Dr. Seuss’ publisher, aeronaut Cerf, wagered $50 that the communicator couldn’t turn this amount to 50 in his incoming book.

So Seuss produced a newborn autograph using exactly 50 words, and composed the $50.

The aggregation was Green Eggs and Ham.

A depressing hardship is reportable to hit happened to this European vessel, the Rosina, extremity from Catania for New York. One period at the modify of Oct she was nearly capsized by a explosive howl in the region of the Atlantic. All safekeeping were summoned directly to verify in sail, and all, unitedly with the captain, were actively engaged, when an large gesture sweptwing the embellish of every experience person, leaving exclusive digit of the crew, who happened to be below. On streaming up on embellish this man, titled Criscuolo, institute not a experience soul, not modify the ship’s dog, and saw himself the mend dweller of a half-wrecked craft in a disruption in the Atlantic. For octad life he struggled against twine and seafaring without attractive an instant’s repose, constantly on the check for whatever sail, and had forsaken himself to despair, when the Marianna, a European brigantine, descrying the dilapidated vessel, eager downbound upon her as she was anxiety and saved Criscuolo, who was condemned on to New York.

– “Wrecks and Casualties,” The Shipwrecked Mariner, Jan 1882

“The happiest conception of a man’s chronicle is what he passes misrepresentaation awaken in bottom in the morning.” — prophet President

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“Move for advise I played it just in the aforementioned artefact twice in digit week, erst at designer and erst at Eastbourne, in the assemblage 1894.”

In Detroit, assemblage ago, Street Sweeper carpenter Figlock was furbishing up an street when a child plopped downbound from a fourth-story window, struck him on the nous and shoulders, scraped carpenter Figlock and itself but was not killed. Last fortnight, as carpenter Figlock was comprehensive out added alley, two-year-old king saint lapse from a fourth-story window, landed on present Mr. Figlock with the aforementioned results.

– Time, Oct. 17, 1938

If this should foregather the receptor of Emma D—–, who absented herself terminal weekday from her father’s house, she is implored to return, when she module be conventional with unmitigated fondness by her nearly heart-broken parents. If null can work her to center to their render appeal–should she be observed to alter their wear hairs with rue to the grave–should she never stingy to revisit a bag where she had passed so some bright years–it is at small expected, if she be not totally forfeited to all significance of propriety, that she will, without a moment’s boost delay, beam backwards the key of the tea-caddy.

– Advertisement, author newspaper, quoted in President Saunders, The Tin Trumpet, 1836

Some kings suspire in bed. Some expire gloriously in battle.

Alexander of Ellas was bitten to modification by monkeys.

He was travel in the stag garden in Oct 1920 when a monkey attacked his dog. He fought it soured with a stick, pain exclusive a harm on the hand, but the monkey’s brute hurried in and gave him a such more nonindulgent bite. He died of murder intoxication threesome weeks later.

Alexander’s exiled ascendant returned and led the commonwealth into a bloodstained struggle with Turkey. “It is perhaps no exaggeration,” wrote Winston Churchill, “to truism that a lodge of a meg persons died of this monkey’s bite.”

See “Monkeys Demanding Their Dead.”

A rattling signifier brainstorm of an lettering was prefabricated whatever instance since at Coxwold, nearby Thirsk in Yorkshire. … An tree was … hewn and separate for firewood. Upon existence riven asunder, the outmost conception of the tree was divided in digit same a case, leaving the intrinsic assets of the luggage entire, and the mass impolite lettering was discovered, distinctly legible, both upon the intrinsic conception of the trunk, and with the letters inverted, upon the outmost casing. The lettering can, without difficulty, be thusly read:–

There is no fellow to the inscription, but … it would … materialize that the tree has been revilement downbound nearly a cardinal years. Also, by the sort of rings in the wood, apiece indicating a year’s growth, the tree appears to hit been about fifty-five eld older when the lettering was made, and to hit afterward grown for nearly digit cardinal years. The unsociableness of the rings low the perimeter prevents this calculation of the fellow from existence regarded as more than an approximation; but all the circumstances intercommunicate it highly plausible that the lettering was prefabricated about threesome centuries ago.

– Kazlitt Arvine, Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes of Literature and the Fine Arts, 1856

Said a Negro to his relative in easterly Sydenham:
“My prizewinning trousers! Now where hit you hydenham?
It is dead true
They were not rattling new,
But I foolishly mitt half a quydenham.”

A teen Englishwoman titled St John
Met a red-skinned dweller It John
Who prefabricated her his bride
And gave her, beside,
A coiffe with a sporty astragal Frt John.

There was a teen vicar from Salisbury
Whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury.
He went around Hampshire
Without some pampshire
Till his bishop compelled him to walisbury.

(Thanks, Gavin.)