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Under the shadows of the Wasatch Range, Reed Smoot attended the Brigham Young Academy, clerked in his father's store, worked in his father's woolen mill. A good Mormon, he believed that the sober labors of this life prepared for the life to come. Soberly, he subscribed to two New York newspapers of different faiths, read them comparatively for a year, solemnly concluded that only as a Republican could his business soul be saved. From that decision Reed Smoot has never since flinched...
...opinions on the subject. But Lampy is not a rational creature; unfortunately he has clowned too long to strike the dignified pose of a Superior Court Judge. He could only laugh at Things as They are. To straighten out the creases in his face and put on a sober look was as impossible as for him to write a CRIMSON editorial or a piece in the Alumni Bulletin...
Gustav Langdmann for 15 years was an honest, industrious, sober clerk. Last week, his employer fired him, gave him no recommendations...
...them with the addition of the stage driver who voted both Democrat and Federalist, a banquet which culminated with the practical destruction of the Baptist steeple and the absolute inundation of all the guests to the great discomfort of the Federalists who had to foot the bill and stay sober, is a pretty homeric tale. If (in the manner of Time's advertisements) you are curious to know who shouted 'Oysthersh' from under the table at frequent intervals, or who were the young bloods who voted Democratic because it seemed the sporting thing to do, we refer...
...masterpieces of the collection is a book entitled "The Anatomy of Drunkenness." It is by Dr. Robert Macnish of Glasgow, who claims to describe all stages of infoxication from "the delightful stage when one is neither drunk nor sober" to the eventual possibility of spontaneous combustion in extreme cases. This phenomenon was of frequent occurence, according to many authorities besides the Glasgow doctor whose works are in the collection. The burning, to quote from Dr. Macnish again, was of two varieties. "Sometimes the body is consumed by an open fiante flickering over it at other times there is merely...