The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 18, 1891, Page 2

| ene ee a NS OS CRON = A DARING O?ERATION. French Surgeons Aitempt to Clean a Mans Heart and Kill the Patient. American surgeons have the credit of being among the ost daring in their experiments, but they do not beat the French. W do you think of an at- tempt to clean a man’s heart? This is what was attempted a short time since here in France. ‘his isa true story I am telling vention. Two surgeons actually set to work tocutopen & man’s chest for the purpose of getting at and cleaning his heart. Joseph Davenne, an upholster, been suffering for many 3 fatty degeneration of the heart. you--na i bad poor man knew that he had not long to | the was only fort ght years and saw noreason why heshould die yet. Moreover the doctors told him they thought they might possibly cur bim. They persuaded him thatat least be would be doing an invaluable service to science, and that he was bound todi 600n at any rate if nothing was done whereas this might prove the means of curing thousands of sulferers himself. “And so,” the story is gravely told in a French medical journal from which I translate, “poor M. Davenne consented to place himself under their hands.” Then comes a lot of technical de tion of the operation, which formed under water while the patient was in a condition of anwsthesia. I won't give all these scientific words; it is quite unnecessary to tell in scientific language how the cuticle was removed, the pectoral muscles carefully dissected from the ribs, the cartilaginous junc- tions of the ribs and sternum discon- nected, and the heaving lungs in their delicate, shining, covering membranes exposed to view. Up to this point the patien: still lived. The heart, however, had not yet been reached. However, to the two French surgeons this was a mere detail which their knives would speedily overcome. They did overcome this mere detail very vapidly. In less than a minute more one of them had M. Davenne’s heart in lis hand, and was busily engaged scrap- ing from its surface the adipose deposit with which it was covered, and which so impeded its proper action “Hold on a moment!” surgeon, “the man is dead!” And so he was. Dead as the door nail which Dickens bas made proverbial. How they could have expected any thing else is not recorded. They nad, however, taken the precaution to have M. Davenne sign, seal and deliver a pa- per to the effect that the operation was performed entirely at his own risk, and that no person but himself was to be held in any way whatever responsible for his death, should it occu The surgeons had the assurance to send to the medical journal a full report of the case and of the operation; no one has, as yetsoalled them to account for their foolhardiness, and they do not say what thoy certified as the cause of the man’s death.—N. Y. World. FOND OF LEATHER. A Porcupine Eats p the Bellows ina Blacksmith Shop. Although the “‘fretful porcupine” is almost unknown in Orange County, the curious creature is quite numerous in the wooded districts of Sullivan, Ulster and Delaware counties. One of tho porcupine’s peculiarities is its inordinate fondness for leather, which it seems to think one of the daintiest of tid-bits, and it not infre- quently happens that one of them, if it gets a chance ata set of harness, will destroy it in a single night, and 7 lany a trout fisherman, who bas left his water- soaked boots or shoes out of doors at night, has risen in tho morning to find them chewed to pieces by a porcupine’s sharp tecth. It is not often, however, that these animals enjoy such a feast as the one beside rip- was per- laimed the which lives somewhere in the vicinity of Jim Gibbon’s — black- smith shop at Stockport. Delaware <ounty, has partaken of, for twice within a year, the last time buta few days ago. the “pesky critter” has en- tered his shop and eaten up his bel- lows. Any one who has seen a black- smith’s bellows know how much leather thero isin one of them, and when, as happened last week, the porcupine, in a singlo night, ate up more than half of ‘one, it wili be seen that he had, indeed, a@ sumptuous feast and must have been fairly gorged with leather.—Midland (N. Y.) Argus. THE BIRDS LOVE HIM. ‘A Qneer Character Who Is on Friendly Terms with tho Denizens of the Air. ' There is a “sandwich man” in Brook- lyn whose “beat” is on City Hall square. Although fierce of mien and unprepos- sessing in make-up, and having appar- ently but few friends among human be- ings, yet he is not friendless. His nearestand dearest friends are doves and pigeons. At almost all hours of the day they hover around him, picking up crumbs that he doles out sparingly from his meager store of food. It is a pretty sight, and scores of peo- ple frequently pause to gaze upon it Some of the birds are beautifully marked. Before alighting they circle gracefully around the “sandwich man,” waiting for his signal to come to lunch- eon. This signal, which seems to be a sudden extension of the right arm, is thoroughly understood by the feathered beauties, for the instant it is giventhey ' flock about the unkempt and ragged man. In and out between his feet they waddle, picking up the crumbs in the most fearless fashion, while others perch themselves proudly upon his shoulders and take morsels of bread and crackers from his fingers. One dove, white as snow, is the star | of the impromptu show. It has been trained to take the food on the fly, for as the “sandwich man” tossed a bit of cracker in the air the dove flies up and catches it before it falls. The exhibition is usually atits hei; toward evening.—N. Y. Herald. —Teacher~"Tommy.you may explain the difference between wages and sal-4 ary.” Tommy—‘'The man that draws a salary has to spend mostof it forclothes or lose his job.”—Indianapolis Journal. ANIMAL EXTINCTION. The Different Species Which Are I Rapidly by h ly be driven 1 8 to nt is ing the worl off the f absol come I ‘ 100,- are market dre ores of “deat FOREIGN GOSSIP. —It is esti fortes are man London. —There 0,000 mud gz of but a yhical Ins ute in Wei- German Africa con- k All tains Europe {at jon these ¢ | ivory in possession of African na-! ang 34 \ pee ae in Crimea, a coin nas been been , and found be of Antiochus | ported ist be | op Surin | got “green” by hunting live elephants. | i. iy) only one Thus the herds are r wing rapidly wipe price of anentire district, with all its | people, villages and plantations. This, | of course, is due to the intimate conne Stretch 180 miles. they are secured for the purpose of ecar- rying big ivory to the coast by the| Arabs, who attack and destroy the native villages, carrying off into cap- tivity those of the inhabitants who are serviceable as porters, and killing the rest. In this way whole regions in Africa have been depopulated and laid waste. It is fashion, how that is most importantly responsible for the threat- ened extinction of animals well worth preserving. ‘To prove this statement, reference is made to a single recent auction sale in London, at which were As for the staves, disposed of, under the hammer, 30,000 monkey skins, 250,000 Australian opos- sums’ skins skins, 400,000 humming birds’ 6,000 skins of birds of paradise, ),000 assorted birds’ In all the skins from collections in the exist and for tt in 1830, and by 1855 it had increased 900,000. Since 1555 it has more than doubled. —Century. masonry dam is one thousand feet long by ninety-five feet high, fifty feet wide at the base, and fifteen feet at the top. —The Russ zi in the empire of pushed energetically and small. Some fifty railway em- ployes in Warsaw, whose knowleage of Russian was considered defective, were dismissed in a body recently. Prince Nikita of Montenegro has decreed that Russian shall be an obligatory study in every school in his little island. r from next March the railroad ding froin Jaffa to Jerusalem will be completed, and tourists will then be whisked away from the coast to Je- rusalem in twoor three hours, a journey that is now made by camel or in dili- gences over a horrible road. ‘The money required to build line is in the hands of Paris bankers, who have just ions Czar is being in matters great linst the world, public and private, there does| forwarded the second installment of not exist so mauy birds’ skins, stuffed | the furds to the co . or otherwise, as the total of these | —The average da pply of water amounts to. Evidently the beautiful} delivescd to Lon the Thames birds of the earth must go, and Aus- ]in Aucust last allons; tralian oppossums and monkeys have | from Lee gallons: from no show whatever. One dealer last; the sy a: and wells, 28,529,582 gallons; year sold 2,000,000 skins of birds. from ponds at Hampstead and High- Every one knows by this time that] gate, 559, gallons. daily total the fur seals are alsodoomed. Having | Was, therefore, 185,011,7 lons for a been altogether exterminated from the tion aggregating 5,671,596, repre- rookeries of the Southern seas, where ga daily cons: ytion per head of they used tu congregate in such count- | #2 62-100 gallons for all purposes. less myriads, they are now being wiped | —One of the least advanced races that off from their last resting place on the | have come down to modern times was two Pribylov islands in Behring sea by | the aboriginal race of Tasmania. There remorseless pirates in schooners who kill ten for every one they get. A like fate awaits the hair seal, $75,000 of which were slain last year for leather is now a Mrs. Fanny Corcoran Smith, aged fifty-seven, who claims to be the last survivor of the Tasmania people; but she is pronounced by an investigator | and oil. Even the alligators, croco-| of their history to be a half-easte. The diles and other reptiles are not spared. | last unquestionable F a wom- Even they must disappear, because} an, Truganina, died in 1s At the their hides are wanted for reticules, pocket-books and other ‘fancy articles.” Man—more yjarticularly the Cau- casian—is the most destructive of ani- mals. His appetite for killing is in- satiable, and to this mere taste for slaughter for its own sake the marked and rapid changes at present being wrought in the fauna of the world are largely attributable. Among the valu-| able beasts now swiftly succumbing to the sportsman’s rifle is the true zebra, which is confined at this moment toa] among the officers ie serve. Le small area in South Africa, while the | is very proud of his Si. Helena medal. givaffe is quickly disappearing from tbe | Three other old fellows also w that same cause, Let loose a white man with | medal—Genera) Meliinet, born in 1798, | nent of improved weapons in|] who commanded a ¢ n of the Im | the wild and he will call St] perial Guard at Magenta; General Rich- “sport” to slay wantonly every thing | ard, born in 17 and neral d’An- that he can get a pop at—not for food, | thouard Vaincourt, born in 1796. They | but simply for the sake of taking away life. Mind you, it has been left for civilization to thoroughly develop this type of savagery. The only parrot known to this country, which was for- | merly plentiful as far north as Kansas, is now being finally extirpated in Flori- da by visitors who kill the birds for! “sport.” They are naturally tame, and it is easy enough to knock over half a @ozen at one bang. They are not good to eat, but then they make such a pretty mark for a gun. Awhile ago the so-called passenger pigeon” flew by millions in the Qhio} valley and as far East as Massachusetts. Now but a very few of them are left. They have been shot by wholesale, and while they lasted were commonly atil- close of their existence the 1 usmanians had reacheé a degree of development | hardly equal to that of the flint workers of the stone age —M. Freycinet, the Prench War Min- ister, has retired a lot of old Generals, and a number ofdashing young Colonels | will soon ta General in F world, is G hundred y asked to be r. © their plac an nd Mar The oldest »bably in the . who is ene Ife has never be still figures entered the service in 1813. duit’s military career goes back to 1807. SCOT AND ENGLISHMAN. But Man- | out, not nention the : denta ; | estimable. | | according to Explorer Stanley, that} _London to-day is five times a ze | | every pound ivory that reaches, Shee ach se sees ¥ +t ad nie ie fia man it was at the opening of the pres. jb pI i _— aoe a = { century. From 900,000 at that t | won n or ehild. every 1 5 to! tior which exists between the ivory | —The lar artificial | gathering business and the slave trade. | lake Y tank of | You will get some notion of what 100,- Dhet aty itheast of 000 elephants mean if you will consider Udaiy votana, which covers an | that, placed in line, that number would | @¢@ of twenty-one square miles; the | i i Taken with the lips it gives an im- iSiC r | pression of a woman prone to sensual a. Education Helps to Keep Alive a Species | of Antagonism. It has taken nearly two centuries to| make the truth very clear: and even now there is amonga few an attempt to deny it, and to declare that the spirit of Scotch nationality would be purer and better without being tied to the clay of the British body. Education it- self helps to keep she feeling alive. Just as every boy in the hates England when he rv ads at school of the American war of independence, | and considers Bunker Hill as an un- United States ; , death togoinside of her. ized by shooting from traps. It isgreat | doubted victory, so every urchin in sport to take a pigeon that has been | Scotland revels in visions of the | captured in a net, put him in a box and | heroic feats of Wallace and | pop the poor creature at short range! Bruce, and of the day when the! when he flies out at a signal. with about | one chance in fifty for his life. In this | way useful animal after animal is being driven to extinction. The list of those which civilized man has driven off the earth where God is supposed to have put them for His use will be an appall- ing thing to think upon a short ed hence. Wherever a valuable beast is} found in great and profitable numbers | the first thought seems to be to go in! and wipe itout This is particularly a Democrat. | dead Douglas won the fight at Chevy Chase, and thinks how he, too, would enjoy such days, and how easy it would be to ‘whip’ 120,000 English with 30,- 000 Scots, as did the good King Robert on that morning under the hill of Stirling in 1514 And he knows from those far-away times onward to those of which he may have heard his great-grandfather speak _and his two sons were the crew. ‘entered the cabin, shutting the door there were fights between Scotch arm- | ies and English armies, in which the Scotch help, and he very rightly thinks |} that he could fight three Englishmen Caucasian instinct.—St. Louis Globe- | Southron did not come off best without | ' the hold, it is almost impossible to ex- , ago the lime CLEOPATRA'S COINS. a5 ries Alma Her Portraits en Them Show Different Stages of Life. 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The full, | Ss, resembling those of a So woman, do not miti- | m e hardness the ; | ognomiy 1 stran ! | nce and one easy to torehead bu Its regularity, pro the ¢ TOWS. ives it sinular ir- | icing the effect almost ofa smaller head growing up out of a romi He) Fn aol jae) —zs cD larger one. Jove was represented b Greek sculptors witt a forehead, | al) Kinds. but on a more massive The eye is greatly in shadow and almost sin- ister, it having the expression of a snake's when a bird is to be charmed. The acquiline curve of the nose is at once strong and delicate, and the nos- tril is well open and finely curved. ‘ND GLASSWARE joys, cynical, fond of a cruel joke and AKT TOBACCO, contemptuous. Her firmly molded and tanta chin there nition See |Always pay the highest market price for Countr willful to the last degree, and not to be * . z : . M : turned from any nose. The hair is dy °C fact Side juare oT, o dressed in the Greek aes rand twist- | TOCUCC= East Side Squat es Butler ead ed up in a small kneton the nape of the neck. She is bad ani bewitching. All the men she fascinated saw through her, but were too intoxicated by her charms to break away from her. She wore a royal diadem, which represented on Sy yea onpy some of the coins.—DParis Cor. London D Truth. DIAMONDS. S SAN OMAR THE WORLD'S Q2a0d3! Peculiarities of the Industry, the Supply and Demand. The world’s stock of diamends has increased enormously in the last fifteen MYON TH ¥ WO, SSOTABY PUBIT PUD ‘pact B19IMO as1OT] } = = years. In 1876 the output of the African Qs mines was about 1,500,000 karats: last FS lee] year it was over 4,000,000, and the great io) a trust which controls all the principal] O° 2 mines asserts that it has 16,000,000 WO karats in sight at the present time. x ss Ht Meantime the demand for diamonds has On Sores ij greatly increased, and they are higher Meso to-day—partly because of the trust, but mn = 2 e | also because of the increased demand— eos'f than they were a year ago. Own? - : : ; eo In one respect the diamond industry S nee is different from almost all others. Its sy Pe product—that is, of gems —is never con- “2m 2 sumed. Of gold and silver a much BR. farger amount than most people would}, 2 Six & believe is literally consumed in the | w a? 2s arts past recovery, bnt a diamond once | 5" Begs cut goes into the world’s great stock | 7 — > el and is liable to come upon the market | & ES E#E at any time. Hence the world’s an- S = nD oe nual taking of diamonds, which ap- | > cas Z pears to be steadily increasing, even at | Ae Sa © advaneing prices, is an index of how] Of e we much of its surplus nings it can af- = es = ford to expend yearly in this particwtar | J A’ 22 form of luxury. se 28 The romance of diamond mining is | 2 2 3 5 all gone. It is nowa matter of exea-|~ ° ¥ o* vating vast beds of biae clay by ma- 93 =} ehinery, washing it and sifting out the = = diamonds, which, sorted for size, weight. after being roughly are sold in bulk by The men who do the actual work are mere laborers, and their pay is small.-—Iron. U worn, ‘sn d98 pay LOI jsodvartpo aly a OH mit 1 hiiwalll hal A Dangerous Circo. ' A cargo of lime iv a dangerous one. When fire, as it frequent ty does, catches in spite of the greatest precautions against the admission of any water into tinguish it. The only method thatever avails is tostop up every crack in the vessel with soap so tbat no air can reach the lime. Sometimes this stops the fire. They have been known to burn for several months) When a ves- sei's cargo is thus afire it is instant Some time in a schooner off Mon- hegan caught afire, and she was sealed upas tigntly as possible. The captain One went to sleep on the and their father, imprudently day the latter deck, after him. He sank .down lifeless on the stairs. The boys awoke, missing their father. and supposing he had fallen overboard, sailed the schooner home, unconscious that they were bear- ing his dead body with them. This excluding the air from a vessel to stop the fire suggests the method e employed to free a vessel from rats A fire is built inthe cabin, and also in the hold, from some inflammable material. | Sole Agent for the Rockford and) Aurora Watehes, Filled Cases. Very Cheap. in Gold Silver and —A pretty fan was presented to aj 3t least. That old border line was little girl four years of age, and she,, made good against the wealthier na- wishing to show her new treasure, hung} tion for a thousand years, and it could it on her finger and held it out at arm’s| again be held if necessary. So his pride length. A lady on entering the parlor | swells, and he, at all events, is not was attracted by the peculiar attitude | among those against whom Walter | of the little girl, and finally said to her: | Scott wrote: | ‘Isn't it v fatiguing to hold out a: so dead, eathes there aman with a soul Who never to himself hath said arm in that way so long?” Said little| Elsie in answer, with a deep sigh:} “TMs !s ™Y Own. my native — | “Isn't it always fatiguing to be ele-! Isit necessary to hold that border | gant?”— Boston Budget. | line? me people think nowadays that : | they will emulate Bruce and Wallace; ~—Ivory may be bleached by and because they can’t get all they it for . | want in agrarian disputes and social equality, and this and that in local wrangies. the work of the eighteenth to be revised and the great union is to be debased and annuled for the elevation of their little selves. — Marquis of Lorne, in North American Review. wita a piece linen tod ke peroxide of hydrogen, and | nt of it add one ounce of aqua- ¥ oak the ivory hours; then dry and | in it for twenty-four polish with chalk. ; @xtent Then all air is excluded, and as the fires use up the oxygen, drawing it from | the remote parts of the hold, the rats leave their holes and follow the precious life-giving gas to the fires which greed- | ily devour it for their own existence | and when they go out the poor rats are found dead around the stoves.—Portland | Argus. —By count and estimate, it is said that a shrimp would every year pro- duce about 6.800 eggs, a prawn 8,500, a lobster 21,600, a fleunder 153,407, a mackerel 454,651, a herring a ling rm of enemies to wh re exposed rend oduction of a mu necessar larger nu than are hatched and come to maturity, | seen become otherwise any species mu: JEWELERY STORE, Is headquarters tor fre Jewelry Watches, Clocks, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, &c. 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