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Simultaneously with Dr. Haldane's exoneration by a benchful of distinguished gentlemen, the public-school teachers of Newport, Ky., were ordered by the local board of education to see that the lower hems of their skirts soared no higher than eleven inches (lower middle calf) from the ground, that their elbows were at all times covered decently. A mothers' club had protested that shorter skirts and nude elbows distracted their progeny from salubrious concentration upon their studies...
...were run off and bound. The text runs in two columns, 42 lines to the page, except for the first nine pages, which in the first edition have only 40 lines of text. Initials and decorations appear in colored inks. The 1282 pages, in two volumes bound in brown calf, each measure...
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Near Port Jervis, N. Y., lives one Marcus Porter, a farmer. Farmer Porter is renowned throughout Orange County for his calf. It is a fat calf, smooth and perfectly formed, but most of all remarkable for the fact that it is absolutely hairless. Last week Farmer Porter was offered $700 for his calf, which is the only one of its kind that has ever been seen in the district. He refused...
...quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest) and "Unborn Words." The last named is- to use its own theory illustratively -deluciatingly quippant...