Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1870 — Bather Mean. [ARTICLE]

Bather Mean.

A poor country doctor was once called from his bed on a stormy night, with the startling summons, “Doctor, I want you to come right straight away off to Banks'. His child is dead.” “Then why do you come?” “He’s poisoned. They’ve given him laud’num instead of paregoric." “How much have they given him?” “Do’no. A great deal. Think he won’t get' over it." Tho doctor ' pushes off through the storm, meets with divers mishaps by the way, and at length arrives at the houso of his poisoned patient, and finds all closed. He knocks at the door, but no answer. He kicks furiously, and at last a night cap appears from a cham-ber-window, and a woman’s voice squeaks out, “Who's there ?’’ “The doctor, to bo sure; you sent for him. What is the matter?” "Oh, it’s no matter, doctor, Ephraim is bettor. We got a little frightened, that’s Ali.” “How much laudanum did he swallow?” “Only two drops. 'Taint hurt him aPTuI. Wonderful bad storm to-night.” Tho doctor turned away, buttoning up his overcoat under his throat, and tried to whistle away his mortification and anger, when a Voice calls, “Doctor! doctor!” “Well, what do you want?" “You won’t charge nothing for this visit, will you ?” A curious case occurred in Fry burg, Me, the other day. Two cows came toS ether on the banks of the Saco. They ookod and pushed and twisted until they got their horns lockoi|> when one of them went oyer the bank and broke her neck, and of course dragged the other too. both going into the water, the living one only to bo held down by the dead ono till drowned.