Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1881 — A Story About a Doctor. [ARTICLE]

A Story About a Doctor.

The physicians of Berlin have set afloat an edifying story about a doctor exceedingly handsome, young and a fascinating talker, but who knows about as much concerning healing as a fashionable abbe of Louis XV.’s time knew concerning religion. Nevertheless he has been in great request among ladies of high standing. One who must demand in his attendance is the widow of a late embaeador, who has opened many an aristocratic door to her medical favorite. The young doctor calls upon her three timee every week, tells her all the news, takes his leave, and enters his visit upon his “patient’s" quarterly bill for attendance and physic. A few days So, when Qie doctor rang gayly at e great bell, the footman arrested him in the hall a., d asked him to wait a moment there, as her ladyship had charged her maid to give him a particular message. The maid was called and said to the astonished medicine “My lady told me to express to you, dootor, her extreme regret that she is unable to see you to-day." "Is she going out?" “No, doctor, but she is now really unwell, and is obliged to send for a physician."

Hanlan, the world’s champion oarsman, has declined the ofter of Kennedy, of Portland, Me., to row in New England ior a purse of $3,000. He names Toronto nay, and the puree to be 16,000.