The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-09-26
His Last Legs.

| W DO tne stoch III troue OF JournhHsi, ioA
thereby men lose faith in An occasional
good thing, which once in q while occurs
Now we were told an horrible tale this
morning which if it were not from the we'll
known reliability of our informant we should
entirely discredit.-Its on well TO 90
miller of the clasec city Of Davenport, and
grinds about this way
About three weeks ago our miller friend
was afflicted severely with cstarrh in the
Ibesd.-His nasal organ swelled up end
turned red even to the extreme redness OF
an Holsters protruding clau, and it troubled
him.-Daily this prominent hump on MS
face assumed largeness proportions Hs"ph
fed and extended itself, and got exceeding
.o,a and made the wearer more dissatisfied
| nth bimself-He thought seriously of tax
ing change of venue. The largest is Of this
organ, the increasing violence of the infia.
nation and the soreness of it conspired to
make him melancholy. Now one would
think that he had trouble enough, but it was
not 80, for he began to smell strange odors
at last, and they we're dire in the extreme
1t seemed as if bis interior organization had
become loathsome resting place for fetid
matter. He felt that he was on his last
legs" With head down, and closely muffled
face he perambulsted the streets like q
walking edition of old Burtons Anstomy of
Melancholy With this horrible disease
fastened upon him he would throw up his
hands and pass in, and the world would
rememb Der him not.
And feeling this way, he went home one
day last week and spoke thusly to the wife
of his bosom.
"Mehitable Jane its no use. Behold the
Jig is up, l will 90 hence and die. This
leprousy that is upon me has destroyed
my bones and flesh and will wlther me
away am eaten up, even worse than he
that .'goeth long" on gold, whom the bears
have Gagged and "singed behold me,
said the xretched man." this demon OF
disease has wasted me away, and now do
unclesn odors issue from my mouth 80 much
t0bI Ol y verify, AHo~ nu 90 Oh opFio
of odom at Sheart, better and exceedingly
unpleasant But you. who will stay after
me, let not this trouble you. for the life
insurance policy is safe, aud my business
have | arranged so that you may profit
thereby when l have departed,-But few
DAYS more at least remain for me, and they
full of sorrow.-I would fsim rest and re
fresh me-
Whereupon his wife took off his coat,
unloosed his collar and took off his vest.
This latter garment she scrutinzed care>
then with the wisdom which belongeth
to women, she put her hand into large
rent in one side of the lining, and drew
. thereFrom two decompoSed mice and cast
> them upon the floor. This wretched man
: had laid his vest down upon the -four sack
! the mice had crsweld in there and died. and
this miserable being had carried them
, around with him for weeks, and his disor
dered imagination had msgnified the dead
vermin into a personal infrmiiy. He Ii
row better, and the cstarrah has rapidly
disappeared. There are some strange in
stances of monomania come under the OBJ
servs,ion of the intelligent reader but the
one personsted, that this outrsnks anything
We have lately heard of.
1 There is nothing that will make wife
plesssnter than to have good bread al
John Assers Bakery is the place to get it.