The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-09-09
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Humorous.
Il TERRIBLE DISEASE.
The Effect That LimbUrg Cheese had on
an individual.

played last week in this city, and the
fact that there is no vigilance commit
tee here is the only reason the per
petrators Of the trick are alive. A
business man had just purchased a new
stiff hat, and he went into saloon
with half dozen friends to iit the hat
to his head. They all took beer, and
passed the hat around so all could see
it. One Of the meanost men that ever.
held county Office went to the bar
tender and had Il thin slice of limburg
cheese cut off, and when the party
were looking at the frescoed ceiling
through beer glasses, this wicked per
son slipped the cheese under the sweat
leather Of the hat, and the man put
it on his head and walked out. The
man who owned the hat is one of your
nervous people, who is always com
planning of being sick, and who feels
as though some dreadful disease was
going to take possession Of and carry
him of. He went back to place Of
business, took off his hat and laid it on
the table and proceeded 10 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. 4 clerk said 1t was
evident that somebody's feet needed
washing. The man turned pale, and
said he guessed he would 60 home.
He met a man on the sidewalk who
said the air was full of miasna, and
IN the street car 8 man who sat next
to him moved away to the other end of
/ the car, and asked him if he had just
come from Chicago. The man with
the new hat said he had not when the
stranger said they were having a good
deal Of small poz there, and he guessed
he would get out and walk, and he
pulled the bell and jumped of. The
cold perspiration broke out on the fore
head Of the man with the new hat,and
he took It of 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
fainLing away. He got home, and his
wife met him and asked what was the
| matter. lie said he believed NORTH
cation had set in, and she took ouc
Whit, as he took off his hat, and said
she should think It had. "Where
did you get into?' said she. "Get
into it2'' said the man, 81 have not
got into anything, but some deadly
disease has got hold of me; and l shall
! not live" She told him if any disease
smelled ike that had got hold of him,
and was going to be chronic, she felt
as though he would be a burden to
himself if he lived very long. She
got his clothes off soaked his feet in
mustard water, and he slept. The
hat was lying on the center table, and
the children would come in and get g
smell OF 1t, and look ateach other with
reproachful glances, and go out and
g play. The man slept and dreamed
that a smallpox flag was hung in from
of his house, and that he was riding
in a butcher wagon to the pest house
The wife sent for doctor, and wher
the man Of pills arrived she told hin
all about the case. The doctor picke,
up the patients new hat, and tried i
on, and got q sniff. He said the ha
was picked before it was ripe. The
l. the doctor and the wife held a pos
mortem examination Of the hat, an,
p found the slice of limburg. "Fe'
and short were the prayers they said.
They awoIze the patient and to pre-
. pare his mind for the revelation tina
= was about to bemade, the doctor aske,
if he had made his viii. lie said tina
he had not, bat that he wanted law
yer sent for at once. The doctor aske
him If he felt as though he was pr'
e pared to shuttle off. The man said b
r had always tried 70 lead . ditfercL
II life, and tried to be done by the san.
II Il as he would 20 it himself, but that h
d might have made q misdeal in son
.- way, and he would Ike to have Il mil
VI istcr sent for to take an account of h
u stock.
P Taen the doctor brought to the be,
'e side the hat, opened up the sweat leat
NJ eg and showed the dying man what
f. was that sne]led so, and 5oId him til
20 he was rs well as arr man in the cit
"a The patient piacLcd himself to see tn
ia lie was alive, and jumped out OF lot
1i- aud called for his revolver and the DO
is tor couldn't keep up with him on t
~ way down town. The last We saw
the ad9r.ter1us citizen hewa5 trying
hribs the bartender to tell him whi
ne one @. hose re'icsus It was that ?
1T that slice II cllcse III his hat lining.
Alta 7-eaI Investigation cf liGu
seizure 5ae Judge asked az unwii!i
-is witness: What was in the barre! Y
ey ha517 The reply was: well. 80
i'm honor, it was marked 'whis4- 0
-.f end u The barrel and Pat Duify'