The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-11-08
WONDERFUL NERVE.
a Han Who Looked on Calmly While the
Surgeons Cut Off His Foot.

a Han Who Looked on Calmly While the
Surgeons Cut Off His Foot.
Thomas E. Byrnes, a molder, had
portion of his right foot crushed by be-
ing run over by a Lake Roland car yes
terday morning, which necessitated the
amputation of about one-half of the foot.
During the amputation Byrnes gave one
of the most stolid exhibitions of nerve
and impassiveness to pain ever witness
ed. Drs. R. F. Blake and Geer made
preparations to put their patient under
the influence of chloroform for this pur-
pose, but when Byrnes was informed Of
what they were about to do he amazed
them by telling them to go ahead with
the cutting, but that he didn't want
narcotic. The physicians feared he
ceuldn't stand it, robust as he is, and
plainly told aim so, but Byrnes was
firm and said he would get through it
all right
Then the surgeons proceeded as gen.
fly as possible. The pain must have been
terrible. just imagine taking knife
and sinking it down into the flesh, sever
ing bones and jointsl cts enough to
make one shudder, - said bystander,
surgeon, too, accustomed to the horrors
of surgical hospital. But Byrnes never
even WINGED. He sat in the chair with
folded arms, braced himself against the
back of the seat and watched the move
ments Of the knife. There was no moan,
no rolling of the eyes, no twitchihg-
absolutely no indication of the terrible
pain except the pallor of his face. The
operation over, Byrnes thanked the sur
geons, who seemed to be far more con-
cerned and anxious that the job come
to an end than the heroic patient Bal
G1more Amer1caI4.
One of the curiosities of Brazil is
tree whose wood and bark contain so
much silica that they are used by pot
tiers. Both wood and bark are burned,
and the ashes are pulverized and mixed
in equal proportions with clay, produc.
ing a very superior ware. The tree
grows to height of 100 feet, but does
not exceed foot a diameter. The fresh
bark cuts like sandstone, andwhen dried
is brittle and hard.-Demorest Mage
zine.
Pope Leo's Mistake.
The pope is said to have made an awk-
ward and amusing mistake when Mr.
j. G. S. Cox, editor of The Tablet, Lon
don, was presented to him. Catching
of the words of introduction only the
announcement that his visitor was the
editor of celebrated English paper,
the pope, with radiant smile, said,
IN Punch" The pope is pardonable if
he doesn't read all the religious papers
s9nt to the Vatican. Boston Transcript.
A hIaid of All Work Adjective.
/ inquired of the head mistress of
girls school why she SO frequently made
use of the adjective mice. - She replied,
because 1t is such useful maid of all
work adjective and saves one the trou-
bic of thinkingP' ''Then you teach your
girls to be inaccurate?" 81 don't think
it is being inaccurate. The word in most
cases expresses my meaning better than
any other - A relative of mine reproved
one of her nieces for her liberal use of
lawfully jolly" The young lady re-
piled: ooh aunt, do not deprive me of
that awfully jolly expression If I were
deprived of it, l shouldn't know what
to say"
The frequent use of tho expletive
''you know was justified to me on the
ground that it keeps the listeners at
tention awake
The fashionable novel presses into its
service these flowers Of speech. In Mr..
Norris Countess Radna" a young gen.
tleman thus addresses a young lady,
I'm so awfully sorry that you are
going to desert u.s." ''I'm awfully sor
ry to have to go, replied the girl com
posedly, land my parents will be aw-
fully sorry to see me-.
Of this young Iady's two lovers the
author himself declares In the same
chapter GA that one was much "nicer"
than the other. In chapter 81 the nicer
one, in declining an invitation, says,
Thanks awfully, but I'm afraid ]
can't Notes and Queries,