The Manuscript of Time

LXXXVI

Hast thou not read the Manuscript of Time,
All dotted by Misfortune and by Crime?
Hast thou not pondered on it—hast thou not
Rejoiced and gloried in its tone sublime?

The 86^th Quatrain of Abu'l-Ala

The Quatrains of Abu'l-Ala, trans. Ameen F. Rihani (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903.

For more on Abu'l-Ala see R. A. Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs‎, 1907

Has This Dog Any Wings?

"Years ago. I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile. Well, then, has this dog any wings?"

Mark Twain "A Horses's Tale" (1906)

Burlington Market House 1816

"On motion leave is given by the Court to the trustees of Burlington and the Commissioners appointed by them to superintend the building of a market house to erect their market house in a range with the seat for the new Courthouse below Washington Street running in a direction with Jefferson Street pursuant to the Order of said trustees, &c." CO/ A-372