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Show BIG THINGS IN MULES. - A Galveston man met a gentleman from northern Texas, and asked how a certain mutual friend was coming on. "He is doing very well, was the reply. "What business is he at?" "He has got the softest thing in the world of it. He bought a lot of Mexican donkeys at San Antonio for $3 a piece, and having taken them up to his rancho, he clears $27 a head on them." "Do they bring such prices?" "No, but he lets the railroad trains run over them and the company has to pay him $30 a piece for them. --- Galveston News. |