Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-13
'Plzun and Ki-Nine."

Che wasn't after hair dye, cosmetics
scented soap, or any of those gimcracks
but when the druggist had finished put
ting upa prescription to cure q long
faced boy of hacking cough, she turned
from the stove and asked:
DO you keep drugs and medicines
and pizuns and soon27
30, yes, we keep all such things"
"And ki-nine2"
'Yes, we have 9uinine."
swell, called to see about gittin'
some pizun and some ki-nine, but dun
no. So many folks have been slaugh-
tered by druggists mistakes that I'm
eanemost afraid to even ask for camfur
gum, though suppose I can smell cam.
fur gum father off than any other woman
in Michigan. Have you ever killed any
body by putin up morphine for bakin'
powder9"
'Never.''
"Been in the business long?"
"Only twonty-one years.
well, you orter know gum 'Rabic
from sweet oil by this time, but some
men are awful keerless. I've had a
brother pizuned by wrong medicine, and
I'm little shaky. Where is your XII
nine?"
This is it." he replied, as he took
down the jar.
She wet her finger, pushed it into the
jar, and then rubbed it on her tongue.
"Tastes like it, but I dunno. Sure
that amt morphene?"
eyes, very sure.''
"Sure your clerk washed the jar out
clean afore he put the ki-nine in2''
20, washed it myself"
"1f this shouldn't be ki-nine, you'd
have the law put to you the worst kind.
We've got money in the bank, and we'd
never settle for no ten thousand dollars !''
II know it to be quinine."
We'll, then, gimme fifteen cents w.rth,
and want down weight, too. If I'm
treated we'll, I'm a great hand to trade at
one place; but the minnit I see any
stlnglness or cheatin', "a yoke of oxen
couldn't pull me into that store again.
He weighed out the drug, labeled il
with great care, and them she said:
"Now want ten cents worth of pizun
to kill rats.
"What kind?'
why, the pizun, of course. Pizun
is p'zun the world over. Don't seem al
you were used to handling EN-"
DO you want arsenic?"
Certainly; but you want to be pow
ertul keertul! I'm a woman of So, anc
I've nussed the sick ever since I was s
girl, but never handle pizun without {
it,"
he handed down the jar; and she smell
OF the stopper, shook her head, turned
the jar around, and whispered:
THAT looks powerful sight lik
cream-a-tarter"
10, no--that's arsenic, and no mis-
take"
'Well, I've got to take the chances,
spose. I'll take ten cents worth
down weight. Any one who will b
stingy sellin' pizun will be stingy il
other things, and I do hate stingy per
son. My first husband was power u
stlngy, and he was struck by lightning.
When the poison had been weighe,
and labelled, she carefully took up tn
package and said:
SHOW, then, write on this that it is to b
kept in the old china teapot, on the thir,
shelf in the pantry, and it's for rats. The
write on this ki-nine that is to be kept il
tine old cotfee-pot in the cupboard, ant
it's for chills."
The druggist followed orders, and tn
old lady put the ''pizin" in her poke
and the 'kl-nine" in her reticule, an,
went out saying, SIT may be all right
but dunno. If nv old man il took nj
instead of the rats, I'll begin a lawsui
next day after the funeral !''-Detros
Free Press.