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...verses were composed by an author-traveler named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human skeletons. North American bird eggs, glass models of invertebrates. This periodical, published by Ward's Natural Science...
After lunch home and stretch out on the divan but Madame slays me with her heavy weights, which she drops upon me, defenseless, as I lie. So that I find no comfort, and rising, pick up the small brown Mermaid books that stand between my dachshund bookends. The title-page bears the legend, from Beaumont, "I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine". The books are plays of Beaumont and Fletcher...
Edda, Countess Ciano once swam two miles out to a warship her father was about to inspect, climbed aboard and made for the Dictator in the guise of a dripping mermaid. For this unseemly conduct she at once received a vigorous verbal dressing-down. High-spirited Edda promptly did a dangerous high-dive off the bridge of the warship, swam, the two miles back to shore, and afterward in private was praised for her spunk by the delighted Dictator. She is the only real intimate of a man now lonely in his greatness. Al though from time to time...
...Lazzari. Ebbitt A. Levitz' Evolution of Crime showed a foreshortened dead man and, surrounding it, the story of how he got that way, beginning with a visit to a burlesque show. John A. Mapes, investment broker, contributed a delightful Bar Panel, The Fishing Party, showing Father Neptune and mermaids tugging from sea bottom on the line of a fishing boat at the top of the composition. Heightening the picture's excitement were an approaching water spout, a shark, several drunken fishermen, an octopus assaulting a mermaid and Mapes's realistic way of making his mermaids' breasts...
This will be the first time that the beauties of the mermaid have been publicly on display is the Harvard pool, although girls have always been allowed to use the pool under certain circumstances. Besides championship league and college teams, individual swimmers of renown, such as Johnnie Higgins, who won two National Championships last week, will compete. Admission will...