Among the Literati.
Reading edition
It is reported in high literary circles that the McAfee Refining Company will take two pages of “The Easter Current” for the purpose of advertising the excellences of its new brand of leaf-lard.
At the formal dedication of the Blue-Island Avenue toboggan-slide last Saturday evening, a beautiful poem in imitation of the Pindaric odes was read by the gifted authoress, Miss Birdie McLaughlin.
Among the recent additions to the valuable collection of our esteemed fellow-townsman, N. Hawthorne Smith, is an autograph of Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sahara.
We are informed that a Browning Society has been organized by the inmates of the Cook-County Imbecile Asylum.
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