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Show THE GIRL WHO COUGHED. - The editor of the Richmond Register got into trouble in this wise. He was at church one Sunday night, and sat near a young lady who had a cough. The next issue of his paper happened to have an advertisement of a cough medicine which read something like this: "The young lady who was at church Sunday night with that annoying cough should go and buy a bottle of cough syrup." The above-mentioned young lady read it, and, not knowing it was an advertisement, took it all to herself, and forthwith pounced upon the editor for so cruelly mistreating her. It was only after a heroic explanation that she was convinced that she was not intended in the paragraph.-Lexington Transcript. |