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Show Swearing by Telephone. (New York Times.) A case has been decided in St. Louis, and a physician who was made defendant was mulcted in a substantial fine for relieving re-lieving his feelings when exasperated beyond be-yond toleration by the vagaries of the telephone and pouring into it a stream of picturesque and variegated profanity. His defense was that he was not swearinsr at the operators, but at the system. This did not avail. Central received the message mes-sage and promptly curled up like a caterpillar cater-pillar on a hot shovel. Her ear was blistered and it needed a half-holiday to restore her normal equanimity so that she could say "They're busy" with becoming be-coming calmness. The incident should be a warning to short-tempered people who are prone to think aloud when they have the mouthpiece at their Iids. |