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Show forty-two Itrtvnlullnns, Thirty years ago, wheu Hulling Ban Domingo In on olllciul capacity, he was taken In hand by a newly appointed Minister, who undertook to allow him around. Coming to the court arny of a prominent building, the guldo pointed point-ed to a doorway and remarked, ns complacently as If he were Indicating the name of a street: "Thnt la where our Inst Emperor was shot." In the course of his snjourn he came upon an aged man, hold in high esteem by the community because be hud been witness of a quite exceptional number of revolutions and lived to tell the tale. "Flow many have you aeen?" Uie visitor asked. "Forty-two," the patriarch modestly replied. It appears that when a boy the old man hsd seen Eouls XVI. and Marie Antoinette curried to the guillotine. Emigrating to San Domingo, the tnle of revolutions ran rapidly tip till It exceeded ex-ceeded forty. The Cornhlll. |