Snoring Oskaloosan Slain by Hunters in His Sleep.
    Richard Harding’s wife often complained that Richard snored “something dreadful,” but he outdid himself recently and got killed for doing it.
    Richard had been sitting in the backroom of the village drug store at Oskaloosa, Ia., taking a few sips of something to cure his cold. When he left the place he staggered slightly.
    He headed for the country and in a woods not far from town lay himself peacefully down to slumber. Pretty soon the vibrations of his uvula showed that Richard had forgotten the cares of this world.
    Unfortunately a party of hunters heard the snoring get louder and louder, and not being as great naturalists as Mr. Roosevelt or his friend Long, mistook it for the roaring of a bear. They discharged a volley into the hedge.
    Richard’s funeral was held two days later.
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