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Show Where Hi Failed. "1 used to be fool enough to bellevo everything I rend In the papi-4," said tho fat man with the disconsolate look, "but I've got bravely over that." "Get thrown down7" was asked. "I did. I was living in a flat in New York, and on the same floor was a family with seven children. They wero such a terrible nuisance that when 1 read In the papers that certain mosquitoes mos-quitoes carried about tlio germs of typhoid ty-phoid fever I went ont In the country and caught a thousand of them and brought them home and turned them looso In thnt other flat." "And the children all caught tho fever fe-ver and died and left jou In a stato of peace and happiness?" "Not by a Jugful!! I made on ass of myself in believing that article In tho papers." "As to how?" "As to the fact that every one of those kids cumo down with whooping cough In stead of typhoid fever, and, tho way they whooped lier up and whooped me Into another flat makes inv heart ache yet!" Cincinnati Kn-I Kn-I r mrer. |