The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-08-28

hand. a heavy body..as bullet. pebble,
shot or grain of corn will descend by
the laws of gravity into one or other OF
the bronchial tubes. Here the tendency
is to lodge to the right.
School girls and children have fire.
quently shown a prediction for swal-
lowing needles and pins, probably to
verify the old rhyme:
Needles and pins, needles and pins.
When man marries his trouble begins.
These substances may remain in the
body for a number of years without
causing perhaps even annoyance. A
very old man came under the notice OF
Cohen who in his youth had swallow
two pins with tw sted heads. hney
could be distinctly felt under sie sim
over one of the mans shoulers. "nere
they had remained for Ger IN rty years
but he refused to hays them cut out
and they went to AIS coffin with him.
Another man e.Sallowed needle; in
ten davs it reached his stomach and
worked IT, way through into the left
lung. vllere it produced bloody expec-
toras On.
there is a case of an insane woman
who swallowed fork with suicidal in
tent expecting to die under the opera
ton. Singular to relate, she recovered.
An abscess formed in the abdominal
walls, from which the fork was re-
moved Teller is authority for case
in which fork worked its way from
the stomach to the thigh.
A curious case happened to a person
who was eating banana while walk
ing along the street. Asphyxia and
death ensued. The dissection showed
that there was deficiency in the pal
ate, which had been kept habitually
stuffed with rags of lint. These hsd
got loose, became entangled in the
morsel the man was about to swallow.
which stopped Immediately over the
epiglottis. and thus kept it closely shut
down. Thus piece Of banana with
rag wrapped around it. may kill one
man, while fork which another swal-
lows may not
What is one mans food is another's
po;sion is exemplified in the case of
Francis Battalia. who. it appears, was
born with two small stones in one
hand and one in the other. DR.. John
Bulliner in his rare book. "Man Trans
formed" says he devoured about half
peck of pebbles day, and when he
jumped up you could hear the stones
inwardly rattle. all of which in twenty
four hours were resolved in the usual
way. Other food he could not eat.
Meat, bread. broth or milk made him
sick, but he could go beer. He was
short of stature. swarthy and black,
and served as soldier IN Flanders and
Ireland, and made such good use of his
extraordinary power that he acquired
q competency from charging to allow.
people to see him eat
In 1904 the young SON of MIR. Norton
on his way to school, while jumping .
fence with the blade of knife in his
mouth, swallowed it, and in q few
DAYS was well, and returned to school.
But the most remarkable of all the
swallowing cases was that of John
Cummings, sailor. who lived ten years
after having swallowed . number of
knife-blades. DIR. Alex. Marcel, late
physician to Grey's Hospital. furnishes
the case to the Edinburgh Philosophi-
cal Journal. In June. 1879, John Cum
mings, an American, aged twenty
three. being with his ship on the coast
of France, went on shore with some
friends two miles from Havre de Grace.
Here they were attracted to q tent
where man was pretending to swal-,
low cheap knives. When they returned
to the boat they were talking the event
over, when Cummings said that was
nothing an d he could do it as well as
Frenchmen. They dared him. He
took glass of grog, and slipped his
own clasp knife down into his stomach.
The spectators were not satisfied with
one experiment. and asked John if he
could swallow more. He replied: '.All
the knives on board ship" Upon
which three were produced and he
swallowed them. The next day he
passed one of the knives. which was
not the one he swallowed first. and the
day afterward the other two. The
other remained in his stomach, but
never gave him inconvenience.
In March, 1905. being in Bos-
ton, he boosted of his feat
while drinking. A small knife was
produced, and he swallowed it with
ease as we'll as five more. The news
Of his exploit brought crowds Of PEG
pie to see him. and he swallowed eight
moro. making fourteen in all. He
paid. however. dearly for his frolic,
for he was seized with violent and
constant vomiting and pain in his
stomach. yet on the 28th got rid oi
them all At Spithead. December
4th, he was challenged to repeat his
tcat, and. being man Of his word,