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Show A FRENCHMAN'S FATE An honest binder, employed moro than twenty years iit Kouen bouse, had been sent up to tho Paris Exlii-bilioti, Exlii-bilioti, Ids expenses being provided out of tho Lottery fund. The poor, fellow mj.yrd himself Immensely I and would doubtless have felt grateful over after to the p.d ministration which had provided him with so delightful an entertainment for nothing. Un-; happily, however, workmen thus favored ar expecttd to draw up a report of their experiences lor tho commissioners of the lottery. Now, the binder bid no sooner returned to bis uat.vu city than this lilerary Ubor began to weigh on him like a nightmare. night-mare. He wr.B a'raid te should bo expectid to ui"e a account o( all the sections of the exhibition, with copious observation on Ihe wondrous thing couUmed therein. If ho did not do Ibis, be wus convinced that tho government would rua him for tbo coslB of bw trip. It was Lo no purpose pur-pose that bis comrades tried to cheer him up and even offered to compose his report for him. Lesage such was the miserable man's name lost bia apatite, gr w men as find Bullen, and one day d .sap are t from his jhome. His body wa- shortly aftur- ' ward found in the Seine, |