Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-07-01
A MEAN TRICK.
Played with a New Hat and an
Old Cheese.

Probably the meanest trick that wa
ever played on n white man was played
last week In New York, and the fac
that there is no vigilance COMMITTEES
there is the only reason the perpetrators
of the trick are alive. A business mar
had Just purchased new stiff hat, and
he went into a saloon with half dozen
of his friends to fit the hat on his head
They took beer and passed the hat
around so that all could see it. One OF
the meanest men that ever held coun-
try Office went TO the bartender and had
a thin slice of Llmburger cheese cut off,
and when the party were looking at the
frescoed ceiling through beer glasses
this wicked person slipped the cheese
under the sweat leather of the hat, and
the man put it on and walked out. The
man who owned the hat was one of our
nervous people who are always COM
planning of being sick, and one who
feels az though some dreadful disease
was going to take possession of him and
carry him off. He went back to his
place of business, took of his hat and
laid it on the table, and proceeded to
answer some letters. He thought he
detected smell, and when his partner
asked him if he didn't feel sick, he said
he believed he did. The man turned
pale and he said he guessed he would
go home. He met man on the side
walk who said the air was full of
miasma, and in the street car the man
who sat next to him moved away to the
end of the car. and asked him If he had
just come from Chicago. The man with
the hat said he had not, when the
stranger said they were having a great
deal of smallpox there, and he guessed
he would get out and walk, and he
pulled the rope and jumped off. The
cold perspiration broke out on the fore
head of the man with the hat, and he
took it off to wipe his forehead. when
the whole piece of cheese seemed to roll
over and breathe, and the man got the
full benefit of it. and he came near
fainting away. lie got home and his
wife asked him what was the mat
ter? He said he believed mortifica-
tlon had set in, and she took one Whit
should think il had. ..Where did you
get into it?" said she. Get into 1t Pr
said the man, 81 have not got into any,
thing, but deadly disease has got hold of
me and shall not live." She told him
a. al oicCdoC tidO ctiiCtlC4 tlhc ttldE Ildu
got hold of him and was going to be
chronic, she felt as though he would be
a burden to himself IL he lived very
long. She got his clothes off, soaked
his feet in mustard water and he slept.
The man slept and dreamed that a
smallpox flag was hung In front of his
house and that he was riding In
butcher wagon to the pest house. The
wife sent for a doctor, and when the
man of pills arrived she told him all
about the case. The doctor picked up
the patients new hat, tried it on and
gave a sniff. He said the hat was pick-
ed before it was ripe. The doctor and
the wife held a post mortem examine
tion of the hat and found the slice of
Limburger. "Few and short were the
prayers they said" The doctor brought
to the bedside the hat, opened up the
sweat-leather, and showed the dying
man what 1t was that smelled so, and
told him he was as well rs any man in
the city. The last we saw of the odifer-
Gus citizen he was trying to bribe the
bartender TO tell him which one of
those pelieans It was that pat that slice
of cheese in his hat lining.