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...after demonstrating its soundness and air-tightness to a committee from the audience, filled it with water. He then stripped and gave a preliminary exhibition by squeezing himself in the can and remaining under water for one minute. After this he disappeared under water again, the water-tight lid was locked with six locks by the committee, and the curtain drawn. At the end of three minutes Mr. Houdini appeared, the can still hermetically sealed, and upon opening it, the water was disclosed...
...LONGLEY, '94,30 Winthrop St.SOME one intentionally or by mistake took a note book from Memorial Office on Dec. 14, containing the address J. Heiss, 61 Oxford plainly written on the lid. The notes are indispensable to me. Will you not look about your room to see whether you took it and kindly return...
...students should be in keeping with the spirit of the age. It should be assumed that the college professor is a man capable of self-government, and not a foolish old person requiring guardians and nurses. The time has gone by when a professor needed to be treated lid a school boy. It is true, that the professor, living a comparatively secluded life, is ignorant of many things-such, for instance, as the proper odds to lay on any given crew or ball club. Still, he is a thinking and responsible being, and should be treated as such...
...stove-lid or a sumpin...
...threatened that my connection with the body of Mollahs should cease if I did not immediately withdraw, but Alla Pajama, - God is Great, and I will yet pollute the tombs of their forefathers. My tablet can contain no more, and I see, my Beeghaz, that you are drawing the lid of somnolency over the eye of weariness; my other experiences must wait. I kiss your feet and withdraw...