Word: mermaids
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Like all telephone exchanges, the local office has had its share of amusing requests for information. Outstanding among those was a request for information about the average weight of an hippopotamus. Another time a young girl called up to know if the University Museum was going to exhibit the mermaid which Boston newspapers had reported found off Swampscott. Among the irritating experiences of the operators are inquiries by persons who call up to learn "if the operator is asleep or not", and the arguments of persons who refuse to believe the operator who tells them the line is busy...
Tambourin--Sarabande--Passepled--Contradanse en Rondeau Sonata, B minor Handel Mr. Barrere and Mr. Whiting Charming Butterfly Campra My Mother Bids me Bind my Hair Haydn Mermaid's Song Haydn Miss Collins Sonata, D minor Scarlatti Sonata, B flat major Scarlatti Siciliana, F major Scarlatti Sonata, F minor Scarlatti Mr. Whiting Dances from "Les Fetes de 1'Hymen" Rameau...
...devoted to Jenny Lind and General Tom Thumb. The reviewer wonders how many readers shared his own ignorance of the fact that Barnum brought Jenny Lind to this country. The Swedish Nightingale was given to the American public as a proof that the sponsor of Joice Heth, the Fejee Mermaid, and the Model of Niagara could also produce some legitimate and more high-hat entertainment. Except for a few financial statements, the story of Jenny Lind is well worth reading...
...following apologia is typical alike of the book and the man: "If I have exhibited a questionable dead mermaid in my museum, it should not be overlooked that I have also exhibited much . . . about which there could be no doubt, and I should hope that a little clap-trap occasionally . . . might find an offset in a wilderness of wonderful, instructive, and amusing realities...
...kind of Chinaman shivered at Peking last week as thermometers read 10° below zero; but 1,200 miles southward, in Canton, quite another sort of Chinaman was as warm as a Miami mermaid. The two kinds of Chinamen could by no possibility have understood each other in Chinese, so different are their dialects. But the Yang-kuei tze ("Foreign Devil") has taught a few Chinese of every region English, especially the word "Nationalism...