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FROM BRIGHT TO DULL.--In an interesting article on artificial
reproductions of Nature's treasures, the _Standard_ remarked that
"Real diamonds have been turned out of the chemist's retorts." What a
brilliant chemist he must have been! Probably of Hibernian origin, as
among conversational sparklers there are few on record more brilliant
than "Irish Diamonds." Stay, though! If the real diamonds were "turned
out of the chemist's retorts," then his retorts, without these flashes
of brilliancy, must have been a trifle dull, and he is no longer the
chemist we took him for. "But," to quote our KIPLING, "that is another
story."
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THE NEW EVANGEL.
[M. ZOLA, in his new Novel, glorifies War, and the
regenerative mission of human bloodshed.]
"ZOLA on War," intensifies the "Hola!"
Of purists who are all for "war on ZOLA!"
Well, he whose pen is touched with tints from Tophet,
Is the right man to pose as Red War's Prophet!
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A TRIFLE FOR _THE BUILDER_.--"When are houses like difficulties?" And
the practical man replies, "When they have to be 'faced.'"
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[Illustration: THE RULING PASSION STRONG AT DINNER.
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