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...Significance. The species of male vegetable herein exhibited has dragged out its parasitic existence in every garden of genteel society that ever grew. To Author Parrish, great credit for supplying her specimen with logical antecedents, convincing contemporaries and a setting so carefully cultivated that its chokers and crinolines are not only seen and heard but almost smelled...
...Manhattan, one Louis Charchowsky went to bed, put out the light. The night was warm. His apartment, which he rented from one Louis Lesch, also a painter, was stifling. Painter Charchowsky tossed on his couch. The heat, far from diminishing as night deepened, grew worse and worse. Paniter Charchowsky, now well-nigh charred, flung back his reeking sheets. To his delirious senses it seemed that the steam heat was singing and sputtering, that it gave off heat. He put his hand against it, rushed to the basement, found the furnace in full blast, brought suit next day against Landlord Lesch...
...started another paper which grew rapidly. He continued to denounce corruption in New Mexico politics, naming persons and particulars. Once in walking through the state capital with his little daughter, a state officer whom he had accused of corruption suddenly struck him. For ten minutes they had a fierce fight on the spot, and then Magee pulled out victorious...
This moderately comic idea was subjected to a stuffy exposition and never grew very hilarious. In fact, what with a lot of spiritless acting here and there, it never grew hilarious...
Died. Mrs. John Pierpont Morgan, (Jane Norton Grew), wife of the famed financier, at Glencove, L. I., of a sudden cardiac collapse following a two months' siege of encephalitis lethargicae (a variety of sleeping sickness...