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Show SMART GUMDROP PEDDLERS. They IMay a Trick on People In the Horror of Seasickness. A gentleman living in a metropolitan suburb was strolling down one of its streets when he came by chance across a couple a man and a woman whom he immediately recognized as having been his fellow passengers in a steamer crossing the channel His reminiscences were not of a particularly agreeable nature, na-ture, for he lost no time in getting them arrested. The tale which he unfolded to the police commissary was as follows. The steamer had hardly left the English Eng-lish port en route to the shores of France when he and about 50 other companions in misery were seized with all the symptoms of mal de mer. The only traveler trav-eler who seemed exempt from suffering was the man who had been arrested. He paced the deck with the utmost complacency, com-placency, now and then taking from a bonbon box a lozenge, which he swallowed swal-lowed with apparent satisfaction. The woman in whose company he was met in Paris acted on the steamer as if she was a perfect stranger to him, and she seemed indeed to be the greatest victim' of them alL So intense was her sufferings suffer-ings that the man walked up to her and offered her one of the lozenges, declaring declar-ing that they were a sovereign remedy against seasickness. She took one, and in the course of a few minutes said that she was completely cured, and soon her fellow passengers beheld her discussing with considerable relish a elate of sand wiches, washed down by a bottle of stout One after the other they begged the possessor of the marvelous lozenges to favor them with one. "It so happens that I am the inventor," he replied, ' 'and as I have a few boxes with me I shall be most happy to oblige you with them at the rate of 20 francs each." The unlucky passenger's, whose misery had in the meantime rather increased than otherwise, enthusiastically welcomed wel-comed the offer, and soon all the boxes were sold, the gentleman from the suburbs sub-urbs being the purchaser of ona But somehow the lozenges had no effect ef-fect Not one of the buyers was to be seen calling for stout and sandwiches, and the whole party did not get to the end of their troubles until they were once more safely on terra firma. The suburban gentleman had the lozenges analyzed, and they were found to be ordinary or-dinary jujubes. Chance had thrown the couple in his way, and he told the police po-lice commissary that he was quite sure that they had acted this comedy for the purpose of getting money out of their fellow passengers. The man and the woman both declared at first that the suburban one must have mistaken them for another couple, but afterward they made a full confession. Oddly enough they had gone to the suburb to inspect a house which they had thought of buying buy-ing with the pioceecU of the sale of many boxes of jujube lozenges in numerous nu-merous passages across the silver streak when the stormy winds did blow. Paris Cor. London Telegraph. |