The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-07-10
THE WORLD Is GOVERNED TOO MUCH.
joke On a Doctor.
HIS ELL MISTAKEN FOR PRESCRIPTION

! HIS ELL MISTAKEN FOR 4 PRESCRIPTION
] A few Gays since Mr.. Garrison, our
genial City Clerk, and well-known
physician of this place happened to
meet on South G street. The physi-
clan mentioned to the clerk that he
had small claim against the corpora
ton for attendance upon a city patient.
He was told to make out his bill, send
it in and it would be presented at the
| next meeting of the Board Of Alder
men. The Clerk happening to COM
plain during the interview of being
little under the weather, the physician
took note of his symptoms, and said
that upon reaching his Office he would
write him his prescription that would
set him to rights, and which lie would
send by the boy that would bring him
the bill. The afternoon of the same
day boy called at the Clerks Office
at the City Hall and left two papers
mentioning who had sent them. stAil
right" said the Clerk, CHANGING at the
papers that were thrown upon his
desk. Now the thirography of the
Emajority of physicians is much after
the style of that mighty Quill-driver,
DR.. Horace Greeley, but that of this
particular NJ. d. was a cross between
the usual medical style and the char
acters used by Chinese astronomers
and laundry,nen. When the Clerk
came to examine the two papers he
was much puzzled to make ont which
was sthe prescription and which the
bill. Some zig-zag characters that ap-
peared upon one of the papers led him
to think it the prescription. He took
it to drug store and handed it to the
clerk who turned it in several direc-
tons, and then said "This is from
DR., is it not ~ Being answered
in the affirmative, he at once became
cheerful, and soon handed the clerk a
big powder to be taken at night, and a
bottle Of some dark liquid to be taken
in the morning. For two days follow
ing our clerk looked rather pale about
the gills, but felt that on the whole
the medicine had done him censidcra-
bic good. at the next meeting of the
Board the doctors bin was presented,
hntsahont all that. COZ asaea4:o u,.szefs;t
was that it seemed TO call for 81. 1t
was referred, us is usual, to the proper
committee to be examined aud re-
ported upon at the next regular meet
ing. a
AT the next meeting a favorable re-
port was given and 81 was allowed
The next day the doctor came to the
clerk in high dudgeon, and said: GLOW
is it that you cut down my bill see
by The report in the newspaper that
the Board only allowed me ST." Mr..
Clerk swore that the bill was allowed
just as made out, and to prove that he
was right hunted it up and handed it
to the irate physician.
The doctor gazed upon the document
for some moments, and then exclaim-
ed: "May be hanged if You and the
Board of Alderman haven't been at
work for two weeks on my prescrip-
ton, and have at last allowed me sey-
en- dollars on it," "Yes," cried the no "
F.! aroused Clerk, "and may be hanged
if didn't take Your Internal bill to the
drug store and they allowed it there
and gave me dose on it that id
near physicked me to death!n The
best of the joke was that the druggists
clerk, when questioned about making
up the prescription, said: "When I
get such looking paper from DR..
-, [ always put up big powder of
calomel and rhubarb, to be followed
by black draught, and this is the first
time there has been any fuss about it,"
In Territorial Enterprise.
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