In New York, at least, the year 1858 may be metaphorically said to have " died in a ditch." Its last breath in the Metropolis was rendered up upon pavements draggled with mud and slosh ...
May, 1858. [We have no selfish ends in view in expressing ... built through the center of New York, and employed for no other purpose than carrying freight could be operated as economically ...
As a sickly young boy in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt learned taxidermy and started his own collection of stuffed specimens. At age 12, he donated some of them – a dozen mice, a bat ...