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Show Strange Extravagance. A witticism of Jain.es Hnzcn Hyde's Is going tho. rounds of Palllard's, tho Itltz, Armenonvllle, and, other fashionable fash-ionable resorts of Paris. A rich young Englishman, George Mitchell, paid, as ovorybody knows, a largo sura for the privilege of being knocked out by Carpentlor, tho French champion. VJ Mr. Hazen Hyde whoVnttqndod tho combat, said, as the battered Briton took the count: k") "Here's a fine young fellow comes to Paris and pays 2S0 to havo his face smashed by a-,bqxer, whon, for a hundredth part of the money, ho could havo It kissed by the p'rettlbst girl at Maxim's." v |