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Show Bennett's Premonition. There's no end of merry anecdote9 of the whimsicalities of the late James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald. Once he directed that a reporter be sent every night to a menagerie, men-agerie, with instructions to watch the nittn who put his head between the lion's Jaws until the lion bit it off. The reporter covered his assignment for more than ltl performances without having anythiug to report. Finally he took a night off. That night the lion took a bite. Boston Globe. |