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Show GO UP HEAD- Tuere are contemporaries of ours who seem determined to keep us perpetually per-petually hanging upon the ragged tdge of billingsgate. Here, for instance, in-stance, is the Milwaukee Sentinel, which, without the slightest provocation, provoca-tion, declares that we have '"an antipathy an-tipathy to water !" which, it is hardly i.eeess iry to say, is a miserable, low-browed, low-browed, kuock-kLeed and slab-cidcd uutruin a withering, burning, blighting falsehood, instigated bv iht wtuie-hvered minion of a howling riend Iresh from the reeking purlieus ot a debauched and pu-illauimouelv poilruonzed imagination, and the man who dares nut to hoid aloft even a spoonful o( water mixed with a tumbler of old Bourbon and declare that we have the merest ghost of an antipathy to it, is a slanderer, a calumniator cal-umniator and a falsifier, and the subsidized sub-sidized wruch who says he isn't is a liar, u poltroon and a cowan!, and we can whi j the aa undrel who says he isn't, pledging ourselves at tlie same time to horsewhip the base , hireling who dares to intimate that , we can't, and where is the cowardly, , crouching horsethief who says we are , ai'r.iid to try it? Louisville Courier- ' Journal. |