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† Margaretta, Kate, Maria and Leah, who came to public notice out of Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848, with strange knockings. Despite Margaretta's confession, late in life, that their knockings were accomplished by loudly cracking their double-jointed knees and toes, the Fox sisters were last year voted...
Animals, especially small bead-eyed rodents whose tails must obvious though invisible, are Rackham specialties. He is a man to see that their personalities quite comprehensible, differing from ours only at their extremities where he observes the distinction by bringing their legs and arms out of pantaloons and shirtsleeves with...
The Author is arrestingly young, only 25 or so, only three years out of Harvard?a fact which seems to have annoyed certain stiff-jointed metropolitan pundits, who, holding Whitman to be an object for grave veneration, have almost called Cameron Rogers an overweening puppy. But young Author Rogers is...
*The Fox sisters were four-Margaretta, Kate, Maria, Leah-of whom the first two were famed, beginning with Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the...
One discovered that a half-pound bottle of horehound drops that had for two weeks adorned the President's desk was steadily being denuded of its contents, noted the presence of a wooden bear with jointed limbs on the desk, a nickel-plated key to a hospital city, a...