The morning call., 1893-10-21


Whatever may be the case with regard
to the uses or abuses OF pharmacy in medi-
cine, it is impossible to take from surgery
the credit for marvellous progress. Opera
tions are now commonly performed which
thirty years ago would have been regarded
as madness. Especially is this remark
able in restorative surgery. There are in
stances of long pieces OF nerve being
taken from rabbits or other animals and
inserted in the place Of nerve tissue in the
limbs Of patients, with the result that
local paralysis has been arrested. In San
Die go a very clever case OF skin.grafting
is reported. A poor woman who has lost
most of the skin of both arms up TO the
shoulder, in consequence OF gasoline ex-
plosion, has had pieces of sEin obtained
from other persons applied to the raw sur
face, an d the probability is the arms will
be restored almost to their normal ap-
pearance. No fewer than forty persons
volunteered practical charity Of very
sacrificial character to relieve the sufferer.
They endured little pain. but are not in
danger of permanent Disagreement.
1t is a curious condition of our civiliZa-
tion that an Indian should be better off in
a savage than a sophisticated state. He
finds it difficult to obtain whisky when an
unimpr0ved aborigine and therefore he
has q chance to live long on reservation
ratioDs, but when ne is citizen and holds
a patent for land-the patent In TACT con-
stituting him citizeD-he is entitled to
drink as much firevater as he can pay for
and he does not neglect the opportunity.
Such is the tenor of report from an
agency in Washington The law should
be amended so as to separate Indians from
distilled spirits permanently.
The chapter of horrors lately Detailing
railroad travel was extended yesterday by
disaster agonizing in the extreme on the
Grand Trunk road. Michigan. 1t is the
familiar story of two trains on one pair OF
rails, and the blame therefore is due to a
bIunder in not switching one of them.
Probably over thirty persons have lost
their lives. and a large number have severe
injuries. Double line railways escape this
form of disaster as rule.
A contradiction comes from Rhode
Island as 20 the story about the coffin of
Graves, the poisoner, containing log. 1t
is not very positive denial OF the report,
and it would be more satisfactory if ex-
humatiOn took place second time. The
accusations put forth at the time OF the
suicide were SO sensational that the au-
the present rumors down to their source,
which is probably pure fiction.
The city and county of San Francisco
has commenced suit to recover $1,000 on
bonds rendered for bail in the case of a
man who was charged with grand larceny.
Quite how large a mountain of money Is
owing TO the city in worthless bonds is a
problem that few could answer off-hand.
1t would, probably, if distributed among
the different civic departments, relieve
them of the embarrassments of debt under
which they labor. But had the city COL
lected this money when due it would all
have been melted in some shape.
The highbinders of Chinatown are, it 10
said, in very perturbed condition of
scare at the prospect of being turned over
to the courts for deportation under the
Geary act. All the lawless element of
Chinatown are doubtless well known TO
the merchants, whom they fleece, and II
they could get rid of them at the expen sc
doubt consider it fine stroke OF policy.
The amount of crookedness 10 Chinatown
will not be got under control, however, by
anything the Six Companies will do.
What particular comfort. in summer or
winter, is obtained from wearing dress
which cost $4,000? 1t was no doubt q
source of comfort to the dressmaker who
got the order, and, perhaps. to the artist
who painted the wearer thus robed. But
dress at $50 might easily be as neat and
pretty and would give much less worry
when worn, Even the wife Of million
aire. like Mrs, William Astor. could hardly
be Indifferent to the price OF her dress
when walking about room and in danger
of having it Erod upon.
The prize-fghters have now found their
opportunity to treat the public to daily
discussion on the ethics of boxing and the
effect on the community, whether whole
some or brutalizlng. Ii the encounters Of
the professional pugilists ere suppressed
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