Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1890 — An Acute Sense of Smell. [ARTICLE]

An Acute Sense of Smell.

A well-known blind man records that he said one morning to a workman: “You have had a red herring for breakfast, you have smoked a pipe of tobacco, and you have just lighted a fire.” As the man had carefully washed himself after lighting the fire andi eating breakfast, the blind man’s sense of smell must have been acute to detect all three odors in succession. “You have had fish here,” said this same blind man to a cleik on entering a store. The cle'k said that they had not, but on the blind man insisting that there was the smell of fish in the store, the clerk remembered that a lafly had been in to pay a bill who lived in a house next door to a fish dealer’s stand. A young lady in the town of Minsk, Eussia, purchased a pair of gloves, a la Sarah Bernhardt. Immediately after putting them on her hands began to itch. The next day her arms were covered with sores, and a week later she died of blood poisoning. The doctors suppose that the skin belonged to an animal that had some contagious malady. - Those fellows who dote on their girls sometimes find matrimony a powerful antidote