The pessimist who wrote “ This world is but a Heeling show ” doubtless drew his deduction from the fact that the only circus which came to his town passed through without stopping. A Cincinnati man strangely disappeared. The shrewdest detectives were put on his track, and at the end of nine weeks they seemed to be no nearer him than when they started. Then a close observer of human nature got the mayor to appoint the missing man to a position in the city government. Two hours later the appointee, all out of breath, dashed into the mayor’s office to be sworn in. i
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Western Star, Issue 857, 5 July 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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