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Lucky Men. The pageant began when Their Majesties arrived at Victoria Station, London, to await M. le Président. Round about stood, like seeming giants, the Foot Guards in their enormous, tall, bearskin hats. On prancing coal black horses sat stiffly the Horse Guards, clad in white buckskin breeches and silver-plated body armor. Across the Royal Waiting Room and down the platform was spread a great crimson carpet...
Napoleona went on exhibition last week at the Museum of French Art in Manhattan. Maudlin sentimentalizers sniffled; shallow women giggled, pointed. In a glass case they saw something looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or a shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body at the postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze...
...Broadway, Manhattan, a crowd of men and boys, "whooping, yelling, laughing," gave chase to a "small white animal hopping and leaping along the pavement." One Griebe, patrolman, dove for the animal, clutched him with his buckskin gloves, took him to the station house. Experts said the animal was a ferret...
Houghton, Mifflin and Co. have departed somewhat from their usual method of bookmaking. It is bound in heavy buckskin with gilt lettering and the paper is rough with deckled edges. The Gentleman Vagabond will make an excellent gift and should be widely circulated during the holiday season...
LOST.- A pair of grey buckskin gloves either in Sever 27 or Lower Massachusetts. The finder will kindly leave at Leavitt and Peirces...