Nibo Village in Kuninaka Plain. The bridge in front of Sanno-hiyoshi Shrine is a playground for children

Children play on the bridge in front of Sadosan Seiren Printing in Chigusa, Kanazawa Village

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PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 18: Below the upper vignette: －You see, how well little Estancelin speaks for his age, and in front of everybody, and without crying... unlike you Anatole, he's a great satisfaction to his parents! ; Below the lower vignette: The meeting is suspended

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NEWS 269: － Oh! Good Lord, my dear fellow, what a state you're in. － Hush! it's dodge I've devised for not giving New Year's presents

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TRIVIAL THINGS 7: －Come to dinner, my wife dines in town: we will be fellows together. －Ah,deuce,I have a migraine! (aside) and his wife who is waiting for me at home!

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Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

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THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

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Musicians of Paris 5: “Where could we be better off (repeat.)” “Than in the bosom of the family － ” There three artists would find themselves better off in the bosom of the tavern, and their young associate in the bosom of a game of marbles

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Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

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Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

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NEWS 110: －Great Prince Muley, son of Muley, do you deign to place yourself in the shade beneath this object... the Englishman who had the kindness to make over this object to me for a hundred gold pieces told me that it was of excellent use in all the storms of life... －Let me be... it's useless... the day when the French took away my parasol, I caught sunstroke from which I shall never recover!..

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ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY 2: THEY MAKE THIS POOR PUBLIC SWALLOW THIS!! The Rubber Clyso-Trompe occupies, within the large family of emollients, the place which the gentle flute holds among wind instruments. The Clyso-Trompe refreshes ideas, destroys bugs, calms nervous irritation, opens up intelligence, purifies the Conscience of remorse, inspires Dithyrambs upon the museum of Versailles, but does not at all relieve colic. The lights of the ox in early infacy have received the commendation of all crowned heads. This admirable Pectoral cures Dim-sightedness, Corns, Whitlows, freckles, the mania for maknig dramas. etc. etc. etc. This velvet paste is most particularly suitable for everyone. It relieves hoarseness as if by hand. Duprez is indebted to it from 553 feet above sealevel, where he has never been. It even gives children in the best of health Whooping-cough

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