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Show The Mother of Invention. ; Necessity has usually been considered con-sidered the mother of invention; but a rival haa been discovered. It is beer. A shabby, dirty, lean old fellow, perhaps 50 years of age, was leaning against one of a number of beer kegs on Second South street yestarday, and happening to shake it, heard the delightful de-lightful music that only beer in a keg can make. Alter thinking for aome time, be moved off, but returned in a moment with" half an old bottle, and looking cautiously around to make sure he was not noticed, tipped the keg up, poured part of tho contents con-tents into the broken bottle, and from thia Doured it down his throat. He repeated the cireua twice, but on trying it a third lime found tbat he had extracted all the nectar. He then tried the other barrels, but to no avail, and putting on a tony and highly inventive look not unmingled with disappointment hid the bottle under a bridge and hobbled ofl. The myalerioua air with which he went through the whole a0air, and tho devotional attitude assumed by the old fellow in the muddy street when ' he went to satisfy hia fevered thirst,' made the affair extremely ludicrous to those who Beoreily witnessed the performance of an inventive genius awakened by a beer keg. |