Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-20

it a shining object, the eve sockets being touched
up with the same solution colorcd green, and
the generally grisly effect being heightened by
the introduction into the jaws of Il full set Of
actual false teeth with pink celluloid gums.
People pause TO look at it in crowds and say.
How horriblet' But the dentist, who makes
the pulling of teeth a specially, is proud of this
work of art and declares that it attracts custom.
This particular dentist is a remarkable man
in some ways. He says that he pulls an aver
age OF 100 teeth a day and has the most expen-
sive dental plant i'll the country. Many more
things, it would seem, enter into the make up
Of a dental plant than formerly. For example.
this operator wears during business hours some
Of the most conspicuous diamonds in Washing
ton. In the center of his low-cut shirt front
there glitters Il cluster OF diamonds as large Gs
a silver half dollar. A sensitive patient is
likely, In looking upon this brilliant object, to
become at least partially hypnotized, as it were,
so as not to feel very much the yank Of the
forceps. Lest, however, this should prove in
sufficient, the dentist has for sleeve buttons two
solitaire diamonds, each Of them as big as a
hazel nut. There Is nothing that succeeds in
this world like palpable prosperity. Gentle
men in the negro minstrel business find it a
necessary part OF their occupation to wear dia-
monds and conspicuous clothes; why should it
not be the same with drawers Of teeth.
THE SKULL OF A RICH MAN.
THAT skull" he said, referring TO the
object in the glass case, ''once belonged to a
very rich man. That is one reason why l con-
slider IT so valuable. How do l know? Very
simply. Some months ago a friend of mine
was digging up a graveyard in Leavenworth,
Kan. lie owned the graveyard and no one dis
puted his ownership OF the corpses buried in
1t, because the cemetery had been disused for
twenty-five years. People who have been dead
twenty-five years are not usually looked out for
very anxiously by their surviving relatives.
My friend. i'll the process OF digging. came
across a casket of metal. Now, twenty-five
years ago none but very rich people were bur-
led In metal collins. Therefore I know that
this must have. been a rich man and 80 l got his
skull. l am sure that he would be proud to see
himself now, SO beautifully preserved and sill
ver-plated regardless of expense, in my show
case. not to mention the full set of extra
super molars and inclsors with which l have
were extremely bad and suffering Tor lack OF
professional attention. DenIsts III those days
were not what they are now.
A PERFECT SKULL.
Doubtless you observed among the other
skulls in the case the beautiful specimen from
Paris, for which / paid s1O0. Paris, you are
presumably aware, is the great exporting point
for skulls. There are two establishments in
that city which devote their entire attention to
the preparing OF human SKULLS lOr the market.
Unfortunately a perfect skull is a very rare
thing indeed. Only one such as is exhibited
in my case is found in ten thousand specimens.
You may perhaps have noticed that all the
teeth are absolutely perfect. 1t is the skull of
a man thirty-five years OF age-the silvered one
is that of an old gentleman-and you must re-
alize how, in this age of inferior teeth, very
few persons arrive at that age with their chew
ing equipment unimpaired. You may also see
in the glass case the skull OF an eighteen
months child, with the nerves Of the teeth and
their connection preserved entire. lam sure you
will find interesting the enlarged model also
shown Of the human jaws, with tho nerves ex-
hibited, illustrating SO perfectly just why you
are hurt when you have the toothache, or
when you are operated upon with the instru-
ments.
Though I guarantee to draw teeth pain
lessly, use for the purpose ammonIated arr
instead OF nitrous oxide gas, which has killed
several people in the dental chair, though the
facts have been hushed up. l have the biggest
tank of anasthetic material In the United
States. Also l keep constantly on tap an I'm
limited supply OF music in this box, which is a
brand new invention called the .'Symphonium."
capable of playing 1000 different airs. You
see, il is something like o music box, but in
stead OF a roller with needles, which would
only produce u few tunes, l have stacks of these
hat, round tin plates with little stickers all over
them Each plato put i'll the box plays four
pieces and l can change the tune as often as l
choose to replace one plato with another"