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"MARK OF CENTENARIAN.

"Mrs. Rachel ----, a former resident of this city, was the guest
of honor at a dinner served yesterday at her son's home in
Wilkinsburg, the occasion being the 92nd anniversary of her birth.
Mrs. ---- was born in Somerset County and resided in this city
before the flood."--_American Paper_.

At first we thought the headline a little previous, but the last
sentence shows that it is, on the contrary, decidedly belated.

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[Illustration: _Indignant Patriot_ (_to Local Food Committee_). "I
WISH TO REPORT THAT THERE'S A GROCER IN THIS TOWN WHO IS SELLING
BUTTER, SUGAR AND JAM WITHOUT COUPONS. HE--"

_Food Committee_ (_as one man, ecstatically_). "WHICH IS HIS SHOP?"]

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SOMETHING LIKE "LITERARY GOSSIP"!

Are you not, dear reader, a little tired of what is called "Literary
Gossip"? Be frank. Aren't you? And have you not sometimes longed even
more to know what the industrious fellows were not writing than what
they were?

But suppose we could come across an authentic column like this?

Mr. KIPLING is putting the finishing touches to a new Jungle book.
The first and second Jungle books have waited too long for this new
companion; but it is now on its way. A friend of the author, who has
been privileged to see an early copy, says that it is full of all the
old enchantment.

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Our Burwash correspondent informs us that, not content with the
re-incarnation of _Mowgli_, Mr. KIPLING has completed a new romance of
wandering life in India, not unlike _Kim_ in treatment, to be entitled
_The Great Trunk Road_.

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An album has just come to light, the value of which is beyond
computation. On the faded leaves of this book, which once belonged to
Fanny Brawne, are inscribed three new poems in KEATS'S own hand. Not
mere album verses, but poems of the highest importance, equal to rank
to the Odes to the Grecian Urn and the Nightingale. The book itself
will be sold by auction next week, but meanwhile the poems are to be
issued in pamphlet form by Sir SIDNEY COLVIN.

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An enterprising firm of publishers announces for immediate publication
a volume by President WILSON, entitled _From White House to Buckingham
Palace_. This work is in the form of a diary of singular frank