Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-04-10

naming on the outside between the !
scalp and the skull The soldier who |
received this remarkable wound at
Spottsylvania lived twenty-three days. |
Stlil more wonderful than this case Is
one where MIME ball struck the soft
bone OF the nose and divided. Along
with this goes the head of a man who
put the muZZle OF a pistol in his mouth
and fired. The ball passed through the
Iugular vein and stuck fast in the bone.
acting As a stopper on hemOrrhage
from the vein The would be suicide
lived seventeen years before yielding
up his head TO make museum visitor
marvel.
INDIAN BABIES.
The museum possesses quite a co...
lection OF papOoses, picked up by the
army surgeons In the wild west and
forwarded The withered and battered
remains have teen ''curedr by long
exposure TO sun and wind on the ele
waited stages where the Indians used
t. bury, but they are not pleasant &c
/ look upon. The most notable OF these
papooses Is 4 little chap, said to have
been found In a tree near Laramie
| lie IS dressed IN a suit OF blue, upon
/ which the Indian mother has sewed a
great collection OF buttons Around
the neck is string OF beeds, and on
the feet are little embroidered moe
/ casins.
| "reminiscences OF the Indian war are
numerous. There is the skull OF one
brave who only succumbed when he had
been sabered nine times. AT least that
must be the conclusion, for the Uranium
shows nine distinct penetrating cuts
from the sword. OF course It Is hot
To be supposed that the white man
amused himself by wacking away
needl sssly at the red mems head after
the latter was hors de combat. The
skull belonged to AN Araucanian, who
was killed by Chilian soldiers. The
skull of the favoUite squaw OF Little
Bear, the Indian chief, is very good
companion piece 10 the above. She
was killed In Wyoming. In the pre-
served Uranium are seven bullet holes
One day after the war closed there
, came to Washington a one armed
, veteran. He had a bundle wrapped IL
paper, and he said II Was something
that ought to be in the museum WheI
the wrapplngs were taken on there wa
brought TO view human arm. 1h'
muscles had dried lard and the ski
had been tanned by the action or th'
MlnU anu sun. % COulBACNC htNA ONCi
natures process that there was nothin!
l disagreeable but the looks OF the arm
7 The driving and shrinking Of the fiesl
: had left the jagged bone hare at on
r end and the same causes had cllnche'
: the fingers at the ether The veteran
a, story was that In a battle at Gettys
= burg q cannon ball had taken of hi
arm. Unconscious, he had been cal
4 rIed to the field hospital, and then t
: the general hospital Months after
i ward he had Iegained his health an'
;, had been discharged. Curiosity promp
ted mm TO visit the battlefield and liv
over his terrible experience. lie found
o after some trouble, the spot where b
: stood when the cannon ball dlscovere
q him. 1t was in a com field, and theT
/. between the furrows was the arm
the well preserved condition apparent
The scientific gentlemen of the museuI
% didn't think it worth while to take 10
o soldiers AFFIDAVIT. They saw at
glance that his arm was an interestin
specimen, aside from its history. The
took 1t, mounted it upon two support
:. In "A glass case, and gave 1t place
le prominence in the museum.
d WONDERFUL WORK WITH THE Al
IS ROWS.
&c Some of the wonderful accomplish
r ments of the Indians with their arrow
n- are illustrated in very realistic mai
q lrer. These arrows had heads made
Iv iron hoops or barrels. y should'
blade of a buffalo, with the thin. fra
"a looking arrow head piercing It Is showI
II IJpou close examination the visitor di
ey covers that the point projects throug
ii the outer side of the bone The on
=, lexpl,nation is that the arrow mu
have passed through the body OF u
buffalo and struck the shoulder blai
ie on the inside. These arrow hea
as may be taken between the fingers al
tn bent with ease, they are so thin; b
" shot from the bow by the Indian, tn
went through obstacles which wou
have stopped bullet They penetr
Tel bones without fracturing thel
be taui they made cuts rs clean as |
no Ikeenest surgical blades The Apac
: arrow heal OF soft :-oE has plerc
- ,y.sre Il leajen prOiect'ss would Ia
i'7 flattened.
on The visitor sees hun. up IN the cas-
-or here and there sections OF bones WIN
va possess nosignidcance until IL IS leari n
a, that they have been taken from
- arms or legs of men still living.
in none surgeons sometimes preferred I
.oe nnaration of cutting out section
ar stead of adopting the shorter and,
tbam easier methods Of amputatl'
p,a of these excited bones hung up
eP ltha nusecm came from the arm oI
ng veteran who was for years an attac
per NJ the institution. He used TO walk
he tO the case occasionally and snake
= ist at II Muscle aud sinews had {
-. yeloped II piack Of the missing oone
leS such an extent as to make the
ing strong enough for more than ordlhi
nae This man could lift 2JO pour
v,ith the arm from which the bone L
'ers been taken. ~, ,
-ar uansion Commissioner Back !
=, ,,e or his arms excised, and there
Isl considerable portion of it which Is
al ,ristle and muscle. The bone IS 90
.ur- and he becomes painfully aware OF
xed fart when he tries to shake hands
ga 400 or so people
No. 1925 is Urge bone wlth
splinters about midway, where the {
Wy. let struck. Tue tag saSs y
ing Gen. D. E. s, Unlted olates sol M
ntll taars Gettysburg, July =; amputatec
to, .Ta ,aryar third of the thigh by
1Of' ~ .-a,,, ~ " SIM. United States yolunte'
=, ~ m tbe field. Stump healed rapi'
u and an subject was able to ride IN n, {
is rage July Ii; completely healed
far hat he mounted his horse, in sept
,ult. her 1868. Contributed by the
the iect.n 1t is the leg OF Gen. Sics
who ls still cheerfully stumping at
mo- New York and Washington.
ther NC"
for The late Emperor William Is c
the tied with having saved sl2,VVO,Voo
~ his public allowance