Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — An Embarrassed Inventor. [ARTICLE]

An Embarrassed Inventor.

Among the regular passengers on a certain Boston railroad is a somewhat celebrated chemist, who has lately compounded a mixture for the cure of cholera. The other evening he was in conversation with the conductor regarding his discovery, and being very much interested in its wonderful medicinal properties, he raised his voice so as to attract the attention of all the passengers in the car. “Why, ” said he, “my medicine will knock the cholera higher than a burnt boot. I wish it wound come here, and I wound show you how quick I would conquer it and make my fortune besides.” “What’s the matter with your going out there where it is and wrestling with it?” blandly suggested the genial conductor. “Why, I might catch it myself,” innocently replied the would-be cholera exterminator, and the roars of laughter that filled the car at that moment so comfused the worthy inventor as to cause his sudden retirement to the smoking car.—Boston Herald.