The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-07-22

and 1t attacked my throat in very Sc
we're form. got physician to treat me,
and for three months he burned nv
throat out every day. During the last
three weeks | was under his care it was
almost impossible for me to swallow even
a spoonful of water. | was reduced to
1Ol pounds in weight, and the doctor
told me | could not live l gave up his
medicines and began taking Swift's Spe
cific, ing the gargle directed in the cir
cular. 1t was with great difficulty /
could swallow the medicine, though it
was pleasant to taste !; but preserve in
it, and in three weeks | could not from
my feelings tell that my throat ever was
affected. | could swallow anything wish
ed without the slightest difficulty, and
seemed entirely well. l continued the
medicine, and in less than four months |
had gone up in weight sixty-nine pounds,
now weighing 10 pounds This may
sound fshy to some, but if the doubling
will write to me or any one in Boonton,
they can easily have the truthfulness of
my statement esta blished.
ALFRED HUsK, p. o. Box 595.
Boonton, N. J. Feb. 23d, 1886.
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lanta Ga. New York, l57 w. 23d St.
"A small child being asked by a Sun
day-school teacher: "What did the Is
raelites do after they crossed the Red
Sea ?" answered: 81 don't know MAIN,
but guess they dried themselves
An Illinois editor defines a philan-
thropist as Jealous person bent on doing
the greatest possible good to the greatest
possible number with the greatest posi-
BILE amount of other peoples money.
"A Chicago boy of fourteen years re-
Gently ran away from home to become a
pirate king. He was captured by a po-
liceman and returned to his parents. He
didn't become that kind of a king, but
after brief interview with his father he
was aching.
=" How do you do, Mary? Pve been
trying to latch up with you for half an
hour. l knew you just as soon as l set
eyes on that bonnet. I've known it as
long as can remember" 1t is such re-
marks as this that fill the female heart
with bitterness.
The clock had struck midnight in the
residence of Congressman and still the
young man in the parlor did not 90.
The young fellow had been away for two
weeks and the girls father was willing
that he should have fair show, but this
was too much, and at last he went to the
head Of the stairs and listened minute.
Mollie 20 he called sharply. eyes,
papa" came the siivery voice of his child,
with slightly smothered accent. "It is
after 12 o'clock" eyes, papa, and we're
doing all we can to expedite the accumu-
lated business. We will adjourn by-and-
by, papa" The helpless father, unable
to answer the argument, returned to his
bed in tears. = Washington Critic.
-"I am lawyers daughter, you
know, George DEAR" she said, after
George had proposed and had been &C.
cepted, "and you wouldn't think it
strange if l were to ask you to sign a
little paper to the effect that we are en-
gagged, would you p
George was too happy to think any
thing strange just then, and he signed the
paper with a trembling hand and q burst
ing heart.
Then she laid her ear against his mid
die vest button and they were very
happy.
"Tell me, darling," said George after
long delicious silence, "why did you
want me to sign that papera Do you not
repose implicit confidence in my love for
your"
"Ah yes" she sighed with infinite
content, indeed l do; but George,
dear, have been fooled so many times. !"
Life.