Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-08-26
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correspondence of the Boston Post.l
John Phenix and the Dentists.

JOnn EuGEul4 anu thC DCntA"tSs
NAHANT HOUSE, Aug. 6, 1857.
While deeply interested in the discussion of the
luxurious repast provided for the happy guests
of this mansion Yesterday afternoon, my attention
was diverted by the sound of music OF wild
and Sarasenic description, resounding from the
exterior of the building. The melody appeared
to be that portion of the Battle OF Prague
which represents the series of the wounded, ac-
componied by On unlimited amount OF exertlon
on the part of the bass drum. Hastily rushing
to the window, bearing elevated on my fork the
large potatoe from which had partially remov-
ed the cuticle (Stevens gives US enormous pota'
toes-it takes twenty minutes to skin one prop
erly,) | beheld q procession, numbering some
three or four hundred, all in their Sunday clothes,
every man with cigarin his mouth, slowly and
solemnly moving past the hotel. They bore
banner at their head, on which was depicted an
enormous corkscrew, or some instrument OF that
description, with the motto "a long pull, a
strong pull, and pull altogether" Judge OF
INV astonishment and delight in recognizing in
the bearer of this banner my old friend, the phi.
lanthropic Tushmaker, OF widespread dental
renown.
As the procession reached the front of the ho-
tel, each man threw away his cigar, and having
replaced it by large quid of tobacco, detled on
the esplanade beneath the piazza, in tolerably
straight line, and then gazing intently at the
windows, opened his mouth, from one auricular
oritce to the other, and showed his teeth
Never have seen so glitterng display Fill
ed with curiosity, | was about to ask an explana-
ton, when my friend Dolittle, from Androscog-
gin, who had rushed to the window at the same
time with myself, saved me the trouble, by de-
manding with an incoherent and exceedingly ma
sal pronunciation, "Why, what on airth is this
ere?" "This," replied the courteous Hiram,
whose suavity of manner is only equaled by the
beauty of his person, "this sir, is the American
Dental Association, composed OF members from
all parts of both continents, and the british
West India Islands" "Jerewsalem," said Dollt-
little, ''three hundred tewth carpenters !"
1t was indeed thrilling spectacle. 10 think
of the amount of agony that body Of men had
produced, and were capable of yet producing, to
think of the blood they had shed, and OF their
daring and impetuous charges after the CORY ac-
ton was over The immortal charges of the
six hundred at Balaklava was not circumstance
to the charges made daily by this three hundred.
AS Hiram had truly said, these were dentists
from all parts of the civilized world and else
where There was the elegant city practitioner,
with shiny hat and straw colored gloves, side
bv side with the gentleman from the country,
who hauls man all over the floor for two hours,
for a quarter of dollar, and gives him the
worth of his money. / observed that forty-sev-
On of them wore white hats. and two hundred
and sixty-eght used tobacco in some FORM
There can be no question that this substance is
preservative to the teeth. | observed in the
rear rank the ingenious gentleman who invented
the sudden though painful method pf extracting
a tooth by climbing tree and connecting by a
casgut string the offending member with stout
limb, and then jumping down; highly sue
cessful mode of operation, but not calculated to
become popular in the community. He wore
buckskin moccasins, and did not appear to be
enioying successful practice.
But while gazed with deep interest upon the
assembly, the band struck up ''Tom Tug" and
away they went. Three times they encrcled
the hotel, then ''with their wings aslant, like
the fierce cormorant," swooped down upon the
bar, registered their names, and took grand u
nted federaldrink, leach man paying for himself)
Here toasts and sentiments were the order of
the day. "The American Dental Association,
like waterman, We pull one way and look anoth-
err 'sThe woodcock, emblem of dentistry-he
picks up his living from the holes and passes in
a precious long bill" The memory of DR.. Beale,
drunk standing. These, with other sentiments
of similarly meritorious character, were given
and received with great applause.
Having all drunk from the flowing bowl, the
association again formed in line in front of the
piazzas, which were now crowded with curl
Gus and admiring throng, and sang with sur
prising harmony the beautiful, plaintive aud ap-
propriate chaunt:
ooh, Jonathan Gibbs he broke his tewth
eatn puddin, eatin' puddin'-
Jonathan Gibbs he broke his tewth
A eatn' puddin, a eatin' puddin'.
"Great Jumps of suet, they stuck intew it,
Intew it, intew it, ntew it, intew it
Great Jumps Of suet, they stuck intew it,
As big as my two thumbs