American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-29
The Greatest TOOthache Ever
Known.

If ever any of you should have tooth.
ache, my poor children, and it's very
likely that you will, just look into the
brook, or any other mirror, with your
tear-dimmed eyes, and notice how small
is the little white tormentor that is
causing so much pain. Then, by way
of comfort, want you to reflect how
much worse it would be if this tiny
white thing were an elephants great
tusk, with toothache all through it.
Perhaps you will say that elephants
can't have toothache? Then listen to
the sad story of Chunee, the elephant
of Exeter Change.
At Exeter Change, in the great city
of London, there was, many years ago,
menagerie in the second story of a
building. Here the elephant, Chunee
by name-a very quiet, well-trained
beast-was confined in a cage, under
which the floor had been strengthened
to support his weight. Chunee never
came out, but seemed very happy, for
all that. Suddenly he became raving
mad, and screamed and trumpeted, and
endeavored vigorously to tear away the
iron bars of his cage.
Now, if he had succeeded in getting
out upon the floor, Mr.. Chunee would
have Immediately dropped through into
an apothecary shop below. If he had
fallen into the scales, his exact weight
might have been ascertained, after 8
fashion; but, in other respects, mad
elephant in drugstore would have
been far worse than bull in china
shop. If he had been sane, he might
have had nice time, eating the liquor
ice and cough-lozenges and sugar
coated pills and candy; but as he WASH
sane, the accident was not to be desired.
Well, Chunee grew more and more
wild and dangerous, until at last. the
I" Beef-eaters, who are the keepers of
the tower of London, were called upon
20 destroy the poor beast. They dis
CHARGED many balls from their old-fash-
Toned muskets into. his body, but the
loss Of blood seemed to increase his
fury, and not lessen his strength. There
we e no rifle teams in those days, to
reach his brain with single shot, so a
piece of artillery was actually brought
up, and poor Chunee, obeying his keep
er's voice, even in his rage, kneeled
down, and was shot to death with a
cannon ball. ~a a.s..-.l
Then the surgeons discovered that
the elephant had been suffering from
the greatest toothache ever known.
His tusk, preserved in the warehouse of
the East India Company, shows this.
Now just think of what an awful
thing six feet of toothache must have
been, and pity poor Chunee st. Mich
olas for May.
EVEN in the back woods of Pennsyl-
vania does the fraudulent schemer
flourish. The unusual amount of
money demanded last year in Blair
County and other counties in the noun
famous portions of the State, in pay
ment of bounties for the scalps of wild
animals, melted some of the county au-
thorities to investigation, which reveal
ed well-devised and carefully executed
scheme of defrauding the county treas
uries. In one instance in Blair County
the skin of a colt had been cut up and
made into ears, which were palmed of
as those of fox. A large number OF
warrants have been issued against the
persons suspected of the frauds.
THE ages of some of the most cele-
brated physicians who have died in
England during the past year, as given
by the Lancet, have been quite remark
able. James Dawson was sc; Peter
Labtram, Sc; Stanley Ireland, Sc; Au-
thur Helsham, 80; Sir Charles Locoek,
II; William Beathe, 80; George Web
ster, 80; William Mcdonald, "a Henry
Franklin, SO; James Snow Sc.
THE last census of Japan places the
population at 30, 30O,675, an increase of
$4,000 in three years,