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Show ' Like a voice from the grave comes the announcement that Boulanger will spend the winter at Malta. Why this resurrection? What claim did the gallant gal-lant general ever havo to fame? The mercurial Frenchman once did homage at that shrine but why? Boulanger was once a line iigure of a man. Ho looked well on horseback. He kept an expensive ex-pensive mistress. He insulted tho faithful wife of his youth. No other reason is apparent. The telegraphic account of a procession pro-cession in Dorsetshire, England, headed by oue of John Bull's ganders, might have been sport for the callow goslings of both sexes who kept step with the music of tin pans and the clash of cymbals, cym-bals, but it must have tired the unsym-pathi.ing unsym-pathi.ing full grown gander who led the procession. Vet it might have been paradise compared with the purgatorial Caudle curtain lecture administered by Mrs. Goosey-Gander after he had waddled wad-dled into the coop prepared for him. |