Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-10-06

r which had long labored in vain, and
could say to myself when l sat down in
my easy chair in the evening and lit my
pipe; "Now, Justus Weissenbart, thou
hast done all that the earthly and corporal
part of thee demands for its sustenance
hencetorth thou art free to serve the cause
OF science, and, it may be, even to add a
little grain of knowledge to the sum oi
human learning. went TO work with all
earnesmess. filled my house with rare
pants, rare fossils, rare minerals. l paid
high for curiositi of every kind. Once
| paid handful of thalers. for the carcass
Of a donkey, which exhibited singular
malforma ion of the spinal column. It's
dissection led me to one of the most inter
esting discoveries which have ever made
All, mein Herrl you, who are man oil
amusement and adventure, cannot faith.
ON the delight felt in cutting up that
glorious donkey! BIT once before in my
whole life did experience the same plea.
sure, aud that was when Twas called in, a
little while otter first came here, to treat
patient whose case exhibited some very
unusual and perplexing symptoms ex-
amlned him | reflected the truth flashed
upon me. flung my hat on the ground,
and, embracing the sick man with rap
ture, cried ous: 81 congratulate you, my
friend You have resolved disease which
has been unknown for the last SIX centu-
riesp'
The idea of such consolation admins.
tered to an invalid was too much for my
gravity. l spite IF all my efforts TO com.
pose myself | laughed till l was fairly ex.
Dausted; and Herr Weissenbart very good
humoredly joined in the merriment,
though evidently without the LAST sus-
picion of having given any cause for it.
well, mein lieber Herr" he continued,
"you will doubtless have remarked it as u
singular law of nature that whenever a
man lives all by himself, in particularly
old and shabby-looking house, he inva.
naby acquires the Tepusation of being
immensely rich. Perhaps my paying So
high for fossils and skeletons gave some
cSlor to the myth in my case; but at any
rate | was soon known in Heidelberg ss
the rich Professor Weissenbart,' and my
ffit nds began to warn me that if | did not
taAe care might some day chance to get
robbed.
"Now at that time 1 had but one
servant, who had been with me many
years, and was beginning to get old and
feeble. Every one said that he was not
enough to take care of the house himself,
and that I'd better have younger man T.
help him; but l didn't like to vex poor
old Johann by seeming 10 think him pasy
work, so | Just let things go ON as they
We're. He was a capital servant, and did
mis- work well Us men could do; but lie
mad one failing. Every now and then
when the chance offered, he would "a
significant gesture Of the Professors hand
as If lifting a glass to his lips, completed
the sentence.
HINT rather bad fault in a man upon
whom the safety of the house depended,
observed |.
$50 |. Thought" answered the Professor
land more than once doubted whether
it might not be as we'll to take my friends
advice after all, and engage second
servant. But l kept putting it off, and
putting it off, till at last got punished fol
my hesitation as you shall hear.
Zone night had sent Johann out to do
some marketing, and was expecting him
back every minute. AS rule, whenever
he went abroad he took the house.key (oi
which had duplicate) along with him
so that nobody could get in till he came
back, unless | chose to let them. He
was very puactual on the whole; but this
time, en-hfteen-tWenty minutes pass
ed and there was no sign of him. / be.
gan to fear that he might have taken a
glass too much, as he sometimes did, and
was just thinking OF going to look afte +
him, when, all 81 once, | heard, tar down
below, noise as if the house.door had
been suddenly opened and shut again, and
then step coming up the stairs right to-
ward my door. l have a quick ear of my
own, and it struck me directly that the
q
Johann's. l guessed at once that there
had been foul play some where, and for a
moment | thought of locking my door and
calling for help through the window; but,
on second thoughts, decided that it would
be better to let the intruder (whoever he
might be) come right up to me, and to
sec what he really wanted"
l looked at the Professor with involun.
tary admiration. To hear this little, deli.
cate, beuevol5 nt-looking old gentleman
talking so coolly of deliberately allowing a
robDer (perhaps more than One) to march
right into his room at night, without stir
ring step to give the alarm, simply be.
cause he . thought it better to sec what
he wsnte had really heroic flavor
about it; and | bent eagerly forward to
hear the sequal of the adventure.
"The door opened pursued my friend,
"and in came tall, burly fellow, with a
black mask ON his face and pistol in his
hand. The moment he was in, he locked
the door behind him, put the key in his
pocket, and came forward to the table
where l was sitting.
"Now, my old 'un," said he, with a
chuckle, we've got the house all TO our
selves Your servant is lying fast asleep
Ia N o1t n fol IlA Of ha rhfra4tr
Fox. Dragged beers a line thing to make
a man sleep sound, and he won't wake
much before tomorrow morning In the
meantime, out with your money, or you're
dead man."
"ne cooked the pistol as he spoke, and
leveled it st my forehead.
"You will think, mein Herr, that /
must have been frightened; but, strange
as it may seem, was rot. Had met this
man in the street, or out in the open coun-
Try, he would have been on his own
ground, but here, within the walls of my
laboratory, ho was on mine. He came to
me in the guise of new experiment, and
felt him in my power. Before he had
done speaking, had lried HIM in my own
mind condemned him, and sentenced him
to death.
Soft and pleasant as the old mans voice
was, there was hard metallic ring in ii
Just then, and an ominous compression OF
the small delicate mouth, which showed
ne, for the first time, what this quiet good
humored scholar might be capable OF do
ing In truth, the cruelty of passion or re-
venge is as nothing to tnat of science
Parryhasius crucifying his slave in order
to gain more vivid idea of the suferingE
which he paintod Michael Angelo study
ing with cool, analytical keenness the
loathsome minuti@ Of the plague hospital
DR.. lie Gait keeping horses and dog
alive for weeks under his scalpel, only JC
infict upon them more varied and com
plcated tortures-such examples are terri
bly, suggeslivei and ! could not hell
thinking hat, had been robber,
should have been very 10th to entrust my
self TO the tender mereies of my friend th'
Professor, supposing his power of de
struction to be commensurate with hi