en with them
if I stay there long enough, and don't you forget it. If you have a
prescription you want filled you can come down to the store and I will put
it up for you myself, and then you will be sure to get what you pay for."

"Yes," said the grocery man, as he cut off a piece of limberg cheese and
put it on the stove to purify the air in the room, "I should laugh to see
myself taking any medicine you put up. You will kill some one yet, by
giving them poison instead of quinine. But what has your Pa got his nose
tied up for? He looks as though he had had a fight."

"O, that was from my treatment. He had a wart on his nose. You
know that wart. You remember how the minister told him if other peoples'
business had a button hole in it, Pa could button the wart in the
button-hole, as he always had his nose there. Well, I told Pa I could cure
that wart with caustic, and he said he would give five dollars if I could
cure it, so I took a stick of caustic and burned the wart off, but I guess
I burned down into the nose a little, for it swelled up as big as a
lobster. Pa says he would rather have a whole nest of warts than such a
nose, but it will be all right in a year or two."

A LOAN EXHIBITION.

"What is a loan exhibition?" asks a correspondent. Well, when a fellow
borrows ten dollars of you, to be paid next Saturday, and he lets it run a
year and a half, and don't pay it, and he meets you on the street and asks
for five dollars more, and you turn him around and kick him right before
the crowd, that is a loan exhibition.

THE WICKED MON KEE.

Mon Kee, a Chinaman that was converted to regular United States religious
doctrines, and opened a mission in New York for the purpose of converting
more heathens and shethens, has been arrested for stealing. This is a
terrible blow, and Mon Kee was a terrible plower. A few weeks since the
religious papers made more blow over the coming into the fold of that
Chinaman than they did over all the editors in the country, who went not
astray. Now they have shut up their yawp about him, since he has proved to
be no better than Talmage or Beecher.

UNSCREWING THE TOP OF A FRUIT JAR.

There is one thing that there should be a law passed about, and that is,
these glass fruit jars, with a top that screws on. It should be made a
criminal offense, punishable with death or banishment to Chicago, for a
person to manufacture a fruit jar, for preserving fruit, with a top that
screws on.