The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-10-28

IT WAS A NARROW ESCAPE.-A snail
pine box was urloaded at a railroad
station at Rochester. \. Y, some time
ago. Presently one of the employees
picked it up aud tossed it on IL truck.
AS he wheeled it away the truck colli-
ded with a door and the box fell off,
striking the floor violently. Again
he threw it on the truck, aud trund-
ling it into the station, dumped it on
the floor. Then he concluded to see
what was inside. and taking an AK
knocked off the V When he lift
ed it he saw within several Innocent
looking little fuses furnished with cop
per caps, all ready to be used in ex.
ploding the twenty five pounds of dy-
Mantle which the box contained. He
has palpitatiou OF the heart whenever
he has thought of that box since.
L HAVE a JURY TEIAL.-Not
long ago a woman named Irene House
was committed to the insane asylum
of New Jersey. She seemed TO have q
mania for matfimOny, having seven
husbands living. She sued out Il writ
of habeas corpus, and when it was
heard before Vice Chancellor Bird, "a
few days since. he ordered her to be
discharged, on the ground that she
was deprived of her liberty in viola
ton If the constitution, in that she
had tot enjoyed a trial by jury. The
superintend mt of the asylum saws
that the same principle would see free
more than 80 per cent of the inmates.
who have been committed as this wo-
man was, by a common pleas Judge.
or the certificate of two physicians.
LAUGHING GAS AS AN ANAEsTHETIC.
1t Is reported that the surgical op-
Grafton that vas performed on Mr..
Cleveland OF board Mr.. Benedict:s
yacht has given prominence to the an
aestic properties OF uitrons oxide gas.
and Is likely to lead to its wide use
in cases where chlorOform has been
hitherto employed. Experiments. it
is said. have been made and have de-
monstrated that this agency is effec.
tive in prolonged surgical operations.
as it is i'll such simple operations as
are peri ,rmed IN the dentists chair.
The experiments have been conducted
in leading hospitals in New York and
elsewhere. 1t is announced that nj
tious oxide gas was recently used
most satisfactorily in Il successful ard
painless thigh amputation in the case
OF a patient seventy years of age, and
that it has been tested also in ether
operations and found to he effective.
much pleasanter, and less dangerous
chloroform or ether.
DOLLARS FOR kISSES..--James Car.
roll. a 10 year old bootblack, of Hemp.
stead, l.. l., got into trouble the other
day through his fondness for o~scula-
ton. He did not undertake to steal
the kisses, either, but offered to paw
for them in good money, at 81 a kiss.
At the Rverhead fair he found a num-
Der of pretty girls who were willing to
deal with him On those terms, and this
SO emboldened him that te went
through the streets Of Hampstead max
ing business proposals of the same sort
to all the good looking women he met.
They one and all declined his terms.
sort to all the good-looking m he
soon found himself in the station house.
When the matter was explained to the
judge next morning. the latter dismiss
ed him with the remark that this wo-
NJ II business is sure to get a fellow
ia led ZIP.