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Show The Very Worst. Clement J. Drlscoll, at a dinner in New York, told a number of amusing stories about his strenuous life aa commissioner of weights and measures meas-ures last year. "A friend of mine," said Mr. Drla-coll, Drla-coll, "noticed one morning that his grocer looked very sad. 'What's the matter, old man?' my friend asked Jokingly. 'The weights and measures man hasn't been dropping in on you, I hope.' " "Yes, be has,' snapped the grocer. " 'Hut you don't really mean to say,' exclaimed my friend, 'that he caught you giving only fifteen ounces to the pound?' "'Worse than that!' , grwnned the grocer. 'I've been giving seventeen.' " |