Evening star., 1895-09-14

which, by a special privilege they are al
lowed to sell to exc out their small paw
Ihey receive but 40 kreCtzer a day-less
than ia cents-for their services. Whenever
a bath is desired the hot water must bo
carried by carriers from the ground floor
to the third and fourth stories
For the Benefit of Science.
AS death is the last event in life SO is
the pathological laboratory of the general
hospital In Vienna the last place of con-
veyance for him or her who has died with
In its wards. An unviolated rule governing
the hospital has been in force for years
which allows the remains of no one who
dies In the hospital to be transferred until
an autopsy is held. The measure has been
the greatest possible stimulant for the
rendition Of correct diagnoses, and there
Is no man upon that great staff who
does not entertain the greatest respect for
the pathologfst-the final arbiter of every
thing pertaining to disease. Through these
autopsies the truth is revealed. Charlatans
are robbed of those laurels which they
never have a right to enjoy and title to
recognition is conferred upon talent and
genius. Medical research is also thereby
placed upon broader and higher plane.
A Tremendous Record.
Within this enormous structure, devoted
to the special study of disease in the dead,
one man. Kundrat by name, is said to have
performed 10000 post-mortems. Incredi-
VIZ &c eaS StotcHicill may seem, 1 DSileE0
II to be strictly accurate, for it came TO me
from n ost reliable source Prof K,lisko
succeeds kundrat, who died a year or SO
ago, and 1t was within his laboratory dur
ing the absence of the coroner that be-
held the final chapter of a tragedy The
subject had killed himself, but the reason
was not known. They found him dead in
his room in a pool of blood with an old
fashioned fiint-lock derringer clinched in his
hand He was handsome fellow, even in
death, with thick, black, wavy hair and
eastern features, which stamped him as q
well-bred Hungarian. His friends spoke Of
niest Of dispositions. student who appear
ed to enjoy life as it came along from day
10 day, free from care and anxiety.
The secret Revealed by the ScaIPeI.
A motive for the rash act could not be
found. and 1t was believed that the secret
would be carried with the body to the
grave: The scalpel in the hands of this
skilled professor, which cut into the flesh
Of the suicide. revealed not only the secret,
but a pathetic story Of unrequited love az
Well The whole mystery snrouding the
me OF that unfortunate student was re-
The bullet had apparently entered his
chest, plowing through his lungs, to be-
come lost in the underlying tissue. II was
afterward found in place where II was
not looked for-immediately beneath the
integument covering the fourth RIB. Some.
thing far more important than the leadep
missile was unearthed which was lodged
paper, folded and refolded into a wad.
which, upon being removed and unfolded
by the great pathologist, was found to
contain the sentence: Ivan, 1t cannot be.
Marie"
The Note Literally Killed Him.
Is 1t necessary that take you back to
the room Of the suicide; that I point
against the wall to the place where the
derringer hung suspended; that tell you
of the postman who brought the note; of
the lovers despair upon reading the mis-
sive: that / remind you that the derringer
was loaded from the muzzle by first plac-
ing in the powder then the ball and lastly
4 wad Of paper, which in this case was the
note received from the woman whom this
student loved above all others, abovs his
books and above his worldly existence2
The ball did not kill this man, for 1t was
DETECTED upon striking the rib. and lodged
beneath the skin. but the note pierced his
heart and lungs.
JOHN H. METZEROTT.