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...dress, you accept the ton for the sake of the grain. For the world is a big place, and there is room for everybody, and each man has the inalienable right to be as eccentric as he pleases. It is my own conviction that the Why-nots are quite harmless. But think of the wasted energy...
...brigade, but failed to live up to the remaining three-quarters of its appellation. The figures of the chorus were much less dowager-like than those of the usual Boston editions of New York shows; but the faces lived up to the customary standard. The music was hitless and harmless. Harry Le Vant is to be congratulated highly on the success with which he sat on the orchestra: it was actually possible to hear the singers' voices distinctly in all the songs--not that that made the result any more pleasing, but it at least showed that Mr. Le Vant...
...called it the Bacillus Bulgaricus, because it frequented the sour milk of Bulgaria. Recently Prof. Leo F. Rettger of Yale announced that he had experimented with an allied form of the Bacillus Acidophilus and demonstrated that, induced to breed in great quantities, it expells all harmful bacteria by its harmless self. Thus, puckering their mouths to imbibe the acidated lacteal fluid of bovines, young people, old people, sexa-and even octogenarians may continue to "ripe and ripe." Prof. Rettger also hinted that with these bacilli would be developed a typhoid cure...
...Jericho went on to peruse a letter appended to the Graphic editorial, in which a presumed Graphic reader, one L. A. Wilson, besought the Graphic to "take the lead in criticizing the scare headlines in some papers which use such low-down tactics," referred to "the recent but harmless tremor of the earth," arraigned the News for flaunting on its front page a picture of what might have happened ito this city in a serious earthquake," prophesied that such tactics "mean ruin in the end for a paper belching forth such rot," stated of the News that "no educational thoughts...
...post-dated that era. The special cable to the New York Times stated that the "importance of such a discovery is evident." The most evident thing about it all is that if Count de Prorok wants to poke about in African sands for buttons and hairpins, it is utterly harmless...