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Show A PERIODICAL IN HIMSELF. New York Merchant Had Claim to Fame, Though Not Altogether Literary. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes was It not? who was aBkod, after ho had niado a trip across tho ocean, if ho had dono nny literary work while on board tho ship, and answered that ho "had been a frequent contributor to tho Atlnntlc." Somewhat similar Is tho anecdote related of a Now York merchant whoso business had required him to mako sovoral Joitneys to Snn Francisco Fran-cisco and back during tho year. Whllo on ono of theso long trips, after ho had exhausted tho stock of reading-matter ho had brought 'lth blm, h was showing n follow passenger pas-senger a. bundle ot tho popular mng-nzlnos mng-nzlnos that formed a part of tho supply. sup-ply. "You dtv't socra to have tho Ovor-land Ovor-land Mnthly hero," romarked tho passenger. "Huh!" oxclalmcd the Now Yorker, York-er, "I'm tho ovorland monthly my-seir." my-seir." I |