The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-22
a Huge SClI--0Ver Two Hundred
Medic al Studs nts Taken En.

Medical students, as well as every 9th
er sort of students, are proverbial for
practical joking, but about the best thing
we ever heard of them in this line occur
red in this city yesterday.
The first thing noticeable out of the
usual routine at the University on that
morning was large, handsomely printed
placard posted in the vestibule, and hav-
ing at the bottom the names of the well
known firm of j. T. Morton & Co., the
Main street book>publishing house This
pIacard announced that, in consideration
OF the fact that the students Of the Uui>
versity had been liberal in their purchases
of said firm, il had been decided to pre-
sent each and every one of the students
copy of the ''Physician's Guide"
medical work of great merit. The pla-
card further announced that the students
would be expected to call during the day
and receive their presents.
Oi course, the praise of John T. Mur-
ton & Co. was sounded all over the Uni
versity, and preparations were forthwith
made by all the students, individually and
in squads, to cali on their generous friends
on Main street. Now, John P. Morton
& Go. all this time reposed in blissful -
norance Of what was going on at the Uni
versity, and were as innocent of the pla-
card posted in the yestibule as were ID.
Appleton & Co., or any other bookmen
1t was all the work Of some yilIainOus
students.
Quite early in the day squad of stu
dents were on Main street, and in at Nor
toms. Their call for the 'sPhysician's
Guide' was promptly responded to. bat
when they told who they were, and tl.at
they had understood they were to get the
book ION the Dead" the clerks looked nt
each other in amazement and didn't at ali
understand. In this emergency John T.
Morton d Co. themselves were called in
TO explain matters, but they were equally
astounded when the errand of the students
was made known. They denied all knowl-
edge Of the placard, and then the students,
with unusual long faces, looked at each cta =
er as much as the clerks had done III.
whole truth soon flashed upon them, how
ever, and the scent of 'Emice'' beirC re<
culiarly apparent, they aqologized to j.
Z. Morton s. Co., and beat an ingiuri-
Gus retreat.
The sell was too good, though, for
them to dIvulge to their fellow students,
even had their pride allowed them to a.
knowledge being placed in so ridiculous b
position by a practical joke they had bit
ten at SO readily.
Again and again was the first scene
repeated in the book store, as, throughout
the day, the students poured in, some
! times coming In squads, sometimes by
twos, and sometimes singly, and sore
enough they were when they learned how
they had been gulled. The clerks grew
very weary of The joke, and of explaining
The matter TO their disappointed visitors
They were glad enough when night came.
and two hundred and eight out of the two
hundred and ten students in the University
had been explained to. The end of ih,ir
| discontinue was not yet, however. To
cap the climax, late in the evening, a
gawky-looking fellow dropped in, aud,
moving doubtfully up 10 the counter. spoke
hesitatinsly and not without some em-
barrassment:
81 reckon all THEM BOOKS is gone, AIN T
tdyf'
This was the last call, and the two
hundred and tenth student not making bis
appearance, the conclusion necessarily fol-
lowed that he was the wretch who perpe-
trated the sell. He is still at large. :
Louisville Courier Journal.