Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-15
THE FANTASTIC.
NJ ,dern Psy she-W Wonderful slipper
Killed by Decayed TOOth-NeNv Fly
ing Machine.

NJ ,dern Psy 5hs-Wonderfut Slipper
Killed by Decayed TOOth-New Fly
ing Machine.
There come to newspaper offices every
day in the year. half dozen or more
real incidents that bear rs strongly upon
the eXtTavagant side of life rs do the va
carries in Z" Midsummer Nights Dream
upon its fanciful side. That these incl
dents are often overdrawn by the chroni-
cler, and rs often exaggerated by those
who copy them, cannot be gainsaid, but
that they are in the main true is known,
because more than one paper of the same
locality give the same or similar ac-
counts. Atlanta, Georgia. and Sioux
City, Iowa. journals, for instance, are
now busy at their respective ends of a
brand-new, golden thread of romance.
Last springa soldier lad, belonging to the
Eighteenth United States Infantry, then
stationed at Atlanta. fell in love with a
lass in that city. Though he of Uncle
Sans blue was but eighteen years old,
and she of the school-book little more
than fifteen, they cut their engagement
short and were married. On the we'd
ding day an order for the transfer of the
Eighteenth to Fort Assiniboine, Mon
tana Territory, reached Atlanta. The
bridegroom, in spite of tears and woeful
protestations, was forced to leave his
wife behind. The poor little lady was
disconsolate for many weeks after his
departure. Early in the summer, how
ever, she started, like Psyche, to search
for' her lover. She travelled alone to
Savannah and set sail for New York,
and, as in the old story,
Underneath her feet the moonlit sea
Went sheparding his waves disorderly,
so that after many trials she found her.
self moving over the Pennsylvania sail
road toward the West. Food was given
her by kind passengers, and interested
gentlemen saw that the conductors were
not troublesome. At Chicago Quarter.
master-General ingalls, was surprised
one day to see on her knees before him ;
very pretty girl with tears in heISeye'
and the story aforetold on her lips
General ingalls, grew sympathetic anC
gave her a letter to the railroad officials
from whom she got pass to St. Paul
There she procured another pass to Bis
marck and went thence to Coal Banks
from which place she dropped down
upon her husband at Fort Assinibolne
having Travelled 1000 miles without
penny in her pocket. A Sioux Cit,
reporter describes the meeting as some
thing to shout over.
Students in general and medical stu
dents particularly, enjoy things 0utre
The skull and cross bones being too Ole
a story for Max Weldon, of Lafayette
Ind, that young patron of Cincinnati
medical college has procured a pair o
slippers made from the hide of human
subject. The subject belonged to one o
Weldon's fellow sawbones, whose nam
he will not give. The nameless studen
got it into his head to send the hide to
Shoemaker in Cincinnati. The latte
first had the thing tanned, and, withou
so much rs shudder, gave it over a
last to the knife and awl. The footgea
show their peculiar texture. To the in
noccnt scribe of the Lafayette Courier, il
which q sketch of the slippers appeared
the leather seemed a light brown il
color and was streaked with parable
veinings Of a darker shade. the whole a
soft as silk" Among his friends,
continues the Courier, the docto
makes no secret of the mystery of tn
slippers" He thinks, in fact, that ther
is no more harm in wearing them tina,
in wearing rings made from human bone
or, indeed, of sporting watchguards @
human hair. The Courier had som
fears at first it was being hoaxed, but t
verify the matter such of the hide as ha
not been put into the slippers was pre-
duced, thus setting all doubts at rest.
Henry Wilson, young man VIII
lately resided in the town of Toledo
Chase county, Kansas, probably is th
first person whose death was caused b,
a decayed tooth. The Emporia, Kansas
Ledger tells the story: Mr.. Wilson,
few days previous to his death. ha
been in this city having his teeth re
paired, and while undergoing the opera
ton struck his arm against one of the in
struments, as above stated. The wOun
was very slight one, but the virus O.
the instrument from Il decayed toot
was sufficient to inoculate his bloc
with a poison, which gradually permt
ated his whole system and eventual
terminated his life. This is the first in
stance of poisoning and loss of life W
have ever noticed from q similar caus
and is sad illustration of the poisonou
effect of bad teeth. Dentists should hj
and wepresume good ones are livery cart
full to have their instruments perfect
clean and free from debris of dead al
decayingSteet when they are not in use.
DIR. George Ezekial Thomas was
OHIO, Alabama, recently and exhibite
himself to a few persons, among Whol
were Drs. Baird and Crawford, of Hi
liardvile. Heexhibited double set
ribs on his right side, dropped his heal
to the lower portion of his abdomen, O
the left side, and then changed it to
similar position on the right side, an
afterward stopped his heart and pulls
from beating for a short time. This q
seemed to be so and the doctors said
was so, but there were some around VIII
looked. incredulous. He is negro, M,
dunn size, and talks with good sens
he says he was born a slave at Amer
Gus, Ga, in 1920; that he has travcle
over the United States, France, England
Germany and Cuba, and that his HON
is now in Syracuse, N. Y.
Henry w. Earl, of the Northern Ger
tr&l railway freight depot, in Baltimor
has taken out caveat for pater
flying and life-saving apparatus"
bag of gas to float the body, and a sa
on the back, with wings for tn e arm
are the appliances. Mr.. Earl says
has not tried the apparatus on himsel
but on wooden doll, which he cause
to float in the air. OF course. until i
tries it on himself he will not be able [
demonstrate conclusively that he rca
make the wings work as he thinks the
will work, but he hopes to be able to tt
it successfully at the Maryland EInstitut
this autumn. He thinks the apparatr
will useful in saving life from the III
per stories of purning buildings.
Too Many Grayeyards.