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Show AgasMiz Vet SpeuUf. Cleveland, 10. The L-wlr will,te-morrow, will,te-morrow, publish a letter written by Prof. Aqassiz.shortly before his death, positively denying the statement so oiien paraded by tho Catholics, as an argument against the public school system, to the elVect that Agassiz had investigated the houses of prostitution in Hoelon and found a large majority of the inmates were natives of that city, and attributed their own down fall lo the impure influences ' to which they had been subject, while pupils of Botton public t-ehools. The letter says: '"Tlie item regarding the eiiac of the. women of Boston, which vou sent me some time a'o, is a base invention and slander which I should long ago have exposed, did I not shrink from a discussion with that class of people who indulge in such sinuation. Very truly yours, Louis AelASSKZ." |