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Show j . More Deaths from Diphtheria. There is another death in the family of Joseph McMurrin, of the Eighth ward. This time it is his little four-year old boy. It was not a hard cold, pneumonia or anything else, but the spreading diphtheria diphthe-ria that caused this death, and which threatens, other lives before it is effectually stopped. Mr. McMurrin will soon lose faith in the laying on of hands, for the days of performing miracles seem to belong to the past. It .is not true that diphtheria is on the wane simply because fewer yellow flags are seen floating; but, instead, the city-is full of it, as is continually contin-ually being proven by one death after another. When will good quarantine laws be enforced? Why She Laughs. ' "Be sure and come up.at-the Key of G, darling," wrote a young lady in her postscript post-script to her lover. "Key of G !" exclaimed the gentleman ; "what on earth does that mean ?" . . "Key of G? Why, that means 'one sharp,' " answered his musical roommate. room-mate. " ;;. ... " " . ."Now, I must not 'exhibit myignor-ance." myignor-ance." replied the young lover. "I'll pay her back in her own. musical language"; but, the deuce of it is, I don't know a musical note from a chicken track." "Write and tell her that the Key of F will be there," said his friend. He did so, and now wants to know why she laughs every time "One Flat" comes up the garden walk. |