The Weekly Register

How to Cure a Jealous Husband.

There is a man in this city who is so affectionately fond of his wife, that he is jealous if a man looks within forty-five degrees of the direction in which she may happen to be. The other day a gentleman spoke to her and he immediately threatened suicide. His wife was dispatched for a bottle of poison which she had put up at the druggist's consisting of a little water colored with liquorice, and bottled with a glaring poison label outside. When he threatened to take some of it, and actually poured it into a wine glass, she screamed for help and ran into another room where she could watch him through the key-hole. and saw him coolly open the window and throw it out. She then rushed back, apparently frantic with grief, and implored him not to do the rash deed. He merely pointed to the glass, and lying down on the floor, began to kick out his legs like a jumping jack. She told him she was determined to share his fate, and swallowed the rest of the liquorice water whereupon he became really frightened, called the neighbors, confessed that he only shammed, and said that if she only survived he never would trouble her again. Then she explained the ruse, and he was so mortified he tried to buy up the silence of the neighbors, but the story was too good to keep.

He is thoroughly cured