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Show An Imported Corpse. Yesterday morniuK a mysterious looking box was received at Sears' grocery and provision store. It was about six teet long, and shaped not unlike a casket in which corpses are transported. Slowly and solemnly ii mini (mm thfiexnresswaeon and gently pUccd on the sidewalk. A J crowd of curious spectators gathered around it, and strange words were whispered concerning the conteuts. If the employes had been careful in moving the casket they were doubly so in opening it, while the inquisitive crowd stood silently around. Finally the lid was removed and there, shrouded iu paper and surrounded in sawdust, lay the form of a woman. The spectators were now firnly convinced con-vinced that the occupant of the mysterious mys-terious box was a corpso, which had been sent from abroad for interment. Carefully anu tenderly the body was, lifted and carried into tho store and "unwrapped," when a wooden-Chinee woman a "figger," as the late lamented A. Ward would say, was developed, The crowd spun off on !tnoir ears, their curiosity having been I fully gratified, |