Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-05-08
ARTIFICIAL PARASITlSM.
Cranky People Who Arc Ds,our.d ,
nClnAHH Cr.ufnrn

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Imaginary CrentureL
"Cranks bother us occasionally" kaid
Entomologist Howard. Of the depart
mcnt of agriculture, to Il Washington
Star writer. "A man dorm in Florida
recently sent US wore that he was in
great distress of mind. While he was
bathing In the ocean u horrible sen
ccntipcdc' had got into his car. Not
w~ithstanding the utmost efforts made
by physicians whom he had called in,
the creature still remained there md
~occasioncd him the most dreadful
agony, clawing Mt the drum Of the ear
nnd the delicate membranes within the
passageR.
This was very unpleasant, OF course,
and 1t had finally occurred Ia him that
the bureau Of entomology OF Washing
ton might suggest q remedy. Recently.
he said. the c%entiptdc had begun TO
shed legs, q number of which he had
preserved. Unless he obtained relief
lie said he was convinced that lie would
soon go ray.
W. wrote to him. snying that wo
would be glad IL he would send III some
OF the legs which the ccntipedu YVES nj.
legged 10 have shed. He responded by
sending us n few particles Of skin md IL
dozen or SO OF such small hairs as rrow
within the -xtcrnul opening Of the rsr.
Among these specimens there was not
To be found any sign of legs Of any In
sect or other creature. II was as we
had supposed, the mans complaint was
simply imaginary.
"A similar case occurred not long ago
In which thu EniT..rnr ,u,. -,
gentleman living abroad, Who's. hon
cent to him from this country copies OF
certain American He
wrote TINT these publications had evil
IDENTITY carried with them through
the mails some dreadful parasites,
which had attacked him and were cau
Ing him the utmost misery. Physicians
who had been called In had declared
that there wns nothing the matter. be.
Ing evidently ignorant ofthis particular
kind OF imported parasites. ~ our re-
quest he sent TO us nm exhibit, which
proved to be only n little scurf, such "a
might be scratched from the body Of q
healthy person. OF course IL was mere.
ly n dclusion.
"Ihis Is n very peculiar form Of de-
lubion, n 1t liz not altogether uncom.
mon. II has been called by the cclc.
bratcd DIR. blanchard. Of Paris, false
parasitism.' Victims of IL imagine TINT
they arc attacked by parasites OF yari-
Gus kinds and suffer NIL tho horrors
which imagination equally with actual
physical torture can infict."
PEOPLE WHO LACK SALT.
vsastisns 10 Not U.c q, In P,spayin,
Their Food.
Snlt does not enter into the food of
the poor Venctians. They never taste
II, md the hospital for the scrofuloua
children Mt LIDO Is filed by those who
have not had this necessary article In
their food. Every evening. says n Ven.
Ice letter to the Omaha Bee, I have no.
ticcd n poor!y-drcsscd woman. accom-.
panied by two small children, u boy
and a girl, go Ia II point ON the river and
lean over the edge q; the wall md Gil n
bottle with salt water. becoming curl.
Gus ns to b uSn made Of IL. I np-
preached her, with MI apology for the
question, and asked what she did with
the sea water. Turning upon inc n
Swect, sad face, In which ira, = OF
beauty were still visible, she replied
that this WIS the only way she had OF
giving her children tic taste of salt
which they required. The tax levied
upon this article by tho government
plaocd II entirely beyond reach OF the
poor. Ia II right, ] nsh, that n govern.
rent Should t'hr from It's people uu
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