Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-08
AMMONIA STOPPED HIM.
only Wepon . Physician Could Use
 Against q Mailman.

From the Kansas City Times.
 Years ago, when was a youngster, be- came an assistant of Dr. B., the superin- tendent of a public insane asylum. As in all insane asylums, some of the patients were docile and tractable, and had the free dom of a high walled garden, while others, being violent and dangerous in their mad ness, were confined to their rooms. Some times one of the last named gentlemen would get loose, fact which he usually announced by breaking things generally, upon which announcement the doctor would repair to the spot, and, advancing upon him with stesdfsst gaze, would march him of to his room We had one lunatic by the name of Jones, large and strong as ostrich. He had broken out of his room two or three times, but had sl- ways gone back docilely when any of us made our appearance.
 The asylum had saloon in the center, with door in each end, and one of the doors requiring fixing, once upon time, carpenter was engaged upon it, when in truddled Mir. Jones and quietly possessed himself of long, sharp chisel. When the carpenter looked around the mailman gave e glin and poked the chisel at him, where upon the man of chips scuttled out and locked the door, Then, while the enemy was battering away at it, he rushed around and locked the door at the other end. Hay ing thus caged Jones he gave the alarm, and I, supposing it was an ordinary case which could control, unlocked the door and entered boldly, whereupon he made a rush at me. I incontinently bolted. The doctor was sent for. He soon came, recon noitered through the keyhole, and, ascer- taing that the enemy was at the other end of the room, he opened the door, and saw st once he could do nothing with the loose A crazy individual, as strong as bull, per fectly uncomfortable, and armed with a | weapon. To capture him by force was 8 difficult and dangerous undertaking, and ! to starve him would be tedious affair. But the doctor did not hesitate long.
 "Alfred," said he, Ego down into the 1 surgery, fill the largest syringe with harts horn and bring it up."
 I caught the idea, rusheded down and brought back quart syringe with harts horn diluted-for didn't want to kill the man. Then the doctor, carpenter and my 1! self formed an army Of invasion. we threw open the door and entered in tho following array: I, being the shortest mar of the three, marched first, hold chair ir front of me by the back, so that the leg might keep of rush if our popgun should flash in the pan. Then came the carpenter with syringe resting on my shoulder like a piece of flying artillery. Finally in th' rear, in the safest place, like all great gen , erals, came Dr. B.
 The lunatic sat at the other end of thu hall, on chair, eyeing us keenly and say agely. Slowly, very slowly we advanced |. t,a,. rrNt4 hn
 wicked that chisel looked, and the hsndl
 seemed to increase until it was very, yer, long. When we were within few feet O
 him he jumped up and sprang toward me ] Whiz! splatterl splash! went the quart O
 hsrtshorn into his countenance; down h
 went like log-it would have knocked down a battalion-and while he vas catch ing his breath we caught him.
 From the Polar Regions of Russia
 The following extract is from letter il
 Free Russia under the above title. It wa
 written from Sredne Kolymsk and date'
 May 25, 1890:
 winter, is hideous mixture of native an
 European dress. The European part hs
 generally been made in prison out o
 pieces of prison cloth, and the native par
 always consists of rags, as it is very diff
 cult to obtain clothing at all You cal
 hardly imagine what an endless worry it i
 to make caps, nittens, stockings and al
 such small things! We have to do 1t d
 ourselves, and often cannot get sithe l cloth or fur Our worst trouble, however
 is want of food. However hard we wor at our fishing, however careful we ar
 never to lose a chance of obtaining an kind of msst-sll the same, in summer there are times when we have to actual
 starve, for in summer there is absolutel no meat to be got, and to live constant and exclusively on fish not only affects on with nausea, but with some people pro duces actual fsh-poisoning. We have . come to the conclusion that sudde
 change from ordinary food to an eIclusiv
 fish diet results in 0 peculiar form of DO soning not yet known to science. In vii ter, when there is meat as we'll, we all es
 the fish; but in summer the mere sight (
 boiled fish affects many with nausea an vomiting. In summer we live on a yer small quantity of flour, little milk frol our own COWS, wild berries and the inte ninsble fish. The worst time of the yei is the beginning of autumn, when lars | and the roads are not properly frozel = The COWS leave off giving milk, neith'
 carcases nor live cattle are brought in
 the only way out of the difficulty woul
 be to go to sleep for three weeks, like u
 bears But even at the best season of u c year we never have really enough to ca l. we are too poor for that-and even if V
 were rich it would not help us-there b not food enough in the place. You cs s imagine how delightful it must be to l !. down hungry at night, to wake up u f next morning still hungrier, to wait an: v iously for the half -rations that go by tl 7 name of dinner-after dinner you go hi
 the kitchen and carefully gather up all tl
 bits-all the scrapings of pots and pan T then to strap one's belt tighter for hung > and wait for supper, and so ol day after day. It is like the life of hal
 starved sailors wrecked on desert islam 70 sI have not spoken of a thousand oth 1t conveniences of life; for instance, arti B. cial light, which, with us, is now the bur l. ing question of the moment. It has be
 8 bad year, so that the cattle are very lea le and we cannot get any tallow to make ca b. dles. We have already bought up a ae used nearly all the candles there were