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Lost-On Jarvis field, Wednesday afternoon, a small alligator-skin pocket book, containing a sum of money. The finder will be suitably rewarded on leaving it at Brock and Leavitt's. 436 Harvard...
...promptly rescued. But the Ridgeway proceeded to Newport and left Rupert on the rocks. At high water the rocks are entirely submerged and in a high wind it is impossible for anyone to live upon them. Finding that he had a fight for life before him, Rupert saved his pocket knife and threw away all his clothing but his drawers and undershirt. His drawers he tore into strips about an inch and a half wide, and cutting new holes through the cork sections of the life preserver he bound them securely together with the strings made from the drawers...
...Martyrs." Vereschagin, at this proposition, opened his blue eyes and, with a sweet, quiet smile, observed, "Gentlemen, I have come here to learn painting, and with no intention of being tied to any ladder upside-down, so I give you notice that I have a revolver in my pocket, with which I shall blow out the brains of the first man who molests me." And they were so convinced that he would that he ever after continued his studies in peace; but he was nicknamed "the Cossack...
...colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon, straw berries in February, and all the delicacies that belong to the menu of a first-class hotel. Such a thing as a marked violation of good breeding is almost unknown at these tables. For six years from...
Lost - Red leather pocket-book, containing some papers and letters. Finder will confer a favor and be rewarded upon returning same to the address found on the letters...