Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-05
Perkonal.


 Mrs. Isabella Slater, wife of George W. Slater, of Junction City, near Columbus, Ohio, died recently.
 Vice President Goodspeed, of the Hartford Steamboat company, is quite i'll and confined to his house with a dropsical affection.
 John H. Wheeler, late clerk in the First National bank, Willimantic, has accepted a similar position with his brother, Charles L. Wheeler, at Peoria, III
 MT. D. H. Coggswell, of San Francisco, Cal, has offered to donate to Willimantic, under specified conditions, very elegant and costly fountain for drinking purposes. The entire matter will doubtless be soon present ed to the attention of the voters of the bor- ough.
 MT. Louis Kuhn, foreman of Herold's
 brewery, Hartford, and lately proprietor of saloon on Front street, died Saturday morning of consumption at the age of 35 years. He belonged to the Turner society and also the order of D. O. H. Germania. He
 had many friends.
 Mr. c. M Loomis is to convert Loomis Hall, after January 1st, into piano ware- room.
 MT. Norton, the clothier, has accepted a
 fattering opportunity to go into the clothing
 business in New Mexico.
 Dr. s. H. Chapman and others have rented National armory from now till April 1st, and lawn tennis games will be played in the hall afternoons at intervals.
 Mir. William c. Ramsdell, for four years receiver of Associated Press in Norwich, went to New York Saturday night to enter on his duties as dispenser of the Associated Press dispatches for New England. MT. Ramsden Is one of the most proficient of operators.
 Surviving am Extraordinary Wound. From the London Lancet.l An instance of singular tolerance of 8 severe wound of the brain was recently con- municated by M. Dubrisay to the Societe de Medicine de Paris A man, aged A. in an attempt at suicide, sent small dagger through his skull into the brain. The weapon was 10 centim etres long and wide. He had held the dagger in his left hand and given it with the right several blows with the mallet, be- Iieving that he would fall dead at the first Isblow. To his profound surprise he felt no pain and observed no particular phenomenon. He struck the dagger in all about dozen times. The man was drunkard, but was sober at the moment of the attempt. When seen about two hours later the handle of the dagger was projecting from the skull at the junction of the posterior and middle third line, and in transverse position. The whole blade was imbedded, except part one centi- metre in length. For half an hour unsuc- cessful attempts were made to get the dagger out The patient was placed on the ground two vigorous persons fixed his shoulders, l and, aided by strong pair of carpenters pincers repeated attemps were made, but vifb Tho y1atIant and nfG were raised of the ground, but the dagger was immovable. These attempts caused no pain More powerful mechanical instruments were then employed The patient, who walked well, and complained of no head ache, was taken to Q coppersmiths and by strong pincers the handle of the dagger was fastened to chain which was passed over cylinder turned by steam power. The pin cers, used for drawing out tubes of copper, were so made that the more they were pulled the tighter they grasped The man was then fastened to rings fixed in the ground and the cylinder was gently set in motion. At the second turn the dagger came out. The blade measured 10 centimetres in length, of which 9 had entered the interior of the skull. The patient, who had submitted with the greatest coolness to these manoeuvres, suffered no pain or inconvenience. Some drops of blood escaped, and in few minutes afterward the man was able to walk away to 8 hospital, where ne renamed 1n pea TOT IO oays, put without fever or pain He then returned to his work, and the wound gradually healed M. Dubrisay endeayored by post -mortem experiment. to ascertain what parts of the
 brain had been injured. He drove the dag ger into the head of a cadayer in the same situation and to the same depth, and found | that, without injuring the superior longitudi- ] nal sinus, it had passed into the cerebral | substance, just behind the ascending parietal convolution, and thus behind the motor zone; l the point had not reached the base. The difficulty in extraction had been due solely to the fxation of the instrument by the edges of fhnr int klnah