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MUSEUM. - "Butterfly Fever" and "Napoleon's Old Guard...
Officer Chiardi of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was a complainant in the Harlem Police Court recently against a little Italian boy named Giacinto Conzoni, whom he charged with picking cigar stumps and old tobacco quids from the streets. When the boy was asked by the magistrate what he did with the stuff, he said that he sold it to a man who made cigarettes and plug chewing tobacco of it. The boy was committed to the Catholic Protectory...
...marbles. I ain't afraid of girls, though, except Jenny, she's so mean. She'll know more when she grows up. Fred, he goes to Harvard. I wouldn't. I'm going to Yale. You can have more fun, and Yale licks, too. Professor Ladd says Yale's old-fogy and one-horse. Humph! How about foot-ball, I'd like to know? Well, I can't think of anything more to write about goodies...
...extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into fame, Mr. Wilde will not dislodge from their niche of honor any of the old worthies we have been accustomed to venerate as the lares of the temple of fame...
...motto of Our Continent, "In that new world which is the old," from Tennyson's "Day Dream," is a good illustration of a quotation misquoted in an entirely different sense from the meaning of the expression in the original...