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Show Bretk IIaktk has entered the lecture lec-ture field for the season, and is making mak-ing as signal a failure as did Stanley Africanus, in his ellbrts to tell how he lound Livingstone, i'reto appeared on the rostrum at St. Louis a week ago. lie was attired in full dress, with spotless linen, and diamond studs; but his audience, after straining strain-ing their auricular organs for two hours in vain eflbrts to catch the faint and timid echoes of his voice, voted him a bore, and adjourned disgusted. disgus-ted. Much as people may admire the genius that gave to literature the tory of " That Heathen Chinee " or the tale of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," they have no ambition to be placed on nettles by a languid, timid, mild-voiced lecturer. Let the shoemaker shoe-maker t-tick to his last. |