Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-12-21
THE YANKEE IN ITALY.
now TO CURE DYSPEPSIA.

One day as ! was walking along a crowded
street of Lcghorn, my attention was arrested by
a singular figure ens2onccd in the doorway ola
fashionable man. 1t was lank, sharp featured
man, clad in linsey woolsey, with white felt
hat on his head, and an enormous twisted stick
iu his hand. He was looking about him with
a shrewd gaze, in which inquisitiveness and
contempt were strangely mingled. The mo.
ment came opposite to him, he drew very
large silver watch from his fob, and after in.
spectng it moment with an mpudcnt air, ex.
claimed
SAY, stranger, What time do they dine in
these parts,'
AT this house dinner hour is about fve'
Five why, | am half starved, and its only
twelve. | can't stand il later than two say
guess you are from the States !
Yes
Maybe you come to be cured of dyspepsia =
Not exactly
We'll, I'm glad Of it, for its IA plnguey waste
Of money. just arrived from New Orleans,
and there was man on board who made the
trip all on account Of dyspepsia. as good as
told him he was a fool for his pains. know
thing or two. guess You sec that stick
Well, with that stick I've killed SIN uliigators
There's one thing that is u certain cure for dys-
pcpsa'
And what's tha,r
For moment the stranger made no reply
but twisted his stick and gave glance from
his keen grey eyes, with the air Of man who
can keep his own counsel.
you want to know wha, will cure dyspepsia! :!
yes
We'll then--Spccula,ion
After this announcement, the huge stick was
planted very sturjly and the spectral figure
drawn up to its utmost tension MS if challenging
contradiction. Apparently satisfied with my
tact acceptance of the proposition, the man Of
alliga,ors grew more complacent.
III tell you how found out the secret |
was schoolmastcr in the State OF Maine, and
it was as much as could do to make both ends
mcet.-What with foggirg the boys, leading
the choir Sundays, living in lcaky school
house, and drinking hard cider | grew as thin
as a rail, and had 10 call on n travelling doctor.
After he had looked into me and on my case,
Mister, says ne there's only one thing for you
to do-you must speculate had nd of 10
ton of what he meant for oil winter, the folks
bad been talking about the eastern land specu,
lation; so says Doctor, | haven't got cent
To begin with So much the better. SAYS he
you've got nothing 10 locc, 50 hcgin The right
way sold ont all my things, but one suit p
clothes and uclghbor gave me 'tt ia his w,
gon tar as Bangor. took lodgings at the
crack hotel, and by keeping my cars open at the
table and in the bar-rooW, soon had all the uue
| Of speculation by heart, and, having the g,,t o
gah, by the third day ou-talked all the boarGer,
about lots, water privileges sites anddeejs
| One morning found an old gentleman sitting
| IN the paror looking very glum. 'Ah,' says |
! great bargain that of loncs, two hundred acres
including the main street as far as the railroad
! depot-that is where they're To be- when Jones,
vale is buili-'Somc people have all the nck,
| said the old gentleman. There isn't better
/ tract in all Maine than mine, but can't get AZ
uti''r. It's because You don't talk mp says |
/ WELL says he, you seem to understand the bu
siness. Here's my hond--all YOU can get over
three thousand dollars, you may have ! SCI
right 10 work, got the editor to mention it as n
rare chahce, whispered about in all corners thai
the land had been surveyed tor a manufacturing
town, and had splendid map dawn Ni'h a Co
Iored border, SIX meeting houscs, lvccum
blocks ot stone, hay scales, 4 State prison, and
a rural cemetery, with Gcrryrown in large let
tcrs at the bottom, aud then hun. 1t up IN ia.
hall
Before the week was ont. sod the land for
cash To a company Tor twenty Thousand dollars
gave the old gentleman his three thousand, and
have been specializing ever since. own two.
thirds OF u granite quarry in New Hampshire
halt n coal mine in Pennsylvania, and pralri,
in Illinois, besides lots of bank stock, halt n ca
been in New Orleans buying cotton, and came
here to see about the silk business, and mean tu
! dip in the marble lime a little. I've never had
the dyspepsia since began to speculate II
exercises all the organs, and keeps man 20,
ing like II Steamboat
| Just then bell Has heard from within, and
the stranger thinking it was lhe signal for dn
ner, Preclpltntely t.raham's Ma
| CUISINE.
! u hlmsh dcnnlY mnlnr lie heat Of NnnI