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Show Origin of a Famous Expression. (From Portland Oregonian.) "My dastard uncle," said Hamlet, "has killed my father. Let me consider a suitable punishment." Just at that moment a 10, 20 and 30 actor came out of the stage door of tho theatre across tho street and hastened toward a neighboring sandwitch parlor. "Aha!" muttered the astute prince, "I'll make him sit through a melodrama!" aud suiting the action ac-tion tx the word he proceeded to prepare for the wretched king the most horrible torture known. It was the dramatic critic who wrote tho show notice no-tice of that performance who originated the expression, expres-sion, "There's something rotten in Denmark." |