ffACTOTOS JEWS.
BXATB.
ftwfaaaU bUI giving a premium of
CtteyeBrtoMra. JwuFnaocttti
laawtiedaed placed ob tba calender
TBeemextaMsoaeededu the toe
lot the ladlaa apprMriiiUoa
Tie Mnmik having been
I ia regard to 'tbe removal of the
northern bead of Cfceyeanae to pwma
Beat esttliment npoa ou of the exist
ing wn ilium is South DokoU, Wy
oaaiafor Montana, sartiaa was mad
by FMtagrew to strike out South Dakota.
Ha said tbera won already VOO India,
ia that state, and no more war wanted.
Poret remarked that Montana did
net waat tbem either.
Anew runner aiacuasion the names
of three aUtaa were at ruck out and tbe
paragraph changed so aa to maka iba
claaee read "for tba removal of aaid
northern bead of Cheyenne Indiana to
a pamiinant settlement upon any of
tba existing reeerratlon." .
Aawa otbar Bmeodments reported
and agraad to vara tba following: In
oraaeiag tba appropriation for tba sub
eieteace of tba 8'ioui and for tba pur-
poaaaof thair civilization from IMflOO
NGQJWO, inserting items of tUOfiOO in
taraai ia advance on tiflOOflOO, provided
for a Parana ant fund in tba act of
March 11883, being an act to divide i
portion of tba Sioux reservation in I
kote, and for tba ralinquiehment of tba
Indian titla to tba remainder Having
diapoaadof balfuf tba bill it mi laid
Tba boura bill for tba diapoaition of
tba Port Ellia military raaarvalion under
tba homestead law was passed, wi'Ji
amendment.
Tba ooBmlttaa on foreign relations re
ported a lubrtitue for Paacoa'a reeolu
tion calling on tba president (or infor
saatioo, touching on tba arrest of
A. J. Diat ia Cuba and it waa agreed to.
The Bam.
Ia tba bouas lavsey of Iowa, submit
ted tba report of the committee on elec
tiooa ia tba Waat Virginia contacted elec
tioa case of McGinnia vs. Anders, n
. Tba report which finds in favor of tl
contestant, waa ordered printed and
laid over.
Discussion of the bankruptcy bill was
(baa resumed
Prank Missouri dwelt upon the itn
ficrttt of -ba pentiag legislation
tba limine Interests of the country.
Tba DTobtecn of bow banknote should
ba treated was one to which the atten
tioa of tba law-makers had been for
years directed without their being to
roach aa entirely satisfactory concession,
Kelley of Kansas regarded tba pro
vision requiring that referees should be
members of the legal profeaeion aa
grataiioaa insult to tba members of oth
Pool of Arkansas thought the bill un
wise and impolitic.
Adapts of lilinsls, Catch ings of Misa
kaiooi.Kerr.Of Iowa. Wilson of West
Virginia, MeAdoo of New York and
B. Taylor of Ohio epoae in advocacy of
the measure.
Ontwaite of Olio criticised themetb
od in which this important measure was
being discussed, for it waa not being
considered. If properly amended be
would support it
Brackeniidga of Kentucky also op
posed tba bill.
Ofcle Hi r laytimiiii.
Lieutenant Colonel Wiiliam E, Merril
corps of angiasirs, ia charge of the im
provement of the Ohio river, has sub
mitted bis annual report to the secre
tary of war. As there was no appropri
ation last year for rivers and barbois
tba wi rk waa carri d on under previous
appropriations. - During the past j a ir
contracts ware let for removing the reef
of rocks from the Ohio river at Brook
lya, III, tor removing part of the reck
bar at tba mouth of Licking river; (or
paring tba , levee at Shawneetown,
IlLj for constructing an ice pier at
Portsmouth . and for extending
tba anbankment on the eoutk side of
theOrett Miami river. The reports
ays that owing to the prevalence of
boetlogstagee during a large put of
the working season,, the progress of
oooetruotioa WM muoh hindered and
taaoy contracts bad to ba extended.
! . Tba moat Important work that can be
doe ob tba Ohio river, says the report,
ia to extend 'the system of movable
dame, of whicb the dam at Davis ialand
Jathe' tyt recommended. Per this
work tba folknring estimates are made:
Lowdama aad dykaa, WOOfiOO; eon
tlaulag mot able dam at Beaver, 2S0,
000, Tba amount of money available
July, 1MB, waa $186,482. Tba amount
mended dariM taw peat esal year.as-
mwiJ llaMUtiaa outataading. aad of
amount oovered oy oootracU, was tS,
tU. The balance available July 1, 1890,
waaC&SOC and tba amount that can
h.afltably exceeded ia the
year ending June 30, 1801, ia WlOfiOO.
. sNsmwaTiowa. ,
ka aanalaeet eant tba' folloaing
...... to tba act of ooB'
gram approved July 14, UBO: Thomas H.
aMaf Ohio, aow miniater, rsa
, aaataad aoaaal geosrsf at LaSaa,
XIatar to Bolivia. Clark E. Cart, of
i w im BiBiater. reeideot and ooo
raral
a abb, e a a bv BBauiuuru. tvaa.
. 1 a -a. a-tJetlmfraUa 11
M DOTbtIi aaBvaaatwaa v
ohn L. IHeveoa, of Maine,
j.U a, Ka IT rasa nlnlti
r Mkvtaa Bawaiwa amaada.
i 77, t Tississai aow miav
; raifinaot -Jtaru
XEBBAftKA.
The potato crop ia reported to ba be
low tba in rage.
Government mtr on tba Missouri
river at Rulo ia practically oomolatad.
Commodioua eehool bouaaa arc to be
built at Ialaad aad Spring Rancba.
Charlaa Mortar, of Lyons, agad niaety-
flve, ia tba oldaat cilice in Burt oou
The Odell Enterprise ia kicking be
cause weeds are allowed to grow on tba
street.
The Catholics of Rulo have let the
eotitract for the foundation walla of a
new convent.
The Modern Woodmen of Burwell
have organized a camp with twenty
charter membere.
The Methodists in the vicinity of
Jamestown, will build a new church on
the Adriance farm.
The RuaLville Standani moorna be
cause one of its delinquent subscribers
waa arrested for (filing mortgaged prop
erty. .. ... ,. . . , ,.
A. F. Stevenson, an engineer of
Stromsburg has invented a steam en
srine and oroooaea to make a fortune
out of the patent
The Kearney irait haa taken to cro
quet. A serin of ohamp.onhip gam
has just been played by leaders in social
circles, for a silver cup.
Several opera houses on the Elkhorn
railroad have been leased and a theatri
eel circuit formed including the towns
of Cbsdron. Fort Niobrsra, Long Pine
and Norfolk.
A son of Jacob Long, living twenty
miles north of Pawnee City, was struck
with lightning while bringing a horse
from naature and instantly killed. The
boras was also killed.
About forty omtens of Wisnsr en
rolled their nsices aa members of the
Vobraaka bankers and bus ness men's
association, for the purpoee of opposing
the prohibitory amendment
The Lontf Pine cheutauque aatomon
oes Auguet 2 and closee on tba
This institution is growing in p.
.
vor and the oroeramme for tba summer
meeting ia an excellent one.
The Masons of Gordon last week cele
brated the granting of their charter by
holding a public installation of officers
and entertaining about 200 of the r
bretheren from Ruahville and Chad) on
New hay is being Drought to North
Platte in lilieral quantities, the price on
baled being from 16 to 7 per ton. Con
stderabls will be shipped waat, the pres
nt market beins Cheyenne and Lara
mie. , .... t ., ...
afatarial for tba exlanetoa cf the
8hort Line on west from O'Neill ia be
ing shipped out from Sioux City. As
soon as tbe bridge across
tba uiaaonri
is oomplebsd, regular trains wiu ePuv
r.i W E. Dorsev rscentrr sent lbi
nounds of mail matUr tnrougn ine
North Bend poetoffice to nia iarmer
frUn,l. It nonaiated of the reports or
the commissioners of agriculture bound
iu book form.
Indications point to a warm
Tk. Immm
Leader will begin the ft ret insU-llmeat
of an "intensely interesting pwuc
...4.1 arkinh will be Continued fltim
week to week until finished.
t ;h.njnff atruck four buildings at
.
SUnton Friday nigut. ine uermau
Lutheran church was let on fire by the
fluid, and nothing but the organ and
u.t. ...r aaved. The building is a
tial ) nan the insurance having expired-
. ..i-b..., m.ir. in which a
A Ulfb m. i
. i. i na.n
steam snovei was i worn,
covering up a lot of machinery and
innla. Fortunately the sliue-occurrea i
hn there no one around exoept to
watchman who was in a place ot safety.
mi.-reant" boarded tba Belle
f h Blue while the crew was on land
ntwned the valve which allowed 100
pounds of steam to escape, and the vast
ill a
multitude was mereiore uiooam
.... aUamer did not run on
time. "
The corner stone of the Kearney cot
ton mill will b laid early in August ana
a celebration is being planned. It is
nFnnoaed to invite the governor, staie
.flinUU. nrnminent men, the editors of
tit.', .t.t.. and surrounding itatea, and
entertain them in royal style.
- The Hemingford . Headlight boasta
.i-.v -itui thirty miles of that
IrUeVfJ we
Has the Pine Ridge country, wnicn
hu haen reosntly opened by rail, and
. ... . natural amnarr it
in
compare favorable with any in the w.t
;.j.i.jln K.nnm. a favorite
.1 m
u i. i. .lmn business
in Dawes oounty. He commenced by
shooting a steer belonging to Mrs. M. M.
fflatary living near Chadron, and than
a tempted to pouwndxty bead of her
Tr-L ,. aalt Imnrearnated
near tba bcuaa. The aalt
. diaoovered ia tine to prevent harm,
Joha MoWilliams of Clay araak waa Gold, aino and lead have been dla
v..... w. Mitiaska one day la t oovered in the hills along tba Walnut
weak, and prevented aay serious results
b7prapt treatment of tbe case, says
tha RuahvlHe Aaaatant Ha dug the
" . . ..lujtadiat haad. and
?!L.u tvi. h aiud to the
iMdeaWlalaaaasomeoflt
K AX AS IN BBIRP.
The frame for the Christian church
at Praaktort ia up.
Home -Barer failing" spriaga at Clue
Raptde have gone dry.
Tba Oaroeld Univeasity at Wiaaita ia
about to be sold to taa Osabolica.
Oca haadrad aad aaaaaaaaa taanhars
are anroUad at tba Oberiia Baatttmsa.
Marysville boeaU the BBBaaal sight
of a rainbow by moonlight at 1 o'ciook.
Tbe farmers' ailiaaoe of Wileoa eoua.
ty will put a full county ticket ia tba
field.
Cambridge. Cowley county, haa no
newapaper, but it haa a good siooe
quarry.
The old soldiers, of Norton county
hold a reunion in Norton, SepUmber 28
to 30 inclusive.
A mineral paint factory ia running in
full blast at Winfield and auperiority ia
claimed and competition defied.
The republican congressional conven
tion of the Third Kansas district will ba
held at Columbus, September 9.
Gophers around Digton are so trouble-
eome that Lane county commissioners
offer 5 cents bounty on all killed.
The state veterinarian has been
called to Blue Rapids to investigate a
supposeu caae ot glanders near mat
town.
Mrs. J. R. Spencer, aged twenly-two,
wire of a bridge earpenter, oi ua iygne.
ahot and killed herself Thursday. Des
pondency tba cause.
General Alexander D. MoCook of
Leavenworth, who was confirmed aa
brigadier general Saturday, haa been
called to Washington.
Wellington ia reputed to be the best
market (or gardeners in Southern Ksn-
sas this year. They have plenty of ealt
to take in their "saas."
A raid on hammocks from the yards
of residents in Wichita ia the latest fad
in the thieving line. Five hundred
were stolen Saturday nigbt
About fifty applications for pensions
have already been sent in by Norton
jglhoounty soldiers under the new law, and
more are coming in every aay.
Thav annreciate their minister at
Geuda Springs. They fined him for
fast driving the Fourth. It waa a com
pliment to the pastor's horse.
Saturday injunctions were granted
against four original package houses in
Lawrence, but onewaa not discovered
until after court bad adjourned.
A slight rain fell around Parsona last
night, but did no practical good. The
ground is exceedingly dry, and great
fears are entertained for tba crops.
Mutteriogs of Canfleld are heard in
the district aaain. This time in con
nection with a position right behind
tba bat. Tba question is can Canfleld?
It ia very evident that "A- L. Mason"
ia trying to steal tbe reputation of "the
hivliieit thing afloat on the Missouri
river" from Leavenworth's pontoon
bridge.
There waa a good opening for an
original package houae in Ottawa a
short time ainoe. but the agent went
through the opening and toak the open
ing with him.
A chart ehowing tbe rainfall for the
wek ending July 3, prepared by cban
cellorSnow, of tbe state university,
hows that 75 of tbe 108 counties had
rain, mostly in good amounts.
In a, flght at Horton, Abner Murphy.
a scissor grinder, cut wunam wuson,
serionsly wounding him. Murpby made
his eaoaDc and was seen at Hiawatha
yesterday. Both bad been drinking.
If there is anything more than an-
.i... at Arkansas City points with
pride to, it is her canal and etandpine
One rurnisnes excellent power, ana u e
- . . . .. . . il.
.
other the Pureat prohibition bervew
. Xwo Tears more and -the seventeen
Lear loouaU will be due again. The An
toony Republican suggests an anti
locust bill for the legislature. . It surely
would siooeed just aa all prohibition
does.
The Norton Courier speaks of a hated
contemporary as "a malicious caiumin-
ator and blackmailer, a miserable speou
later on his sycophancy, a cowardly
timeserver. a . placable enemy and a
old- blooded friend."
John Brown brought some apples to
this city this week, aad the busim
men would not buy them of him at any
erica. Ureal town mis is woen a iar
mer cant sell his prod uoe at any price.
Marysville True Republican.
The Norton CTampfon given the de
tails of a murder on the Sol omen. Jo
Murphy, agad thirty-five, waa ahot by
htofr-ln-l.w,n.najt, d
re-line a quarrel over thw possesion of a poi
dur-
ry,
The jury brought a verdiot of juatitt
nomioida.
Oov. Humphrey has offered a reward
of 1400 for the arr-t and conviction of
each of the murders of John S. Fraxr,
of Chautauqua county. Tba county
commlmloners offer 81,000 for each, and
lit is supposed that twaBty-Cva paraona
are Implicated.
river near Wlnflald, and expert miners
ere at work, hoping to develop , a bonaa-
Tba citls.ni , ara not making any
nolsa about tba llttla maiter of a gold
I mine, bat ouaflaaaUy belUrt tbay'va
Igot itay arottn matority,
! Albletu: Glrla.
: When we meet boy and girls, eape
ieially girls, ocUide a gymnaaium, w
,-wuodar if that sort of training is doing
if beta good. Csrtainly there are no via-
PLbte evidences ; they h alk along as meek
if aa Iambs, and I have jet to see a girl
woman jump on or o:f a street car
spring over a muddy crossing, though
ho many girls can do more than that in
a public ball before thousands of
Ipectatort. In seeing those young
women exercising with Indian clubs I
krondered how auy one could be un
graceful if such a drill as that were pos-
ible; why girls do not carry themselves
better than they do, and if I had ever
(net these limber and graceful creatures
la the street. Tbe young woman who
imped over horizon till bars and swung
lliemeelves like acrobats, head down-
ard, showed that proper training
.tight develop any woman into a mode)
f athletic grace.
It nag been scorn and reproach for
ivomen that they could not climb a
tone wall or run up stairs without
'using their breath, but all things are
oesible under this training, and, in
ipite of petticoats, no gymnasium pupil
an now hesitate to go down a fire es-
f ape nor to cross a field occupied by cows
f a too inquiring disposition.- -Boston
Herald.
Am Old Writer.
Probably the oldest living authoress
n this country is Mrs. Elizabeth Oak eg
Smith, who was very prominent before
the war, not only as a writer but as a
lecturer. Although she is still a con
tributor to one of the literary weeklies,
both in prose and verse, her name is
rarely seen elsewhere, and the general
impression doubtless is that she' has
ussedaway. The standards of criti
cism are so different now from what
they were thirty years since that her
work poems, novels, tragedies and
miscellanies would not be ranked
nearly so high as formerly.
Born at what is now Cumberland,
Me. her maiden name was Prince
she was married at 16 to Seba Smith,
duthor of tbe once famous Maj. Jack
bowning letters. She became a widow
come twenty years ago and has been
living most of the time since at th
small town of Hollywood, N. C, neat
the coast, where at 84 she is in excellent,
vigorous health. She was one of early
advocates of woman's rights, speaking
on the subject in all the larger cities
and contributing various articles to the
nagazines of the day. "Woman and
ler Needs," published forty years ago
kttracted much attention and elicited
Worm commendation. Mrs. Smith haa
witnessed extraordinary changes in the
republic and has survived nearly all oi
her contemporaries, many ot whom oc
cupied exalted positions in her youth
and have now passed into oblivioa-
Exchange. .
The Bogus Coffee Industry.
One of the rising industries of l'hlla-
phia is the bogus coffee industry. An
tnterpriaing protected manufacturer of
that city has discovered a process by
which an excellent imitation of the
coffee berry can be made for flour,
jl'lie flour is reduced to dough, the dough
is run through a machine which molds
It into coffee grains and the grains are
aked until they assume a coffee color,
In its "circular to the trade" this en
terprising firm assures the dealer that
he "can safely mix fifteen per cent of
the substitute with genuine coffee,
that he can largely increase his profits
and his transactions with the firm will
be treated with the "strictest confi
dence." With the proper amount of
nrotection here is an industry that
might be developed into large propor
-
tions. At present, on the ground that
It is not grown in this country, coffee
ia free, but if McKinley sees that a
hnmia coffee industry can be estab
lished with a protective traiff he wll1
undoubtebly revise his bill and put a
duty on foreign coffee. Chicago Her
aid. . ;.
About Women's Feet and Shoes.
The ahoe dealer does not exist who
does not know the woman with a num
her five foot who "wears a number
three shoe" She is the bane of clerks
who are green in the shoe business, but
tbe old hands know her well. She is
sharp, and the dealer who tries to palm
bff a ahoe with the size altered to suit
her demands must needs be cautious
and thorough in his work. She has
t'caoght on" to the fact that the size is
rnarked on the lining as well as on toe
sole, and after satisfying herself that
the shoe fits perfectly she scrutinize?
the soid and the lining most caretullj
o assure herself that the unscrupulous
talesman is not palming off shoes of a
larger size. A western dealer has most
(horoughly overcome this little dlfll
cutty by an ingenious method. II?
stipulates that all goods bought shall be
without size marks on tbe sole, rnt
mark inside iu erased or blotted oat,
and a site sign placed on the sole with
ben and Ink. This is perrecuy intern-
bible to tbe salesman, but is passed ove?
bv the customer as a cost mark and
never quaationeL-cteB Francisco Ar-
gonaut v " -v !'.
! A lira mmnanv at W Muted. Conn.
being unable to get any but a small
stream from the hose, made an exami
hatlon and found about eight Inches of
eel's tail sticking out of the noteta
f thd nose pipe. The pipe was un-
crewad from the hose ana tneastoiusp,
4flreaaoflabeda live eel out of the
lps that weighed nearly three pound
FLAX CLEANERS
MILL AND ELEVATOR MACHINERY,
REPAIRS,
Btasm Outfit. Hone Powers,
YORK FOUNDRY & ENGINE CO-
1883 -
HI0N LIFE OF NEBRASKA.
Solid Mutual Insurance at About One-Half Eastern Bteav
Dsatli Claims Paid. S48.000.00
Capital and Reserved Surplus, $1 13.000.00
IssursRCS in Nebraska, $2,0C3,O00.C3
FU
L PAYMENT OF
Over a Million Dollars went out of
oould have been secured at home for half
It ia a duty you owe your family to
a caab value to your eetate. -
FJT Iteliable and IVidc-a-wakc Agents Wanted, efl
For circulars and information, write to
J- Xj. WiaTON. Oeo.
HASTINGS, NEBRASKA.
Adventure On Tlie IMhIiim.
Earlv in March. JS7. a nartv of
friends) all old buffalo banters, now liv
ing and prominent citizens of Wichita
and Grand Bend, iu Kansas, were
camped in Paradise valley, then a fam
ous rendezvous of the animals they were
after. One day, when out on the range
stalkinir. and widely separated from
each other, an awful blizzard came up.
Three reached camp without much dif
ficulty, but he who was the furthest
away was fairly caught in it, and night
coming on was compelled to resort to a
method frequently employed by per
sons lost on the plains. Luckily he
soon found a superannuated bull that
had been abandoned by the herd, and
killing him, took out the viscera, and
himself crawled inside the huge beast,
Where he lay comparatively comfort
able until morning, the storm having
cleared off and the sun shining brightly.
But when he attempted to get out touutt
himself a prisoner, the immense ribs of
the creature having frozen together ana
locked him up as tightly as if he were
in a cell. Fortunately his friends, who
were searching for him and firing off
their rifles which he heard and yelled
out to them discovered and released
him froni liis peculiar predicament
At another time two old plainsmen
were away up the Platte among the foot
hills hunting buffalo and they, as is gen
erally the case, became separated. In
an hour or two one" killed a fat young
cow and leaving tils rifle on the ground
went up and commenced to skin ner.
While busilv eniraeed in the work he
suddenly heard, right behind him, a sup-
pressen sort of a snort and looKing
around saw to Ids dismay a monstrous
grizzly ambling along in that animal's
characteristic manner within a lew feet.
In front, only a few rods away, theie
happeud to be a clump of scrubby pines
and he incontinently made a break
for them climbing iuto the tallest in less
time than it reouires to write it. The
bear deliberately ate a hearty meal, and
when he had satiated himself, quietly
lav down aloneside of the carcass and
weutto sleep, keeping one eye probably
on the hunter corralled in the tree. In
the earlv evening his partner came to
the spot, killed the bear, which, full of
buffab, was sluggish and unwary, and
liecame an easy victim, and the unwil
ling prisoner came down from his perch.
The last time I saw mm he tow me he
;tiU had the bear's hide, which he kept
as a memeto of his foolishness in seper
ating himself from his rifle, a thing he
had never done before nor since, and
which no hunter should be guilty of.
Henry Inman, in Harper's AVeekly.
An Eccentric Mlcliigaiiitin.
.luliusM. Case of Marquette, Mich.,
who died suddenly at the Victoria hotel
Thursdsy from the bursting of a blood
vessel in his brain) says a London cable
gram to the New York Sun, was very
popular among his friends, although ne
cultivated one or two amusing eccen
tricities to a degree that was some
what objectionable to the British. One
of Case's fads was his collection of
walking sticks of all manner of odd and
bizarre patterns. The more grotesque a
stick was that he saw in a shop window
the surer he was to buy it. One of his
sticks had the head of a bulldog, life
size, and Case would calmly carry it in
the street, unmindful of the fact that
every passer-by stopped to look at him.
A nother cane had the head of a monkey,
which when a spring waa touched stuck
out its tongue and winked its eyes, and
Case was fond of walking down 1'icca
dill v with it under his arm. blinking and
lolling its tongue; while he appeared ab
solutely unconscious that lie was at
tracting attention. Others of his sticks
contained perfume fountains, jack-in-the-box
whistles, and similar instru
ments of torture.
Case's favorite cane, however, was one
that served as a sign in umbrella shops.
It was something like five feet long,
had a buckhom handle six inches in
length. With this small tree it was
Case's delight to go out in rail Mall ana
Piccadilly in search of dudes. When
ever he found a glided youth carrying
a walking stick by the ferrule cud,
with Its handle downward, after the
fashion affected by the Loudon masher,
Case would take his big itlck by
AND TESTERS.
SUPPLIES,
Belting, Pulleys, Shafting, eta. ' L , ,
YORK, NEB.
1890.
POLICY GUARMTEED.
Nebraska in 1889 for Life Insurance, that
tbe money.
carry a Life Policy every policy-adM
the extreme tip, holding it up with
elbow akimbo, put a small eyeglasi
with a black rim in his eye, and ranging
himself about two feet in the rear of hit
victim follow him until he reversed his
cane or got into a cab to escape bis
tormentor. If the helpless masher at
tempted to tire his pursuer out, the
Michigan man, never looking to right
or left, and with impassive countenance
and solemn mien would follow the other
from Regent street to Hyde park, or
until a more exaggerated specimen of
the genius was Hushed. So regularly
did Case avail himself of this amuse'
ment that he became, during his three
or four montlisf stay in the metropolis,
quitca well-known figure in several
prominent thoroughfares, and tales of
his persecution of the ' mashers have
more than once appeared in the Lon
don newspapers. His wife was with
him at his death, but his four children
were at his home in Michigan. He was
the son of a former lieutenant governor
of Michigan, and was graduated from
Ann A rbor university. He leaves a for
tune estimated at $5,030,000, and his life
was insured for 9250,000. Mrs. Case has
sailed for America with her husband's
body.
Marvels of Surgery.
To open the skull and penetrate the
brain is not so common a surgical feat
that it has ceased to be a wonder. In
deed such an operation performed at the
ltooeevelt hospital has attracted the at
tention of the entire medical profession.
The patient, who is a physician, was
thrown from his carriage last fall, strik
ing heavily upon his head.. He was re
moved to his home, where, upon exami
nation, no externa) evidence of fracture
of the skull was found. Later paralysis
of the entire riirht side of the bodv was
developed and with it a complete in
ability to express his thoughts; in the
course of time the paralysis of the leg
gradually disappeared until the patien(
could move it satisfactorily, but the
paralysis of the arm persisted, as well
as the inability to speak. After several
months, and while in this helpless and
well-nigh hopeless condition, the patient
was brought to this city. The physi
cians who examined him concluded
that the trouble was due to pressure on
the brain, especially on that part of it
which governs the faculty of speech,
and that this pressure was probably
caused by a clot of blood, resulting from
the rupture of a blood vessel within the
skull cavity at the time of the injury.
Acting upon this belief it was decid
ed to open the skull, lay bare the sur
face of the brain and remove the cause
of pressure if possible. To determine
trom the outsiae oi a man s neaa tne
precise spot in the brain which govern?
any particular faculty or function ia
obviously a difficult task. After care
fully mapping out the neaa oy tne most
delicate measurements the spot corres
ponding to the center of speech in the
brain was found. Then the patient
having been rendered unconscious by
ether, the surgeon, after the preliminary
incision of the scalp, removed by means
of a trephine a round disk of bone im
mediately over the spot indicated, some
what enlarging with cutting forceps
the opening thus made. The outer de
licate membrane covering the brain
was now brought into view. Beneath
it lay a large, dark mass of clotted blood,
extending clown into the substance of
the brain. The clot was carefully re
moved, when the effect of its pressure
was clearly preceived in the impover
ished circulation of the part The
wound was then dressed with every
precaution and the patient was permit
ted to recover from the operation. The
following night, for the first time after
his injury, the patient was able to say
"Yes' ana "No." The condition of his
right arm was also improved, and it is
believed that he will eventually recover.
As a rule mutes are born deaf, but
sometimes severe diseases in infancy de
stroy completely the ranee of hearing.
Under these circumstances even a par
tial recovery of hearing is extremely
rare. A glri who is now nineteen com
pletely lost her hearing when three
years old through an attack of cerebro
spinal meningitis, and in consequence
was brought up as a deaf mute, attend
ing until recently the school of the deaf
and dumb asylum at Fordham. Coming
to New York this spring she was placed
under treatment witbjuight hopes of
benefit. Her physicians ascertained
that the delicate, nervous apparatus of
the internal ear was still sound, else the
case w ould have been hopeless. Under
appropriate treatment combined with
dilatation of (he middle ear by inflation,
improvement waa soon noticed. In a
month the young woman heaidthattek
ing of a watch bald twenty inches away
and conversation at a distance of ten
feet, and then she began learning bow
tatrlk. A month later she oouM bear
a watch at a dlatanoa of five (bat and
conversation acroaa tne room. ,