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Show Hon. Mr. Fletcher's Lecture. The lecture announced for last evening was an undoubted success. About one hundred persons congregated congre-gated at the Institute in response to the following which was widely circulated cir-culated in hand bill form: Lecture at the Liberal Institute, this, Wednesday, evening, by the lion. Samuel Fletcher, late Member of Congress from the fourth district of Pennsylvania. Subject: "The origin of the Darwinian species," illustrated by experiments novel aud beautiful. The pictures, trtio to life, aro the finest ever exhibited here. Admission Admis-sion free. For this day only. Among tho " experiments" was that of undertaking to get out an audience on April 1, to hear a lecture (by an honorable gentleman, who never existed save in the imagination of the gifted author of fcthe hand-bill. The principal "picture" was that of a few score of chilled bipeds, nnx-iously nnx-iously waiting for somebody to come and light up the hall, until tho brilliant bril-liant idea struck somebody that it was rather too early in the mouth for lectures, and that tho " origin of the Darwinian species" was a ppecious pretence. It is safe to assert that everyone present sadly Rood the hour in which ho permitted the Arch-ibald fiend to allure him from homo on such a thin subtrfuge. |