The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-10

lini OutdOne-A Valuable jaw for the
Coming Campaign.
New York Mercury.l
A burly man, with a full. horid face, sat
behind an empty beer glass in How's saloon
in South Washington Square last Wednes
day evening, and chewed something which
crunched harshly between his teeth, as IL ii
might be brick or paving stone, or some sim
liar material Of resisting force. The Mercury
reporter had just stopped to look at him,
when he picked up the broken half OF COM
mon Rhine wine glass. and took bite as big
as a quarter out of il, as unconcernedv as
hungry tramp would rip six square inches
out of a bakery pie. There he sat grinding
and champing the glass up with noise
LIKE QUARTZ cRUsHER,
while dozen bar-room frequenters encour-
aged him with Communications. Hes in
first rate trim tonight" observed one. Il
never see him DO better" remarked another.
"Good for you Bayer." "Chaw the Juice out
of it. "How's the flavor, old man?' Don't
you want some horSeradish?' and Mr.. Bayer
masticsted deliberately on, twInkling his
eyes with horrible gustO, that made the I'M
initiated spectators blood run cold, and his
flesh creep When there was no more glass
in his mouth to crush, he slid his tongue out
to exhibit that it was coated with vitreous
paste. and then washed the mess down with
a glass of beer the bartender handed him.
what did you do that for?' asked the re
porter, as the glass devourer sank back in
his chair and licked his lips as II with remin.
iscent regret. Because l was hungry" was
the reply. Hungry for CLASP NO beer.
They wouldn't stand drink for me, because
they said l was loaded already. So eat the
glass to sober me-"
And do you mean to say it sobers you to
estglass2"
1--WE eat il for 20 years, and l ought to
know, guess It's the best thing out.
IT SETTLES YOUR STOMACH
just like seidlItz powder. I've chewed up
piece OF glass when I've been so drunk
couldn't see. aud in less than half an hour
was all right"
what effect does it have2'
1T acts on me as purge, always. | be-
lieve it's better for that purpose than medi-
cine. and ii ought 10 be used in the hospit-
ais. You couid have the glass ground to a
powder, you know, and give il TO patient
tine same as any other purgative instead o.
sickenlng them with epIcac or salts. You
might mix sugar with the glass and make il
real nice 10 take. Why don't recommend
it? have. / wrote TO a paper here about
it, and wDat do you think they did? Why,
printed nv letter in an editorial headed,
Look to Your Windows and said il must
have been written by q lunatic. / know
that editorial was written by id fool. /
told friend of mine-a doctor up the street
of 1t, and asked him what | had better
dor
And what did he say7'
He said hold my tongue, or I'd land on
the Island in a strait jacket And they
call this a c;vilizs ID country What is the use
OF finding out thing, / want to know"
And Dir. Bayer began to
CHEW THE STEM OF TEE GLASS
up in disgust. Some one asked him If he
could chew stone too. He said, why not.
Clipped q fragment from a stone-china
match-holder and began masticating it and
the glass into bash. No patent sausage
cutter ever worked with more precisio A
sight Of the colossal energy of that single
PAIR of maxilarys would have driven
Wabash campaign orator frantic with envy.
When Mr.. Bayer finished mis- lunch the re
porter asked ii it was easy to do. Mr.. Bayer
said:
"Oh, yes. All You want Is strong teeth.
Look here"
And ducking his head without any prepa-
ration, he nipped the back OF a heavy chair
between two rows OF molars and jerked il up
to level with his face, where be held it for
a second straight out Then he eat IL down,
still without using his hands, drained an
other tumbler of the Gam brinian beverage,
and lifted the four-legged table by its edge
as be had the chair. Before any one could
compliment him on his genius for
POLITICS HE WENT ON.
II saw a chap eat glass once when ! was
young fellow in Germany. 1t was at q coun-
! try fair. thought I'd like to do it, too, so
when / went home tried it. At first
used to cut myself, but | soon discovered the
real secret Of glass eating. I discovered il in
the life of Benegenuto Cellini, the great
sculptor. by G0he. Some priest tried to
poison Cellini with diamond dust, and gave
some diamonds to lapldary TO be ground
! TO powder, which was to be distributed in
his food. The lapidary sold the diamond.
and ground up some common glass. This
! was put in a dish of salad, and Cellini dis
covered it after he had eaten some. He
found that Ii was glass and didn't hurt him
q. all; while il il had been diamond it would
have created ulcers In his intestines. which
would have killed him. So be experimental
\ on dogs and cats, aud found out that there's
no harm in eating glass, which
DIGEST AND PASSES AWAY"
By way of emphasizing his lecture Mr.
| Boyer took another nibble from what was
| left OF the wine glass He chewed, the re-
porter observed, carefully and slowly, with
] a powerfur pressure of the jaws, that showed
the masseter muscles In strong masses
| through the flesh his cheeks he con-
tinued masiicating till the glass was reduced
to powder, and washed IL down as before
There we're no visible scratches either on the
/ buTLdCeS Oh lips Or us tongue.
His teeth were not unusually large, but reg
ular, set 30 close together as il they had
been esmented, and with perfectly even
surfaces, which joined without leaving
space between them which a needle point
could penetrate. A lead pencil which was
handed him be crushed in half, grinding out
piece just the width of his teeth, with
edges on the separated sections OF the pencil
| Just as smooth a knife would make them.
A lead half dollar he bit in half, ard he
made dents In buzzard dollar that looked
as IL they had been pounded there with q
hammer. why don't you go in training
for the pie-bitiDg championship" quer'ed
the Mercury representative. Mr.. Bayer
SHOOK HIS HEAD GRAvELY.
81 don't like pies" he answered; they
ain ( healthy"
he had reached the sixteenth beer on the
new deal, and was lovingly ogling the bar
mirror when the reporter departed. II some
one don't give him pie in Disguise. or serve
him his beer in a diamond mug some day
about lunch time, he will be an acquisition
In the coming campaign.
A son of the Emerald Isle, meeting a