Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1881 — Precautionary. [ARTICLE]

Precautionary.

As the Buffalo express was whirling along the Erie, a queer looking old man, who might have escaped from the curiosity department of the Historical Society, got up from bis seat in the sleeping car and shouted: “Is there a doctor in the car?’’ Commotion and excitement immediately ensued, and us there was no medical man in* that particular car, several passengers hurried through the train and finally found one. “What's the matter?” he said to the little old man. “Nothing,” said he, “but in case I’m sick and yell out like thunder in my sleep, my bunk’s numbered twenty; now don’t you forget it!”