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...three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/19/1883 | See Source »

...rest of fourteen minutes he finished the fourth and last quarter in 52 4-5sec. ; doing the whole distance in 3min. 31 4-5sec. The time from first start to finish was 44min. 31 2-5sec., whereas, when Westhall made his record, the entire hour was con sumed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/10/1883 | See Source »

...millionaire in Philadelphia who indorses the views of Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., about the dead languages, says that he lives in the most convenient place in the city, for "the horse-cars run pro and con on his street." [Harper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 10/26/1883 | See Source »

...con Variajloni, Haydn, Messrs. Fredrich, Perkins, Loeb and Cabot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PIERIAN RECITAL. | 5/8/1883 | See Source »

...Riggs Con...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1882 | See Source »

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