A baker in New York stole a tombstone for the hearth of his oven. One of his customers, finding a death’s head on the bottom of his loaf of bread, ran in dismay to his deacon, fearing the end of the world was approaching. The latter was in, equal treplda tion, w'hen, on examining his loaf, he found the marrow-bones. In their alarm they had recourse to the parson, who could afford them no consolation, inasmuch as ‘ Resurgam’ w r as legibly set forth in bold relief upon his own loaf.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 577, 25 April 1876, Page 3
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91Untitled Globe, Volume V, Issue 577, 25 April 1876, Page 3
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