The Helena independent., 1894-12-19

penalty of his hundred crimes on the
gallows. See this dinge on his frontal
bone? That was made by a bullet.
alea as ne swung from the fatal tree
If any one enters the Doctors dress
ing room he will be startled to find
peering from over the mirror there a
hideous skull, while two fieshless hands
clasp candlesticks on either side. The
natural loathsomeness of these relies
OF mortality Is. however, greatly dis
PEELED by the fact that the skull wears
a Turkish fez perched rakishly over its
forehead, while a cigarette is thrust
between the lank digits Of one hand.
The skull is that OF celebrated burg
lar; and the hands were once quite
pretty and covered with Jewels, since
they belonged to a French actress who
poisoned one of her lovers. Another
slSeleton-that of a second polaoner--
stands sentry at the bedroom door, and,
oddly enough, this specimen has wooden
leg A skeleton with wooden leg has
the comic side which the doctors keen
sense of humor is not slow to grasp.
miniature catacombs OF skull and
skeleton is the study, and I'm the cor
ridor. Is a skeleton in armor-very fine
Milancse armor at that.
Unjust decline TO unravel the Identity
Of any members of my collection said
the doctor. mot because | have no le-
gal right TO their possession, but Sim
ply because / promised the donors or
vendors to preserve silence upon the
subject. IL | were TO tell you their
Identity you would own that my rooms
would be worth big money to Nine.
Tussaud's representatives In their brick
palace on the Marylebone road"
~ should fancy" observed the writer,
that living among cadavers can hard
ly be agreeable"
Nonsense, replied the doctor,
they are the best people In the world.
They are full OF tact and never bore one.
Sometimes | lie awake at night and
fancy hear them talking. What stor-
les they do tell-stories OF murder and
robbery and other devitries that thrill
me more than any novel ] ever read,
Tint little French actress whose skull
is onn the mantelplece and whose hands
stretch from behind the mirror rs a
most Vivacious person. You should hear
her chatter about the Quarter Latin
and the Moulin Rouge aud the brave old
life in the 'Boul Mich IL is very en-
tertaininR. one OF my murderers, too,
is "A capital story teller | think he
could give DIR. Conan Doyle abundant
points for a second edition OF Sherlock
Holmes
Besides skeletons and eastern knick-
knacks DR. O'Sullivan'a rooms are iilled
with books. Great books. small books,
fat books, thin hooks-books new and
books old, books wise and books witty
law books, medical books, volumes OF
poetry and novels Of the day lie piled
In picturesque order hers. there and
everywhere. The doctor Is an omniV-
orous reader. ana believer In a variety
Of mental pabulum, Bopkshclvcs he
eschews, prefcrrng as he quantity puts
II. "to give the books their liberty and
not shut them up In dungeon behind
glass doors
Altogether d very interesting evening
may be spent In DR. O'Sullivan's quar-
tcrs particularly when the doctor him
self Is at leisure To play the host IN HIS
easy way, and to explain In that rich
Munster brogue OF which he IN Eo proud,
the many strange and the many beau
tlful treasures which those coEy rooms
contain