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Show Didn't Run Up at Alii' ' ' On tho last visit 'of iLlcut. Richmond Rich-mond Pearson Hobson to Oreensboro, Ala., hlB native town, one ot his old-tlmo old-tlmo friends asked him If he was still bothered with an excessive, mall frpm unknown persons. Ho answerod lhat ho was, and that many people soemed to regard him as a goncral bureau of Information, and put to him tho most outlandish questions. Ono ot these questions camo to him In n recent lette" It read: "Mr. Hobson; Cu you tell mo how far tho Mississippi rivor runs up?" Lieut. Hobson replied: "Dear Sir: In answer to youra of recent dato, I havo tho honor to say that tho Mississippi rivor doesn't run up at all." |