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A Disappointed Man

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
November
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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of sevonty, living ncur Newport, Indiana, quarreled with hiawife, and taking down his sliotgun, announcod tliut hu would coinmit suicido forthwitli. He went into tlin yard, lay down on the ground where he could bo scen froin a front window, flred the gun off in the air, md remained motionlcss lor anhour, during whioh time ho slyly watchod the door and window for the appearanco of bis gricf-strioken wit'o. "But h i was sadly mistaken," Bays tho old gentloiuan's homo paper. " They did not come out to seo whether he had blown the top of his houd off or not. This WM more than tho old man could stand ; he roso up, wontinto the house, and made things hot for the old woman and the children for a while. Ho'd show them whether they wouldn't come out when he had killed himself." When at a Western hotel, Ilorace Greeley was in-the act of adoring the registor with a specimen of his chirogmphy, a bedbuff, with a remarkably knowiag look about it, ran past his hand. The venerable philosopher observedit for a moment, and then turning to tho aitoaiahed landlord, exclaimed- " Well, I'vo been bitten by St. Joe fleas, bied by Kansas City spiden, dined offby Washington musijuitocs, and interviewed by New York graybaoks; but I nevcr was in a plaoe Befare where tlio bedbugs lookod over the hotel register to find out whero my room ■MM."

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Old News
Michigan Argus