CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS
Date: 18 April 1890
The American Metrological Society will hold its Spring meeting in Washington, D.C., Monday, April 21, at Columbian University, Fifteenth and H streets, at 2 P.M. The programme includes a paper on "Instruments of valuations," by S. Dana Horton; "Gold and Silver as Measures of Value," by Prof. T. Egleston; "The Nomenclature of Electrical Units," by Dr. T.C. Mendenhall.
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MARRIAGE OF GEN. ROBERT SMALLS.
Date: 17 April 1890
From the Charleston News and Courter
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POWDERLY ON THE STAND; MORE OF THE IMMIGRATION INVESTIGATION. THE MASTER WORKMAN THINKS THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF ADMITTING FOREIGNERS RADICALLY WRONG.
Date: 17 April 1890
The immigration investigation was continued at Castle Garden yesterday. There were present Chairman Owen and Congressmen Stump and Lehlbach of the sub-committee of the joint Congressional Committee on immigration. The first witness was Sven Smith, a register clerk in Castle Garden. He testified that he was a native of Sweden, and that it took him thirty seconds on an average to examine an immigrant.
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ART NOTES.
Date: 17 April 1890
' i The portraits of Romney have risen so much in pries in EnglanA that his painting of Lady lamllton as "Sensibility" was sold to Mr. Henson for about $15,000. It was bsqueathed by George Romnoy to latbanlol .ngleheart and has never been exhibited, though R Earlowe engraved It long ago. Lady HamiltStx is in a pink gown, arms bare. with a blue scarf.
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PLATT'S SALARY REDUCED.; A SPIRIT OF ECONOMY PREVAILS IN HIS EXPRESS COMPANY.
Date: 17 April 1890
Woe pursueth woe. Alas, for the Wall-street career of Statesman Thomas C. Platt! Each day brings its new sorrow. True it is that cruel cynics have hitherto contended that the woes and the sorrows lately most bulletined have pinched, not the statesman himself so much -- or half so much -- as they have pinched and galled and lamed the statesman's friends.
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