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Show 1 w Sicrlllna tit ths Vaukli He Idol, Popular Science Monthly. There is a belioi, in other parts of the country, that tin) New England digestion di-gestion has been sacrificed to pie; but lew person.-;, probably, have known of olhtr valuable possessions being offered up to the idol. In a biographical sketch of Charles Chaiincy, second president of llari aid college, written in 17!iS l y his great grandson of tho same name, the writer stales that, desiring to possess pos-sess tho papers of his iliusirious ancestor, ances-tor, be made, a search fur them aud found they had descended to' a son of the president, "w ho had kept them as a valuable Uuasiire during his life; but upon hia death, his children being ail under age, they were unhappily suf-leietl suf-leietl to continue iu the possession of his widow, their mother. .She married some, lime after a Northampton dcacou who principally got his iu ing by making mak-ing aud selling pies. Behold bow ihe fate of all the good president's writings of every ki'idl They were put to the bottom of pies, anil iu this w ay brougfit to utter destruction." |