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"There's a silly fathead got in what thinks this is a left-luggage office, so far as I can make out a foreigner." "Never mind that now," replied the manager severely, "Mr. Berge's safe: No. 01724." The attendant and Mr. Berge went off together down one of the brilliant colonnaded vistas.
Berge, isn't it?" "That's right, Berge 'Iceberg' on the course. Thank the Lord Harry, I can take my losses coolly enough, but this this is a facer. Put into my hand half-an-hour ago inside an envelope that ought to be here and as safe as in the Bank of England. What's the game, I say? Here, Johnny, hurry and let me into my safe." Discipline and method had for the moment gone by the board.
Two years later the professor complains that he can get no answer from Berge. In 1807, it is stated that Berge will send the telescope in a month. He did not; but in the next year , about twenty-three years after the great circle was ordered, it was erected at Dunsink, where it is still to be seen.
Berge exhibits a Sundial showing a nude baby, buxom and cuddlesome, embracing a new doll while the old one lies discarded, illustrating the legend, "There is no Time like the Present." The Boy with the Fish Garden Exhibit, Colonnade
At length Berge not only consented to let Peter read the Bible to him, but gladly accepted a copy of which the captain made him a present, and, becoming a diligent reader himself, before the Edgar rounded Cape Horn, could say, "I rejoice in the blood of my risen Saviour." There is no part of the ocean in which storms are more frequent or more terrible than off Cape Horn.
Some years later the Russian imperial state counselor Berge, while chief of educational institutions in Caucasus, also made the matter a subject of investigation, and in the year 1870 gave the history thereof to the world in the Journal of the German Oriental Society.
There was no suggestion of the boasted safeguards of the establishment. The manager added his voice to that of the client, and when the attendant did not at once appear he called again. "John, come and give Mr. Berge access to his safe at once." "All right, sir," pleaded the harassed key-attendant, hurrying up with the burden of his own distraction.
Bartholomew Church of New York, the tympan of the Madonna and Child in the same church, a statue of William Ellery Channing and many others. His beautiful busts of women are said to be unsurpassed even in France. Edward Berge Edward Berge was born at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1874.
"Priestess of Culture," Herbert Adams, of New York; female figure surmounting columns within rotunda. Coloring of dome, burnt orange, turquoise green, Sienna columns. Youth, by Charles Carey Rumsey. An Outcast, by Attilio Piccirilli. Idyl, by Olga Popoff Muller. Dancing Nymph, by Olin L. Warner. Boy and Frog, by Edward Berge. Eurydice, by Furio Piccirilli. Wild Flower, by Edward Berge.
Young Mother with Child, by Furio Piccirilli. Wood Nymph, by Isidore Konti. Michael Angelo, by Robert Aitken. Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus, by Edward Berge. Flying Cupid, by Janet Scudder. Piping Pan, by Louis St. Gaudens. Circle at South End of Peristyle Bust of William Howard Taft, by Robert Aitken. Henry Ward Beecher, by John Quincy Adams Ward. Bust of Halsey C. Ives, by Victor S. Holm.
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