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...BOSTON man was cursing an editor the other day when he fell dead. Several similar instances have lately been reported. Men should be careful in speaking of anything sacred...
FROM the Forest and Stream we gather the following in regard to the English crews who are to meet on Saturday next. Average weight of the Cambridge crew, 163 pounds, Average weight of the Oxford crew, 173 pounds. In the Oxford boat the stroke is the lightest man, and the bow the heaviest but one. In the Cambridge, the bow is the lightest, and the three heaviest are Nos. 4, 5, and 6. The indications of a good race are numerous, the betting being two to one in favor of the lighter crew...
...appeal from "Uncle Ike" to close the "hell-holes," or, in Cambridge vernacular, beer saloons, and follows it up with a heart-rending wail over tobacco; having, apparently, just discovered that its use is "alarmingly prevalent." It tells the following sad story: "We were visited lately by a young man from town, seven years old, the son of respectable parents, who is an inveterate tobacco-chewer, and has been such for over a year." Verily, if that is the state of affairs there, we cheerfully overlook the grammar, and add a few quarts to the burning tears of the Geyser...
...more interesting. A new amplification is now introduced in the person of the handsome young clergyman, who is, evidently, about to cause a few ripples in the course of true love. "Jack," at present, is dead; but no experienced novel-reader can doubt the ability of that punctual young man to turn up at any moment. The number also contains a review of Mistral's Calendan, an article on the financial system of Texas, before the annexation, and an interesting account of Liszt, by one of his pupils. To say that the Atlantic is "as good as ever" is high...
...rooming alone, besides the pleasure of following unasked his own peculiar notion in regard to the furnishing and temperature of the room, a man is not constantly liable to be interrupted in whatever he may be doing, by petty arguments with his chum about the meaning of a word or on some one's character, - arguments productive only of a mutual contempt of the other's opinion. If a man is so unfortunately constituted that he cannot endure his own society for more than fifteen consecutive minutes, he would better find some one to share the burden with...