Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-01-30

ostrich. They usually start in with roast
beef or some other dish that is ready and
wind up with minee pie or boiled apple
dumpling
'1 know many a business man who
comes in and consumes three or four
dishes and is out of the place again in less
than fifteen minutes. At lunch time they
come in again and load up with an oyster
pattie or beef steak pie or some other dish
in which rich pastry is an important fac
tor. This second rush of trade is even
more interesting than the first because it
shows how the habit of eating pastry
grows. 1t is no unusual thing to see a
nan of forty years of age take wheat
cakes, sausage and mince pie for his
luncheon. He bolts the sausage, covers
his cakes with rich syrup and has his pie
served hot and sprinkled an inch deep
with powdered sugar.
He is invariably an advanced dyspeptic
in appearance and for some unaccountable
reason he seems to succeed in business
pie eaters of New York because half the
railroad presidents, telegraph superin-
tendents and influential men of affairs
of this town eat things which cause man
of astronomical intelligence to shudder.
Most of the absorbed and nervous hnan-
ciers and business men die at fifty and
everybody says it is due to overwork.
All mistake. Pie is the fell destroyer"
AN ILLINOIS GIRLS NEW NOSE.
Another Queer Bone-Grafrfng Exper.
iment In Surgery.
Decatur (Ill) Letter to ST. Louis Globe Demo
cratl
The patient is a young woman, who
when child had her nose broken and as
result of the decay of the bones follow
ing this injury, the bridge of the nasal
organ had been completely lost, producing
a most unsightly deformity-a complete
hatness between the ewes and the end of
the nose turning directly outward instead
of downward-an producing a picture
which, to say the least, was extremely
annoying to sensitive young lady She
had visited many of the hest surgeons in
st. Louis and Chicago, but none of them
would advise interference. The nature
and prospects of the operation having
been explained to her by the Decatur sur
geon, she was anxious for the trial The
patient was etherized and a transverse
incision about three-quarters of an inch
long made directly between the eyes, ex-
tending down to the bone 4 small
chisel was then introduced into the wound
and all the soft parts separated from the
bones, from the tip of the nose to the
forehead and about an inch on either side
of the median line out on the cheeks.
When this had been done a half-grown
cat was quickly chloroformed and pieces
of four ribs, each two inches in length.
were taken from its side, readily cleaned
OF all superfiuous flesh and then inserted
into the wound which had been made on
the patients face SO that they raised up
the skin over them, thus forming a good
solid bridge. The operation was done
with all the modern antiseptic precautions
and the wound sewed up and sealed.
There was absolutely no sign Of irritation
or Inflammation following. The wound
healed in four or five days, and the very
slight scar, lying as it does in the natural
wrinkle at the root of the eyebrows, is
almost invisible. The bones have now
grown solidly together and the patient is
delighted in being the possessor of a nose
as presentable in its graceful contour as
those of her most beautiful lady friends.
A happier young lady it would be difficult
to find anywhere in the world. DR.. VIII
liam Bauer is the name of the Decatur
surgeon who alone performed this pioneer
operation in bone grating for the nose
Seven Queer Children.
From the Philadelphia Inquirerl
People of Munson claim to have among
them the queerest family as to physical
popularity in the whole world. Jacob
HERS, farmer in moderate circum-
stances, has seven children The oldest
is sixteen, bright boy, but having thir-
teen fingers and thirteen toes-seven on
one hand and six on the other, his toes
being similarly divided. Next to him is
another boy, fourteen years old. AS long
as this boy is quiet no one would suppose
he had any popularity, but the moment
he opens his mouth to talk he loses all
| control of his arms. feet and legs, and they
| jerk and thrash and kick around as if they
were hung on wires.
The boy is as slow of speech as his
limbs are active and in answering a sim
pie question it is no uncommon thing for
his legs to have carried him a rod OF
more away before he is able to articulate
, yes or no. The boy does not seem to
mind his affiiction, and not only does moi
hesitate to respond, or try to, when ht
is addressed, but is always ready to begiI
a conversation on the slightest excuse
He can be seen almost any day arguing
with or explaining some point to som'
companion, who is kept constantly bus!
either in avoiding the involuntary kick
or blows of the boys sprightly feet o
hands or in following him briskly to keel
the run of the subject
The third child is a girl, who is hunch
back and drawf. She is twelve year
old a boy next to her is deaf and dumb
The fifth child has bright red birthmarl
encircling her neck like a piece of Is'
flannel. 1t is an inch and half wide
The other two children are twins, thre
months old-a boy and a girl. The boy
head is covered with hair enough for
grown person, while the girl twin hasn'
the sign of hair upon the head, til
little poll being as white and shiny as
billiard ball. The girl is fat and the bo
lean. When the boy laughs the little gil
cries Justify, and when his little sister
merry the boy sheds tears and yells-
Every one of these seven children
handsome and mentally bright. Mr.
HERS is a fine looking woman, and b,
husband is sound physically and mental.