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Benefits Of Accuracy

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Day
13
Month
April
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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A dwarf kangaroo has been diseovered in Texas with fore legs only two inches long, and hind legs ouly eight iaclies in length. The report also saya that it is a marsupial. AVe are glad to know this, as it throws a ilood of light on the anatomical structure of tho animal, which will be duly appreciated by the intelligent reader, who at iirst blush might havo imagined that it was a connubial, or a mandamus, or a babeas corpns, or idios ncrasy. In newspaper reporting the young man will invariably err on tho aafe side if he uses plaiu, unvarnishedlanguage, whieh will appeal even to the nominal intelligeuce of a sleeping-car conductor. ■. Somc years since a pigeon ftew in at. thc open window in the writer's houso and quicty took up its abode with the family. It becarne much attached to a little baby, roosted on the child's eradle and never buried its head under its wing until personally convinced thai the baby was It would fly down upon the oovcrlid, regard tho child first with one black eye and then the other, and iinally go back to its peroh, content if the little one made 110 movenient. The baby and the pigeon ate lunch from the samo plato, and many times the pretty white bird would get iii a rage, fly upon the child's shoulders and with its wing beat the little one mimercifully about the face. Finally the pigeon refused to leave the house, pines and died absolutely for the want of fresh air and sunshine. British Tndia has more states, moro languages, more population than all tho western nations of Europe combined. In 18G1 there wero in Europe 52 states, 15 languages, 198,014,432 population; while in British India there are 371 states, 23 languages and 212,413.247 peeple.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat