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Flotsam And Jetsam

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Germany novv rivals France in glass coloring. A new species of giraffe has been discovered in África. A San Francisco theatrical manager has 100 applicants in reply to his advertisement for the homeliest man in town. The army worms gathered with the rops in some towns near Rutland, Vt., have developed into moths, and the barns are full of them. There are now more than 200 Gertnans who have settled at Missler, Ga., and who are making a great success of the cultivation of small farms. There's a rivalry between the clamdlggers and the apple-raisers in some of the Maine coast towns to see who shall have the empty flour fcarrels. I never knu an oíd bacheler yet but who thought he could marry enny woman he had a mind to, nor an oíd maid who hadn't refused menny fustklass bids, and wazn't issuing sealed proposals for more. Thare are fu men who ever doubt their judgments. Yu kan find skores ov men who kan't tend a toll gate and make their ackounts balance who kan t "' yu exacktly how the finances ov the kuntry ought to be managed. A verry amuzing krirter to me iz a bizzy phool, a kind of human ant. who has got nothing to do, and no time to c1 ; it in, who runs around wagging in front of everybody like a lost dog, whoze best ambishun iz to carry stale news from one lazy gossip to another az stelthy and pompous az tho it waz a state sekret.

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Ann Arbor Democrat