Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — Dispensing: on Board Ship. [ARTICLE]

Dispensing: on Board Ship.

Curious yarns are spun about the method of dispensing followed by divers captains on board ship. An illiterate shipmaster, having consulted his book of medical instructions. found that a strong dose from number six bottle was the proper remedy for a sick sailor standing before him. Number six, however, had been in great request bn the voyage, and not a drop remained. Fora moment the amateur doctor was at a loss. An inspiration opportunely caused his corrugated brow to smoothen. He mixed together portions from bottles ’ number two and number four on the strictly arithmetical principle that two and four make six! Another story tells equally against the sisterservice. It is related that a lieutenant in command of a gunboat deemed the Responsibility of the charge of a medicine-chest . too great for him. Immediately she was off soundings the gallant officer mustered all hands, and divided the contents of the chbst equally, so that each had “his whack and na mair.” There is another naval yarn in this connection well worth mentioning. A man-of-war doctor, whose name is unfortunately lost to posterity,. had a simple method of locating a man’s ailment and alleviating it—save the mark!—by drastic an infallible remedies. ' . He would tie a piece of tape around the waist of the complaining mariner, and command him todeclare whether his pain existed above or below the tape. If above, an emetic, and if below, a dose of salts, followed as a matter of course.

Queen Victoria and the Duke of Fife have quarreled because Fife ignored royal etiquette and spoke before he was spoken to. As monarch Victoria is entitled to the first word; as a woman she insists on the last word, and she gets most of the words that come between on general principles. ; Russians who stay at home must .suffer, if not die, from starvation, and those who reach America bring the deadly typhus to work its ravages in this country. Surely they are an afflicted people who in seeking, a deliverance bring affliction upon others. • It is reported that a Boston dentist has been indicted for having attempted to “fix" the grand jury in behalf of. the whisky trust. He probaLD tried to put in sonic gold fillings.