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in 1894, and the clock became the prop
erty of Judge Stephen Jones. In 1916,
March II, Bepis min r. Jones exchanged
with the Judge. giving him q clock of a
modern maSe TO the old Lyon"
Samuel l.. Jones fell heir to it In 1861,
| and he says it has continued to tick and
keep good time for sixty seven years
| within his own remembrance, and re-
pairs during that time have been slight.
1t bears every evidence that It's maker
was o master mechanic. The works are
| in an iron case twenty-one inches high,
T! fourteen across front and SIX deep. The
dial is brass, with raised figures, and at
| the bottom Of the dial is half-inch
hole, in which appear the figures denot-
ing the day of the month. 1t is an
eight-day movement, and has IN connec-
hon a sort of chimes, so that II person
was in one room and wanted to know
the time they could, by pulling the cord
attached, set the chimes In motion, and
the clock would strike the next hour. To
illustrate, if the cl@gnes played twice it
/ would be half-past the hour struck; II
three times it would be fifteen minutes
of the hour; if once, 1t would be fifteen
| minutes past the hour; IT four tunes 1t
would be on the hour. The continuous
playing of the chimes and striking OF the
| clock does not interfere with Its striking
| on the hour just the same when 1t comes.
The weight carrying the movements is
| twelve and one-half pounds. Numerous
relic seekers have been to see 1t.
A PIN IN HIS BRAIN.
A story which partakes largely of the
incredible is told of Mark Hogge, a
farmer living near West Quincy. Last
Saturday Hogge took an old shotgun
with a loose breech pin and went out
shooting. He rode on horseback about
mile and half from home and then
| dismounted. Soon after flock of wild
| geese few over him and he fired at
them. The breech pin few out and I'M
| bedded itself In his brain, the concus-
sion for time knocking him senseless.
At length rallying, he gathered the
| scattered fragments of his gun together,
| mounted his horse and rode home. He
complained of a terrible pain in his
| head, but he and those who first saw
| him supposed that the hurt was nothing
more than a severe scalp wound. A
| surgeon was sent for who made an ex-
| animation and discovered the steel pin
| driven into the brain fully an inch and
a half. It was removed, and though
| the brain oozed out in considerable
! quantities the man lives, with a faint
prospect of recovery. This story is in
credible, but is vouched for by the best
OF authority. (M0.) Demo-
crGt.
A REMARKABLE CASE.
Yesterday closed the history at Middle
town, sixteen miles south of this city, of
one of the most remarkable cases of dis
| ease known to medical science, and in
stances of which there are but few on rec
ord. Isaac Maddy was man aged 81 years,
highly respected citizen of Middletown,
and son of Andrew Maddy, an equally
well-known and esteemed gentleman, and
| a nephew of Mr.. James Maddy, of this
city.
About eleven months ago Mr.. Maddy
became afflicted with a cancer on his
breast, and he has been troubled with it
ever since. About five months ago,
however, he began to turn dark until,
inside of three months, he became as
dark as negro, and, indeed, would not
have been suspected of being white
man save by those who knew his history
and family, the purity of the latter
being so well known as to preclude all
possibility of natural causes. His hair
is straight and the whites of his eyes are
of brilliant, pearly white-rhe two
only characteristics, save the pure eau
casian features, which make him differ
from the veriest negro. The face, neck,
legs, arms, and, in fact, the entire body,
are of a deep bronze or brown, and
peculiarly so IN those portions particu-
larly marked IN the race named. No
physical disability was noticeable In
connection with it at first, further than
what was considered attributable to the
| cancer from which he was a sufferer.
But he gradually sunk away, became
weak and debilitated, and on Wednes-
day died.
Before his death, however, he was
sent for by a prominent physician In
this city, who had seen him and who
suspicioned a very rare and mysterious
malady, known to medical science gen
orally through medical reports only,
and IL the presence of few noted ply
sicans he was examined and his case
made the subject of discussion through
prominent medical works, when his dis
ease was pronounced Addison's disease,
from DIR. Addison, of Guys Hospital,
London, who discovered it.
This disease, according to the Suy-
denham Lexicon of Medicine and the
Allied Sciences, the latest and best au-
thority upon the subject, is tubercular
infltration of the supra-renal bodies
(Which lie just above the kidneys), usu-
ally characterized by discoloration or
bronzing of the skin and progressive
asthenia, which is ultimately fatal, first
described by DR.. Addison in 1856.
The connection between the disease
of the adrenals and the discoloration of
the skin and the total asthenia is as yet
profound mystery to the medical fra
ternity, as so few cases have ever been
known that practical knowledge is al
most unobtainable. The cause of the
skin coloring is in an excessive de-
post of pigment in the rete mucosum,
and it has even been discovered in the
blood. The disease is always, as in this
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