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IuprcRoUs MIsTAKE.-A story is going the
rounds Of the press, of man losing his life by a
mistake of the apothecary, in putting up prescrp-
ton written in Latin. mistake, not so fatal but
from which as good moral is deducible, is related


in western paper. A Cincinnati grocery house
finding ou, that cranberres commanded six dollars
per bushel, and under the impression that the art-
Gle could be bought to advantage at ST. Mary's,
wrote out to customer acquainting him with the fact
and requesting him to send lone hundred bushels
per Simmons" (the WAGNER usually sent lhe
correspondent, plain, uneducated man, had con-
siderable difficulty in decypheripg the fashionable
scrawl common with merchants clerks Of late
years. and the most important word, "cranberries,
he failed to make out, but he did plainly and clearly
read, one hundred bushels psrsimmon, As the ar
ucle growing all around him, all the boys in
the neghborhood were set to gathering il, and the
WAGNER made his appearance in due time in Cnein-
'nau with eighty bushels--all that the wagon bed
would hod-and a line from the country merchant,
that the remainder would follow the next trip. An
explanation soon ensued, but the customer insisted
that the Cincinnati house should have written BY
Simmons, and not per Simmons.