Science and Friendship.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 86

Science and Friendship.

j A Baltimore" man who frequently visits ' a scientific friend- in Catonsville once found him in hi» laboratory studying a darkj brown substance spread out on. a sheet of paper. ' , j j "I sayr Brown," said the scientific person when, greetings had been, duly exchanged, "would you mind letting me place I a bit of this on your tongue? My taste i has become sadly vitiated by trying all sorts of things. IT j "Certainly," responded' the aceommodat- , ing friend, and he promptly opened his mouth. i The professor took some' of the- substanco under analysis and put- it on his friend's tongue, whereupon^ the Baltimore man , worked it around in. his mouth for fully , a minute, tasting it as he might have sampled a choice confection. "Note any effect?" asked the professor. "No especial effect." "It doesn't paralyse or prick your , tongue?" j "Not that I can detect." | "I didn't think ft would. There are no alkaloids in it, then. How doee it taste?" "Very bitter." i " "Very bitter, eh?" Then, after a pause, "All right, that will do." By this thrue- the caller's curiosity was aroused- "What is it, anyhow?" h» asfc«3. j "I don't know. That's what lam tryi ing to find out. Someone around here has been, pokoaing horses with it." — Philadelphia Publ'c Ledger. ' J