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Show WALLOWED THE JUMPING BEANS. Thought TIJ Were Capsules and Took th Done In the Dark. A good citizen in the northwestern jection of the city has been through an exciting experience. Being a dyspeptic the gentleman visited his physician. A prescription was written for him which the druggi&t filled. The result was a small box of capsules, which ho took home and placed upon the sideboard, with the remembrance of the instructions instruc-tions to take two every hour in the even-tng even-tng after eftlng until bedtime. These were obeyed implicity. It was dark in the dining room, and the gentleman went for his medicin the first evening without a precaution at a lamp and administered to himself three doees of two capsules each before retiring. He was awakened 6ome hours afterward by a strange sensation. For aught the man could tell he seemed within to be a mammoth pennchle board on which a million little objects were dancing. He could distinguish kicks and jumps bo vividly that it was in vain for hia wife to try to convince him that he was dreaming. She suggested the doctor, and the servant was dispatched in hot haste. Before he arrived the sick man asked for more of the capsules, which were brought to his bedside. When the cover was removed, there were Mexican beans instead of capsules, the kernels bouncing as merrily as spring lamos, j The box of capsules had been misplaced accidentally by the young son and heir and the beans put in itsplaoe. The doo-tor doo-tor does not say what kind of medicine he finds useful in such cases. Wash-ijncton Wash-ijncton Vnet Albuquerque, cs. W.. was naiaeti cr the Spanish from a town of the same name in Spain, which took its title from Alphonso d' Albuquerque, a famous Po) tuguese soldier. |