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Show Herbert Spencer's Ear-Stoppers. Tho philosopher had an Infirmity common to great minds and little. Ho was selfish In regard to conversation which bored him; and he carried this selfishness to such n pitch that ho bought a pair of ear-stoppers and applied ap-plied them regularly. When conversation conver-sation In which he had taken part went on too long for his patience, or when some unmerciful talker held forth, he would tako out of his pocket his car-stoppers and hai-tlly put them in place, not lemoving them till ho believed all danger to be past. Saturday Satur-day Itovlew. |