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Swallowed The Jumping Beans

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
March
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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A good citizen iu tbe uorthwestern seotiou of the city has been through an exciting experience. Beiug a dyspeptio, the gontleman visited his physician. A prescriptiou was writteu for him wliich the drnggist filled. The result was a small box oí' capsules, which ho took home and placed upon the sideboard, with tho reiueinbrauue of the instructions totaketwo everyhour iu theeveuing after eating until bedtime. ïliese were obeyed iinpHoity. It was dark in the dining room, and the gentleman went for hia medicino the íirst evening without a precautiou of a lamp and administered to himself three doses jí fewo capsules each bef oro retiring. He was awakened sume honra afterward by a strange seusatioii. For anght the man could tell he seemed within to beainammoth penuchlo board on which a million little objects were dancing. He conld distingnish kicks and jumps so vividly that it was in vain for liis wife to try to couvince him that ho was dreamiug. She suggested the doctor, and the servant was dispatched in hot haste. Before he arrived the sick man asked for more of the capsules, which were brought to his bedside. When the cover was removed, there were Mexican beans iustead of capsules, the kerneis bouncing as merrily as spriug laiabs. The box of capsules had been misplaced aocidentally by the young son and heir and the beaus putiu its place. Th doctor does not say what kind of medicine

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News