For Custodian, the father (16) of ancient moral philosophy.
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For President, the first Roman (17) to wear a crown.
For Vice-President, the author (18) of "Hail Columbia."
For Trustees, the President (19) of the United States famous for his "Kitchen Cabinet"; the queen (20) who said, "We will not have our prerogatives brought into question"; the father (21) of tractarianism; and the discoverer (22) of aluminium.
For Chief Engineer, the architect (23) of Trinity Church, Boston.
For Custodian, the man (24) who ran second on the Presidential ticket with Horatio Seymour in 1868.
The election came off yesterday, and the ticket marked "B" was successful. To-night there is a grand river parade of rejoicing. At the head of the parade is the ship (25), building for a German firm, that has just been launched in Glasgow, and rivals the Great Eastern in size. Following it are all manner of craft and all sorts of people. Of the latter are those ancients (26), described by Cæsar, who burned everything they owned preparatory to migration, not knowing where they should go to. Behind them came the first permanent base-ball club (27).
But the feature of the unique parade was a great company of people (28) who first used parasols. And they carried such queer banners!
Three of the banners bore legends. The people, who have little else to do here, busied themselves all night trying to guess the things described. Maybe you can do better than we have, for up to this hour we have guessed but one of them. Here they are: