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The short essay on “The Improbability of the Infinite” which I was planning for you yesterday will now never be written. Last night my brain was crammed with lofty thoughts on the ... [+]

Here is the queer story of David William Duck, related by himself. Duck is an old man living in Aurora, Illinois, where he is universally respected. He is commonly known, however, as "Dead ... [+]

Some one has revealed to the TRIBUNE that I once suggested to Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, New York, that we get up a monument to Adam, and that Mr. Beecher favored the project. There is more to... [+]

It was late in the afternoon, and the light was waning. There was a difference in the look of the tree shadows out in the yard. Somewhere in the distance cows were lowing and a little bell was ... [+]

AT 8 a.m. it lay on Giuseppi's news-stand, still damp from the presses. Giuseppi, with the cunning of his ilk, philandered on the opposite comer, leaving his patrons to help themselves, no doubt ... [+]

A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d ... [+]

Tiny bit of humanity,
Blessed with your mother’s face,
And cursed with your father’s mind.
... [+]

I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it... [+]

What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist


Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life... [+]

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve’s like the melodie,... [+]

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to ... [+]

In the northern part of Austin there once dwelt an honest family by the name of Smothers. The family consisted of John Smothers, his wife, himself, their little daughter, five years of age, and her ... [+]