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Correspondence criticizes prizes for conundrums at Exeter and mocks trivial wordplay. The writer urges valuing genuine science and art over flashy but worthless competitions, citing examples and proposing better subjects for the silver goblet.
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Weekly Chronicle
Chronicle
Exeter
Raglan
England
Scotland
Ireland
Russias
Sebastopol
Land’s-end
Hengler
Gorham
Gloucestershire
Scutari
Philomella
Paris Exposition Classification System Outlined by Imperial Commission
A Paris correspondent details the Imperial Commission classification for the Universal Exhibition. The outline spans divisions from Productions of Industry to Fine Arts, listing twenty‑nine classes and notes on submitting documents about production and diffusion of products.
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Paris
Daily News
Imperial Commission
Yorku Grovv
C . Co
Suvenin
Khurn Ghour
Imperial Commission to survey world industry and Paris exhibition rules
The Imperial Commission calls for detailed reports from English towns like Manchester Glasgow Paisley Leeds Liverpool on commercial and industrial activity. Exhibitors must send descriptions and statistics and note steam power workers and output. Prices will not be fixed for paintings but a price register kept for visitors. Budget rules set transport costs and duties for foreign exhibitors with space limited. 15,000 applicants seek 80,000 metres of space.
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Anna Maria Monsell
Stothard
Medway
Rhine
Lord Lansdowne
Mazzini
J’ress
Quarterly Review
Canterbury
Dresden
Literary Gazette
Chance
Germany
Naples
Paris
le Cercle Impérial
Pall-mall
Rome
St. Peter's
Spain
Times
Colonel Hood
Grenadier Guards
The
Alma
Hood
Hyde Park
Paris Academy of Sciences
M. Halphon
Brazil
M. Halphen
Palace of Industry
Dpadwan
Currier Des Mats Unis
Volmvien David
Reich
Cairo
Mehemet Ali
David
Felicien David
Patriotic Fund
Boston Post
St. Louis
Ife
Bicker
Lincolnshire
Hezekiah Holmes
Dublin
Lord Glerawly
Alieneum
Ireland
Dorsetshire
M. Brierre de Boismont
Journal of Psychological’ Medicine
Forbes
Winslow
Thomas Somebody
William
Henry
John
Duke of Wellington
Duke of York
London
Prince Lucien Bonaparte
M. Granier de Cassagnac
Histoire Des Causes” de la Révolution Française
Sydenham
France
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Sir Joseph Paxton
Life
Waterloo
Catherine-street
Strand
Sebastopol
England
Macaulay
Westminster Review
Mr. Carlyle
Moritz
Saxony
Hawkins
Manchester
Glasgow
Paisley
Leeds
Liverpool
Imperial Commission
Lee
Palais de Industrie
Mendelssohn Festival Delights crowded concert audience
A Tuesday Mendelssohn Festival featured Italian Symphony in A, Pleyel piano concerto in G minor, and other works. Encores praised Madame Pleyel and Miss Dolby. Genge’s Concert showcased notable vocalists and instrumentalists. A new drama Deeds not Words opened amid praise, while Galignani notes an impromptu rescue by Madame Bosio at the opera.
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Juhisen
Madame Pleyel
Miss Dolby
Herr Ernst
Gance
George Genge
Freemasons’ Hall
Miss Poole
Newton Frodsham
Case
Viotti Collins
Surney
Adelphi
Madamel Bosto
Galignani
J'bardieré
Madame Gassier
Colonel Ragani
Madame Bosio
Paris
Itasina
Adulteration in Food Probed by The Lance
The Lance prosecutes fraudulent food dealers in a new volume edited by Dr. Hassall. The work condemns widespread adulteration of necessities with vinegar and other items, praising Norwich’s Joseph Underwood and noting firms like Travers and Sons aiding honest traders. It highlights water impurities and microscopic comparisons in each chapter.
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the Lance
Hassall
Joseph Underwood
Norwich
London
Travers and Sons
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