The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1888-12-15
A pocroR.s STORIES.
Some Curious and LaughabIe Incident
and Adventures.

some Curious and Laughable Incidents
and Adventures.
a practicing physician who gets in
to the swim of business sees a good
many things of interest One in this
city, not so old in years but rich In eX-
perience, related the following Incl
dents:
Not long ago a boy in public school
No. was playing with bunch OF
grab hooks, showing the girls how he
had captured frogs. By dexterous
movement he succeeded in fastening
one of the hooks in his upper lip, and
while removing that one he hooked
the other two into his mouth. As
fast as he Embossed one hook it would
catch further down in his throat, the
points protruding from every angle,
making it impossible to release them
all. Finally one hook caught in the
palate, another in the roof of the
mouth, and the third in his tongue.
Then physicians were sent for. We
found the Lad in a desperate condition
mouth open, unable to speak, and al
most suffocating. 1t was an easy mat
ter to release one or two hooks, but
while the third was being taken out
the others would take fresh hold.
Things looked desperate. We were
puzzled and the boy was strangling.
One of the doctors happened to strike
in,
small block of lead on the sharp point
so it can't fasten itself afresh in the
flesh, then take out another hook and
so on The idea proved to be practi-
cable and the boy was soon released
from his serio-comic condition.
Il once knew of man who received
a galvanic shock under peculiar cir
cumstances. He was fireman, and he
was holding the nozzle of a hose, from
which stream was being thrown on
burning building. Water, you know.
is superior conductor of electricity.
The stream struck some electric wires,
the insulation of which had heen de-
stroyed by the fire. The electric cur
rent went from the wire down the
stream of water to the brass nozzle, to
which the fireman was holding, and
gave him such shock that he dropped
the hose and fell to the street. The
medical journals told all about the
affair, and it was worth all the space,
they gave it.
Il was hurriedly called to an orphan
asylum once to wait on sick boy five
years old, who had been subjected to
domestic remedies in vain. He had a
pain in his little abdomen, but declared
that it hurt him in one little spot only.
When Iasked him what was the mat
ter, he said the button on his clothes
hurt him. This proved to be all there
was in the case. The button had
turned up edgewise and was gouging
the lad.
Zone of the most furious young
men ever saw was doctor who was
in the act of helping me to save a
woman's life. We had been called in
to relieve the woman of poison, taken
with suicidal intent. We had pumped
her out and we re gently switching her
with little sticks to prevent her from
going into fatal sleep under the ihu-
ence of the drug she Lad self-admin-
istered. The woman's sister had
heard of the attempted suicide, and
she came driving up at furious pace.
She had evidently been drinking.
Leaping into the room she saw the
doctor strike her sister with the
switch. This was all she had seen,
and not realizing that it was a neces-
sary castigation, she picked up stick
of wood from the fire-box and struck
the doctor with it across the face.
Rome never saw a more bowling time
than ensued, but strange to say, we
got away without any loss of life
whatever. Indianapolis NeUS