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The farmer's mule had just balked in the road when the country doctor came by. The farmer asked the physician if he could give him something to start the mule. The doctor said he could, and, reaching down into his medicine case, gave the animal some powders. The mule switched his tail, tossed his head and started on a mad gallop down the road. The farmer looked first at the flying animal and then at the doctor. "How much did that medicine cost, Doc?" he asked. "Oh, about fifteen cents," said the physician. "Well, give me a quarter's worth, quick!" And he swallowed it. "I've got to catch that mule." Rarely has a double meaning turned with more deadly effect upon an innocent perpetrator than in an advertisement lately appearing in a western newspaper. He wrote: "Wanteda gentleman to undertake the sale of a patent medicine. The advertiser guarantees it will be profitable to the undertaker." I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.-O. W. Holmes. A man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.-Bacon.