The Irish standard., 1886-11-13
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Remarkabie Collection Of Grotesqus
Products OF Recluse Chemist.

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Products Of = Recluse Chemist.
[Rock Island Cor. N. Y. Mail and Expressl
The administrators of the estate OF the
late DR.. John Farrell cleared out the re-
markable old den which he called an Office,
recently. and it is now offered to new
tenants The coffee - was found, to be
about as uncanny a place as supersti.
tious person would care to get into. The
air was heavy with mixture of odors
such as man never smelt before 1t sug
gested the dissecting table, sickening chem.
ical compounds DEATHS heads, ghosts,
graves and other unpleasant things The
collection of curious objects which the ad-
ministrators cleared out was q strange
conglemeration. There were brown paper
parcels containing amputated hands and
feet, or partially dissected organs Of
the human body scattered around in
the lcorners, mingled with bottles Of
forgotten liquids cans Of disinfectants,
old clothes, bones, skulls and fragments.
One package contained an arm, neatly
embaimed by some new process. In huge
rusty case stood six big skeletons in all
stages of dilapidation. On top of the case
was an ancient stuffed swan, with an uu-
naturally long and stiff neck, SO covered
with dust that it's original color had long
since, entirely disappeared. On neigh
boring shelf was an equally dirty pelican.
In one corner was a glass case containing
the mummy of nine-year-old boy, the
DOCTORS nephew, which he had prepared
himself. The veins had been filled with a
red substance and the arteries with SUBJ
stance of blue, and the whole figure was
remarkably we'll preserved. The head had
been sawed into to illustrate the operation
OF trepanning. A big box in another cor
ner was filed with miscellany of human
bones, skulls, mounted fishss, sharks jaws,
teeth, old rubbers, newspapers, whisky
bottles, pieces OF pie and discarded socks.
A shelf on one side had a row of bottles,
such as confectioners use They contained
an assortment of tumors preserved in al
cohol. These were only fow of the
things that were found. Books, periodic
ais, bottles. galvanic batteries, blowpipes,
erucibles. n,ortars, minerals and rubbish.
were piled thickly all over the hoor.
Or. Farrell had spent his time for more
than forty years in his den. For long
time he had been recluse, working away
at strange experiments, and sleepir 6 and
eating where he worked. He was strange
looking creature. The sockets of his eyes
were followed out like saucers. His cheek
bones proruded from his thin, pale cheeks
like those OF an Indian, and his head was
as bald as an egg. His legs were bowed
like the names on horse collar. Both had
been broken and improperly set when he
was boy. Summer and winter alike he
wore on the street long, unlaundried
linen duster. At one time he had one
Of the most profitable practices in
this region, but he long ago abandoned
it for his occult researches. He has
always attended TO the case Of
poor people, however, and when he
thought they were unfortunate has never
been kuown to make charge He was an
intimate friend at one tins of the late DR..
F. H. Hamilton, and corresponded with
Agnew and Bliss, Garfeld's physicians.
He was found dead ia his den a few
weeks ago sitting upright before the table
on which hs had conducted most of h S e1.
pelime1lts, with his hands graping cruc.-
ble There WAS bo tie married. ''bran ly''
at his side, winch really contained aconitc.
1t is supposed tn 1t he took dram out of
it by mistake. Very littls is known of his
history, except that ne ad 8 good educa-
tion and came from good family. He
left tig pile OF obtruse trcatises on his
some of which will be pub
iished.