Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — A Scratch. [ARTICLE]

A Scratch.

“I never made but one mistake in Dr. Shorthand’s prescriptions,” remarked the pharmacist, looking at one bottle while he reached up .for another. “How was that?”asked the customer. “I put up what he wanted,” replied the man of drugs. “Usually I try to read his prescription apd always get it wrong, but that night the gas went out and I put it up in the dark. Burdette. A man in Syracuse collected accounts of the lives of ten thousand centenarians. He found that six thousand of them came from Connecticut, and that the majority of them were women. Fifty single women came up to the century mark, but only twelve bachelors. One hundred ministers lived to be 100, and only thirty doctors, ten lawyers, and ten actors.- A centenarian newspaper man could not be discovered.