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Show Bookseller Felled With a Book. Tom Osborne, tho limikHcll'T. wua one nf "that nitri ani lie niKKol rnre to which tho di'lltiu y of tin tct Ih wmie- tllllt H fXpOHt'd." OHhornp, Irritated ly what, he thought on iintiPn-MHary iMuy on the part of JolniHon, went one day Into the room where Jolumon whh Hitting and ahiiKt-d him In the iiiuhI tllllierut manner. Jolumon heard him Home time tin- t moved; but at lunt IomIiik all patience, tie M'lztHi a huR0 folio and, aiming blow at the booksellers head, atie-ceeded atie-ceeded In Heading hlni Hprawllng to the floor. Oshorne alurmed the family by hla ciIch; hut Johnmiii, placing hla foot on his breast, would not let him tlr till he had exposed hi in In that altuatlon; and then left him with this triumphant expression: "1J there, thou Hon of dullness, iKtioranre and obaeurlty." Kearsley'a "Anecdotes." |