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Show Permanently Cured. Dr. David Starr Jordan, discussing at a dinner in Washington certain rulings of the international fisheries commission, said; "The fish there get no chance. They have as hard a time of it as the whites in the interior of China. "A Chinese 'druggist said to his-clerk: his-clerk: " 'Did 1 see a foreign devil come out of here as I came down the street?' " 'Yes, sir,' the clerk answered. 'He wanted a permanent cure for headache, head-ache, and I sold him a bottle of rat poison.' " |