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Show Those Lifn Preservers. "I often have a strong desire," said a ferryboat traveler, "to pick up ono of those life preservers under the seats snd hold it upby one of the strings, just to see if it wouldn't fall to pieces from its own weight They look rotten, and I believe they are rotten. They never seem to change positions. The dust is always an inch thick on them, and, so I assume that they are never examined. Fancy the despair of a man who seized one of them to assist him iu saving his life, and when he tried to tie the straps around him found them falling apart like a worn out shoestring." New Y'ork Tribune. |