The Cambridge Annual for 1886-1888

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George F. Crook
1885
 

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Page 36 - Alarms to be given from the box nearest the location of the fire. Do not give an alarm for a fire seen at a distance, unless assistance is called for.
Page 4 - There will be four eclipses this year, two of the Sun and two of the Moon, as follows : I.
Page 89 - A jovial swain should not complain Of any buxom fair Who mocks his pain and thinks it gain To quiz his awkward air. " Quixotic boys who look for joys, Quixotic hazards run ; A lass annoys with trivial toys, Opposing man for fun. " A jovial swain may rack his brain, And tax his fancy's might ; To quiz is vain, for 'tis most plain That what I say is right.
Page 56 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages.
Page 89 - : — A jovial swain should not complain Of any buxom fair, Who mocks his pain and thinks it gain To quiz his awkward air.
Page 26 - In this coffin were noticed a number of cherry stones, the kernels eaten out by some mouse which had carried them thither, secure of a safe retreat. The upper of the two large coffins on which these small ones rested, contained the bones of a man ov.er forty-five years of age. The lower limbs were covered thick with hay, seeming to indicate transportation. No clue was obtained to the person of the occupant. The remains in the lower coffin were supposed to be those of Mrs. Russell, wife of Dr. Charles...
Page 44 - Pamphlets, occasional publications, photographs, proofsheets or corrected proofs and manuscript copy accompanying the same, and all matter on paper or cardboard, wholly in print not issued regularly, in which the printing forms the principal use, and not exceeding four pounds in weight for each two ounces or fraction 01 Fourth-Class Hatter (Domestic Parcel Post).
Page 55 - Washington county, on the second Monday in March and the first Monday in September; In...
Page 87 - And push and pinch and pound and pelt her, And many a heavy blow she 0 : So that the kitten e'en would ¡i, When o's sufferings she v.
Page 25 - Jamaica when a boy by some member of the family, and remained iu their service until the Revolution. Darby, one of several children, married Lucy Holland, April 4, 1802, and died Oct. 12, 1861, at the advanced age of 92 years. At the time of his burial the vault contained nine coffins. The upper one of a row of three on the north side contained as indicated by the plate, the remains of Catharine Graves Russell, died Sept.

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