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Show AS A TEST. The prpfessor was examining a dark brown substance spread on paper when he was interrupted by a visit from a friend. "I say, would you kindly let me put a little bit of this on your "tongue?" said the man of learning to the newcomer. new-comer. "My taste has become so vitiated viti-ated by sampling all sorts of things." "Certainly." responded the friend, thrusting out his tongue. The professor took UD.a little of the substance under analysis and placed it on the other's tongue. The latter worked it round for fully a minute, tasting it much as he would a sweet. "Note any effect?" Inquired the professor. pro-fessor. ' "No; none." "It doesn't para.lyze or " prick your tongue?" ; "Not that I can detect." "I thought not. How does It taste?" "Very bitter." k . . "Um'-m; air right." ' "What is it?" Inquired the friend. "I don't kiow; that's what I'm trying to find out. Some one has. been poisoning poison-ing horses with It." London Tid Bits. |