Dean Stanley at a meeting in London a few days ago said that one of the first ' questions put to him in landing in America was, " What do you think of oir iaiitUu* tions ? " He evaded the question till he ■ had been a few weeks in the States, and then he answered, "I don't presume to judge of your political institutions; but I can say what I think is bad, exceeding tho badness of anything in the moUter country, and what is better than what we hare in England of tho. same kind. The best is your public libraries/best in Air ■ abundance, accessibility, cheapnesses erery thing which make pnblie'libraries valuable. The worst are your newspapers, which far exceed oiirVin badness." Minor Attraction.—She asked him if her new dress wast as sweat as a •priof rose, and the brute said it was, even* to - the minor attraction of having a little die upon it
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3350, 17 September 1879, Page 2
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153Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3350, 17 September 1879, Page 2
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