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...never find a niche for themselves in the dull trades of "butcher, baker, and candlestick maker". It is India, however, which lays claim to the most unusual callings-at least if one may judge from a Lucknow dispatch, which describes the work of the Monkey Deporter, the Corpse Fender, and the Shahbash-Wala...
Less noisy but more necessary is the Corpse Fender, the gentleman who clears the shallows of the Ganges of scorched Hindus. The native's economy urges him to save the wood supplied by a hygienic government for funeral pyres; he puss the Ganges to its time-old use. From that practice rises the need for this Hindu, Gaffer Hexam, a fisher...
...will sit upon the fender...
Professor J. L. Lowes, before introducing Mr. Warren, read the following telegram received by President Lowell today from Baron de Cartier de Marchienne. Belgian Ambassador to the United States: "Allow me to avail myself of this opportunity to fender my best personal thanks for your sympathetic attitude to our efforts to rebuild Louvain University Library. It is a source of deep gratification to me that Harvard University, the fountain of all spiritual life in this great country, is taking active sympathy in the worthy cause of helping Belgium's oldest alma mater to rise Phoenix-like from its ashes...
...expiration of our lease December 1. We will now have our stock of talking machines and records upstairs in the men's furnishings department, and the theatre tickets in the stationery department, which will now be open until eight o'clock in the evening. In this way, we can fender an equal service to the students of the University while cutting down on our rent and other general expenses...