The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-09
STUNG BY A SCORPION.
HOW THE DEADLY INSECT MAKES
IT'S WAY NORThWARO.
4 scared Darkey IA "a New York Fruit
Store-rhe OH Druggist Eemcdy-Iho
MON Family

A reporter was hurrying down Barclay
street Il few days ago, conscious that he
/ had but few minutes in which to caich
[ tie HOboken fcrryboat, when he suddenly
/ stopped at dark opening. which Ted into
still darker basement. lunches OF hd-
nanas hung 10 the Intel and were ie7-
TONED up the jambs of the doorway.
| while bursting crates OF golden oranges
were piled on the downward leading steps.
| 1t was an agonizmg yell, which seemed
to hint Of murder and sudden death, a. 1t
burst from the recesses of this dugy look
/ ing cavern that had arr, ted his steps.
| He Ind not long 10 wait for on cNniana
| ton. Up the steps, at the ri,koi ovcttufn-
/ ing the piled up boxes of fruit which OBJ
structed the passage. bounded coal biHck
negro whose eyes were bulging out of bis
head with mingled fright and pain, and
as he ran he vigorously shook one OF IBIS
immense hands. which the reporter could
see was growing every instant still larger
go de lawd." bee blGbbored. "l-c %
dead niggah suah Use s;uug 1y RAT
/ tier, isn To "A dabbier in natural i's-
tory the opportunity was not to te missed
even az the expense OF losing hale q dozen
Hoboken ferry boats. and the reporter
followed the negro as Doc bo.tcI INFO %
drug store near by lie found thc man
exhibiting his wounded paw to au un
svmpathctic druggist. who seemed, how
ever. 20 know eXtctiy what t0 do under
/ the circumstances. while the patient kept
ND n running commentary ot calculations
bearing ON The agony hc was suffering.
Hits ter bic bite. suah iii- aches ue
way mp 20 dat ar shoulder Raiders
bites poison aints it. sah' That s. uo
RATHER" suortcd ;he druggist. Game
out of bunch II bananas. you say2 Well.
guess it was q scorpion
NO sab, bit came from among dem
or'ngc boxes"
"Then il must have been q spider or "a
mule killer. said the druggist.
By this time ho bad prepared dose
which he gave the terrified taraey to
swallow, and then. with strong smellug
lotion. ne bothed ile afflicted member
At this point the reporter took p hand in
the conversation. "l7 That whisky you
gave him 20 dr.nk>' he asked
ono. young man. said the old dug
I cfst. Its ammonia. aai worth q quart
of lwhisly in the case of % spider or scor
pion bite.
"Thcn mule killer Is "a scorpions"
"NO. sir, DO is not absorption.
"Ah. thcl'-w.la brilliant rl,iociua-
tion-.it's SPIDER
Wrong again. " said the druggist. "It
isn't a spider"
Then what ON earth is ite'
cts just between thc tVo said tne
druggist. and thc darby having su6s.lel
into "a condition of mte despair. varied
by an occasional moan az lingering agony.
and the store being otherwise deserted.
the dru1list became quite couIcrsat Onll
lie was I'm OH man w.th clean sh1veu
face strgrolinr cr1v hair and keen ewes.
,ybicl near4d m one over fIe tons az l.4
old fashioned spectaclcs This was by uo
means the first ease OF a poisonous bite hc
had treated. be- said. since he had settled
I'm the necAborAood All around him
were the establishments of dealer. fu all
sorts of tropical fruits. and hidden m
punches of bananas. under heaps Of cocol-
nuts or in crates of fruit were often 90
be found scorpions and spiders ~ all sorts
oil e.y.s n.,r. f.ftr Ift- fia mon hand Ifr.r