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National Editorial Ass'n Northfield, Minn...
...parts of northern Africa. It is picked for Papermaker-Publisher Harrison by a small army of Arabs. It is expensive, for the boiling down of the pulp diminishes its bulk by 50%. With the vigor of a true Yorkshireman, Mr. Harrison last week took pains to denounce as an ass an imaginative U. S. reporter who wrote how esparto grass had to be plucked by sweating Negroes, one blade at a time...
...what an ass...
...urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble:* 'If the law supposes that, the law is a ass, a idiot . . . and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience...
Bethlehem was crowded. Joseph could find no room at the inn, or any decent lodging. So humbly in a stable, warmed by the breath of kine, the Babe was born, Mary wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him wailing in a manger, between an ox and an ass; and the animals fell to their knees before the Babe.−(St. Luke II, 1:7; and tradition...