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• Climate and Surgery R C Gilchrist, who was shot by J Sharp twelve days ago
  and who received a derringer ball in the right breast, and who it was supposed at the time could not live many hours, was on the street yesterday and the day before - walking several blocks at a time....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Accidentally Shot Colonel Gray, of Petaluma, came near losing his life a few days ago, in a singular manner.
  A gentleman with whom he was hunting attempted to bring down a dove, but instead of doing so put the load of shot through the Colonel's hat....
• Accident in Santa Cruz At this place, August 15th, William D Farrand was shot in the thigh by the accidental discharge of his pistol while he was in the act of putting it in his pocket.
  The wound is severe. -- From the Sacramento Daily Union of October 31, 1861...
• Once upon a time, there was a fisherman who lived by a great river.
  One day, after a hard day's fishing, he hooked what seemed to him to be the biggest, strongest fish he had ever caught....
• San Francisco prohibits elephants from strolling down.
• I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart. -- Steven Wrigh
• El Camino Bignum: /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ n. The road mundanely called El Camino Real
  a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact....
• consult guide about matter transference beams A thoroughly unpleasant means of travelling which involves tearing you apart in once place and slamming you back together in another.
  (Of course, it's better than the older method, where disassembled people would be transmitted down phone lines and arrive in a garbled and sometimes completely disconnected state....