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NO VITAL SPOT NOW. WOUNDS OF HEART AND BRAIN THAT HAVE FAILED TO KILL Living With a Bullet Imbedded In Hl. Heart —Persons Who Hare Been Shot Through Their Brain, and Survived—Ad vance. In Treating Such Cases. “For xny own part,” said the doctor, with a shrug, “I would prefer not to be ■hot at all, whether in the heart, head, lungs, liver or brain, and yet I have taken note of many cases recently in which persons have sustained gunshot wounds of supposedly fatal character who are still alive and going about their business.” The doctor and his companion were passing a down town museum when the conversation took this turn. Among the freaks pictured and caricatured in front of the building was a man with a ragged bullet wound torn through his heart—which organ was vividly exposed in the flaring daub—while the angel of death was hovering over him, ready to snatch him away at any moment. “Then,” said the doctor’s friend, “a shot or a stab in the heart is not neces sarily fatal, as it is understood by mod ern surgery?’ ’ T “Not at all,” returned the doctor. “But, of course, we are not speaking of wounds as big and terrible as the one in that museum picture. That is appar ently even worse than ' the thrust re ceived byMercutio—looks about as deep as a well and as wide as a church door. No man who has been wounded like that ever survives more than a minute. “That man in the museum is alleged to be Charles B. Nelson, who was mys teriously shot one evening while in the company of Mrs. Edith Marguerite Sta ples in Washington park. The shooting occurred on a night five months ago, and the man with an ounce of lead in his heart is still alivel Whether.he Bleeps well and has a good appetite I am unable to say. He was formerly a cyclist of some note. Nelson’s breast was subjected to the X rays, and, ac cording to sciographs which were made at the time, the bullet lodged in the septum of the heart —the fourfold par tition of muscular fiber that divides the interior of that organ into right and left auricles and ventricles. There it has continued to throb up and down about 100,000 times a day ever since that mys terious shooting, and at every pulsation refuting the old theory of medical sci ence that the touch of hostile metal to man’s heart brings death. “The most skillful and daring sur geon on earth, if he were asked to re move the bullet from Nelson’s heart, would shake his head in the negative. So this man must carry his leaden han dicap as long as life shall last. Seems strange, doesn’t it? “And yet, notwithstanding what I have said, we have surgeons nowadays who do undertake and carry t«,a suc cessful conclusion operations on the heart. This is done by opening the peri cardium, for example, in cases of drop sy of the heart, and drawing oft the fluid by aspiration. A man may have his heart punctured with the point of a knife or a needle and still recover from the injury. It used to be held that wounds of this character were invaria bly fatal. Lut a wound of the heart is not necessarily fatal, as is shown in the case where a needle was removed by Callender from the substance of that organ. Cases of like nature have been reported by Drs. Hahn, Agnew, Stelz ner and others. More than 30 cases where rupture of the heart walls did not result in immediate death are re ported by Dr. D. J. Hamilton, a well known Scotch surgeon and pathologist. “The case of Poole, a prizefighter, was one of the most remarkable. Poole Was shot in the heart while engaged in an encounter with a man named Baker, in New Jersey, in 1855. To all outward appearance he recovered rapidly and in four days felt so well that he expressed a wish to finish the irfterrupted contest. Twelve days later, however, he sudden ly dropped to the ground. Within five minutes he was dead. “Mbre remarkable still, perhaps, are the numerous injuries to the brain and spinal cord, wh'ioh on first view would bejpronomiced fatal and yet from which the wounded persons recover. Ai Val paraiso, Ind., a man named Herbert J. Fish while in a fit of temporary insan- I ity put a .88 caliber bullet through his brain, and at last accounts he was still alive and apparently getting well. The , bullet, by all accounts, passed through the right and left anterior hemispheres of the brain, lodging finally in the pos terior bone wall of the left eye socket. In its course the ball destroyed a large 1 amount of brain matter. At the same ! time it cut the optic nerves of both eyes, destroying the sight. In some way the sense of smell, too, was destroyed. “Many Chicagoans will remember a ' tragedy at the Briggs House in this city several years ago, in which a man who was shot in the brain got well. J. 8. McDonnell, a well known veterinary < surgeon, and his wife were boarders at I the hotel. It was in August, 1887. One i day there was a great uproar and excite- I ment over a shooting affray in the apart- I ments of the McDonnells. In the quar- i rel McDonnell was shot by his wife, tlie i bullet entering the side of his head in i the parietal bone above the ear and pen- ] etrating the brain. Within the next 48 i hours the ball was removed by Dr. Lis- ' ton H. Montgomery, and the wounded man got well. The wife at the same time shot herself in the head, but her j injuries were not serious. Old time doc- i tors used to pronounce wounds like that » of McDonnell’s fatal in every instance | and made very little effort to save the ] patient. Brain injuries are most serious | and most often prove fatal when they ( r occur near the base of the brain.—Chi- f • cago Tribune. ( i No Fiction Either. He—Who is your favorite writer? She—My guardian. He signs all my ( checks, you know.— Detroit Free Press, ( ... . . .. . -L4 ' MAY HAVE MEANT WELL. B«t Her Effort. Did Not Meet With Much Success. Last season a Washington woman, possessing both social and charitable ambitions, elected to give a reception. The affair was to be very exclusive. Judge of the surprise when a bundle of invitations was left at the door of a hospital in town upon whose board of managers Mrs. Z. serves. The invita tions were found to be addressed to the trained nurses of the institution, and great was the wonder that the profes sional ranks had been invaded for so ciety recruits. A few days elapsed, and Mrs. Z. paid a visit to the hospital. Making herself extremely agreeable, she remarked to the nurses: ' '*» “Well, girls, I hope you received cards to my reception?’ ’ Smiles and acknowledgments answer ed in the affirmative, and Mrs. Z. went on complacently: “Indeed, I was only too glad to re member you all. I appreciate how much work and how little play you girls have, and I thought you would enjoy a little glimpse of society fun.” “No doubt,, of it, Mrs. Z.,” one of the nurses’spoke up, “but none of us are likely to have gowns suitable to wear at such a function. ’ ’ 1 ‘ Oh, that need not trouble you in the least, ’ ’ returned the smiling Mrs. Z. “Now, my idea is this. Os course I understand you have no evening gowns and that you know very few society people, but these facts must not inter fere with your getting a peep at my guests and eating some of my supper. I thought the whole thing would be sim plified if you all came in your pretty uniforms and caps and took up your stations in the dressing rooms. You would only have to assist the ladies with their wraps, and you could see the gowns to such good advantage, and’ ’ — But such a chorus of indignant ex- the air at that juncture that Mrs. Z. 's sentence was never com pleted. The social veneering must be thickly coated on Mrs. Z., for to this day she does not seem to understand why the nurses meet her advances with frigid indifference and why her visits to the hospital are no longer pleasant.—Wash ington Star. MAKING PLATE GLASS. An Operation That Requires a Deal of Skill and Care. A visit to a plate glass works reveals nothing perhaps more interesting than the casting tables on which the heavy plate glass used in most store windows is cast. “The casting tables,” said the superintendent of a large factory, “are the most important pieces of apparatus in this establishment. “Each table is about 20 feet long, 15 feet wide and from 7 to 8 inches thick. The heavy strips of iron on either side of the tables afford a bearing for the rollers and determine the thickness dr diameter of the glass to be cast. ‘ * The rough plate is commonly nine sixteenths of an inch thick, but after polishing it is reduced to six or seven sixteenths. All casting tables are mount ed on wheels which run on a track made to reach every furnace and annealing oven in the factory. The table having been wheeled as near as possible to the melting furnace, a pot of molten glass is lifted by means of a crane and its contents poured quickly on the table. “A heavy iron roller then passes from end to end, spreading the glass to a uni form thickness. This rolling operation ha? to be done by expert hands quickly, as the boiling glass, when it comes in contact with the cold metal of the table, cools very rapidly. When the rolling process has been completed, the door of the annealing oven is opened and the plate of glass is .introduced. “The floor of the annealing oven is on the same level as the wheels of the cast ing table, so that the transfer can be made by rail quickly. When the glass is ready to be taken out of the oven, its surface is very rough. In this condition it is used for skylights and other pur poses where strength is desired rather than transparency, but when intended for windows it is ground, smoothed and polished and is then ready for the mar ket. ’ ’ —Boston Globe. The New Jersey Vote. The amendment to confer school suf frage on the women of New Jersey was defeated by a majority of over 12,000. The antigambling amendment was de feated by over 3,000, and another amendment was lost by only 843. This vote shows two things—first, that the suffrage amendment was defeated by opposition and not by indifference mere ly; second, that it could not carry even the vote of the moral element of the state. New Jersey needs a good dear of education.—Woman’s Tribune. A Titled Costermonger. An aristocratic costermonger is what one would hardly expect to find in Shoreditch, yet some years ago this was i a favorite character of Lord Lonsdale. It was no unusual thing for this eccen tric nobleman to lay aside his dinner < dress and robe himself in the corduroys and colored handkerchief of the coster, and a capital coster he made, having a i pair of lungs like a couple of foghorns and a genius for acting the part which i was irresistible.—London Answers . i Fountain pens are rather older than most people imagine. As long ago as ' 1824 they were in use, for in that year Thomas Jefferson saw a contrivance of this sort, tried, it and wrote to General i Bernard Peyton of Richmond; asking 1 him to get one of them. The pen was i of gold and the ink tube of silver, and, 1 according to Jefferson’s letter, the mak- I er was a Richmoni watch repairer < named Cowan. , i There are more than 100,000 chil- 1 dren in the national schools of Germany ( who stutter. POLLY’S DANDER UP. Inflamed at Sight of an Offensive Bird a Visitor Wore on Her Hat. A bridal couple who put in several days recently taking in, the sights of the capital enjoyed themselves im mensely until the day preceding their departure. It then occurred to the bride that she had not called upon “dear Fanny,” who had been her chum dur ing her days at the seminary. Now, Fanny was still enjoying single blessed ness, and this may have had something to do with the anxiety of the bride to call upon her maiden chum. George de murred feebly, but at last consented to pay a formal call. The bride dressed herself in a fetching gown and placed upon her saucy head a Parisian dream in the way of a hat The hat was one of those indescribable creations of the milliner’s art, a mass of flowers with a bird or two partially concealed in the foliage, so to speak. The pair went gayly forth and in a hotel coupe were soon at the door of Fanny’s residence. Their cards were taken and .they were ushered into the drawing room. While awaiting the coming of her friend the bride’s atten tion was attracted to a large cage con taining a splendid parrot. She chirruped cooingly to the imprisoned bird and wished she might take him out of his cage and caress him. George remarked that he looked tame enough and sug gested the opening of thd door of the cage. Suiting action to the word, he opened the door and the released bird calmly walked forth and strutted about, blinking his beady eyes know ingly. The bride, with usual calls of “Poll, pretty Poll!” coaxed the bird to ward her, and poll proceeded to climb up the rounds of the chair upon which the lady was sitting and perched herself upon the arm of the chair. The parrot Uttered guttural cries of * * Polly, Polly, ’ ’ this word seemingly comprising her en tire vocabulary. The bird accepted the caresses, and apparently all was serene, but without an instant’s warning she uttered a scream of rage and flew at the lady’s headgear, alighting fairly thereon, and then for a few minutes the air was fill ed with flying feathers and bits of flow ers, while the atmosphere was fractured by screams from the bride and discord ant cries from the parrot. George at tempted to come to the rescue and had his face badly scratched for his pains. The lady finally shook the bird loose from the flower garden she was wear ing upon her hat and made one wild dash for the front door, followed close ly by the bridegroom. Once on the pave ment, they became somewhat composed and determined to return to their hotel to repair damages. They did not tarry long enough to see “dear Fanny. ” The sudden wrath of the bird was evidently caused, George thought upon reflection during calmer moments, by the fact that amid the flowers in his wife’s hat there nestled a stuffed Caro line parrakeet, which the parrot took to be a real live rival and proceeded forthwith to demolish. The bride is now a thorough convert to the teach ings of the Audubon society.—Wash ington Post. Heirs Afraid of a Bomb. Byway of illustrating the nervous ness which the recent explosions have revived here, a queer adventure which has just befallen the heirs of a house owner may be mentioned. They had met at the dwelling of their departed uncle for the purpose of drawing up an inventory of his effects in company with a lawyer and had nearly completed their task when one of them pulled out of a cupboard a metal box, which was laid on the table and which the man of business was about to open, when one of his nieces cried out in horror: “Don’t touch it! Look, that is a fuse.” Sure enough, there was a little something popping out of the cover. “It is a bomb!” exclaimed the panic stricken heirs in chorus, and then they proceed ed to remark that their deceased rela tive had been a moody, silent and re served sort of individual, and thence they inferred that he might possibly have been an anarchist Two of the nephews had had put on their hats and were on the point of rushing off to the office of the nearest police commissary, when the lawyer, who had been quietly inspecting the box, calmly suggested that it might simply contain some pre served fruit. This theory somewhat re assured the men, but the ladies would have their way. The commissary was sent for, and the mysterious box was soon on its way to the municipal labora tory. It was found to contain a pine apple, the stalk of which had been mis taken for a fuse. So the good old uncle, who had been so ungratefully maligned, had not been an anarchist after all.— Paris Cor. London Telegraph. • J • Early American Bishops. Before the war for American inde pendence the American Episcopalians, who were connected with the English church, were never suffered to have a bishop among them, but remained un der the jurisdiction of the bishop of London. The rite of confirmation was unknown, and every candidate for or dination was obliged to travel to Eng land. Out of 52 candidates who came from America for ordination in 1767 10 died on the voyage. At length, after the United States had been declared in dependent, Dr. Seabury was ordained bishop of Connecticut by the primna and bishops of Scotland, the prelates of the English church having refused to consecrate him.—London News. A whistling moth is an Australian rarity. There is a glassy space on the wings crossed with ribs. When the moth wants to whistle, it strikes these ribs with its antennae, which have a knob at the end. The sound is a love call from the male to the female. The leaders of a flock of migrating wild geese become tired sooner than others and are frequently relieved by their fellows. w No Getting Put Flnt Base. Manchester, in Adams county, has • colored baseball nine that has been beat ing everything in southern Ohio, Not long since they sent word to West Union, the county seat of that county, that they wished to arrange for a game with theooi ored boys at that place. Although West Union had no regularly organised nine, the challenge was accepted. A team was got together and put to praotioe. The day for the game arrived, and the two teams met on the fair grounds. The West Union boys had Several players in their team who had never been in a match game and knew as little about the rules as they did about playing. One of them was Pete Johnson, a tall, rawboned darky, who was assigned to hold down first bate. Pete’s hands were as big as a barn door, and when he opened them out ft looked as if it were impossible for a ball to pass him. The game was called, and tbe visitors took the bat. The first man up hit an easy little pop up to first base. Peto got under it. It fell plumb into his open hands, but bounced out and rolled to one side. The batter reached his base. Pete picked up the ball, and, stepping up to the base, hit the runner in the back with the hand containing the ball and almost knocked the breath out of him. He stood holding the ball, apparently waiting for the runner to vacate the base. Presently be said: “You’seout, nlggah.” “Naw, I isn’t out, nuther,” replied the runner. “Mistah nlggah, I sez you’seout,” re peated the burly first base man. “Naw, I isn’t out," protested the run ner. “I wuz on my base when you touched me.” “An you sez you isn’t out?” "Course I isn’t out, man. You fro’ do ball to de pitcher.” The umpire called out that the man was safe, but Pete took no heed. He ran his hand down into his pants pockets and drew out an ugly looking razor. Strik ing a menacing attitude, heagain directed his attention to the runner and said: “Mistah nlggah, I sez once mo’ you’se out. Now, isn’t you out?” and he opened the blade of the razor. “Yessir, yessir!” replied the now thor oughly frightened runner. “I’ze out—l’ze out!” and he hurried off the base. That ended the game. The visitors saw clearly that they had no possible show of getting past first base.—Ohio State Jour nal. The Political Secrets of Dr. Hen. An opinion on the Dr. Cornelius Herz affair has been submitted tome. It is that It has been revived to alarm some illustri ous Italians. King Humbert is to visit Berlin on the morrow of the anniversary of Sedan. Dr. Herz was charged in this decade to negotiate the desertion by Italy of the triple alliance. About £1,000,000 was to have been spent, £600,000 of which was to go into Italian pockets. If he were now to “reveal” what he knows, it would bo extremely awkward for some upper most personages in Rome and for a few living French statesmen. M. Spuller was favorable to the plan of buying Italy out of the triplice. He was such a plain, hon est man and so well satisfied to live like a struggling student that I do not bellevo he had personally any reason to be afraid of Dr. Herz opening his mouth, but there were colleagues of his who trembled. In the present state of Europe Italy might help to make the scale tilt over one way or another. It would be more pleas ant for Russia to hold her by revelation made through Dr. Herz than by heavy subventions. There can be no sort of doubt that Herz was engaged in a mission to Rome by a syndicate of French parlia mentarians that included M. Spuller. If there were not a colossal motive for seeing him, a committee of 80 of the chamber of deputies would not have first sent two members to Bournemouth and then pro posed, because Dr. Herz required it, to go there cn masse. A most eminent diplo mat—l shall not say what power ho repre sented in Rome—when Herz was pulling wires there once said to me that he could only account for different things which came to his knowledge by assuming that Herz had nearly detached Italy from the triple alliance.—Paris Cor. London Truth. Japanese Newspapers an<f “ Devils.” The Japanese newspaper, as described in a letter from Tokyo to the New York Post, is a curious product of the borrowed civi lization of the mikado’s empire. Practically there is in it no telegraphic news, and the editorial articles are Ingen ious studies in the art of saying certain things without saying them in a way to warrant the censor's suppression of them, for the minister of state for t the interior has power to suspend any paper when in his opinion it says anything prejudicial to order, authority or morality. Not infrequently the censor has occasion to write an order for tfie suppression of a newspaper, and when ho does it he is brief, but wonderfully polite. He puts the honorifics “o” or “go” be fore all the nouns and verbs. J Prefixed to a noun “o” means honorable and ton verb it means honorably. Similarly “go” means august, augustly. So the order to the editor of tbe offending newspaper when it arrives will read like this: “Deign honorably to cease honorably publishing august paper. Honorable edi tor, honorable publisher, honorable chief printer, deign honorably to enter august jail." The honorable editor with his honorable coworkers bows low before tbe messenger and then accompanies him to the august jail, chatting meanwhile of the weather, of the flower shows or of the effect of the floods on the rice crop. Centuries of breed ing under Japanese etiquette have made it Impossible for any one to show annoyance. True to His Bringing Vp. A writer in The Indepenent has discov ered something rare—a donkey boy In Cairo with a sense of the ideat Most boys of bls profession are a good natured lot, but few are the vices they cannot teach. Little Hassan, on the contrary, seems to have principles and is quietly stench in his adherence to them. Once he refused a cigarette, says tbe traveler, and in my surprise I almost lost my balance. . “What! Not smoke, Hassan?” said L* “I thought all the donkey boys smoked.” “I don’t,” said Hassan, who looked about 11, was short, very brown, very scantily dressed, quite dirty, had only one eye and trotted behind the donkey with rounded shoulders and bead craned for ward. “I don’t If I did, my family would beat me, and quite right too.” “But who are you and who are your family?” I asked. “Ah!” he said proudly. "We are Su danese. In the Sudan we are strict. To smoke, to use wine, to drink coffee, not to pray—these are shameful things, and if a man does anything impure they hang him to a tree with his face toward the sun.” - " |7 ___'l SEE' THAT THE u U|jm|F AC ~S IMIL E AVege tabic Preparationfor As- - SIGNATURE slmilatirig tteTood andßetfuta.- tiigiteSionachsandßawelsaff ■ OF PromotesTHgesfion,Cheerfut- Hess and Rest. Con tains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. ■ to nv rpTT'fl: Not Narcotic. ■ WRAPPER ■ OF EVERY sifeEJ 1.. 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