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  ...the local newspaper had printed about him, a subscriber burst into the editor's office in search of the responsible reporter. "Who are you?" he demanded, glaring at the editor, who was also the main stockholder.
"I'm the newspaper," was the calm reply.
"And who are you?" he next inquired, turning his resentful gaze on the chocolate-colored office-devil clearing out the waste basket.
"Me?" rejoined the darky, grinning from ear to ear. "Ah guess ah's de cul'ud supplement."
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.   --_Napoleon I_.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.--_Charles Lamb_.

OBESITY
_See_ Corpulence.

OBITUARIES
If you have frequent fainting spells, accompanied by chills, cramps, corns, bunions, chilblains, epilepsy and jaundice, it is a sign that you are not well, but liable to die any minute. Pay your subscription in advance and thus make yourself solid for a good obituary notice.--_Mountain...   Bonaparte, Napoleon

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