Miscellany: Partisan

In Chillicothe, Ohio, a would-be citizen applied for papers. She was asked: "In a republican form of government, how is the Constitution changed?" Replied Mrs. Julia Fitzgerald: "By the Democrats."

Foiled

In Atlanta, Ga., an unemployed night-watchman, James Worthy, depressed by having spent his last penny, piped the exhaust of his car in a window, turned on the engine, began inhaling fumes. Doubly depressed was the would-be-suicide when his car ran out of gas.

No Visitors

In Palm Springs, Calif., Dr. Raymond Bridgman Cowles, student of desert snakes, got sick & tired of...

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