The Ladies' Repository Volume 37-38 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...The longest tunnel would be over three miles.--The corporation of Brown University has unanimously elected Martin B. Anderson, L.L. D., of Rochester University, to fill the Presidency made vacant by the acceptance of the general agency of the Peabody Educational Fund by the Rev. Dr. Sears. Dr. Anderson is requested to enter upon hi- duties in September.--Two young women applied for admission to the Medical Department of Harvard College, and after being kept in the anteroom of expectancy a month, were politely informed that there was no provision for the education of women in any department of that university. The question very naturally arises as to what special provision is necessary for the education of women V--Ice boats frequently attain a speed of a mile a minute. The Una ran from New Hamburg to Newburgh, a distance of three miles, in seven minutes. An ice boat consists of a pair of sleds forward, and one sled aft, the whole being covered by a frame, so that it looks very much like a flat iron, butt end first. The craft is sloop-ricged, and steered by the single sled aft. They tack against the wind, as vessels do on the water.--The Thames bridges sink into comparative insignificance when compared with the great metropolitan drainage works executed (luring the last few years. The first portion of the work was commenced in January, 1859. There are 82 miles of main intercepting sewers in London. In the construction of the works 318,000,000 of brick, and 880,000 cubic yards of earth excavated. The cost when completed will have been about $4,200,000.--Mrs. Nancy Rotch died at New Bedford, Mass., on Thursday last, in the ninety-first year of her age. She was the widow of Francis Rotch, Esq., one of the owners of the ship Dartmouth, celebrated as the ves...