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Title: Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette
Year: 1889 (1880s)
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Publisher: D. T. Ames
Contributing Library: The University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s, coshiTS, ic. and althoiigh we have nver 1000shuieuts in daily nttendance, wv cJintgraduate them fast euougU to keep upwith the de Ting-a-linff, ting-a-ling, ling:, lirg! Hello! hello! ! The Bogtown WagonFactory? Yes, we can send yon a brightyoung man in two or three months. Hisfather is here now making arrangements Balked by a PerpendicularSignature. It is not often that Henry N Willey,the polite clerk at the Grand Pacific, isnonplussed by any gag or trick perpe-trated by the would-be funny guests thatquarter themselves at this popular hotel,btu one evening last week he was com-pelled to own up beaten, A serious-look- He always watches a man registerina,, andhas accustomed himself to reading lettersupside down, so that when he catches thefirst few letters of a mans name, he guessesat the rest, and when the guest has fin-ished writing and looks up, Mr. Willey atonce calls him by his name, though he ap-pears to be looking at anything else butthe book. In this way it mn*kcs no diffcr-
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for him to go to school. I will place yourapplication for a book-keeper on tile.Good-bye. At this point of the interview thefarmer pulls out his well-worn wallet andpays ;50 for a scholarship, promising tosend his boy in on the morrow. WhileProfessor Inkwell is showing him to thedoorTriE Jourxai, reporter peeps behindthe office desk—and there beheld thenrrrrf. An electric battery connected withthe telephone and operated by a buttonunder the Professors foot. ing individual, one who, it would seem,did cot even know the nature of a joke,came in with satchel and umbrella, andtaking the pen the ever-ready Willey al-ways hands with a bow and a smile thattwists his blonde mustache into acrobaticcontortion.^, he made nine perpendiculardashes on the register. It may be saidright here that Mr. Willey has the repu-tation of knowing everybody, but it is onlyhis cunning that has earned it for him. ence if a man comes there for the first timein his life, Mr. Willey will surprise himby putting out

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