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Show MILES AND THE BEAR. It Is told that when the principal guest of the Gridiron, a 'famous dinner club In Washington, was a President of the United State, who tut a few days before had occasion to speak with spirit and -point to the Commanding General ftnsrroy; two-beark entered the banquet chamber. 'One of them was a real bear; the other was an Imitation Imi-tation bear with a man inside of It. The pair rolled" IHtb' the-middle Of the hall and stood op and faced the toast-master. toast-master. " '-.. ."Where did you; come from?" he asked them. ' "We've fceen over to the White House to see the President," said the smaller bear, dolorously. It was then observed that his fur was much disarranged, one of his ears was nearly severed from his head and that b -was in an apparently much enfeebled condition.. . "You do not look very well. ' observed the chairman. "Don't ir" Answered the small bear. 'Don't I? Gee, but you ought to have seen Miles!" "The After-Dinner Bpeakers,"- Everybody's Magaslne. |