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Show SWALLOWED THE JUMPING BEANS. Thought They Wcro Capsules and Took the Doso Tn tho Dark. A good citizen in the northwestern iieotion of the city has been through an exoiting experience. Being a dyspeptio, the gentleman visited his physician. A prescription was written for him which the druggist filled. The result was a small box of capsules, which ho took homo and placed upon the sideboard, with the remembrance of the instructions instruc-tions to take two every hour in the oven-ing oven-ing after eating until bedtime. These were obeyed implioity. It was dork in the dining room, epfl the gentleman went for his medioinp the first evening without a precaution of a lamp and administered to himself mree doses of two capsules each before retiring. He was awakened some hours afterward by a strange sensation. For aught the man could tell he seemed within to be a mammoth penuchle board on which a million little objeots were danoing. He could distinguish kicks and jumps bo vividly that it was in vain for his wife to try to convince him that he was dreaming. She suggested tho doctor, and the servant was dispatohed in hot haste. Before ho arrived the sick man asked for more of the capsules, which were brought to his bedsido. When tho cover was removed, thero were Mexican beans instead of capsules, the kernels bounoing as merrily as spring lambs, The box of capsules had been misplaced asoidontally by tho young son and heir and the beans put in its place. The doo-tor doo-tor does not say what kind of medicino ho finds useful in suoh cases. Wash InctPM Pnafc Mrs. Toogood I don't seo how it ii that men find so much pleasure in such a brutal business ns prize fighting. Broken Face Bill I don 't see ho we kin help it, lady. Tho women U crowdin us men out of all the professions, profes-sions, and they ain't nothin else fer us ter do. ThaFs tho only reason I'm in 'Jr lady. "Roxbnrv 'APiq 1 Qazetfo |
