St. Landry democrat., 1891-10-03
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.

lures Which Snow that AruGn Is
Stranger than Fiction.
TIE end Of strange romance has just
been made public by the receipt Of i'll
| formation at the Orphans Court in Phil
| adclphia of the death Of George :. Nc
, kbbcn at Salt Lake City. He was mar
ricd in Philadelphia in May, 1SS9, +"
/ Mrs Sarah NJ. Lawrence. Twenty years
| ago Mr. Mckibbcn was a resident Of san
| Francisco. where he became engaged TO
a pretty girl who was on visit there
| from Salt Lake City. They quarrelcd
before the wedding day arrived, and the
engagement was broken. They driftrd
! away from each other, expecting never
! to meet again. In Il few years Mchih-
! ben, then twcnty-six years old, married,
! and so did his old sweetheart. Subsc-
uucntlv he became a widowcr and about
the same time his first love lost her hus-
! band Mckibbcn married Il second time
| in san Francisco and the widow welded
Captain Lawrence, an owner OF steam
boats on the Mississippi River. The
! captain died and Mrs. Lawrence went to
! New York to make her home. About
this time Mr. Mckibben had q disagree
| mcnt with his wife which resulted in the
! granting Of q divorce i'll a California
| court. He came East, and while walking
! down Broadway, New York, came face to
! face with Mrs Lawrence. 1t had been
twenty years since they had met, but
they at once recognized each other. The
widow had become rich by i'll
hcriting Captain Lawrcnce's property.
1t did not take long to make up the old
| quarrel, and III less than a fortnight the
couple came to Philadelphia and were
married. A years tour abroad followed
and when they returned home Mrs. Me
kibbcn died and was buried at Salt Lake
City. She wiIlcd her property to Il
daghtcr of her first husband and to her
children bv the second husband. Mckibbcl
tried to break the will. but failed. And
now comes the story Of his death and lis
intcrmcnt by the side of his wife at Salt
Lake City.
TIE eleven-vcar-old son Of George W
| FurSnan, of New York, fell out Of wagon
recently and dislocated his neck. Iht
boy was obliged to carry his head on one
| side, and it was with great difficulty that
he could move it at all, though he com
planned Of no pain. Finally the case be
came so serious that the boy was sent Il
the French Hospital! One Of the visit
ing staff Of the hospital took charge ot
the case, and next day Il consultation o1
the visiting staff was held, at which il
was determined to set the diSlocation
! 1t was a daring operation, for compress,
ION of the spinu! cord might cause instant
DEATH Nevertheless the boy was laic
on the operating table and stupetied viii
ether. DR.. II~nna graSped his shoulder
! and Scuddcr his head and pnlIcd strongly
in opposite direction, while DR.. Kelly
with his thumb pressed firmly on the
projecting bone, rotated his head and the
bones slipped back to theirpropcr places
When the lad came out Of the stupor he
was able to move his head freely. 1t The
disIocat;on had not been reduced young
Fursman would have surely died, as ,
nervous disease of the spine would sool
have set in. His neck is now i'll a plastc.
cast to keep it perfectly lnotionlesS, but
Surgeon Arabyan says he can soon g
back to lis home.
AT recent meeting of the Chicago
Medical Society DR.. J. Frank reported ;
case where man every Jul Y sheds hi:
skin. He was taken with feyerish tire
mors. increasing almost to paroXysns
lie undrcsscd, lay down, and within a few
minutes the skin Of the chest began t,
turn red. The redness rapidly EXTENDED
over the entire skin and the feverisI
trcmors continued uninterrupted for abou
twelve hours. Then he arose, drcsse'
and walked about in perfect health Th'
skin now commenced to peel, and tcl
hours later it began to come off in grca
patches From the arms and legs it coult
be pulled off exactly like gloves an'
stockings. As the old skin came away
new cpidernis, as soft and pink as
bady's, was revealed. The new ski
was very sensitive; the patient had f
wear softcncd gloves and moccasins TO
about a week. After the old cuticle hat
been entirely removed the finger ans
toe nails began to drop otf-new nail
literally crowding them out. Finally tn
change Was complete, the man had a ski
and a new outfit of nails, and was read,
to return to the mines. The sheddin!
| began in his first year and required ever,
July thereafter. The case is reportedii
the New York Medical Record.
Nero, the big Newfoundland dog thu
runs with Loebers ambulance, is ia
miliar figure in Cleveland, Ohio. /
| striking example Of his sagacity occurrc
the other day. The ambulance wa
called out and as usual Nero accom-
panied it. In some way the dog wa
thrown under the wheels and had one o
his paws badly crushed. He was unahl
to follow farther and the men did 10
miss him. Nero turned and went b,
cross streets, not back to the ambulanc
barn, but to st. Alexis Hospital. Upol
reaching the hospital he went in and ex
hihitcd the bruised paw to one of tn
nurses. The nurse carefully bandage'
the paw and then the big dog expressed
his thanks in a few short barks. He thc1
went into the doctors room and prepare
to sleep. A little later the ambulanc
arrived and the men were told of his &C
tions. They tried to induce him to re
turn home, but he absolutely refused
and it was plain that he intended to sta
at the hospital until his paw had healed
The men left him, and he was rcgularl
installed in the hospital as a patient. II
submits to the manipulatons Of til
nurses cheerfully and expresses his sat
isfaction at their care.
JOHN EALAN, a Mexican sailor wit
feet and hands wcbbcd exactly like
duck, presented himself at the Pennsy]
yania Hospital in Philadelphia and rc
qucstcd that an operation be performe
to relieve him of his deformity. TIL
c,,recoop oyan,inn1 tho man an1 dc