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LITERARY

A Monthly Record of Current Literature.

OCTOBER, 1870.

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MERICAN HYPERBOLE.-A natty little book
has just come over from London, entitled
Reminiscences of America; by two English-
(Scribner), which describes the manner in

which the twain rippled through the country,

what they saw in the country, and what they

men

Leypoldt & Holt..

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with the exclamation, "Boy, what are you laugh-

ing at?" "Well," said the boy, "I'm laughing

because you are awfully sold: I ain't the boy!"-

EDITOR'S DRAWER, in Harper's Magazine for

September.

heard in the streets. As instances of the "hyper- PRE

bole" of the country they record the following:
In describing the large trees of the Yosemite
Valley, one said that "it took two men and a
boy to see the top of them." One being asked
by a friend if he saw a certain mosquito on the
weather-vane of the State House (!) at St. Louis,
answered, "Yes, I see it winking." A third,
in describing the prices of carriages in Niagara,
asserted that the hack fares are so high that
the Falls are insignificant by comparison."
Another story is related, with the appearance of
truth, of a boy who was watching his school-
fellows as they snowballed an old gentleman's
windows. The old gentleman rushed out of his
house, determined, if possible, to inflict some se-
vere corporal punishment on the offender, saying,
when he caught the boy, "Now, you rascal, I'll
thrash you within an inch of your life!" Ac-
cordingly he began to beat him, when the boy
immediately commenced laughing, and continued
until the old gentleman stopped beating him,

RENTICEANA.-About the only person that
we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by be-
ing lionized was a Jew named Daniel.

An English writer says in his advice to young

married women, "that their mother Eve married

a gardener." It might be added that the gar-

dener, in consequence of the match, lost his

situation.

Whatever Midas touched was turned into gold,

In these days, touch a man with gold and he'll
turn into anything.-Prenticeana; or, Wit and
Humor in Passages (Claxton, R. & H.).

THERE is a good story told of the night editor
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upon him, so that towards four o'clock in the
morning he wound up his night's work by pen-
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compelled to leave several of our columns blank."

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