearing bonnets to sit in the orchestra stalls. The result was that the house g-ained g-reatly in appearance and there was rejoieing among' the male sex present Tulian Hawthorne is soon to remove his fa:nily and his lares from the "House of the Seven Gabblers" at Sa.g Harbor to estabüsh thera for a year or two - possibly longar, if he yields to the fascination of the place, as Stevenson has to the charas of S unoa - on the island of Jamaica, in the West Indies. Commander Monteil, the French officer who is to make an expedition into Central África, has had a flatbottom ferryboat constructed %vhich has a capacity of fifteen tons and weighs only 2,000 pounds. The metal part of Üxs vessel weighs 1,800 pounds, and its huil is made of plates of aluminum four feet long1, t%vo ïeet four incht-s wide and 0. 12 of an inch thick. John Hog-g-, who died the other day in his home near Washington, was the oldest chief clerk in the government s?rvic3. He had been in the navy department nearly forty years, ! and bad been chief clerk of the de partment nearly half that time. ' He was 7." 3'ears o.d. There is said not to have been a question of naval custora or a fact of law reyarding the naval establishment that he did not have at his fingers' ends.

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