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Show KNEW WHO TO KICK. Once the great Bowie, who invented the bowie-knife bowie-knife and who was killed in the massacre of the Alamo, had occasion to kick a man out of a hotel in St. Louis. A few days later he -was called to New Orleans. There he saw the same man that he- had booted out of the Planters' house vigorously vigor-ously kicking another man out of a New Orleans hotel. Going ' to him and tapping hint on the shoulder, Bowie said. "Are you not the gentleman that I had the pleasure of kicking out of the Planters' house in St. Louis a few days ago?" The man looked at him and replied, "Mr. Bowie, you and I know who to kick." It must be the same way in England. In the Liverpool Post and Mercury we find this local item: At WigMn, yesterday. W. Johnston, of Si Kegent street. Wigan. was summoned for assaulting a constable. Tbe defendant de-fendant was told that he was reported for ao offense. He invited the constable iate his house and there seized him I y the shoulder, pianed him agaiut tbe door, aad kicked him. For this offense ke waa ined the nominal fine of it fid aud costs. . Evidently AY. Johnston knows who "to kick. Suppose that constable had been My Lord Fitz-doodle Fitz-doodle or some 'baron of intellect ; it would have meant a year at least in prison at hard labor. |