Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-31
c uRB AND CORRIDOR.

IF You want to have a whole lot of
fun with DR.. p. S. Mussigbrod these lays
all you have to say is muscular reflex"
said Co lionel L. c. Parker today. Colonel
Parker and DR.. Mussigbrod are both resi-
dents of Garnet, and both have been tax
ing in the town for the past few days.
The doctor and myself went into the
Butte Cafe a night or two ago." con-
tinued the colonel. "Just as the doctor
was reaching for the celery sauce, he
suddenly grabbed his left leg and running
his hand up and down ooksd over at me
n inquired If 1 had touched him. I
replied that I had not and inquired the
cause Of his agitation.
well he. said, L felt as if a snake
We're running up above my shoe tops
Il paid no further attention to the
incident until a few minutes later, when
the doctor dropped his knifc and fork and
made a grip at his clothing near the re-
gion of the heart.
Here, what's the rnatter?" I inquired
with some anxiety.
Tn blamed if I know" aid DR.. Mus
sigbrod II thought / felt something
crawling up my body. I guess it is q re-
currence of that same old muscular re-
flex with which 1 was troubled years
ago."
During the progress or the meal the
doctor suffered a great deal II 1 was
really sorry for him." continued the col
onei. i could not account for his ex-
traordinary behavior. After the meal we
stepped out n walked up to Hight &
Fairfield's store. Here we met j.. X,
Clark and his wife. The doctor was in
the midst of an animated conversation
with Mrs. Clark, when to my great sur
prise, ne Invested himself of his over
coat and made a grab for his arm. All
present thought the physician had taken
leave or his senses. Just then we heard
a tiny squeak and the next instant the
doctor dug down into the arm of his coat
and extracted the dead body of a pretty
gray mouse. Explanation of the 'muscu-
lar reflex incident followed. The mouse
had taken a notion to explore the doc
tors C othing, while in the Butte Hotel
cafe and had Travelled clear from the shoe
tops upward to the shoulders of the doc
tor, and was ruthlessly murdered when
owe The doctor, however, was
o~verjoyed to learn that his muscular sys-
tenn was not in disorder"
II had a peculiar experience in Salt
Lake recently with a friend Of mine"
said Colonel John III. Conrad. who heard
the story. Il smoke a pipe in my room
and the other night decided to clean nm
my sInoklng apparatus, using for the
purpose a large quantity of alcohol.
which. when it had served its purpose
l threw into the cuspidor. Just about this
time my friend came and l offered him
J a cigar. He lighted his cigar and threw
, the burning match into the spittoon. The
alcohol of course blazed up and in a.
startled tone my friend asked what
caused the fire. Looking over at the
cuspidor replied hat there was no fire
there, that 1t existed merely in his i'm
aginatI on. BY this time the alcohol had
been consumed and taking him by the
arm marched him over to the cuspidor
n asked him if he noticed anythine
strange about the cuspidor. He admit
ted he did not but was willing to swear
that IT was ablaze a few minutes ago.
Andy" l replied in all serious, 'there
IS something wrong and you must stop
drinking" ~
my friend at once put on his coat ana
he hasn't spoken to me since"
A. E. briggs, whose place of residence
Is now Salt Lake, but who holds large
realty interests in this city. laft FOR TYtoh