Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — Wanted to Buy It. [ARTICLE]

Wanted to Buy It.

A woman who came in with her husband from a suburban village to see the eircua became suddenly ill and fainted. A cab waa called, and the huaband placing hia wife in the cab, they were driven hurriedly to the office of a physician. The physician felt of the wife's pulse, tested her heart action, and then, placing a febrile thermometer in her mouth, he bade her close her mouth and keep it ahut, she having recovered her senses. The wife did as she was bidden and the tjoctor looked steadily at his watch, hia finger again on her pulse and counted. The seconds ran into a minute, two minutes—three! And then the husband asked eagerly and anxiously: "Say, Doc, what'll yer take fer that thing?" pointing to the thermometer. “Why?" demanded the physician. “ ’Cause hit’s the first time I ever knowed 'er to hoi’ ’er tongue that long." —Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald.