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Show Her Unfortunate Error. A literary lady at a society dinner was given a seat next to a noted scientist whose views were very materialistic, ma-terialistic, and at some remark he made on the origin of mankind, the lady found her temper tried beyond ill hearing, so that she retorted: "1 really don't care what you say. I believe be-lieve In the Bible, and there we are old that Adam was the father of all living " "I really think you are mistaken," he said with a smile, and so the sub-ect sub-ect dropped. A few days later the, lady, writing to a bosom friend, told her of the oc-:urrer,ce oc-:urrer,ce and added: "I am too mortified, morti-fied, for I have looked the matter up lid H only says that Eve was the mother of' all living, and so I don't know whether to write to the professor profes-sor oi not." |