, 1874-12-27

' ana slipped of quietly and salkas ~,
"nlst'ns gently We d;dn', co- ep*n-te-,a
thus: ='s'eo acd 81 \,
w., Sow 1nlnt you, boys, it that old dav,,
yon can't say tint lid ii; ha1 aotn; e;l u II:
psu Inrt 70 40 WITH IT. OF course don't bej;e, - ~
+, -,;,,- -t1a .1 snoalu % seIy. very much All,
Tor tobacco And just here. Ahopld !, taok m dl i:
1or tue worst, let this ba lesson tn ta satn CT:
now very pernlclons il tho uso Of tnb.a"aa !oR
INTO what fi1shtful dangers Just tha ,.ess' aaa
" 5sa1ltF1ns tlls expensive and sense'a.o noss
may lead you" Tins lec.ured '.ss ss "a NJ:
neyed- You will observe from thst "e sorf-
tcase unimproved any opportunity for ,:sa .ssa
boys. 'A''a'S Tor ~
TEE DRAKE's DENISE
About dark We returned home. fo,
wife sitting on tue lower step with that ~ NJ
III hez lap aud bottle by her side, Wv utaEa
Sue SAID: ''Somcthiog is eyidant,v tt
with tho dear old drake. wonder Ehst a'sT ~ y,
name Of heaven it eau be:" (Here hot, 10 i!s
sneaked OF to bed and covered up thes sb oo!s
sad: hopefully: = Oh. expect 'tis no.bis nsia
but slight tit Of indigestion" A0ia1as
:, she remarked: Now you know bette, A.
that. How could such thing nosss,- ,ss! taaa
Didn't little Dolly only las. week throw h..
dozen OF marbles for him to ca:ch, snd daaa saHe
swallow each and every one without r;.'a.s.s -
Don't know he swallowed two silvsr as s-!a
and didn't l have to knock him down ~ =
a1 in order to rescue the kitchen fork. US
him2 Indigestion, idt1eaticks!" t'''a
1sald: perhaps it's the measles; I he., th..
a1e about" s'e 1t}
She shook her head. HNo sru,,.
measles" r''1@
ssDiphtheria narhans >n
Sue sald: brakes don't hare diphsheri,r
She thought s. it might be Group. r. a,a...
have little rattle in his throa., and tre.,i.a.
badly" A'e@'oe&
I asked: "What are you giving him7n
one showed me the bottle aud said. .sr,
pentine. / hare given him two tahle.no,,ta.11ss
already, but it doesn't seem to do him M eod
thus tar s0".
I proposed: "Lets give him more. ssv,,u
account Of his age, and be always ". 3 ton.s "
above other brakes" 1-1
SO We gavo him eheerfully one-half tts hottt,
(the expense Of the turpentine IVES nothiru ~
me then)- Then the old devil tried to bsre ,n1
rolling at me- ono vindictive look out OF his n
eyes. fell back to1erably dead Ituss hsrd n
realize it, but hs was clearly dead.
tearfully remarked: .*Let US bury the I'm,
OLD fellow at the root OF that Isabella e1sps-
Regrets are vain. 1t is useless to mourn bis
loss. His time had come. He was old epooon
to die, aud old enough to repent his wick Aedosss.
and l have no doubt he did repent eincefel3
when he found he was called to hand in his hi
Let us hide him at once under ground. It sil
sootbe you to know he ia deceutly buried. and
relieve the other animals OF their fears Of him, n
But she said: ''Sot so; must Lays his
feathers off first to remember him bY ito eiyatba
devil his due, his plumage was baudsona
enouSh). Next, to have post-morts1n e1.n.
nation, Tor I nm determined to find out 7hat
killed this drake"
only said, :. Oh. my! certainly; uhy not?s
Then slid of to bed.
THE DEAKEs REVENGE
Well, it turned out that when tho feather
we're OF Z small hole was discovered under ooa
wing, and q corresponding hole under the opro-
site. Then heard her u.y, whispernely Wills
OUT how 1t Ii, but you are not dons rith TIL:
drake yet" Al usual, she was correct. Se1s
morning I heard her send word to the b1tcheta
cart, NO, wa don't want any beef this morning;
and she SEMI the same message every morning
for four days. Atdinner I saw on the tsble Whist
supposed was goose, sAyozy With sage Ind
onaons.
I asked, "Why! where did you ind goose?
She only smiled grimlS aud said, s'I'iat il tho
T said never word; took the c=riog-{o,k
and tried to plunge it ia his breast~hone; bsok,
of ono prong first effort turned him over ar1
tried to tind some vulnerable spot in his a1mor;
came acroas one OF tho shot-holes: ingarsed tic
prong and essayed to wrench of ons wing;
sprained my wrist; gave it up; al retired from
table hungry. Each day for four days did 10
and myself retired thus. have reason to It,
ieye the others were fed between meals, and
didn't feel it; rather saw the point OF ]ose;)
We three we're becoming enaciated st length
tho boys and got blacksuuth'a rasp and 1aspa
of ths meat from the old scound1ers hone4
Then We pounded this mp and made it into klna
Of hash, and lived On it tolerably for seTetA
days. Tns bones We sent to the phospnaa
works.
Here now waa my drake didn't belong to nj
neighbor against whom I had spite or enmls7
but my osn,a property
THE MORAL TEACHING
OF all this is obvious. Don't indulge IN the p.p
miscuous use and carriage Of these little pispl4
for while positively and surely they will nes
- fetch what you send them AFTER, and "nls
they are by no means "bound to fetch sadae.
thing else," ike Bemis' Allen peppe:,no't. '.ns a
which We read, yet they might do il dcc3de7td9a
and that ''something else" may turn out TO d
your own friend, or your own Properts-R!pTI r.
own dr4ke-the awful consequences OF "hcs1
have detailed. Yours respectfully, "VmEL
Strange Tastes.
The London Medical Record has tho follos-
ing: t'The incilent OF the homme Is toQt"
chette, the man who Swallowed fork IN Pans 31 N
Aur.l last, hns inspired DR.. Mignon with tbs iaes
OF collecting all records Of similar csess- ~ ~
hos been able to find details OF 163, and it aean
bo difficult TO magitse anything more astoolsn91ss
than the catalogue given in the Union 4aaeea g.,
for Nov. 3 Of tho objects swallowed 6j stsas.
veritable lunasacs, or what may be termed ~.
idiots. Among the very indigestible sDd nncon; 1;
fo1table items catalogued We find aisecn co.
medals hair rings innamerahls II; t:S,5s 5 5ianss sst7
sham ecissors. eighty pins, & baby's bottle, ths
castor Of nght~ssool, an antiro at Of doqnqea 3e,
the size OF which, however. il not st11sa' a III
louis dor, flute inches long, glS,s I'M m
thirty-ive Knives cla5 pipe, from W 70 t1rs t,~
PING, bar Of lead Weighing pounA "nf t.to tbs
and lin three lassarces) table 1ork. ~ IL
most extraordinary of all these c.ses occt IL
the instaree OF q convict who died a. Ee9r nsr. ~
1Ts, and on whose body necropsY aa..'.eed H.1 I'd
f1y.