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Show TODAY IN HISTORY SLIGHTLY JAZZED ,i 1 Prifeseor Dsadon of Berlin died ln8 ve.irs ;icu today. July 17. 1M2. j and his double life was i ruled in all Its meanness. All day lone 1'an I don was a teacher of languages, all I night long he was a ragged, dirty i beggar of the Perlln gugtters. Ho-: Ho-: iween his two jobs he accumulated a fortune of 20,000 crowns. In these days one could under ! stand whv a teacher should need ft side line, but In Dandon's day no such necessity existed. Dandon begged because he was a miser. He bad a brother. They were like Iiamon and Phyihlas; David and Jonathan were like Ken lucky feudists In comparison. Yet, ono day the brother sent an overweight over-weight letter to Dandon and the letter let-ter had to pay two pfenning to gel it out of the postofflce. This so enraged him that he did not speak to the brother for 17 I years |