Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-02

1887 there were sixtyfour British sub
jects treated at the Pasteur Institute
OF these, fivedied-yiz Lorn Donera1le,
who was sixty-seyen years of age, whose
limbs were bitten in ten places, whose
wounds we're not cauterized, and whose
injuries were received from dog recog-
nized to be rabid by a veterinary sur
geon; John Hayden, aged eight years,
another victim, was bitten four times IN
the head by dog recognized to be
rabid by the experimental test; he was
not cauierized, and he died from rabies
during treatment six days after being
bitten. Martin Cahill, aged thirty, not
cautcriled; Albert Kirkham, aged FIVE,
and Frederick Indy, aged twenty-five,
both cautelized, but all three bitten by
animals recognized to be rabbi, died
each within one month after being bit
ten. In the year 1888 NJ Pasteur had
twenty-one British subjects under his
care. No deaths occurred among them
but one, woman namcd Herminie Per-
tolde, who was bitten ON the I'd of De
ccmher last by dog recognized as rabld,
is still undergoing treatment.
TT is a well-known fact that the dying
are often able to see the principal facts
of their lives, which otherwise have
been forgotten for many years, clearly
and accurately before them. The reason
for this clairvoyance French doctor
ascribts to sudden modification of the
cerebral circulation, which can also be
brought about by artificial means. Thus
he tells Of u case of patient who was
dying Of consumption. He mad already
lost consciousness, when, having been
revived by two successive injections of
one grnmme of ether, the dying man
slowly raised his head and rapidly pro
nounced string of words, which no one
noar him was able to understand, us they
we're Flemish. After some mpsements
indicating Impotence, he made sign
that he wished TO write. A pencil and
paper were then handed to him, and he
wrote rapidly three or four lines, also in
Flemish. This man, who was native
of Antwerp, had lived in Paris Tor many
years and never wrote or spoke anything
but French; but when dying, he seemed
to be unable to recollect that language.
Afterwards it was found that his pencil
note was about debt OF $3.50, which
he had borrowed from somebody at
Brussels in 1863 and which had never
been paid. In another case the patient
was dying Of lung disease. He had
tainted several times and no longer re
piled to any questions put to him; his
pulse was al but gone, but after an in
lection of ether he turned his head
towards his wife, saying rapidly: ''You
will not find that pin, for all the floor
has been rclnade, which' was an aliu
sion to an incident of eighteen years
ago. After uttering these words the
breathing ceased.
WHEN there was coasting on Swan
street, between Madison avenue and
Hamilton street III Albany, n. Y, last
Winter, no one enjoyed the sport more,
or INDUCED in il to greater extent
than "Jumbo," the Scotch collie of
Moses Stark This dog is six years old. /
weighs fifty and one-half pounds |
and is Of light brindle color. He is
good-naiured and full of pluck May
Stark, in childish sport, put Jumbo on
hand sled ono day and sent him down
the hill This was sufficient, and there .
after it vas next to impossible to keep
him off sled when il was empty. He 4
would lie en- all fours on the sled with 4
his fore Paws over the front of the bot +
tom board, or SIT on his hind legs with .
the string in his mouth, and ride down 4
tho hill alone He liked best to lie on I
all fours with his sled attached to others
in front containing children At the
bottom Ct the hill lie would seize the
string between his teeth and drag the 4
children up the hill, when a reasonable
number were on the sled
The Wilmington DELI Republican
says: "a lady who buried her four
months-old child yesterday, from her
residence in Rodney street, tells the two
following Dreams A short time before
the birth of the child she and some
friends were out loohingat the sky, when
she saw white thing in the air fly
around like charmed bird that could
not get away fromits charmer 1t grad
uallv came downward until she made it
out In the shape Of n white dove. 1t
came or down gradually, making its
graceful rounds shorter and shorter I'M
til il fluttered to her face and lit upon
her shoulder She then awolle and found
It was hut dream. but in few days
her child was born About week ago
she had another dream, but this time
the snowy white dove took its departure
from her shoulder, and, duttering around
and around, it assembled higher and
higher into the azure blue until it was
lost to sight. On Friday morning last
her child died.
IT has remained for Virginia family
to outGo an previous condolences of a
aatue. The father and mother
We're Married on the 14til day of October;
they have Lad nine children, all of whom
were bora pn. the l4th Of October; five
of the children arc dead, and all five of
them ceased 10 breathe on the 14th of
October. The name Of tlie head of this
family is Joshua Franklin, and their
residence Glade Mountain, West Viz
ginia. Mr.. Franklin s@ys that he was
Confederate soldier, ;ha. he was cap
tured iw;,-e By the United States troops,
and that he lost two brothers in the war:
and tlIat al sour of these misfortunes
on the memorable 9Th vf De-