Show FORTUNE TOOK A HAND calculation had been overlooked by careful man I 1 had a friend who did his duty to himself and others with such zeal that he never went to bed without taking his temperature or got up without drinking a scientific decock alon the name and composition ot which I 1 have forgotten the flavor however was such as rendered the duty performed particularly merlton lous his dietary was based on the most scientific principles he weighed himself before and after each meal he had his appendix removed so as to avoid all risk of appendicitis and in short he so fully realized the duty of being hea thy and long lived that he never had time to do anything else or talk about anything else bately he never took that fickle jade fortune into hia calculations and after only a year of striving most fully to fulfill the d ity of being long lived ha slipped on a piece of orange peel and fractured the base of his skull pall mall gazette |