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Poison, Disguised—See [Death Masked in Beauty].
POISON DRINK
An officer from Japan, visiting America, one day, while looking about a big city, saw a man stop a milk-wagon.
“Is he going to arrest the man?” he asked.
“No,” was the answer; “he must see that the milk sold by this man is pure, with no water or chalk mixed with it.”
“Would chalk or water poison the milk?”
“No; but people want pure milk if they pay for it.”
Passing a whisky saloon, a man staggered out, struck his head against a lamp-post, and fell to the sidewalk.
“What is the matter with that man?”