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Signor Chizzola, like all Italians, is eminently superstitious. He said, the other day: "I knew, before my season began with Rossi, that it would be a failure. Every one told me so, and the omens came out right, as always. The day Rossi arrived at St. Petersburg the Czar was killed. The day I signed a contract for America with him President Garfield was shot. The steamer we came over in took thirteen days to cross, and we arrived on a Friday. There were three carriages waiting at the boat when we arrived. The first street-car we took...
...colleges, are his very existence. But it is well known that a novice always has the crudest tastes, and it takes long to acquire refinement and the art of extracting delicate pleasure from quiet sports. It is admittedly so with yachting and canoeing. But a canoe club of the right sort would be a glorious thing for old Harvard...
Base ball scores yesterday were : Boston 9, picked nine 3 ; Dartmouth 8, Holy Cross College 4. About 200 college students witnessed this game. Cleveland 11, Allegheny 2; Detroit 10, St. Louis 7 ; and at New York, Metropolitans 1, Providence 9. Brown, the right fielder of the Providence nine, sprained his ankle in the seventh inning, and substitute Gilligan took his place...
...Lampy, that's not right. We distinctly credited that forlorn joke about gym-jams to the Tiger. Are you afraid to claim it of a Tiger? Besides, the copyright on old jokes never runs longer than six months...
...Benjamin, i. e., son of the right hand, son of good fortune, was a whole tableau in itself; it meant a chapter every night, sermons an hour long, and Sunday school every Sabbath; it meant a long and tearful discussion between Mr. and Mrs. Buttefield, senior, and Mrs. Butterfield's mother, at Benjamin Emilius' birth; it meant a narrow escape from such biblical prefixes as Arphaxad, Peleg, Uz, Mash, Hazarmaveth, and the like...