Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-12
Earlier Incidents.

| DIR. Tanner said that when he took water into
his mouth, he felt no desire to swallow it. At
L; o. o'clock tonight it will benine days since he
has swallowed any water, but he rinses his
mouth oftener now than he did for several
days after leaving off drinking altogether.
Shortly before 10 A. NJ. he fell asleep. From
that time he stuck pretty closely to his cot, the
| head of which projected out of the window. A
| little after IL o'clock, noon young lady be-
gan to play the piano in the gallery of the
main hall. At the sound of the first note DR..
| Tanner jumped up, shouted "HOoray! let's
| have some musiop' and went cavorting out into
| the hall. The watchers, who are bound new er
to let him go out of their sight, jumped up
aud followed him. The faster afterward beg
| gcd their pardon, saying That he quite forgot
| himself. Other persons played the piano for
him at different times in course of the day
"Oh yes, play as much as you will. Don't
ever be afraid of playing too much,' said the
faster when asked whether the performer
should play any more. Two lady visitors sang
a duet, at the end of which DR.. Tanner, who
| was lying on his cot in the middle of the hall,
clapped his hands. After his walk nine times
| around the hall DIR. Tanners pulse was found
| to be at 116 per minute, but it gradually sub
| sided to 96, and subsequently went down to &c.
| Among the letters received by him in the
! forenoon was an envelope containing small
piece of roast beef. The faster is not allowed
shown to him, and he was asked whether he
wanted it. He laughed heartily at the joke,
| and the meat was thrown into the street. A
| Fulton street merchant sent him a patent
hammock bed. The doctor took to it most
kindly, and said he would not lie on the old cot
again. Swo hours latter another present was
received from De- Kuntze of Second avenue.
| 1t was a night-blooming cereus, which was
expected to bloom about 6 P. NJ. The plant
was about five feet high, and
| there was n single bud on it. By s
o'clock it was suddenly discovered that the bud
had developed into large and most beautiful
flower. Everybody present gathered around it,
| and none admired it more than it's new owner.
| The public were admitted to the ball yes
| terday on payment of twenty five cents each.
DR.. Tanner assented to this after much hesita-
! tion, and upon certaiA conditions. No visitor
was to be allowed to Npproach him or even to
speak to him, except by permission of all the
watchers. He is not allowed to shake hands
with any one, not excepting the watch
hundred persons paid to go up
| and look at the fasting man. Many of them
| were ladies. On entering the hall they were
generally very shy, and glanced about careful
| ly, as though they were fearful that their eyes
would suddenly fall upon living skeleton.
DR.. Tanner cordially invited them to walk
| around and look at him as much as they
pleased, and when he felt like it he conversed
pleasantly with them from his cot in. the
middle of the enclosure. About
o'clock P. NJ woman entered, who
disregarding this printed rules for visitors has
| tened up to the railing, and began to iabber
loudly aud rapidly: "Oh. poor man! He's
surely dying. Isn't it shame? Why don't
| they make him eat? Look at him, he's starved
aIreadyr' she exclaimed in one breath. The
watchers had shouted to her several times, but
she did not heed them until one of the doctors
| clapped his hand upon her shoulder, and mo-
| toned for her to Immediately walk away. DR..
! Tanner at that time was in a doze. Some old
| friends of the fasting man called, but they
! were not allowed to speak with him unless he
was awake and willing SO talk. On retiring
| for the night DR.. Tanner was feeling well, and
claimed to be confident in his ability to fast
| for forty days. He had not been annoyed as on
the day previous, and consequently bad pre-
served an unruffled temper.
George Francis Train sat under an umbarella
| in Madison Square park all day, and evoluted
for the deneit of fasting man, sending the
results of each evolution to the faster regularly
| by postal card. His first evolution in the
morning resultedas as follows:
| Citizen Dr. Tanner-When 'Old Cagliastro'
| gagged your stomach by his he put his foot in
it! When calling you Fasting Importer" he
wrote himself ''Paracelusus Charlatan.' y
Why don't you drink? The two-inch rain
adds so per cent. to cropsl The grass again is
green Water will renew your Uiril!
Sponge! sun! open air, baths and water alone
can save you when delirium appears Drs
must stop experiment to avoid Berghism or
courts.)
| To Excelsior Snow Bank Cissibianca fire
ship! Ephesian Dome History by suicide, with
world for audience, discounts chance! ssThe
unexpected is always the impossible. y
| The horse died on one oat. Camel fell on last
feather Your nervousness shows mental fric-
ton. Where pulse jumps fifty, blood is ab-
normal
| When journals give pages to prize fights,
/ pigeon matches, fox hunts, yacht trials, horse
races, boat spurts cock mains, rat bats, rifle
shoots, and walking Matches stirring fasts are
in order. Demons must stand aside for Psy-
chos-)
The new disease is the 'smalady of clubs
or "Delmonico's death grip" Nothing but