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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1753, 2 October 1879, Page 4

It is very easy for a. doctor to order al patient to make a sea voyaac for ibis health l because all sick people always have 10,000, dollars in the hank. If Noah had foreseen the future, and killed the two mosquitoes which took refuge in the ark, he would have .rendered seme of the ..strongest words in the English language unnecessary. In repartee Charles Farrow Browne (Artemns Ward) had scarcely an equal among the journalists of his time, and his pen was held in wholeqcme fear by rival members of the | fraternity. Ho had always a ready answer ; for any that attacked him, ami he used his ; power of ridicule in r* ply to his assailants. One day hefppad a neat package on his desk, which, on opening, ho discovered was a jack-knife. A reporter of a morning paper —a notoriously homely man-heard of it, and wrote a paragraph to the effect that Browne richly merited the knife. _ That evening Browne retorted by naming this person, and saying — ll He is the homeliest man in America. He has broken five cameras in endeavoring to get a picture of himself to send to the children of a initter personal enemy, maliciously intending to frighten them to death. He has been a good salary to stand up in a certain flei.d aa a scarecrow. He ip compelled to get up *).hree times every night tp rest his face. Ip bl* courting days he was totally unsuccessful 1 until he had procured a mask. Ho has p, 1 a saw:hprse, and when be walks (the j p&iralta $5 yery hpsh? F?S*s horror.''' ”