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Show Nor a Hospital. "Talking of our DritUh cousins?" Inquired In-quired E. Dlack Ryan, tax attorney of the Southern Pacific. "Wb11, I heard one tho other day. Dig fat Britisher shoved into ono of those compartments compart-ments at tho last moment. There was an American In thero reading his nowapaper. "'It's 60 miles to my station,' remarked re-marked tho Englishman, 'and I say, old chap, I'm treating myself for a woundod foot, and 1 say, Jf you don't mind, I'll put some of this Iodoform on my anklo. Deastly smelling stuff.' " 'Go ahead,' said the American. But when he got the full odor of It, he, shoved up a window, pulled out a cigar and lighted it, and began puffing away vigorously. , "'Here, here, my good fellow,' Protested Pro-tested the Englishman, 'this Is no smoking compartment!' " San Francisco Fran-cisco Chronicle. |