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A Small Pox Odor

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
April
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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When HotiVmstein entered tlie store tuere was a look in his eyes whicl plainly told that something had liappened to him, and his olerk, notidng it said: " Vat's de matter, Misder Hoiïenstein ? You don't look veil dis nioming." "Noding, Herman," he replied; "bul a brivate citizen don't can half any rights mitout some beople objections, you know. I vas arrested by the bolice ye3terday." "Arrested, Mr. Hoffenstein ?" "Yes, und it vas all about dis sinallpox pisinesa vat is goin.g araund. Ven I goes home yeaterday efening I buys a cake of Limburg cheese, puts it in my market basket, und den I gets n a street car vat vas crowdegi mit beople who vas all dalking of de small-pox. Afder a vile de cheese begin to smell, und efery von looks aronnd at von anoder. Limburg vill do dot ' vay, und you can't help it, Herman. Soon I see dot efery one in de car had dere eyes on me, und mit de red bimples vat is on my face, togedder wit do smell of de cheese, de beople all dink I haf de smalLpox, und dey begin to visper. 'Shentleman,' says von man mit big eet, 'vas you all vaccinated ?' 'Na, air,' dey says. 'Veil, den, dere va.s a case of small-pox in dis car. I know it by de smell,' he says, und mit dat he dives right out of de door. De next minute de whole crowd runs for ds aoor, und more as ten of dein humps de Windows out. Von ftld man mit a big storaach und green umprella gets stv.ck ia vor of de vindows, und yelïa vile he shakes de umprelía, acares de ronles, und de car runs away. Ye dt far stopped de bolice carne íu und I xts arrested for havirij de amall-pox und disturbing -da beace, ühst di'jk of it, Herioaa- a brivate dtizeu don't haf iny brivileges in de towa, you know." HoY hard it is to be oonsistent. At the Lord Mayor's dinner in London the speakers unsparingly denounced London fogs and IiOndon smoke, wliile every one of them was blowing clouds of tobáceo smoke, iu abadly ventilated room.. Ï2 ven our good Mr. Lo well, who condemned London smoke the loudest blew the thickeat clond of tobáceo smoke. Ex-President Woolsey has just completed a half-eentury of service in Yale Collego, of which twenty-five years were in the presidency.

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