Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-10-02
Dodging around tor Cheap Drugs.
Little Rock Gazcttcl

Yesterday colored man ran around
the city as though he was either chas-
ing same one or lodging an officer
Pretty soon it was noticed that he ran
into all the drug stores in the neigh
borhood.
"Boun ter die he at last exclaimed
stopping onthe street and drawing a
long breath.
Who is bound to die" asked some
body.
My wife, sah.''
why is she bound to die p
~Kase can't get no medicine"
"Have you got any money g
"Yes. sab
why don't you get it."
"Wall, l III give yer de facts. Dis
marnin' my wife was TUX wild pain in
de stomach, what threatened to kill her
off. She had de same pain once be-
fore and de doctor said dat de mex
time she TUX it she'd die, lessen she'd
got relievement nifty quick. When
She TUX de pains dis mornin' she called
me ter her an said, sed she, "Iim take
dat quarter outen de drawer, and run
roun to der drug sto' and git me SOME
dat cramp medicine. Don't yo gin
more dan 20 cents fur hit. case T'ildy's
got to have anickel 10 git dem slate
pencils. Go ter all der drug sto' and
il you can git hi, fur IS cents do hit
but doan vo come back here widout
dat nickel Use been to all de s,os,
and dinged if :ha'l let me hay de stuff
fur lessen de hole quarter
You had better get the medicine
of COS, and hurry home With
Nor, Sab, yer don't ketch me in dat
sorter trap, yer don't know dat woom-
an like does
Here's nickel" and the man
handed him 5 cents.
Thank yer boss, now Ill sarvs the
ole woman"
Just then boy came running up
and poke to the colored man, who turn
ed and said
"Herc boss. take yer nickel, de ole
oman is dead.
Fifty ladies are struggling for medi-
cal honors in Paris.
The champion croluet PLAYER of New
Jersey is Il servant girl without Il beau
Colored bellies refuse to wear bangs.
They say You can't pull! wool over their
Eyes.
About one hundred thousand watches
are sold every month in this glorious
country of ours.
1t isn't bigotry when a man SAYS
hat no tobacco user can be christian |
tt lunacy.
The maggot in the chestnut begins
% contemplate his coming roastings
with feelings of deep concern
Splendid rruit crop this year. But
Why is it that ripe apples are less at
ractiye to the small boy than green
mes?
\ London LADY appears in the surf at
French watering place in a fringed
unic. crimson tights and ankle brac =
cts.
An $500 diamond ring f1oated away
rom Lafayette. Indiana. A child tied
t to the string OF Il toy balloon and let
I ga.
Mr. Walt Whitman is credited with
he intention of giving to the British
'ublic his estimate of the English poets
Il the present century.
An American manufacturer says
hat John b. ,jeryis, who ordered the
rst locomotive in America to he made.
: living. aged over 50. at Rome. n. Y.
nd Horatio Allen. who saw the order
arried out, and who ran the pioneer
is living at East Orange, n.
:, aged over seventy.
The protective tariff measure adapted
Y the republican partr in 1862 has done
Iore 20 build up American industries
nd to keep up the wages of American
that all the measures the
emocratic party ever enacted. Every
-orkman. as matter of elf-protection.
ives it to himself and his family to vote
! sustain the republican party.
Gen. Grants Arabian Horses.