A REGULAR FIX.
A section of the population of Brooklyn is, according to the New York Sun, in a peculiar difficulty at the prsaent moment. It ia stated that a vessel arrived in the port from Cuba, bringing among her cargo eight large casks Each of the casks, it is added, contained a dead body, and the spirit in which they had been preserved was so'd to a wholesale dealer, ami by him distributed all o> er the city. The worst of the affair is that no one in Brooklyn can find out what was the particular spirit which the eight casks contained in addition to the dead bodies. The result is put with much pathos by an inhabitant who the reporter of the Sun has asked to have “ a sling. 1 ’ “If they would tell us whether it was rum or gin,” said the forlorn man, in declining the proffered refreshment, “we could shirk that particular drink until we knew the stuff was all consumed, but as we don’t know anything about it, why we have got to sheer clear of everything until we are worn out.”
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Evening Star, Issue 3040, 15 November 1872, Page 3
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188A REGULAR FIX. Evening Star, Issue 3040, 15 November 1872, Page 3
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