Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-17

dead THESE Two months enJ0yhg Dis
evening pipe" The boys bad prop.
ped up the corpse of a gray>headed
old man to sitting position, had
put an old cap on his head and clay
pipe in his mouth. His eyes were
open, and be looked quite Iife-like,
although the flesh bad all been peel
ed from his left leg, and his body had
been cut open and the vitals re-
moved. A little farther on was a
vey thin old woman proppcd up, and
with her hand extended as though
begging for aims. From her neck
hung a placard, "Blind from my
birth, and the mother Of nineteen
children"
"Here is man WHO has seen bet
ter days than those 10 which he
died." said the student, directing the
visitors attention to body. "You
SEQ his teeth are filed with gold.
The lower grades of persons never
pay any attention to their teeth
mover have enc filed or extracted.
We can always tell the social condi-
ton of subject. Persons who have
not worked hard have Gender flesh ;
the toilors are as tough as oxen.
Some we find with marks on their
fingers that rings had made, and we
can tell by the shape and condition
of the feet whether the person has
worn fashionable shoes The shape
of woman's ribs tells us whether
her BODY has been encircled by a
corset. Fashion in few years will
mark a victim 50 that lifetime can
not efface the traces"
STRIPED STOCKINGS.
"You sometimes have beautiful
woman subjects, do you not ?" |
never knew but one really beautiful
oue. That was over in the Twenty
third street rooms. she was girl
of eighteen or thereabouts. Her fea-
lures were perfect, and her black
hair reached below her waist. No
one know where she came from, and
it seemed to be generally understood
that she ought no! to be there. She
was positively beautiful. The boys
wouldn't touch her with a knife, and
she lay on slab for as much as
three weeks. Some one drew pair
of striped stockings on her feet and
legs, and then the charm WAS gone.
They mads quick work of her beau
tifulIy-rou0ded form after that"
IN THE TwENTY-THIRD STREET DIS
sEorING ROOM,
attached to the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, the boys fire.
vuently get on a genuine gale. Not
long ago they piled half dozen
corpses on large table in fantas-
tic postures, and then sent out for a
photographer, who brought in bis
apparatus. Then some of the stu
dents leaped upon the table with
the bodice, and drew themselves 10
shape to have . group taken. They
LOCKED ARMS WITH THE NAKED
CoRPsEs,
held the hands of the female subjects
as though going through a marriage
ceremony, put their hands Familiarity
on the dead, and in these positions
were photographed. The result of
this mingIing Of the dead and living
was received with shouts of delight.
and the photographer had his bands
full of orders for the CHASTITY picture.
Another favorite pastime with these
young sawbones is to throw pieces
of human bodies at each other while
at work, and before the professors
and demonstrators arrive there is
often a perfect shower of them.
Some of them, too, think it very
amusing to mutilate bodies by thrust
ing great toe between the teeth of
e subject, or putting an ear in an
others hands. Corpses that never
had known each other in life are
made to shake hands in death, and
that, too, in state of nudity. All
the corpses in the dissecting-rooms
are nude. Associatipg with the dead
seems to dispel all feelings Of respect,
and blunt tender sensibiities hence
it is that in dissecting rooms acts are
committed with the bodies of those
brought there that are too revolving
to be described.
A PROBLEM FOR THE THEoLoGIANs.
No attempt is made to keep the
parts of the body together. AS the
flesh of the subject is worked over, it
is cast into pals, and in the morning
these are gathered together by the
janitor. In time he gets enough of
them to fill good sized box, and it
is carried sway for burial. Pieces of
flesh, bits of bone, ribbons of skin,
hair, skulls, every part of forty diff
ferent bodies of men, women and
children negroes, Italians, John
Cinnamon, all races, all religions, are
dumped in a box like the refuse of q
kitchen into the garbage barrel, and
all find resting place together. Diff
ierent parts of single body may, 10
the weeks il requires to dissact them
find repose in dozen different
boxes 81 think there'll be confus-
ion on tho resurrection morn, when
these bones are aroused by the last
trump, "said the visitors companion.
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A Greet Mexican Ruin.