... gigantic undertakings. However, the Americans seem to be pushing on their scheme at present. In a proclamation, dated Independence Day last year. the President announced that Congress had provided for an exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products of ...

... designatea the Black Fast, to distinguish it from the Day of Atonement, which is sometimes termed the White Fast. INDEPENDENCE DAY.—The Fourth of July in America brought its usual batch of casualties this year -one riot, 'six fights, thirty-five fires ...