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Show SMALL-POX INCIDENTS. A German expressman called at a house on Clinton street Brooklyn, recently, re-cently, to deliver a box-' He rang the bell, and a servant girl opened the door, when the expressman said: "I have got a sehmall pox, and if you likes I will cany it up stairs." The girl looked horror-stricken, and not relishing the idea of admitting a man with the small-pox, slammed, bolted and barred the door in the atdonished expressman's face. A small boy was arrc.-tcd in Chicago the other day tor vagrancy, when lie asserted that he oouid prove an alibi. Said that was the first day he bad zio from home in three weeks, as their folks had the fmall-px. The jolly justice said sharply, "For 'eaven'i sake stand further away from us, if that's theca.e." The "VhyMcr" skedaddkd. the visitors vanished: the police departed, de-parted, and the reporters jumped ; through a window and never stupped running until they reached the othi-e of the sanitary superintendent, wiire "disinfectants" were f reely indulged in at fifteen cents a disinfect. |