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Show i JOHN L. SULLIVAN. John Lawrence Sullivan has been known .' to fame almost ever since he cleaned up four Hogan children and one goat In an alley lo Boston the day the battle of Gettysburg Get-tysburg was fought. He was then 5 years old. it Is not the purpose here to recount his rise, etc., to space dqes not permit, but suffice It to say that the subject of our sketch fell September 8, 1892. it being the only fall in history, besides the one at Rome that ever amounted to much. The fall was preceded by a -battle that ranks with Waterloo as one of the. decisive scraps of the world. This was after the thirty yeara' war with Jake Kllrain. Following Fol-lowing the fall he abdicated, but refused to go- to 8t. Helena or any place like It H accepted a position as manager of a buffet (better ' known as a saloon) on Broadway. New York. This lasted until the brewery'a output fell below the John U powers of conaumption. The brewerlea took tha count faster than Kllrain. Paddy Rvan or Charley Mitchell. In appearance John looks something like Hercules, only Hercules wore a 32-by-31 pant, while John T. takes a 64-by-33. Both great men are alike in that neither wore auspendera. romDared to Atlaa. John L. waa much the mESSa? The former had the world on hta ahoulders. but John L. waa chief of ""verse w far aa the records show. H. wMn?M good an actor aa Henry Irv-. Irv-. WJrnv resiects but he never saw McOovern. n former car- Touaouf. the Sni j n ! Chicago Record-Herald. t 4 i |