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Show A Cent's Worth. I was walking by the Hotel Buckingham Bucking-ham the other evening (says a writer in New York Truth) when my ear was penetrated pene-trated by a hoarse shriek, "Extra! extra! full account of the fire down town extra!" ex-tra!" "Let me see, boy, if you're telling the Iruth," said a passer by. Tho lad held up his paper to verify his statement, and showed the headline, ''$-J30,000 Blaze!" "Oh," said the inquirer, "two hundred nd fifty thousand? Is that all? Well, I guess I don't want the paper." "Ah, what's de matter wid you," an-wered an-wered the newsboy; "do yer want ter kurn up de city o' New York for a cent?" |