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Show It Cos U, Gibbs Ha, old fellow, how are you? Just heard that you had gone into the newspaper business. Dibbs Yes, just bougat a country paper. Gibbs That so? Why, you can give me an occasional puff, then. Dibbs Certainly. What are you busy with now? Gibbs I am in the clothing business ready made clothing. DiLbs Hal Then you can give mo an occasional fiuit of clothes. Gibbs Well, dunno about that. It costs money to -manufacture clothing, you know. Dibbs That' true, and it costs nothing noth-ing to manufacture newspapers! Then they parted. London Tit-Bits. Kapoleon's Opinion of Ziovev During the period when Napoleon was with his regiment at Auxonne, an lieutenant of artillery, he devoted much Cf his spare time to authorship. Ha wrota two 6hort pieces, one a "Dialogue "Dia-logue on Love," and the other, "Reflections "Re-flections on the State of Nature, " Pro fessor William M. Sloane, in his new life of Napoleon, quotes the following interesting extract from the former in The Century: "L too, was once in love," he 6ays of himself. It could not well have been in Aj:iccio, and it must have been the memories of the old Valence, of a pleasant existence now ended, which called forth the doleful confession. confes-sion. It was the future Napoleon who was presaged in the antithesis. "I go further than the denial of its existence. I believe it hurtful to society, to the Ujdividual welfare of men." |