Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — An Experimenter. [ARTICLE]

An Experimenter.

Two of those ornaments made of plaster of paris, flavored with sugar, were bestowed upon an urchin, with the usual warning, “Don’t eat them, whatever you do; they will poison you.” For some time they were regarded by him and his younger brother with mingled awe and admiration; but at no distant day their mother missed one. “ Tom,” said she to the owner, who was just setting forth for- school, “what have ’ee done with that figure?” “ Giv’d it to Dick,” was the reply, “and if he’s living when I come home I mean to eat the other one myself, I can tell ’ee !”-—Lo n don Fun eh . A Hartford/druggist draws beer from a soda fountain, and sells it under the name of German tonio,