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Show THE SHOi.T-UVKlr iiioioni.sr. lUlIIKUT J. IlUIUtinTK TIIISKS IIIS r-AJtn in iiATiinK tka:-iet. So scarce i tit funny man that you must seek for him when ou watithlut. lie It not nearly to numerous nu-merous as hts reputation. He roves life and light and warmth, and into sivacious in hit mere enjoyment bf lift that iadtry he touu times multiplies mul-tiplies himself tu one's Irritated Imajlnalion, as one light wlngtd tly, chlMnf thesunimir, tmns tu in-a bundled ur n thousand to the wie man.. Lent on iiii,iviiig his mind and teiii)4liig eteruityby reading read-ing (lie "KnclycJojieliallritauIca." Ttte"elid man" Ia Jlay lly, living lit tlieHiiL-liltie fur one happy day uud then forgotten. In a Mrml-crKiral Mrml-crKiral aer, afe-r months since, .Mr. LuUns nuntlous by name alout lM American bumuthts who Iu ve made merry w lib their frit, mis during the isvt tn hundred jears. It lsu irttlirtic rrcunl ofKrangtrs. Kead it and underline the uanu-s wltlclt Itove a fjtiilliar suuud in your irs. Hlot out the names you cannot renumber to have read or heard before, be-fore, and If you are under -itl years of age the cuudruealiou of the q-I-r will startle aou. Die Koplu have nut been led Into the wilderness wilder-ness of frivolity by (he end man. Somt times (he funny man, In a mo ment of rtnsduesH, consents lo leituru two nights in mere-fluti. The tec-ond tec-ond copy U ahuoet In variably a dismal dis-mal failure. "Oiu cotiMxutlve night" Is the limit of the funny man's courre. Jtut is.p!e do not like to beamued a little, ami to the cud man is usually ut on. Frequently Fre-quently he is Informed and the uiicoiuciouue of the committeeman committee-man who so informs him is fruitier fru-itier than aut thing in the lectun that "wo have had the viry iHt lecturer In tbe country on our courts; this w inter, the strongest strong-est iiiIihU and the gmudttl thinkers think-ers In America, and mow our rec-ple rec-ple waut a little change." , |
