Sir: In the Lowell (Mass.) Daily Journal and Courier, dated Feb. 4,
1853, I find the following: "What's in a name! The name of the
superintendent of the Cincinnati Hospital is Queer Absalom Death." Thus
showing that there were candidates for the Academy seventy years ago.
Concord.
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Some sort of jape or jingle might be chiseled from the fact that Lot
Spry and Ida Smart were married t'other day in Vinton, Ia.
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