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...April, and the eight turf courts ready in the latter part of May. The other courts, of which the Association will try to have a larger number, will be laid out and rolled as well as possible. Their positions will be the same as those of the future earth courts, that we may see whether there is any inconvenience on account of sun, etc. The fee of membership for the spring will be 50 cents. The members of the Association can use the new made clay courts on payment of 10 cents a piece for the afternoon, and the charge...
...their guide; they descended into the deep dungeons of old castles, and he read the inscriptions on the walls, requiring no light. "It is wonderful," cried the wise men, "what power of sight this man has! With him we may venture into the darkest recesses of the earth." They traveled on and crossed the seas, and came finally to a large city, and in this city was a great university, and this university had a building famous for its darkness. Few men knew what was within its walls. The arrival of the wise men and their companion with the powerful...
...heard so much about lately. They are easy to take and are so varied that they cannot become tiresome. All the signs can be read in the photograph as clearly as in the original, and snob. is forever sending the pictures to his fair friends, who wonder what on earth the sign of "Boarders Wanted," "Hair cut and shave, 50 ets.," or "Reserved for Ladies," can mean. I will say nothing about the uses of a camera during the summer, they are too obvious to mention; but if any one will call at my room I can show him photographs...
...quiet, so peaceful, so free from care." This thought has hardly passed through our minds, when a horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election, and who practices it yet; sounds rather loud in the well, doesn't it?" Loud, we should rather...
...course you do not know how to reach it, but the accommodating assistants will inform you. You ascend the staircase and find yourself in what appears to be a very bare and uninteresting room. Be not deceived; its treasures like those of the earth, must be sought after in order to be found. There are things which must attract every one's attention, but let me say that it is a veritable paradise for cranks-I mean such cranks as coincollectors, bibliophilists and autographic fiends. How their hands must itch to see lying before their eyes such unattainable treasures...