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Show TalUd Ulut Craah. Cn If ago Ik rnlil. Two INew Orleans editors have jut fought a duel because one of them, who conducts a French weekly, called tho other a crank. It would be interesting to know what French term was used for our fsjiiliar word crank. Possibly our word was Gallici.ed into something like crancque. The o. tended party moot have been touchy indeed to get angry at such an epitiwl. It was rather a compliment. All great geniuses hve been aud are cranks. Socrates, Peter the Great, Alexander Pope. Coleridge, Carlyle, were all cranks. Ren Uutler, Hen Harrison, Carter Harrison aud (ieorge Francis Train r cranks. |