Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — A Doctor’s Diary. [ARTICLE]

A Doctor’s Diary.

A pocket dairy picked up in the street of a neighboring city would seem to indicate, from the following choice extract, that the owner was a medical man: “Ease 235. Old Misses Boggs. Aint got no bisnis, but has plenty of money. Sickness all a humbug. Qav her sum of my celebrated ‘DipseflOriken,’ which she sed she drank like cold tee —which it was too. Must put sumthing in it so make her feel sik and bad. The Old Woman has got the roks.” — Sanitarian'. Of the two Alexander Dumases,pere et fils, Edmund Yates tells the story that when the first successful novel of the son appeared, the older wrote to his son, as though to a stranger, congratulating him on his agid,adding that he ought to know something about difficulties of novel-writing, as he had himself been guilty of sevtral Alexander fils replied in the same spirit, thanking his correspondent for his congratulations, of which he felt especially proud, as coming from one of whom he bad often heard Ipa father speak in the highest terms. If thv neighbor offend thee, buy his boy a drum.