Medicine: In a Madhouse

Happy over the confidence placed in an insane man like himself, Hugh Foye took great pains with the hard sauce he mixed last week for the staff and patients of the Danvers (Mass.) State Hospital. Carefully he measured the proper amount of butter and powdered sugar. Carefully he poured in his flavoring. Laboriously he creamed the mixture. And pridefully he took a taste. The flavor was peculiar. He took another taste, and another. Soon Hugh Foye was dead with a stomach ache.

Chef Rufus Flint, who is sane, took a taste of the hard sauce,...

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