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What Was His Other Name

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
February
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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In his lecturc on A. Waru, Mark Xwoin tells tlio folio wing anocdoto ; As Aitcnms was mce traveling in tho cars, dreading to be bored and feoling misorablc, a man approached him, sat down aud said : " Did }-ou hear that last thing on Horace Groeley ? " " Greelcy 'i Grecley V " said Artemus, " Horace Greeloy ? Who is ho 'i " The man was quict about livo minutes. Pretty soon ho said : " George Fraucis Train is kicking up a good dcal of a row over in Kngland. Do you tliink thoy will jmthim ín abastile'r" " Train ? Train 'i Gea Fruncís Train, said Artemus, solemnly, " I never heard of him." This ignorance kept the man quiot for fifteon minutes, then ho said : " What do you think about Gen. Grant's chances for tho Prosidency 'i Do you think thoy will run him 'i ' "Graut'r Grant- hang it, man," Baid Artemus, "you appear to kuow more Btrangera thau any man I evi'r s:tv." The man WH furiona ; lie walked ip the cur, but at last camo back and said : " Yoü oonföunded ignoramua, did yon evur hear of Adam 'r " Artemus looked up and said : " What was his othcr name ? " Jones says he first níet his wifo in a storm, took hf!r t tho ttrst Imll in a storm, popped tho quustion iiï a storin, married ter in a storiu, lived in Bubsequeat niarried lifo in a storm, aad burriud her in pl;aSiint wcather.

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Old News
Michigan Argus