St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-08

father owned
miles upon miles of barren SteppeS,
storm-Swept during the long winter and
subscribed in the short summer, says
writer in the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
HummaSon was one of the finest
formed men | ever saw. He was tritle
over six feet tall, and weighed 100
pounds. Had he been matched against
John l.. Sullivan in twenty-four-fOot
ring would have Staked my last cent
on him. The critical eye of an anato-
mist can detect a dozen faults in Suili-
vans build, but there were next to none
i'll HummaSon'S. Afterward, when he
lay dead before me, took occaSian to
make some measurements of his mag
ni1icent body, and found the proportions
almost perfect. OF his muscular power
l saw during my short acquaintance
with him some remarkable instances.
Like myself, HummaSOn was attend
Ing the medical classes, but while was
attending the lectures in anatomy and
clinical surgery he studied surgery,
almost to the exclusion of everything
else. The sight of a cadaver, he would
say, made him faint, and he would
avoid surgical operation if possible.
n man upon whom it was necessary to
perform surgical operation should be
allowed 10 die, he would declare. His
temper was most uneVen-One day he
would be genial and happy and the next
Sullen and mOrOSe. In some things he
was kind and gentle, in others barbar-
OuSly savage.
After had known Hummason several
months he asked me to his room to meet
a few friends. He did not live in the
students quarters, but at the top of a
large building in the Rue RicheDause.
near Madeline. He occupied four apart
mentS, which l thought rather eX-
travagant for student whose father,
although master of an immense terri
tory, was poor. The first apartment
was reception-rOOm. plainly fitted up.
The next was his sitting-roOm. where
he entertained his friends. Here he
had most remarkable collection of
weapons of all nations. ancient and
modern. They crowded the walls, and
in some places were piled upon each
other. The next room was small but
elaborate chemical laboratory Here
was the very latest chemical apparatus
Into the fourth room never penetrated.
once caught glimpse into it through
an open door leading from the labora-
tory. The walls were covered with
strange looking diagrams, and upon a
long table i'll the center were piled nu-
merouS curious machines. On this occa-
clOlls do SOOil dS ODStCN6u
the door open, he hastily closed it, NUT
tering as he did so a tremendous Rus
sian oath.
A STRANGE GATHERING.
On my first visit to these rooms a
strange company was gathered there.
No two men were from the same country
except two. who were from Germany.
There was an Italian and Spaniard, AN
IriShman and an EngliShman, Hun
garian and Swede,a powerful jet black
negro from Brazil and myself, represent
ing the great West. Only once during
the evening trouble arose among the
members of this strange company. The
conversation was carried on in French,
this language being understood more or
less perfectly by every one present. The
Spaniard took occasion to remark that
Herr Johann Most was a villain, a
traitor, whose proper place was behind
the bars of some extra strong BaStile,
and further intlmated pretty strongly
that the portion of MOst's mental
composition not rogue was fool
rotund individual, whose atrocious
French had been tOrturing our
ears all the evening, brought his hand
down upon the table, causing the beer
glass at his elbow to spring into the
air. Herr Most, he declared was the
purest patriot the world had ever seen:
a martyr, an exile for holy cause, an
honest man, and possessed of more
brains than the whole Spanish nation.
AT this the Spaniard shook his tobac-
co-Stalned fingers in the air, and
shouted that all Germans were stupid
pigs, not worthy to be trusted with the
conduct of any enterprise.
"Bungleri" cried the Spaniard, shak-
ing his fist at the German, you SpoiIt
the affair of the MalateSti by your NAL
adrOitness. One of the finest things
ever conceived"
This seemed to infuriate the German.
"COward!'' he screamed, ''you who
whined and begged off when appointed
to"
He did not finish the sentence. With
great stride Hummason reached his
side, and, graSping him by the collar
lifted him bodily from the floor. With
the other hand he caught the Spaniard
and hurled him half across the room.
After this there was a little uneasiness
among the members of the party, but it
soon cooled off, and the smoking, drink
ing and conversation in bad French went
on at as great rate as ever.
Next day Hummason came to my
rooms and apologiZed for the behavior
of his guests.
'They are dOlts, idiots" he said. ''who
are allowed to play a little with fire, and
never dream of the volcano Oh which
they stand.
THE SUBJECT OF ENCYSTED BULLETS.
1t was about this time that Hummason
began TO show an interest in the sub
ject of gunshot wounds, and especially
In the tolerance by the tissues of the
body of metallic and other substances
when buried in the flesh. lie would
come to my rooms and talk shop by the
hour. He explained this interest by inc
forming Inc that his father carried two
bullets in his body, one French and
the other an English one, both received
in the redonhts about SabastOpol during
the Crimean war. The French bullet,