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Show Just a Little Sarcastic. A certain popular statesman who has a great reputation as an after dinner speaker was one evening entertaining enter-taining a .party of congenial friends. He was at his best. But even he had to take breath and as he paused momentarily mo-mentarily to do so one of his friends suddenly straightened up in his chair and in a most impressive manner said: "Old man, you might have pneu- ' monia and recover; you might have fever and recover; you might have smallpox and recover, but" he shook a warning finger solemnly "if you ever get the lockjaw you'll burst." Chicago Tribune. |