Show cata chlof s e 15 fru a a the employees iu in the office of the up tip braer 0 of f customs were busy log ing a of chinese medicines and the place smelled like a factory there were the usual number of dried snakes the looks of which would be certain to kill or cure any intelligent patient there v ere also a number of 0 plain plump p lizard lizards spitted on rods and ex ez banded with slips of bamboo till they resembled tennis rackets a lot of b hei a t horses I 1 a long slender fish with a head bead like a borse horse and a prehensile tail tall handles bundles of centipede flattened out pasted on cans full of preserved preserve polliwog a and angleworms angle worms an I 1 many other curious pan panaceas areas each of aich smelled worse than the other were pilla pills as large as ail prune pranee band baud homely decorated roots groots and many kind kinds which would paralyze quaker doctor and boxes and bottles unknown mixtures mix turea which would part ayze anybody the 40 separate and aud distinct of the town of cologne are nothing a compared to the odors arising from about 10 worth of chinese medicine which made some of the men the stuff sick loul bout emell small seems to be requisite inmost m most cinea aulia beneficial effects of medicine medi olne are pro port onate ionato to its odor the medicines of the chinese debould be the best beat in the world portland oregonian oregonians Ore gonian |