The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-02-15
The Bad Boy as a Drug Clerk.


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Said the grocery man. as he went upto
| the boy. snufIed a couple of times, and
| then held his hand to hisfnose: "The
| Board of Health will kerosene you, if
to the glue factory. What business
you gone into makes you smell so
| ranke''s y5.- EE- - Il. ~
"Wen, you see pa began to think it
was time / learned a trade, or a .profes-
! sion, and he saw a sign in a drugstore
window, boy wanted, and as be had a
boy he didn't want, he. went to the
druggist and got job for me. This
smell on me will go off i'm a few weeks.
You knowI wanted to try all the per-
fumery in the store, and after | had got
about foFty different extracts on my
clothes,ranother boy that worked there
he fixed up bottle of ibenzine, and
Izassafety, and birthstone, and a whole lot
Of other horrid stuff, and labeled it rose
geranium,a and / guess Just Wallered
in it.. 1t is awful, amt itP It kerfiuIn-
/ TAXED ma when / went into the dining-s
room the first night that got home
from the store, and broke pa all UP.
The air seems fixed around where am,
and everybody seems to- know who fixed
1T. A girl came in the store yesterday.
to buy q sachet, and there wasn't any
body there but me, and / didn't know
b Ehat it was, and took down every
thing in the store pretty near, before /
found it, and then / wouldn' have found
it. only theproprietor came in. The girl
j asked the proprietor if there wasn, t q
good deal of sewer gas in the store, and
he told me to 60 out and shake myself
i Well, she told me sachet was some-
T thing for the stummick, and thought a
nursing bottle was the nearest thing to
it. i a
Il should think you would drive all
/ the customers away from the store, ;"
said the grocery man, as he opened the
door to let the fresh air in.s as.E .ag
4 ii t'I don't know but | will, but I am
3 hired for month on trial, and ! shall
stay. You see, I shan't praetieeon any
body but pa for a spell. / made up my
mind to that when I gave q woman some
salts instead of powdered borax, and she
came back mad. Pa seemed to want to
lsencourage me- and is willing to take
anything ask him to. He had sore
throat and wanted something for it, and
the boss drugger told me to put some tan
4 min and chlorate of potash in mortar
sland grindit and Iletpa pound itwith the
mortar, and while he was pounding I
dropped in a couple of drops of sulphuric
acid, and it exploded and blowed pa 5
hat clear across the store, and pa was
q whittier than sheet. =, He saidhe guessed
his throat was all right, and he wouldn't
4. come near me that day. The next day
pa came in and was laying for him. !
took a white seidletz powder and a blue
one and dissolved them In separate
glasses. and when pa came in | asked
him if he didn't want some lemonade,
and he said he did, and gave him ssthe
, sour one and he drank it. He SAID II
was too. sour, and then gave him the
other glas, that looked like water, to take
/ the taste out of his mouths and he
drank it.. Well, sir, when those
q two powders got together in. pals
. stomach and began to siz and steam
j and foam, pa pretty near choeke6
!, TO death, and the silds, came out, of hi;
. nostrils, and his eyes. stuck out, and sas
! stSon as he could get breath he yelled
re fire, Land said he was poisoned, and
called for a doctor, but L thought as long
. as we had doctor. right in the falrlilS
!; there wassno use of hiring. one.so T,gol
!. i q stomach pump, and would had him
bailed out in no time,. only. the9proprie
tor came in and told me TO go and wash
some bottles, and he gave pa a drink oi
brandy, and pa. said he felt better. Ps
has learned where we keep the liquor
and he comes in two or three times a day
{ with a pain in his stomach--They play
awful mean tricks on a bog in a druI
store. The first day they put chunk o
: something sort of blue into a mortar
and told me to pulverize it, and .thel
make itup into two gram pills.. Well
sir, I'pounded that chunk all the. fore
! T noon, and it never pulyerized at all, anl
the boss told me to hurry up, as th,
. woman was waiting for. the pills, and
j mauled it till was nearly dead, AM
when it was time to 60 to supper tn
boss came and said: r'Youi have beef
! pounding all day on a chunk Of lIndi
+ rubber instead of blue massl' Well, how
Il did I,know? But Twill get even wifi
! them if I stay long enough, and don
: YOU forget it. IfYou have prescription
!, Fou want filled you come down to th,
4 aSSoI6 dllu Will pub IL u u 1OI you III SCI
: and then you will be sure to get wha
! you pay for" -s3sf0@
| "Yes;'' said the grocery man. as h
D cut off a piece of limberg cheese and pu
it on the stove, to purify the air in tn
room, . T. Should laugh to see mysel
taking any medicine you put up.''--
t'eck' s. Satp. Ase 4tg6r sa8ss g. re4
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$ "A st. Louis station agent recentl
, picked up something which made hin
-flfblush and hurry to hide it in his pocket
I Shortly afterward a rich Hooking gentle
: man approaching him asked iif
! if he had found7 anything Of valae
I h No. said he. Excuse me- said TIA
2 gentleman, ssbut saw you pick it II
| Just now" The agentwas on the poin
5 of denying it again, when, suddenly re
, collecting, hetpulled it out d, his pocket
: saying That's it; but / don't thin
Ii s so much value The gentleman
thereupon showing him an elegant gol
t buckle adorned with couple &
} diamonds worth 5000. walked off ma