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The Sorrows Of Genius

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
June
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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The night is waning, and the hnsh of inspiration makes the sanotum solemn. The news editor had just wriiteu himself a New York dispatoh telling all about the sea serpent. The political editor is just elosing a crusher füll of blood and thunder, and -winding np with a terrifie exposure. The proof -reader is opening a new case of pencils for the purpose of marking all the errors in six lines of proof. The funny man, from the tearful expression of his sorrowful counteDance, is known to be in the throes of a joke. The joke is born, and this is its name : "A man died inAtohison, Kas., last ■week, from eating diseased buffalo meat. A clear case of suicide from cold bison. " Euter the intelligent compositor. "This Atcbison item, what is the last word?" To him, the funny man - "Bison." Intelligent compositor - "B i s-o n?" Funny man - " Yes. " The intelligent compositor demands to be informed what it means, and the painstaking funny man, with many tears, explains the joke, and, with great elaboration, shows forth how it is a play on "cold pisen." " Oh, yes," says the intelligent compositor, and retires. Sets it up "cold poison." Funny man groans, takes the proof. seoks the intelligent compositor, and explains that he wishes not only to make a play on the word "pisen," but also on the word "bison." " And what is that ? " asks the intelligent compositor. The funny man patiently explains that it means "buffalo." "Oh, yes!" shouts the intelligent compositor; "noiv I understand." Mortified funny man retires, and goes home in tranquil conñdence and growing i'ame. Paper comes out in tbe morning "cold buffalo." Tableau. Eed flre and slow cuitain.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus