St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-25
AT THE HOTELS.

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manager of Thel's Detective service, is
Stopping at the Windsor. He is quite
we'll acquainted in the city and has
number of good stories to tell. One.of
ihem is as follows:
Il was down in Mexico some time
ago." said the doctor, land happened
one day to be in stone quarry where
they were blasting out large piece of
rock. Just as the stone fell to the
ground [ noticed something hanging
from the rock, evidently some foreign
substance. l stepped down into the
quarry and looked at the article, and
yo1 can judge of my surprise when L
discovered that it was a portion of a
human jaw-bOne. There could be no
mistake, as the bone was there i'll every
detail complete. The teeth could be
seen plainly marked, and there was no
doubt of the fact that the bone had been
imbedded in the rock for long num-
ber of years. The bone was Embedded
in a hard sandstone which had been
made fiinty by intense pressure. and it
was about forty feet from the surface.
II started to figure out how long iJ
had been there, Perhaps the man had
flllen from canoe and was drowned in
the ocean. Then it must have taken
thousands of years to pie the various
strata of stone on top of the remains.
Then it took years for the rock to be
raised out of the water to form tins
mountain from which the stone was
being quarried. | figured and figured
until was tired, but | would not care
to wait as long for my dinner as that
jawbone did TO see the light of day. 1t
is now in the Smithsonian institute at
Washington. As this was the only por-
ton of the man that was brought to
light. [ am of the impression that some
shark must have eaten up the balance
of him."
Charles E. Gordon, of Menomonie,
Wis, is disguised with certain portions
of the worlds fair, and particularly
with some of the exhibits. He was at
the Ryan yesterday, and he was telling
a number of acquaintanceS about the
'beauty show" said to be composed of
representatives OF the various countries
of the globe.
Il think 1t is fraud" he said. THE
girls may be from the different coun-
tries. but their education has certainly
been neglected. They are really very
pretty. however. tried to talk to the
different ones, some of them in their
native tongue, but they did not under
stand me at all, and for that reason |
am OF the impression that the manage
ment of the show has merely secured a
lot of girls from Chicago OF some other
city, and, after dressing them up and
painting their faces and arms, palmed
them off as girls of various nations.
They couldn't talk at all in their own
languages.
perhaps you couldn't talk their Ian
guage," suggests some one.
"Oh, yes could" he replied.
Where did you learn?"
''In an American college,"
There was general chorus OF "Ohs,"
and then the party adjourned to the
back door,"
81 am interested in the reports which
l read of the search for the body of st.
Paul citizen." said l.. l.. Mckenzie, a
railroad man from British Columbia.
1T is amusing, the reports which are
given credence to by the people, ,and the
wrong impression which they have of
the power of dynamite to raise body to
the surface. The force of the dynamite
only causes shock to the ground and
then permits the body to come to the
surface il it is filled with gases. In
cold water a body will sometimes re-
main ON the bottom for some time, as the
corpse will not decompose unless there
is certain degree OF heat. The decom,
position causes the formation of the
gases, and when the body becomes
light enough it will come 20 the surface.
Il know of case where the body of
a man renamed on the bottom of river
for three years. and when it came to
the surface it was readily recognized by
those who had known him in life.
There had been a wreck on one of the
northern rivers, where bridge fell in
with train of cars The body of fire.
man, who was drowned, was recovered,
but the body of brakeman, who was
also drowned, was not recovered. Three
years afterward there was another aeci-
dent on the same bridge, and man
was drowned. There was a care
full search of the river with Crap
ping irons at the time, and a body
bobbe up out of the water. 1t was not
the body they had expected to see, but
on being taken to shore it was recog-
niZed as the body of the brakeman who
had disappeared at the other wreck.
The water was very cold in the river
and it was supposed that some of the
coal, in the wrecked cars, had covered
the body and kept it away from the
fishes. The second wreck swept away
the covering, and when the graphing
hooks caught the body 1t came to the
surface. The cold water acted as re-
frigerative and did not permit the gases
to form in the body"