The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-08-29

A remarkable triumph of surgica!
skill is chronicled in the Louisville
papers. A few weeks ago little boy,
six years of age. while playing on the
stairway of the Gait House, fell dis.
tance of seventy feet, alighting upon a
stone floor, from which he was raised
apparently lifeless, shapeless mass.
In the course of his fall he struck a
projecting corner of the staircase,
breaking an inch board across the
grain, and further down he struck and
broke an oak baluster an inch in diam.
eter Numerous fractures and a terri
be scalp wouu II we're produced by this
frishtiul fall. The right arm was
crushed into pieces above and below
the elbow, both legs were broken at
and near the ankle joints, and innu-
merable commissions were received all
over the body. Notwithstanding these
dreadful injuries. under skilful sur.
gical care the child not only recovered,
but now has perfect use Of all his
limbs.
Some days ago little hoy in Vir-
ginia was killed by the bite of rattle
snake. The little fellow had gone out
with some other members of the fami-
Iy to look for eggs, and in his search
he crawled under his fathers barn.
After going some distance under the
floor, he screamed to his companions
that something was killing him. They
obtained assistance. and raised up the
plauks of the floor, when to their hor.
ror they found large rattlesnake had
tightly coliea around his neck. The
snake had bitten him in several places
ou the face aud neck, and he was quite
dead when taken up.
An lrishman was looking about the
ruins of the 1urnt confectionery rstah-
lshment in Nashua, Saturday, when he
spied "A box I lozenges, still in fair
state of preservation. He picked up
the box, hut preliminary to making
off with 1t the bright idea occurred tn
him to be sure that the lozenges were
worth purloining. He picked out IA
l'll, bl'hS IL vi iNh, ahu CIuIHlueu H'S
mouth as full of 'ozenges as the Cra-
chitIs did of spoons. In moment
more the box was hurled tn the ground,
accompanied by the exclamation BE
gorra, 'ney are hot yet J" They were
of the cayenne sort
The wonderful ice cave in Decorub,
WiDnesheik county, Iowa, is a vertical
fi,surc in the the face of the cliff Of
Trenton limestone that forms part
of the upper Iowa river, 1t is about
100 feet deep in all its windings, il
from two 10 eight feet in width, and
varies still more in height. In the
winter the cave is free from ice, but
upon the approach of hot weather the
ice begins to accumulate, and sold,
hard and dry cakes encrust the sides
and bottom of the cave. When the
weather is hottest the cave is most
abundantly stored with ice.
Joseph Wilson committed suicide at
al Camden, n. j., on Monday. He
first attempted 10 open an artery. In
this attempt he cut his arm across in
"A number of places. Finding he had
not reached an artery, he drew the ra
zor along the bone all the way from
the shoulder To the wrist. Failing to
kill himself by these means, he at.
tempted to cut his throat. He sever
ed the ~indpipe, but again failed to
reach the arteries, and lived several
hours in terrible torture, entirely un-
able to speak.
Two brothers named Elliott, and n.
j. Long and John Mullen were caught
and killed recently by Indians near
Fort Griffin, Texas one of the broth
! eFs. vas burned at the stake.