L Figaro, Paris daily, recently, with touching ignorance, published a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Madame B. on the subject of ephemeral flies.
The New York Times gobbled the bait and reproduced a translation of the letter " which, as far as can be ascertained, has not been published hitherto."
TIME, credulous and unsuspecting, took the lead from these two great newspapers and produced a pathetic article entitled "M. Franklin to Mme. B."
Now, sad to say, from the dim recesses of the bookshelf of knowledge comes a work entitled The Writings of...
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