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Show l'nrty-two Kpvoliitlonii. Thirty years ago, when visiting San Domingo In an olllclnl capacity, he was taken In hand by a newly appointed .Minister, who undertook to show htm around. Coming to tho courtway nf a prominent building, (he guide pointed point-ed to u doorway and remarked, as complacently ns If ho were Indicating tho name of n street: "Thnt Is where our Inst Emperor wns shot." In tho course of his sojourn ho came upon nn ngnd man, held In high esteem by tho community becnuso he hnd been witness of n quite exceptlounl number of revolutions nnd lived to tell tho tale. "How many havo you seen?" the visitor nsked. "Forty-two," tho patriarch modestly replied. It appears thnt when a boy tho old man had Been Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette carried to tho guillotine. Emigrating to San Domingo, the tnlo of revolutions ran rapidly up till it exceeded ex-ceeded forty. Tho Cornhlll. |