Some of my favorite clippings from this book:
A steam calliope began to play just as it was passing the courthouse of a New England town. The judge stopped the argument and ordered the officers of the court to abate the nuisance. They informed the court that a circus procession was just passing, whereupon the whole assembly, bench, bar, officers and criminal, rushed out into the street without their hats, and in the excitement of the moment the prisoner made good his escape.
How funny things work around! Sin brought clothes into the world, and if it were not for sin, nobody would go to church, for had it not been for sin there would be no clothes to show there.
The students at Oberlin serenaded a prohibitionist minister with tin pans and horns the other night, and the reverend gentleman responded by firing four shots from a pistol into the crowd. Only one of the students remained to tell the story.
Somebody has discovered the astonishing fact that among the 1,000 convicts in the Virginia penitentiary there is not a single lawyer.
Baltimore society is all torn up over the question of whether a lady should recognize a gentleman while he is having his shoes blacked on a street corner.
A smaller number of bets on the Presidential election are being made than for many years past. One side is afraid and the other dares not, and consequently the bets are few and small. The hat is a favorable wager, as of yore, and the dealers in the article are expecting a boom next November.
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