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Show COL ALFRIEND'S LAUGH. MM "I was much amused at a paragraph I lead In a newspaper a few dass ugo which lold of u coloied nuin down In Virginia who lauhlud io loud th it ho could bo IicjiiI for over half 11 mllo ln all directions," Bild Mr T H Willis of Kentucky at tho Hlggs hnuse "While reading the paragraph " continued con-tinued Mr Willis 'I wus forclbl re. minded nf tho 1 Ho e'nl l' W C Al-frlend Al-frlend of Louisville who wus the ch im-plon im-plon louc! laugher white m hi ick, ever known In our Htnte I leineinlier seeing ns well us heuring tho 1 nionel mice 111 a New oik theitei when somo Incl-denlB Incl-denlB nf the phi bo nmused him Hint ho biokc forth In ono of his characteristic charac-teristic laughs whli h, foi tho time to or copied the attention of the audlenio und pluseis that ihe stage pioieedlngs mine in 11 n ubrupt slop The Ken-lu.klnus Ken-lu.klnus laugh 1 line so unexp. ctedly und with such volume that one tnlkht cuslls imagine a dsnnmito explosion hud tuken phuo undei thu thentei All csos were Immedlutelv turned toward the icar of the house when the Colonel sut un the last low Ills laugh nt times was iiielodlous emitting sounds ns fiom the dclicute touch of the hurp then ntalii Ilk. tho 1,1 rat hollow leverberitlon of 11 buss dium the flnalo leseinbllng the lung uiiitln-ued uiiitln-ued screei h if a lo. omotlve llundieds nf men ami women lose to the Ji feet that they might sie the 111 111 with such a. weird nnd iiiumthls luin,h At limes the sound waned uppaiently, as If tho laugh wcio Unlabel whin It would be followed quit kls by an liici.ased volume vol-ume of nclilnniitloii louder even thun that which lull gone bwoie ll this time it pei lad nf fulls ten minims while, ol Alfrlen 1 was giving vent to his nilrlh iheie wns nothing doing 011 the singe 'Ihe idle actors had como from tho wings und their iliesBlng-iooms to nsttrialii what had liinken loom In the audience Thev found a ilvnl uttiucilon playing ut the othei eu I uf the houso which the sec tutors secined lo icllsli mure thin the retutai hill It was un hum ni men a beforo the uudleiue his exhausted Itself nt I'ol Alfrlcnda expense He piiutl-cally piiutl-cally broke up the lay but the public did not regret hl presence at the the- i fo HH nler, nor his unequalcd manifestation ;i'. H of 'merriment' p I M "In tho heydiy of his vigor Col. Al- ('J? HHsl friend could bo heard when laughing , ii 1 1 H from the Halt house tn the Loulsvlllo ', 1 7"1')',! siH hotel. In Pulls (.'Its, u distance of seven jl 11 , UM HH squares, notwithstanding tho crcit. ) ' !,:'. J H Hsi noise lneldent to the Immcnso tralllo In UilWVSi HHi Main street, the wholesale thoroughfare . 1 S !kjl oilsH of tho town which fiom S n 111 to 6 L,: i"Stf5x H p ni Is thronged with hundreds of 1 fill' V H wagons drawing whisky nnd .otton ,ln ' (8 Kt HH prlnclinlls whisks. Ills wns a sunny V,' W li sisH nature nnd his equal us a laugher nev- V' 111 '"' H r existed on this carlh Washington J ' 8 HH Post Sl, )le 1 J fJH |