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Show SWALLOWED THE JUMPING BEANS Thought Tbcy Were Capsules and Took th lHKe In the Dork. A good citizen in the northwestern isection of the city has been through an exciting experience. .Being a dyspeptic, the gentleman visited his physician. A prescription was written for him which tbe druggist filled. The result was small box of capsules, which he took home and placed upon the sideboard, with the remembrance of the instructions instruc-tions to take two every hour in the evening even-ing after eating until bedtime. These were obeyed implicity. It was dark in the dining room, and the gentleman went for his medicine the first evening without a precaution f a lamp and administered to himself three dopes 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 ponuchlo board on which a million little objects were dancing. He could distinguish kicks and jumps so vividly that it was in vain for hi9 wife to try to convince him that he wa dreaming. She suggested the doctor, and the servant was dispatched in hot haste. Before ho arrived the sick man asked for more of the capsules, which were brought to his bedside. When the cover was removed, there were Mexican beans instead of capsules, the kernels bouncing as merrily as spring lambs. The box of capsules had been misplaced bscidentally by the young son and heir and the beans put in its place. The doctor doc-tor does not say what kind of medicine he finds useful in such cases. Wasb-ngton Wasb-ngton Poet |