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Human Nature

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
February
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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, , Center street, near Grand, in 'Í4W York, is a little shop, over the a! ranee of which is the siga "Practical Rat Catcher." A North Side (Chicag-o) barber professes on a large strip of cloth tacked across his front wind o w to cure all "deceases" of the scalp. It remained for a Bowery tailor to offer advice that speaks volumes for the state of his customers' wardrobes. The advice, printed in large letters, is, "Own your dress suit." The owner of a nem row of Harlem flats advertises that "the steam heaters are warranted not to give the usual imitations of a boiler factory during the night nor at any other time." The thoroughly up-todate soda water fountains of the first class now include so many beef extract, and clarn juice and other brothlike beverages that at several of them one sees bottles of Worcsstershire sauce and TaDasco, just as on a restaurant side table. Frauline Roeser, a resident of Halle, Germany, has donated her whole fortune - 150.000 marks personal prop! erty, besides a valuable piece of real I estáte - to her native city for the of an orphan asylum, reserving- for herself only a small liferent until her demise. An English paper says that the archbishop of York recentlv wrote to the incumbent of a rural parish suggestina- that a "quiet day" should be held there. The following was the reply: "My lord, in this parish we have too many quiet days; what we want is an earthquake." A number of boys in Scotland were being rehearsed for an amateur performance, and the boy who was to impersonate the hero was told to fall on the noor at the right moment. But when the crisis was reached on the examination day, he did not fall. The verse was repeated, but still he =mained upright. Being aceordingly ked the reason, he replied: "My fa'ther said I wasna to fa', for I've -;i my Sunday claes."

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Ann Arbor Courier