Intermittently might be heard the voice of the “barker” droning his droll catch-phrases, informing the inquisitive populace that for “one dime, ten cents or a tenth part of a dollar,they could see “the greatest wonder of the age, the cinemagraph showing -- MOV-ING PIC'-CHURES.

The vilest, most designingly wicked men our century knows.

Some of the habitual buyers [of ostrich feathers] have nicknames, and those who do a local business and buy for re-selling are known as ‘resurrectionists’.

Thus Cornelius Gemma, Professor of Medicine in Louvain, mentions them [the aurora borealis] under the name of chasma, as appearing in Brabant on the 13th February and 28th September, 1575.