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Show skate on the river, as the ice was thin. His mother does not cook for as many as she formerly did." , "In Massachusetts the other day a man thought he could cross the track in advance of a locomotive. The services, at the grave were, very impressive." . STUDY IN STYLE OF AMERICAN PAPERS. An English paper, which has a large number of "esteemed American contemporaries," has collected the following samples of American reporting, or, to be more exact, the following samples of American humor: - r - - f "A man in Maryland the other day ate fifteen dozen oysters for a wager. The silver trimmings on his coffin cost $12.35 " "John Bmith, Jr., in Nebraska, said he could handle a rattlesnake rattle-snake the taine as a snake-charmer. The churlishness of the under- -taker in demanding pay in advance delayed the funeral four days.",, N , "Richard Strongarm, better known as the 'champion trunk-smasher trunk-smasher of Missouri,' found a box last week jmarke 'Dynamite. Han-, die with care.' 'LTa! ha!' said he, 'dynamite,' in a scornful voice, aa fc telzed tl5 load and yanked it on the platform. He never came - back.'! ' ' ;.' . . ' " .' , , : : , "A circus rider in Arizona tried to turn three somersaults on horseback the other day. The 'manager sent back to New Orleans ' for another somersault man." "A man warned his wife in Chicago not to light the fire with , keroscse. Che'did not heed the warning. Her clothes fit his sec- , ond wife rc: irkably well." V ." - ' ' . ' . -"A ill boy was hanging around a circus in Brooklyn the cli'r Czj, he opened tbe lid of a box named ''boa-constrictor.' i Hat cr-ll I y doesn't hang around any more circuses." -1 44 ' ! ; r -in. Cirada disregarded his mother's injunctions not to " e ",.'.1 ... , , , . - - . |