The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-04-01
AUTOPSY EXTRAORDINARY.
Probably the Fsrst ef tie KIND Ever Made
A Thoasnnd D"IIars Paid for the Corpse.

Probably the Fsvst of tie KIND Ever Made
Th"asa~d D"iisr~ Paid for the Corpse.
He was tall. big. Intelligent follow citiYsu |
OF tho coorod persuasion and found him on |
tho front platform Of an Eighth avenue car. |
talking 20 the driver when my cigar and |
stepped on. His tongue was going faster than |
tho horses. with the yoissiitv Of man brim- |
miag over with something novel and exciting.
The driver kept his face pointed due north. at |
tending TO his team and his two bells tho ono |
from the conductor to order hin, TO stop or !
start. and tho other from him to summon the |
conductor forward for another nickel. soon |
cut In to get an understanding OF the story tho
semi gigantic darky was telling. What was |
It you were cutting upw
"A rhinoceros. sab. Q rhinoccros. and he
weighed tree ton" Immediately remembered
that few days ago Barnum's great rhinoceros
had been found dead in his cage. aud the
darkey left me in no doubt that this was the
animal he was talking about as he continued.
:" lie cost Mr.. Barnum ten tousnnd dollars.
and dey sold him dead for tousand. And
mo and another man cut him up to get his
skelt skeleton He died dc evening befo'. and
We begun on him at o'clock yesterday
mornn and it took us seven hours and we got
Ave dollars 70 de job"
Not bad pay for tho time. but suppose 1t
was something o! n job
Yes sab. it was. And didn't my hands and
arms ache when we got trough They gave US
as much as we wanted TO cat and drink Did
we do the Job n. the Madison Square Garden
No sab. we done II at de Hoss Institute in
Fifty fourth street. in de basement. DR. Lay.
tods boss institute for hosscs and dogs and
cattles when dey's sick. He's fust rate he is.
Yes, sah. hos a yetney. II had said vcterinaryl
!!s alters gives me de Job when he's got one.
When It's 10 skin 4cow l get dollar. ana DO
along every day no cows neoder I've worked
ut slapstering in Forty-irst street
and snves bowls Ss knives as BIG a s' dat sow
ing half tho length Of his brawny, arm. and We
be Ts s a d. so d
cuts. We coaIdnt do nurin wild dc Knives on
Under Dc belly and where de- ievs iine Do lily
But wild the rest OF skin we could only say
about a foot in length. Fo' dc skin the knives
WAS $1 ny aTf 's"a s%s Ts
NOR an inch thick. and dat tough
tod him f Enew thu, Sue.s ~ 1sre Of no more
use axainst the hide 81 a rhinoceros ihnn peas;
ss we s% me and p1rS e. OF o,er f
ii q little, dough it we're, biz, calvary pisto.!
"'' mSai pst %nf - NY '"u'A0 'H''''s 1t ''
| "A Colts calvary pistol"
|
| Yes. sab. n calvary pistol HE stu tx to cal
vary And do stndsn's tried RE, i via rife and i
it WAS SO stir you couldn't bead it more'n YOU
could kn S1 ssx w SSs Fl. anything like
No; sab. not like beef, l, was mo- like s,ur-
sqs X!''l. you know. they call sturgeon Albany
Yes sab but it warnt like beef; it war some
Was there much blood? p
No: sab. mighty little blood for sich big
Gin a on him till over twelve hours after he was
No, sab. it was warm. like beef jess killed.
1t,wns hot. sah IN some places
body the warmth fingered longest AT the arm,
pits; and that had once witnessed the gradual
@ as or uoIs ppa l w1a hs .h se
was only in II trance, and that it was SO in re-
gard To the ar,npits. probably from their prox,
the body. See Nine. Blnvatsky's Isis. I'm
yelled" vol. l.; page - He only repeated that
tho skin o, tho rhnocoros must be had con
duetor Of heat. and tha, the lung heat must M!
when there remained no, circulation. of the
blood TO distribute it to the extremities-lit-
we, tackled him fust on his hind leg. Jess
An 20 ny We on 'S me- ma m o mis-
ting down to do bones, and Getting out one;
chunk after anothcr: ana II WAS mighty hhrd
work, and we had to take rests.
Why didn't you begin with n long slit down
the middle Of the belly. and so get at the inside
to cut it out without destroying tho skin =:
Couldn't ha been done sab. The skin was
work on the inside from such Slit"
What was done with the flesh p
We packed ii into two big boxes bound with
iron and dey was sent on Each box weighed II
ton and II half. Do | know whOr dey war sent
and what war goin' TO he done wild il No.
sar we warnt told and ! didn't ask DR.. Lay
tod can tell you If you want To know, He's lie
vetney in Fifty fourth street near sixth a,cnuc
and he bought him and paid $1,000 for him
and no paid me and another man S. for cut
ting and saving him up
What did he die OF. sab? He died OF con-
sumption. Dis here lung touching his own
left breast was all gone. Muffin left Of it: and
dc oder pretty bad too. And all de parts bout
dere all good for nothn'.. Consumption. sal!
and he cost ten tousand dollars and no fetched
dead one t0usand dollars"
But l do not believe that DR.. Laytod the
) fust- rate vetney." will he a loser BY his bar
J gain. II not the ghost. tho "skclt" of the Grea
paGhydermatous monster ugliest Of beasts
Will long continue to accompany, tho grea
ton show which he once graccd by his living
company II Barnum could almost have broker
the entente coyd'die OF the two countries By
carry wing off Jumbo from the mourning and in
dixnant people Of Great Britain. he will sur.ly
be able to tempt the now owner to part Will
I tho skelt Of Il rhinoceros. But only to thinl
Of such n thr-c-ton mass OF pnrhydormatou'
hideousnsss having died Of conauIn ptionaiko
heart-b broken lovcsick girl.