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Show The Coroner's Verdict. H The late deceased had just dined. M Pedestrians gathered about him on the side- M walk where he haa fallen. M The coroner came. M "Stand back!" he cried. H The crowd respectfully moved back about M three inches. H Which is as far as a crowd ever moves when M After feeling the man's wrist and listening at M his heart the coroner stood up. M He glanced about at the surrounding buildings. M His eye fell upon a Chinese restaurant near M by. "Does anyone know if the deceased had been M in there?" he asked. M "Yes," said a man, "I ate dinner in there M with him, and he fell dead as soon as he came M H 'I thought so," said the coroner. M And when the verdict was recorded it read: M "Chop-suey-side." Baltimore American. M fc iv tv H It would, no doubt, be shown, if figures could M be obtained, that dyspepsia has spoiled more good M fellows than marriage has. Puck. H & S M Many occupations have diseases which are H more or less incidental to them, and literature Is H not exempt. The two most prevalent literary H maladies are writer's cramp ana swelled head. H The unfortunate thing about writer's cramp is M that it is never cured. The unfortunate thing H about swelled head is that It never kills. M. A. P. H |