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Show As a Test. Tho professor was examining a dark brown substance spread on paper when ho was Interrupted by a visit from a friend. "I gay. would you kindly let me place a little bit of this on your tongue?" said the man of learning to tho newcomer "My taste has become so vltlatod by sampling all sorts of things." "Certainly." responded the friend thrusting out his tongue. Tho professor took up a little of tho substance under analysis and placed It on the other's tongue. The latter worked It round for fully a minute, tasting It much as ho would a sweet. "Not any effect?" Inquired the professor. pro-fessor. "N'o: none." "It doesn't pnralyzo or prick your tongue?" "Not. that Lean detect." "I thought not. How does It tasto?" Very bitter." "Um-m; right." "What Is It?" hundred tho friend. "I don't know. That's what I'm trying to nnd out. Some one has been poisoning poison-ing horses with lt."-London Tit Bits. |