Show OF THE TilE DRUGGIST CURIOUS OUS NAMES AMES PEOPLE PEOPLE APPLY T TO m MIXTURES i I M Guess What Is Desired in Host st Cases But ut is Kept Thinking at Times New Sew York Mall MaU and Express What is it you jou want my m little littleman i man maIi inquired the druggist of the boy boyat boyat j i at the courtIer counter Me le mudd r wants 5 S cents bitter Alice red the urchin unload unloading ing in the coin from his mouth The druggist went into the mysterious ious ions place behind and presently came back with an article artt le which he wrapped Tapped in paper As theY the th o lad went out of the thedoor thedoor door dean the druggist turned to his three wondering friends at the counter What did that tb t boy ask for in gulfed one of them then Well Weli he asked for bitter Alice re replied plied the drugg druggist t I dont keep bit ter ten Alice in stock so I gave him bitter aloes what his mother sent bittetI him hIts I for I imagine There was a laugh and one of oC the t three inquired Do you jou have many curious mistakes mistake I like that They are legion was the reply of 01 I 11 the th e of drugs I r used to ic t tl think th ink that some of or them were quite t laughable la but really r ally I have haYe become becom n ne t more m e pr less Indifferent A man takes take great reat g chances now no and then filling I some so of the i J me or orens ders d ens that are presented p but the thema ma jo are easy Last night a 1 servant I girl g irl from the Heights came in here and ant I asked a me to give her something to t t take ta ke a mans breath away I gave her 1 C cardamon ardamon cr seed which she evidently r r recognized for the she sampled them on or 1 the th e spot I have had any number of ot o t I i f calls alls c for Paddy Padd Garrick Garnick and even eve I J parry arry p garic garb mid and penny garlic which of o f course produced paregoric In each one I case ase c Here is a written order for A L bottle ottle b of the smelling stuff that goes to tt S your y our brain This of ot course meant mean t ammonia a I have had a call caU for high It stirrups s when hive was really r required r Gum arable arabic seems to mix ml C them hem t up a great deal for the demands demand S for tor f or it have resolved themselves into gum cum mare back g and come corne e You see continued the druggist finding il that his listeners were highly Interested i emed in obis statements a great creat many man m any residents of this i t neighborhood are a re of ot most mast ordinary ry means and in ad d have not a superior education All A ll are anxious to gave cave physicians charges harges c and think that a druggist is fully ully fUll f competent to treat heir their ailments with success Some of their diagnoses of or o f cases are aTe really pen pictures Here is i s a s request for fer something ng for an old woman Oman who t bo o has a bad cough and can colt not n cough cot gh Then I find a graphic ap p peal p eal for a pla plaster ier for a man kilt with stitches s That is J not quite as notable an a n epic as az the one which calls for enough eno gh to make snake a pudding for f or a sore eore toe It t was a little more ex ox p lve than the order which asked for something for tor a a heavy pain in the bones b ones onea that is coming out through the yes eyes e We have here h re a rather rater amazing request for fur enuf eppy cack cask to throw up ups u a baby 4 years old This youngster t must mist have been in pretty bad shape for her h ere lere I have hae a demand from its mother hat that t I furnished her with something for f then ber or child who has an I on his Ills and a cough that is choking him in the neck To fill till the next order may ma seem CU but it really It states Send me ne some come of the essence essen e you Ou put people to t o sleep with when you cut their fin flu off It evidently meant ether At Al all aU that th t Is what it was filled I with mth The man who wrote this order orner wanted something to take tobacco out of or my I e it was the scent of the thing that he objected to The good housewife who wrote to me rue requesting something to rub my old man got a liniment of course It must Thirst have been her twin sister who wrote TOt for something to knock a cold out of ot an old man Another peculiar demand is 16 for tor enough arisse arthe seed to take the twist out of a dose dooe of senna These odd orders that I might read until daylight t Send S nd me rue a babs top to a o nurse bottle bottie meant no doubt a nursing bottle top and something for a eore sore eye eyd eY is 1 not easy to mis take I have also appeals for remedies for a swelled selled womans toot foot and a a man nina with a dry spit s lt on ou him The Tile phonetic p lne c sounding ng is however the meet moot odd feature of ot the whole busi bus ness Cardamon Seed aced eed I have had de tie scribed as M colored man seed and Mc Cordon seeds Orders for have haye been couched in requests for honey ironey Annie Annle and Anne Orders for bug mint and I have filled with berga bergamot ber mot met and to a man who asked me for tor campfire I 1 gave camphor Arrowroot is frequently written air root and on one occasion caslon I had h d a written request for raving bold Sam when balsam was intended Some Som of the ether other mistakes that I have noticed in the last ten tent years at this stand have been cu eu cupid pid for cubeb glory farm for chloro form ox ox x sled acid act for oxalic acid lord worm for laudanum paint killer kilter for pain killer kiner stirrup of swill for of gross gress of oC supplements for tar corr le sublimate and arul Mary attic acid for tor acid But Ut I do not mind Ip Ind all these It Is the woman wonton Who wants 5 S cents worth of cologne to smell a trunk and the chap who asks for fot a mixture of or two to i I thrills s alcohol and castor oil that puzzle the average druggist I They are jare what we call blind writers I but we manage manag to guess what they want It keeps eps k us thinking at times I though thou h I |