The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-04-17
PIzUx AND KI.SISE.
A Good Old Soul Who Knows When
And How to be Careful.

She wasn't after hair-dye. cosmetics,
scented soap. or any Of those GIN
lcracks, but when the druggist had fin
ished putting up prescription TO cure
a lOng-faced boy Of hacking cough, she
turned from the stove and asked:
@Do you keep drugs a1d medicines
and pizen and so OnE
@Oh, yes, we keep all such things
@And ki-nineT
YES, we have quinins."
well, / called IN to sisc about gettln'
lsOme piZun and some ki-nine, but /
ldunno. 50 many folks have been
slaughteTed by druggists mistakes
thas I'm ednemOst afraid even 10 ask
for camfur gum, tho / suppose ! can
smell camfur gum farther OF than any
other woman IN Michigan. Have you
ever killed anybody by putting up NOR
phine for bakin' pOWderE
Never"
"Been IN the business lOngE
%Only twenty-One years.
"Well. you OrteT know gum IlaJic
/ from sweet oil By this time, but some
Iaen are awful keerless. I've had a
brother pisuned by wrong medicine,
and I'm little s!aky. Where Is your
/ ki-nine%
This is il" he replicI, IS hc took
down the jar.
She wet her finger, put it into the jar
and then rubbed II on her tongue.
TASTES like it, but / dunno. Sure
that amt mOTphineE
Yes, very sure.
.Sure your clerk washed the jar out
clean afOre he put the kinine ing7
"Ol, washed it myself"
~If this shouldn't be ki-ninc you'd
have the law put TO you the worst
kind. We've got money in the bank,
and we'd never settle for 10 Sl0,OOO!'
Il know it 10 be quinine."
well, then, gimme - cents worth,
and / want down weight, too. II I'm
treated well, I'm a great hand u trade
at one place, but the mimic 1 see any
.stinginess or cheating a yoke Of oxen
couldn't pull me into that store
again"
He weighed out the drug, labeled it
with great care, and then She said:
~NOw j want ten cents worth Of
piZun 10 kill rats"
"What kindI"
"Why, the pizun kind, of course
PiZun IS pizun the world over. Don't
seem as you were useds 10 handling
en-"
do you want arsenicp"
Certainly, but you want to be pow |
erful keerfull I'm woman of fifty |
and I've nuss'd the sick ever since |
was a girl, but | never handle piZun |
without chill creeping up my back.
Where is itT
He handed down the jar and she
smelt Of the stopper, shook her head, |
turned the jar anOund and whispered:
THAT looks a powerful sight like
eream-a-tartar"
''0h, nO-that's arsenic and no mis-
take"
~Well, I've got 10 take the chances,
] s'pose. III take ten cents worth
down weight. Any one who will be |
stingy sellin' piZun will be stingy in
other things. and / do hate a stingy |
person. My first husband was power
full stingy, and he was struck by light
ming"
When the poison had been weighed
and labeled she carefully took up the /
package and said:
SNOw, then, write on this that it is to |
be kept in the old china teapot, on the /
third shelf in the pantry, and that its
for rats. Then write on this ki-nine
that it is to be kept in the old coffee
pot in the cupboard, and that it's for
chills."
The druggist followed orders, and
the old Lady put the "piZun" in her
pocket and the ~ki-nine' in her riticule
and went out saying:
1T may be all right, but l dunno.
II my old man is took off instead of
the rats, III begin lawsuit next day
after the funeral r-DetrOit Free
Press.