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THAT SAME OLD EARTHQUAKE.

The Ogre of Last August on a Devastating Tour of the World.

New York World.

The people of Charleston really ought to be more careful in handling their earthquakes. When they get though with them they should chain them up instead of allowing them to run loose over the planet and knck things around generall.y An earthquake, yo see, is a clumsty sort of affair, and when it stumps its toes against a village or city it losses its temper and kicks the whole things to flinders.

That Charleston ogre was born in a bad mood. It was as ugly a bute of the kind as we have heard in modern times. After it had upset the public building of the city it took a header under the Atlantic and came up on the beautiful shorts of the Mediteranean, which it just laid waste as easily as a whale would scatter a school of mackerel.

Then it apparently determined to make the tour of the globe. The latest news shows that it has got as far as Turkstan. The town of Vernome has been left a perfect wreck. More than a hundred people were killed, while more than another hundred were seriously injured. The panicstricken residents fled into the open country, and it is impossible as yet to rekon the disasters it has occasioned.

We do not want to be disrespectful even to an earthqueake, but it might be well for Buffal Bill to send one of his famous bucking horses to the east and let this fellow try to mount him. If that failed to quiet him we should simpt resign outselves to the inevitable.