Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-02-13

still very much interested in the
welfare of the home of their youth.
The writer accidentally became &C
quainted with a young man from
Peru Mills, named Samuel s. Felmlee.
who Is attending the medical depart
ment OF the Northwestern Uniyersi-
ty- MIR Felmlee invited him TO ar
company hin through the dissectinr
room Of the medical department.
Never having had an experience OF
that KIND we accepted the invitation.
We shall do nothing of the kind soon
again In company with Mr.. Felm
lee, we toiled up four flights of stars
| to
THE DIssEcTINa ROOM.
We bad imagined nice room with
polished and sanded flour. with
nice clean tables, upon which the
bodies undergoing dissection should
lie, and above all that the room
should be well ventilated and lighted,
and that the young NJ. DIS should be
nicely kept IN personal appearance
so lar as their dress was concerned
at least The door of the room was
thrown open Such a scene such a
smell Imagine n vault, one lighted
entirely with drop lights. with the
guaSe pins withdrawn, and flaming
up SIX inches above the burners,
much like the inspectors torches
about railroads and filled with dis
secting tables upon which were lv.
ing tile bodies of human beings in
all stages of decomposition. both
from the effects of time and from the
work of the young sawbones, who
were grouped about the bodies en-
gagged at work in taking TO pieces the
frames of the oodies before them
From three to five young men were
worAlng on corpse The smell was
fearful and We paused at the doorway
bnt having determined to see it, we
ventured IN, not, however, without
shuddering, and having feelings in
the region OF the stomach that are
usually experienced by the mall boy
after smoking his first cigar.
The floor was covered with saw
dust aud mixed with the saw dust
were pieces of human flesh from diff
ferent parts OF the body. About
each body were about a half dozen
movable Jets, setting about on the
remains of some individual who had
fallen into the hands of the pirates.
IN such positions as would throw the
most hight on the sickening sight.
IN PICKLE Two YEARS
DIR. Morgan the demonstration said
AS the body of woman was thrown
upon the table by a couple of stud
ents-''there is a corpse that has
been IN pickle two years, she is tough
and well seasoned, l wonder whethe,
she was a mother in law or an old
maid We were OF course Mortified.
both at the appearance of the BODY.
which was perfectly nude, and the
doctor, and demonstrated with him.
but be was hardened and one of the
group Of students said, Come here
and 1 WI. show you a butte" "This."
continued the calloused young saw
bones, rs
KIDER HAGGARD's SHE"
The body to which he called our
was that of some aged wo-
man which had fallen into the hands
OF these helthen wretches.
Their talk was heartless to saw the
least We did not care to prolong
our visit, although the dissector's of
the human body were very sociably
inclined and took pains TO discover
the most sickening sight, and to
bring them to our notice, and when
80 left -es.sss--eS fTI.it--s:.stI 70 can
sgain, which we have reason to pre-
sumo was well meant. But we shall
never again visit the dissecting room
of Il medical college, and we earnest
ly hope that the fates NAV so
elect, that our bodies shall never fall
into the hands of these dissectors
with such hardened nerves, and who
have no feelings and no sentiment.
and who joke and make remarks that
cause the uninitiated to shudder at
their heartlessness.
JUNIATA DEMOCRATS
We suppose Mr.. Felmlee is a
straight out Democrat, for he made
inquiry for a number of the regular
unterrifed in Juuiata among them
DIR. Crawford, Sheriff Walls. The
latter he termed the leader of the
regulars of upper Tuscarora Coun-
ty Superintendent W. f Auman 1.
ID. Musser and a number of others,
who used to swing around the upper
end, keeping the lines straight.
SUMNER DRINKS.
Morning papers of the 7th inst,
briei accounts of the epi-
demic of nervous insanity of the Nc
Alisterville Soldiers Orphan School.
1t occurred to us, that perhaps the
boys had been indulging in summer
drinks with ingredients, sucn as were
used upon the occasion of the visit of
a number of liffiintown young men
to that town last summer OF course
this is al supposition on the part of
the writer and must be taken as such
WHEREFORE
CHICAGO, February Stb. 1889.