The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-18

In paper on the size of the brain in
extinct animals, Professor Marsh of
Yale College, has brought forward the
remarkable fact that in the race for life
during past ages the survival of anv
particular group of animals depended
on the size OF their brain as compared
with that OF their contemporaries of the
same class, Brains won then, as nov.
and the brain of animals crushed out of
existence was always found to be rela-
lively smaller than that of tn ose outliy-
ing them.
Mrs. A. i. Stewart is troubled with a
chronc and distressing swelling in the
neck, Worth, who sends her new cos
tunes as he sees fit, knows better than
to attempt the decOllete. On the con-
trary, he carries the neck arrangement
close up under the lobes of the ear. A
great part of her home amusement is
derived from the witticisms and sallies
OF three young Irish maids, who are
not raised above the place of servants,
but are allowed to listen to and criti-
else the conversation and letters of the
many important social devotees who
cultivate the hostess of the marble pa
lace.
Doctors do not appear to have much
faith in the idea that odd-shaped bottles
or peculiar labels will prevent mistakes
In the taking OF drugs, An English
physician relates that he once gave a
man, for external use, IA little croton oil
liniment in a blue iiutcd bottle, with a
red label. One night the man, being
troubled with a cough, thought he would
take some Of his wife's cough mixture,
which was in a bottle having raised
letters. He mistook the flutings on his
own bottle for the raised letters on his
wife S and swallowed the croton oil. He
soon discovered his error, and was very
Ill for many hours. In similar case a
man recently died from heavy dose Of
liniment.
The surgeons at the Hartford city nos
pital are making curious experiment in
their endeavors to renew the scalp of
Rosanna Flynn. Her scalp was wholly
torn off in Collingsville factory last
August. For months the engraiting upon
the cranium of small pieces of human
skin has been in progress, the bits not
exceeding in size the dimensions of sil-
yer 5 cent piece. Eventually the hospital
attendants became tired of contributing
these bits of skin from their own persons,
and especially as the women was so care
less as to hinder the progress of the work
by striking her head against objects
The physicians, therefore, have resorted
to bits of rabbit skin instead of the hu-
man cnticle, and with fairly good success.
The skin is built up around the edges,
ann there is quite ar island, so to speak,
of mingled human and rabbit skin on the
top of the head. The aim of the doctors
is to unite this with the edges below, and
while they anticipate success they don't
look for it under year at least.-Bos.
ton Herald.
A FIRE in Portland, Me-, the other day,
played havoc with mems furnishing
store. The day following one of gang
of men cleaning out the celler saw foot
with stocking and shoe on sticking ftom
under pile ofblackened bricks. The men
were much excited, and decided at once
to send for the coroner. While one start
ed for him another, bolder than the rest,
took hold of the foot and pulled it
little. The foot and leg readily cBme
out of the pile of bricks, and his compan-
| ions scattered, shouting: "He's pulled off
one of his legs" They were mistaken.
The leg was made of papier mache, for
the purpose of advertising stockings and
patent CATERS.
! They tell in Louisville of citizen of
that town who went to New York recently
and liued at one of the most expensive
| hotels there. He staid four days and ask
ed for his bill. "Fifty-one dollars" said
the clerk. "Guess again." said the Ken
tuckian. "You haven't sized my pile yet.
I've more money than that"
THElatc Paul Baubry, being asked way,
in his famous decorations of the Paris
Opera House, he chose the daughter of
Herodias as the embodiment OF the art
OF dancing, replied: Because her dance
ended in demand for John the Baptist's
head; and, for my part, I have prejudice
against dancing; the end is always bad. ="