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Show Hari-zr's Monthly for January 1 gives a story from President Orton ol an old Urlce?'s explanation of the I "science" of the telegraph that ia not I an inapt illustration of "the science" of withholding dispatches from the .nnirrntainnol ' r-nmmitrPfl in New Orleans: "Now you see, Sam, a'posejda was a dog, and dat dog's head was in Hoboken and his tail in Brooklyn." "Go 'way, da ain't no such dog. " "Well, s'pose da was." "Well, s'pose da was." "Well, deu, the telegram is jest like dat dog. If I pinch dat dog's tail in Brooklyn, what he do?" "Dunno." "Why, if I pinch dat dog's tail in Brooklyn, he go bark in Hoboken. Dat's the science of it." Just now some one is pinching the telegraph dog's tail in Washington, and he is barking in New Orleans. Courier- Journal. |