Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-27

men grossly insultcd the violinist, when quick as thought pruning knife flashed forth, and with a shriIl cry tho offender fell to earth with his whole system of doing business exposed to tho prying eyes of the world.
 Tho pruning knife not only slashed open the whole abdominal cavity, but laid the stomach itself open, while at the same time the curve or hook at the end of the blade drew the stomach out on the grass in such a way as to make the gents supper menu no longer a secret. Naturally the wound was regarded as fatal No one had ever heard at that time of repairing a fractured rcnnet, and, far from medical assistance, weeping | friends gathered about the young mans prostrate form, for every one realized that even this phenomenal climate, which for years has euchred the cemo- | tery out of it's dividends, could not save him.
 It was at this supreme moment that the woman of the house came forth and honOrcd her sex (this is a matter of his | tory, and the facts and photographs are 1 ill the hands of Dr. Hilliard. Ashcville, N. co.
 Carefully removing the contents and preface of the stomach, consisting of | cheStnuts and Rhode Island greenings, she cleaned the cut, and then taking the catgut ''E'' string of the violin she | SOftened it, and with a needle sCwcd up the stomach. returned it to the vast watch pocket and then sewcd that up carefully also.
 N H., T bunch of goldcnrOd over the wound, but yet the job was on the hole tidy one. A physician from Asheville came the next day, looked at the patient, took his temperature and smoking tobacco, said, "Pooh!" and went away.
 But the man stubbornly lived on and on, iHld today a surgeon thinks no more of prying into man $ true inwardness than he would of pulling tooth.
 This was the pioneer operation for grafting tho catEut on the human being. What the result may be in future genera tiOnS if we continue tO do this of course even science cannot forctcll. The scicn- tist cannot even tell us what one $ fo- lines may he under such circumstances (Scotch plaid jcHel.
 | They can only go on crOchCting pCo- pie together here, and assisted hy the most glorious maximum temperature perhaps that ever laid out of doors death is deprived of his s;inScr and the lun- ger' possesses the land.
 But should we not learn a valuable lesson from this? think sol
 | Should we not 1CroGniZO tho fact that a woman walked first into this untrod den field of science? of course I would not advise woman tn rise en masse and march into abdominal surgery or gC about disabling whole urchestras for the purpose of sewing up and backstitching or buttunholing or herring boning the yaWning ChaGmS of humanity, but let them have an equal pull at the great in tellectual food supply, 50 that useful knowledge may not be solely in the hands or heads of one seNa~
 Let us remember that the world never suffered so cruelty as at the time wheT the clergy turned the key on education Let no class, nation, denomination ol sex undertake to say who shall COntrO the know ledge supply. Those who a first undertook it are year by year sing ing lower and lower.
 friend and fellow student who wa expelled from Harvard at the same timt that was and for the same cause-viz catching a crab in the middle of a race and who has for years held out stoutl. against CO education, wrote mo last weel a long, heated letter, in which he spellet diseases "dezzes.
 He prints paper which I subscrib
 for, together with another man, on ac count of it's style. No one who aims tC be literary should be without it.
 He wrote up picnic in July and re ferred to the gorgeous supply of victual brought by he picnickers flor the pur pose of sustaining hunger"
 Such man is either humorist or
 plumb fool A committee ought to g
 and examine him. Receiving transpor
 tation last month for an excursion, Il , ladies out the following neat encomiun ! in his paper;
 ''This was we'll enjoyed by the man publicity and attraction of Editors an distinguish men of ability on this event ful day. It Iseems generally speakin
 from what little act can do to attrac . attention on the part of the trip of tai
 kind is very highly appreciated. , "We can do nothing better than t thank the head Managers for their grace : fulness and ease of manner and respor sibility for the care of the passengers fc 7 safetyness and round trip excursion. '
 Referring to peculiarities of genius and especially in the matter of method
 of expression, let me say that Eide
 Rumley, the colored preacher of Iasht
 vile. will be long remembered after |
 has passed away. His favorite discours
 is called "The Dry Bones, and he hG ]. RGeached it by request of Dr. Will Hi
 Hard several hundred times, it is sait Fl He is singular looking man of Africa dsaceut md speake without noksaI