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Long and varied has been the career of the best known U. S. bull-"Bull Durham." He was born in Durham, N. C., at the close of the Civil War, sired by a British bull out of a jar of mustard. But not until last month had Bull Durham encountered Romance. Then suddenly 35,000 billboards throughout the land proclaimed the news. Advertisements showed a picture of him pasted on the side of a barn. Before the picture, big eyes ogling, tongue hanging out in an expression of lugubrious passion, stood a buxom Holstein cow. This whimsy was captioned...
...John Ruffin Green was looking for a name for the tobacco he made in Durham, N. C. Over a dish of fried oysters a friend, John Y. Whitted, pointed to the mustard jar and said: "There is a condiment that is made in Durham, England. It bears the sign of a Durham bull's neck. Why not name your product Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco and adopt the whole bull as a trade-mark?" Tobaccoman Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward...
Linton Perry knows that he is silly to do his trick. Dr. Smith explained to him that unless he ceases his monkey shines instanter, one of these days he will go blind. He will stretch his optic nerves so much that fibres will tear. Or he will jar loose the retinas in his eye balls...
...last snow flies in New England. Hulking pungs slide off quietly into the slashing behind the pump horse. The new town truck drones along the highway casting up furrows of white foam. With a sharp jar as the sled strikes ground, a cheerful gnome starts off belly flopper down the hill to school. A tall pine stands out in the pasture with the blackness of a widow in her weeds. There is the delicate, syncopated tinkle as a Morgan in a red cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over...
...only permanent exhibition of this sort in Boston. In one case are six pieces of modern Swedish glass, known as Orrefors "etched" glass, the decorations for which are in reality ground out by a spinning emery wheel. Besides several very thin glass vases, delicately etched, there is a jar, the walls of which vary in thickness and give it an under water effect...