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Show I. H FOR THIS I WOULD MAKE ANOTHER H MISTAKE. Tho Specator, Portland, Oregon: My esteemed M friend, LeRoy Armstrong, who makes Goodwin's M Weekly tho most entertaining publication in Salt B Lake Gity or for that matter in all Utah con- H fers neW and unnecessary honors on a one-time M celebrated gentleman who was known over the M length and breadth of tho land as "Brown of m Calavaras." Tho lamented Bret Harto discovered fl Mr. Brown of Calaveras reading a paper on phys- , J iology before the Society upon tho Stanislaus, WM than which it will be remembered that fl Nothing could bo finer or more beautiful to see Than tho first six months' proceedings of that ' 1 samo society ''iM Till Brown of Calaveras brought a lot of fossil M bones H That ho found within a tunnol near the tenement m of Jones. ,HJ Then Brown ho read a paper, and ho reconstructed M thcro ,m From those samo bones, an animal that was ox- H trcmoly raro; M And Jones then, asked tho Chair for a suspension H of tho rules J Till ho could provo that those samo bones was H ono of his lost mules. . H Then Brown ho smiled a bitter smilo, and said H ho was at fault. H It seemed he had been trespassing on Jones' jH family vault: M Ho was a most sarcastic man, this quiot Mr. 1 Brown. .1 And on several occasions ho had cleaned out tho M town. 1 It may bo recalled that Mr. Jones took um- M brage at the rather pointed suggestion that ho H was an ass, and began heaving rocks at Brown; H and it is hero that Mr. Armstrong permits him- "1 self to show too much partiality for Brown, who M is represented in the latest issue of Goodwin's H Weokly as tho man who rose to a point of order, M "when a chunk of old red sandstono took him in H tho abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, H and curled up on tho floor; And tho subsequent H proceodings interested him no more." H It was not tho sarcastic Mr. Brown who met H this cruel fate; it was Abnor Dean of Angel's, and H it is generally believed that the stone that laid H him low was catapulted from tho Brown fist. H Of courso, to somo it may not seem worth H while to make so muoh ado over Mr. Armstrong's H mistake, and that probably neither Brown of H Calaveras nor Abnor Doan of Angel's will pro- H tost. But it is worth while; because LeRoy Arm- H strong has hitherto shown that ho is not only im- H peccable, but infallible as well. And when Mr. i B Armstrong proves that ho is peccant and fallible, H too, no ono should lose the opportunity of telling H him so. Something, too, is duo to historio ac- H ouracy. H |