The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-06
ANECDOTES.

| OLA Weeks since, friend OF ours. reSld.
ing In the suburbs of our metropolis
came to the city in the morning to at
tend the "hen fair, where he purchased
avery large and beautiful pair of Shang-
hal fowls, to breed from; and, as he was
to remain in town until evening, he sent
the birds by boy, with a note to a
friend OF his living at Albion, requesting
that he would take care of the chickens
until the afternoon, as he had some mat
ters of business that would detain him
he also told the boy to say he would
dine with him at four o'clock.
The boy delivered the fowls, but for
got the note, and simply remarked,
Here is pair of rousing big chickens,
Mr.: M. sent you, and says he will dine
with you at four o'clock"
The gentleman, supposing his friend
(who, by the way, knows hawk from a
handsaw, and a canvass-back from a
b'oiled Opl had sent him something ex
ira, ordered them to be given to the cook,
with directions that they be killed and
dressed at once, as he had friend to
dine with him at four that afternoon.
The order was accordingly obeyed, and
at the appointed time the dinner was
served. After imbibing sundry "wine
bltters," as sharpener to their appe
tites, they sat down, and the Shanghai
owner was requested to carve; and as he
was dissecting these enormous "cute
members of the Hen Convention" he re-
marked to his friend:
You have an extraordinary fine pair
of chickens here
"Yes," answered the other, "thsy are
an indifferently good-sized pair of birds;
they were sent to me by mutual friend
of ours
Indeed. were they? devilish clever
fellow he must be, Jim; very pretty
present, this, and declare, they have
the most delicious favor I ever tasted,
and as juicy as canvass backr'
And SO he continued praising the rich
flavor of the birds until after they had
taken care of two bottles of Schrieder;
and while chattering over their bottle of
sherry, and enjoying their regalias, the
owner of the Shanghais said:
"By the by, Jim, what did you think
of my hen purchase this morning?"
why, Bill, I think they were most
delicious, and wish you would dine with
me every day in the week, if you will
send me such chickens"
''Such chickensp' screeched Bill, as
the thought flashed across his mind that
he might possibly have been eating his
own Shanghais. "What the devil do
you mean?"
MEAN, - replied Jim; "why, I mean
to say that you have dined off those
chickens you sent me this morning."
RI1l IDStao ot1u i,,po,oa1 ,,n fro,,o +bo IN
BILE, and rammed his hands up to his ell
bows in his breeches pockets, and after
striding across the room some half dozen
times, without uttering a word, but his
eyes all the time with fine frenzy roll
ing," stopped short, and turning to his
friend, exclaimed, with no little gesticu-
lation:
Good God, Jiml I paid huty,fre
dollars for that pair of fowls this morn
ingl Did not that cussed boy give you
a note when he left the chickens?"
"No," said Jim; che gave me no note;
he simply handed me the Shanghais, and
said you would dine with me at four;
therefore, had them roasted"
Bill instantly rushed for his horse and
wagon, and has not been in the city but
once since, and then he was closely muf-
fled up, and both ears stopped with cot
ton, for fear he would hear some one say
Shanghai!
A few days since, while passing his
residence, dropped in upon him for an
hour, and after a while, ventured to
touch upon the different breeds of poul-
try, but at once discovered wildness
about Bills eyes, therefore discontinued
the topic. Then he said, imploringly:
cold fellow, do not hit me now, 1 am
down; that chicken dinner has nerer yet
digested !"
A MODERN MARTYR-When only a
few weeks ago the cholera was raging in
the slums of Berlin, a young physician,
scarcely past his Both year, made him
self remarkable by the boldness and per.
slstency with which he entered the in
fected quarter and the apparent reckless
ness with which he exposed himself to
the contagion. 1t is worth while that
his name should be recorded and well
remembered; 1t was Otto Obermeir
He had another object besides that of
relieving and, if possible, curing the
poor creatures whom he visited. He
proposed to himself to investigate, in
the presence of the living pestilence it.
self, its causes and its development At
last the brave young soul thought that
he had discovered the clue, and with a
herolsm as far above the battlefield as
it is nobler to sacrifice ones self to save
men than to destroy them, he resolved
to test his discovery upon himself. 1t
was an awful experiment. Obermier
knew full well that he staked his life
against the hope of conquering the chol-
era. Obtaining from one of the pa
tients some of the deadly choleraic
germs, he went deliberately to his room.
placed table with pencil and paper at
his bedside, lay calmly down upon the
bed, opened vein in his arm, and in
serted the deadly poison. He thought
he had discovered how to neutralize it :;
if so, man was master of the pestilence
forevermore. But he was wrong, and
the error was fatal. He lived seven
hours and then died; but in this time
the young hero observed, with scientific
exactness, the effects and progress of
the disease upon him, and one after an
other he noted his observations down.
until within the very half hour when the
spirit left the body. These notes are
pronounced to have the highest value.
and will serve the commission with new
facts of the first importance; and so the
dying legacy of Otto Obermeir may, af-
ter all, lead to the victory which he con-
demned himself to self destruction in
trying to achieve.-Appleton's Journal.
Mr.: Leander K. Lippincott, husband
OF Grace Greenwood" is clerk in
the Land Office. at Washington.