Dodge City times., 1891-11-06
MEANes1 MAN ALIVE.

! Downright stinginsss.
II have seen some stingy men while
I've been in the medical profession, but
the littlest game I saw occurred The
sther day."
So spoke one of our young doctors en-
gsged in large dispensary connected
With one of tho medical schools in the
city to . New York Evening Sun 70.
porter. The doctor continued: ''Much
Of our work is thankless enough. We
experience the greatest difficulty in get
ting patients to take medicine as they
are directed.
''They seem almost to have An idea
sometimes that we ought to pay them
for taking what is going to cure them.
frequently, -hen an interesting case
comes in white a clinic Is going on in
college, we take it before the GLASS and
show the would-be NJ b. s the procedure
taken for its relief. The case in ques-
ton was that of an italian. He came
rushing in with child about year old
in his arms. Anxiety was depicted ea
his countenAzsce.
'The little thing had great difnoulty
In breathing, but retained brsatA
enough to make Rome howl Calming
the father somewhat we managed -
learn that the child had swallowed Q
quarter Of a dollar, whish had stuck IN
Its throat. He asked IL We could get II
out. We promised to do our best, and,
- clinic was in session, took The
child and the father int the pit Of the
smpitheater, SO that the operation
might be performed before the students.
'The prof essor began work at once,
TOR he saw teat the child was In . fair
way to suffoc>-e. They use for these
operations an in strument called . coin
catcher. which is made Nike . crochet
needle. only the ma terial 10 ru bbeF. and
the hook on the end the instrument
b longer than that ofene ctechet Aesdle.
The instrument is to be passed down the
throat past the coin, and when with.
drawn the hook catches unaer the coin
and 1t is pulled up. At BEST IL is dir
cult operation, for the child will kich
and sQuirm, and 1t is not without danger
to the surrounding pa
"The professor worked swsy, and a
his efforts for time proved unsucoess-
fnl, the anxiety on the face Of the fsthss
became intense. He fidgitsd and seemed
to think that oil was lost At lsuQth
the coin was extrioated and the boys
stamped their applause. The processes
laid the coin down on the table while Id
was he'd his hanAs. This Nus the Itsi.
aan's chance, sad while she professor'y
back was turned he quickly wansferred
the quarter to his pocket TIE look Of
distress vanished from his oosntsnsacs.
1T became manifest that tire loss Of
Ais coin had coatended with the danger
OF lesing his chlld to produce biz anxiety.
and that is why say ID was the meaness
thing ever saw. The boys had one
sye on the professor, though, when he |
turned and looked for the ouarter. and
lhey made the old building shake with
their appreciation. The professor caught
On aud got the nan to swap eR the re.
covered quarter for snothse, whaIe -
Inhibited it to the Glass"
The Grape Output.
In reply to q recent statement by \
bnfialo paper that there would be about
twenty-five hundred carloads of grapes
'ent out OF chautauqua county, n. Y,
ms season, an extensive grower Of that
eslon says careful estimate shown
nat the yield in the old vineyards this
ear Siil be only about sixty per cent.
II mat OF last year. The increased
ereage' however, is expected to make
p the deficiency, SO that there will be
bout the same amount for shipment as
ast year. During the harvest of 1890 ,
mere was shipped from that section
nree hundred and ffty-seven carloads. {
nd there will be about the same amount
lis year This may seem like a large G
uahaty. but If evenly distributed TO /,
!, the lnhabitantsof the country, would i
w s'ss soem abOut . bunah pufs~ | =