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Show Obsequious Servant. A lady recently returned from Japan adds another to the many tales of the obsequiousness of Japanose servants. In leaving the house one day with his nurse, says an exchange, her little son slipped and foil, receiving no injury beyond a few scratches. The nurse upbraided herself in the most extravagant terms, and called down all sorts of dire consequences upon her head. The other servants, to whom the affair was told by the unhappy un-happy maid, were equally shocked and outraged, and the jabbering and chattering chat-tering lasted interminably. For weeks afterward the occurrence was referred to as a dreadful calamity, and the day of its happening served for a long time as a prominent date by which to place other events. It is farther stated that tho accident was not witnessed by any member of the family. fam-ily. It would never have been known to the boy's mother save for the intense in-tense and continued excitement it created. |