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[[red underline]] American. In the meantime our reading public does not know that the [[red underline]] Figaro [[/red underline]] is a [[red underline]] very reactionary [[/red underline]] paper and the mouthpiece of the old royalist and Bourbon and capitalistic elements of France, hostile to [[red underline]] the more democratic tendencies of the Republic. [[/red underline]] They seem to be in league with such men as [[red underline]] Wickersham [[/red underline]] and other dyed-in the wool [[red underline]] partisan politicians [[/red underline]] - democrats and Republicans alike who have all the same particular grudge to vent against [[red underline]] Wilson. [[/red underline]]
At supper [[red underline]] Bridges [[/red underline]] brought a Southern Mining Engineer [[red underline]] Barringer [[/red underline]] by name was at our table  He was a [[red underline]] very entertaining [[/red underline]]
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man full of stories and experience. As a boy he spent [[red underline]] two weeks at General Lee's [[/red underline]] staff and with him. His father was at the [[red underline]] Spanish Embassy [[/red underline]] under [[red underline]] Queen Elizabeth [[/red underline]] His most interesting subject was a special mine of meteorie Iron in [[red underline]] Arizona [[/red underline]] which he says was due to a falling [[red underline]] Comet [[/red underline]] which struck the Earth there, sowing consternation among the Indians who ever since then had fled the place. He thinks the head of the Comet is buried way deep below the surface and the lumps of [[red underline]] meteorite [[/red underline]] found thus far are merely [[strikethrough]] spa [[/strikethrough]] small fragments of the main mass. He told all this in a most picturesque way. - very enjoyable He is a man [[red underline]] in the sixties [[/red underline]] full of life and interest