| Show Ta IMJ SemiWeekly Herald C W PEKROSE EDITOR I ISSUED WHJDNFSDAY8 and SATURDAYS Contains 1 tho cream of the dally edltlc3 uid other matter specially edited TERMS 0 A YEAR U 0 1 REMARKS BY BILL NYE l7s1iutno THE LITERARY SENSATION OF THE AGE 3YER 500 PAGES 150 ILLUSTRATIONS I Handsomely Bound in Stiff Paper Cover LAUGH AND GROW FAT A collection of the bent writings of this ftreai author moat profusely Illustrated with over MO pages I is the funniest book ever pub ItaheC Bill Nye needs no Introduction Tho tnontion of the book is enough I BILL NYES KEMAKKS have passed through an earthquake and an Indian outbreak but I would rather ride an earthquake without saddle or bridle than to bestride I be-stride a successful broncho eruption Ago brings caution and a lot of shopTrorn experience purchased at the highest market price Time brings vain regrets and wisdom teeth that can be left in a glass of water overnight over-night Too much of our hotel food tastes like thb I second day of 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monumental work and cost more than a million Yo to very words Ho caid too that it I dollars to get up But there are spots on the was acccpUd astlio standard work accpt t5thlt know and d in sun there defects the of reference by nil Englishopeak you are fot even fJe rrernf Inps scholars and ia every English Enoyclop edia Britannica Did ho mention to and American library Egh l I you that you might look for Ulysses S Grant 1 in it and not find o word about him r Of course he was or pretty nearly so But j the Encyclopaedia Britannica doesnt mention I him for all that And it doesnt word s a and I tht say I Ad Why no Id dont hollers Ita wor a either General Grant was a about Sherman either nor about Sheridan nor well known in England Q 10 w Hancock nor Blaine nor Cleveland nor Harri la this country I son nor Harriet BoechorStowe nor Julia Ward I Howe nor Elizabeth Stuart Phelps nor Charles I Stewart nor Parnell nor Bismarck nor Jeff Davis I Oh yes indeed It contains some of the moat magnificent biographies that over were written Sold on hold on Just tell me I Macaulays life of Dr Johnson for example foldon tlme But you see what they called u the plan of I one word i it says anything tey about anybody eia nynq S the work excluded all mention of living I characters They wanted to see how n man I would turn out first before they made room for his life in their volume 8 Well I cortnlnly dont want an Encyclopedia that will not tell mo anything about the great men of tho world until crg are they dead are Why ohra ite tbct jnst I want exactly to know while Ha t Ha Ha Excuse me but I cant Feip about tom most Bat see herd laughing I suppose your canvasser told lot t Whyisntthoro What you say d oean b hold together his Enoyclopsedia waa a brand new book just 1 anythingtaioabotit Y051dOntl10Idtl5ter issued General Grant Hswasdeadlong isued 6 before this last edition of tho En CTclopzdla Britannica was published pub-lished Guess youvo traveled off tho record just a little bit 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