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Show CAUSE AN'D EFFECT. When Mr. Dodge, e'ectric physician, was lecturing on the laws of health, he happened to meet, oue morning, at tbe breakfast table, a witty sou of Erin, of the better class. Conversation turned on the Docter's favorite sutiject, as follows: fol-lows: "Perhaps you think I would be unable to convince you of the deleterious deleter-ious effect of tea and coffee." "I don't know," said Erin, "but I'd like to bo there when you do it." "Well," said the Doctor, "if Iconvince you that tbey are injurious to your health, will you abstain from their use?" ,,Sure I will, sir." "How often do you take coffee and tea?" asked the Doctor. "Morning "Morn-ing and night, sir." "Well, do you ever expenenee a slight dizziness of the brain on going to bed?'1 "Indeed I do." "Aud a sharp pain through the temples, in and about the eyes, in the morning?" "Troth, I do, sir." "Well," said the Docter, with an air of assurance and confidence in his mannar, "that is the tea and coffee." "Is it, indeed! Faith, and I always thought it was the whisky I drank." |