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...misery and gloom. But for all that, his capacity for suffering and his patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing, and knew everything that might serve his ends. He was sickly, and bore the most incredible hardships with iron endurance. He sprang from the lowest level of society, and had the manners of a grandee and the epistolary style of a Machiavelli. He knew no enjoyment of life, a home meant nothing to him, his wants were as few as those...
...surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme C : a reward was offered to any citizen of Ihlamour who would allow himself to be lowered 50 feet down the well to grab Yusuf's duck with his bare hands. The first volunteer jammed ignominiously when the well bore unexpectedly narrowed 30 feet below the surface. The rope broke, he was rescued only with difficulty...
...purpose of the picture, he soon discovered, was to illustrate an article on the theory of evolution. His likeness had been selected apparently because it bore so striking a resemblance to that of a gorilla. More, it was possible to derive the implication that he, Stanislaus Zbyszko, was no better than a monkey. Growling, Stanislaus Zbyszko called in his lawyer and planned a $250,000 suit against the paper...
...Angler's Rest. In every case the hero, or the goat, is some pinheaded nephew or vague cousin of Mr. Mulliner's: the vicissitudes related are as improbable and as fetching as the language they are told in. Uncle Cedric, onetime gnu-hunter, all-time bore, is shot by the vindictive Charlotte; Archibald wins a bride by his one accomplishment, the imitation of a just-successful hen; Roland gets into terrible trouble because a snake has been put in somebody else's bed-and so on. When Mr. Mulliner is speaking, no one else can open...
...news stands in Springfield, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., last week, there appeared for sale an article which set many a passer-by to wondering. It was a phonograph record, not black but brown; no thicker, scarcely any heavier, than a stiff piece of paper; and it bore the name of an unknown corporation called Durium Products...