Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-04-22
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.
BABIES do many queer things, but
/ two-year-old Joseph Virgins, Jr., of
2026 Mountain street, Philadelphia, beat
the record the other day when he swal
lowed an orange seed and at once pro-
ceeded to grow the sprout of fine
Florida orange tree in his throat. The
Record says that the experiment would
have proved disastrous for Baby Joseph
but for the kindly Intervention of doctors.
The little boys mother gave him an
orange after carefully preparing it for
him. Unfortunately, however one seed
remained in the pulp and this seed be-
came lodged in the baby's windpipe,
causing n slight difficulty in breathing.
Little attention was paid to the matter,
but next day the child's breathing be-
came more painful and was constantly
accompanied by slight choking.
Doctors IL. X. Wharton and j. 2. Tunis
were called in and informed by the
mother that the trouble was caused by
some of the orange pulp. The usual
remedies were applied and some relief
obtained, but on the following night the
condition of the child became serious.
After a careful examination the physi-
clans decided that the only means of
saving the little sufferers life was to
perform tracheotomy. Next morning
this was undertaken, and long incision
was made in the neck, opening the wind
pipe. At the point where the latter
joined the lungs a hard substance was
detected deeply imbedded in mucus.
When removed it proved to be an ex-
traordinarily large orange seed. The
wound was closed up and dressed, and
next day the boy was on the road to re-
cuvery. The seed was in a particularly
dangerous position and would uudoubt-
edlv have caused suffocation in very
short time. While lodged in the throat
the heat had caused it to open at one
end and to sprout slightly. 1t was also
swollen greatly beyond the original large
size.
Il the amphitheater of the Massachu-
sets general hospital, Boston, on recent
afternoon, one of the operating surgeons,
Doctor John w. Elliot, showed a Globe
man little child about three years old
who had inhaled a bean into the lung,
and on whom an operation was per-
formed for its removal. The operation
has proved remarkably successful. The
bean, which was of the ordinary size of
a white beam had been inhaled into the
right brouchus and, as the right lung
was thus shut off from receiving its
proper amount of air, the danger of
broncho pneumonia with fatal termina-
tion became imminent and traCheotomy
was performed. The incision, about an
inch long. was made in the median line
of the neck, and after going through the
superficial structures of that part the
trachea was reached and inciscd in a
vertical line. The incision was made
large enough to admit very long and
slender pair of forceps, which were care
fully passed down the trachea and into
the right bronchus. A short distance
below where the windpipe divides, the
end of the forceps touched the bean,
which was firmly lodged. Grasping the
bean with the forceps, the surgeon
broke off a small bit of the offending
substance and withdrew it, Three at
tempts resulted in getting only small
particles. 1t had become softened, and
the soft part of the bronchus had swollen
and closed in about it. The next at
tempt was more successful. The fine
teeth of the head of the forceps buried
themselves in the substance of the bean
and with careful manipulation it WAS eX-
tracted. Immediate relief was expert,
euced by the little sufferer, and the
child is practically well.
THERE are many queer legal papers
on file in probably every court of record
in the world, but the only court that
ever indicted a man for the murder of q
sheep is in Gilmer County West Virginia,
said Harry L.'Sperry, a Wheeling lawyer,
at the Southern, to a reporter for the
St Louis Globe Democrat sin June,
1875. William F. Lively who has since
been prominently mentioned for Cover
nor on the Democratic ticket, and has
several times been in the Legislature.
was the prosecuting attorney for GilmeI
County. lie drew up an indictment
which went to show that one jacob
Watt, with a gun, the value of which
was 81, and which was then and there
charged with gunpowder and lead OF
some other destructive substance, in hi,
hand. did willfully discharge and shoot
off, to, against and upon the said sheep,
the property of one Jacob Burke, and
the lead or other destructive substance
did strike, penetrate and wound the said
sheep, causing it to linger and fall, and
that said David Watt did set upon the
said sheep and with n sharp and Ian
gerous instrument wound cut and NAL
treat it, that it died All this was &C.
cording to The testimony Of one William
Greeuleaf. an eyewitness, aud against
the peace aud dignity Of the State o.
West Virginia Lively got the geand
jury 10 ind q true bill, but the cas-,
never came 10 trial. and. legally, jacob
and David Watt nre still under indict
mont for murder The only case ofth,
murder 1T "a sheep ON record
A "CNH CopntH' tells the Boston
journal hov hc cured O. setting hcn. d"
made. be SAYS. "huI( ia dozen SNOWFALL
aud soaked them ia water lutha mora
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