_; d * *■*> ii- mi:* ii .."tfrftffff? dqit Again.— The other itigbta young man—^one given to practical joking— went into a " public," sot one hundred miles from Fleet■ttM^ atod called jdr a glass of beer. If was iian^e'd, 'to him, and then he dropped a little powdered magnesia in it from a paper, swallowed the whole deliberately, looked the attentive landlord in 1 ?-, eye, and said "I have poisoned myself!" ' In an instant the landlorS bad tioand6d to his side, and the nart instant ,be had him on the door; and sent'for Hancock, the chemist. Tho ypnog ma^ struggled to free himWUt'tod protested that it was "all a joke." Bat the landlord was too old _iid tdo educated a man to be deluded *7>mhMssWv, 4p>«W«4»*Jely rewo-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 266, 10 November 1874, Page 4
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124Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 266, 10 November 1874, Page 4
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