Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-06-24
\ nj EAN TRICK,

Probably the mcancst trick that
was ever PLAYED on a white man WIS
played last week in New York, and
The 1act that there IS no vigilance
committee there is the only reason
The perpetrators OF the tricl; are alive.
A business man had just purchased .
new stiff hat, and he went into s;,-
loon with half a dozen of his friends
to fit the hat on his head. They all
took beer, and passed the hat around
so ali could see it. One of the mean
est men that ever held country
Office went to the bartender and i.a,i
Il Thin slice Of Limhurger cheese Gu;
Oil, and when the party were looking
at the trcscoeC ceiling through hcel
glasses this wicked person Slipped
the cheese under the sweat leather o
the hat, and the man put it on ant
walked out. The man who owned
the hat was one Of your nervous peo
pie, who was always complaining o
being sick, and one who feels Il,
though some dreadful disease was
gong to take possession OF him ant
carry him of. He went back to hi
place oI business, took Off his ha
and laid ii on the table, AID proceed
cd Ia answer SOME letters. IL
though; hc detected smell. an,
when his partner asked linn # h
d!'n feel sick, hc S2lt I've believe,
he did The man turned pale an'
, said tir guessed he would 90 honp
He Met Il ltlan on t!tr sidewalk vii,
said Tie AR was iuil uf mia~ma, an
to him moved away to TIC end oi the
car, ana asked him i! lie Lad jus
GENE from Chicago. The mau will
The hat said he had not. when tn
stranger said they were having a grca
deal Of smallpox thcrc- and he guess
ed he would get out and walk, al,
he pulled the he'll and jumped o:'
/ The cold nerSpiration h2chc Out u!
nov h"t. and he took it of 10 wip
/ his forehead. when the whole piece q
! cheese seemed to toll over an
| breathe, and tile man got the iHI
benefit Of il, and Lc came near faint
mo away. lie GOT home and hi
wife met him and asked him wha
was the matter? He s,aid he bclie>
eel modification had sci in, and sli
| I. "a, L., hue Ia al
and said she should think it llm
"Whrrr did You oct into it, sal
she. ''t,,t into il - said the man
II have not cot INTO anything, hn
some deadly disea~r has rot hold {
ne, and shall not live She tol
him if ANY disease that smellcd ilh
that had got hold "f Mm and W;
going to lie chronic, Shc ieIt
though he would lac q burden to hin
self il hr lived very long. she 2
i his clothes otl. soaked lis feet
mustard water AMI he slept. III
.iaau slept and dreamed that Il eln1'
JON lla1 WAS hung i'll front OF II
house and that ne Was riding IN
butcher wagon to the pest houS
Ehc wife sent for doctor, and The
WHEN the man of pills arrived 81
, told him All about the ease. II
doctor picked up the patients ne
That, tried it on aud gave " sn'ii. /
said tic hat was picked before 1t W
ripc. The du"tnr and the wife he
a post mortrm examination OF |
>. hat and found the elicc oil Limburg'
Few ani short were the prayc
X they 2lid." The doctor brought
q the bedside the hat, opened up /
!. sweat leather, and showed the dyi
j.. man what it was that smvllcd so, al
. told hln he was :ie we'll rs amy III
g, in the city. l'itc la1 We saw OF
u odorifrruns citizen he was trying
. hril.c the har- tender to tell h'n will
one ni thnsr p..Iicaus IL was Thai |
that siicrof cheese in his hat Inn