Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-20

to kick with; and he now goes about as
gracefully as you or l."
THAT is really marvellous" said one of
his auditors
Yes" said the veracious narrator from
Chicago, the strange. part Of 1t is that the
railroad company sued him for the recovery
or the $1,000. claiming that the leg was
ages"
g Great indignation was expressed at such
sSlmaillness. after which gentleman from
II can tell you a stranger tale than that,
which ! know to be absolutely true. Sam
arm right above the wrist by a rattlesnalse
last, summer in the Rocky mountains.
above e Wou and BY ne pung lara
poisoned blood, Then he jumped on his
tor. 1t was high time, The hand and
wrist were swollen to twice their natural
reached for his knife and Instantly ampu
tated .,a The :he arm at The elb9w It was the
ny S way goor OF eow he e Was m sSrS T
be married. and that was the arm he did
most Of the hugging with, Well. Sam re
gone. he complained of feeling an uncom,
Portable sensation where his wrist should
hnpf essn canR to mR RasiHie s
pressure between the elbow and wrist of
the missing arm b and a At nd tmsS sn tine pam TaS
mountains and see the doctor who had per-
l'a'isy a'By Jove, s % said the he surgeon I think
] know what als you! They went out out
the amputated limb. The strap was still
Se oe,of mae as sse sss to oSHTs
peace, The pressure will not tr9uble, you
never. felt the slightest inconvenience
slnte - .,,.. fa. .h.,o,, asLa5
II don't know. spirltualists a sax that hmran the
spirit takes the exact Term rT OF nd ihe hunan nos
sibie that when limb Is cut off the spir-
tual counterpart remains with dsrtsin tns eok con.
sciousness of what is happening to the sew
cred member ,, ..o
following ldi Case case. which hiih Happened to young
man in our town" said a drummer from
Oshkosh Esau Thomkins had ans his il rgat Mat
amputated at the shouiderblade. Esau had
been proud of his handwriting and 1t gaXi,e i,e
graphic art would be lost to him. ), He us used
to amuse himself by writing s IN ssIng hiS imam arm
inaion mentally mas,ng ms of ,fsS Writng
letter. one day a clairyoyant lady nap
pe9d to be present taking to nhYseion ms mohe IS
spelled with a clan, not tian, You wrote 1t
wrongly moment ago. .1,,, ,,s
YOU Elqs know !oPksa was UP WPrtins II sii tie
clairvoyant, Il saw every stroke you made
stnmmered Witn se"r hb the boy; how could you see?
'Irue, the arm is gone, but Its spiritual
Part The and moons ks
really made every stroke. and l was able
to them all
~ can easily believe that story, y said the
Chicago man for @ II seems sso p,aRRo,Ifts Rosfon oIf
the spirit partakes Of the lneaments Of the
corporeal Structure. what a maryelously ir.
regular and peculiar spirit a lobster must
LET me tell you a case" said New
Yorker, (which occurred right IN my ram ram
~ aHs NJ wnsGa granafather R1is on my mothers
served in the civil war. one day, ] think
1t was at Ge5sburbg seas sp'e. tore irom away "s
porticn ] Of his scalp and splintered his
skull. They removed him d to the hospiiia,, or,iah
where his skr Yer wnS Soar Was remsved and
after the wound had healed rubber skull
plate was put over the exposed braih. ny
aaiiy dawned upon him that his memory
Was ' not OF so good as formerly. This was
Sran ana Il the Doctors said il Would
ever and the little my granasathsTI knsy
made the discovery that the rubber plate
over the brain was too small for the open
periphery through which his memory
oozed out If 1t had continued much long
all he ever had learned would have
thus leaked away beyond hope OF recovery.
A large disk was procured and put In |
place, and his memory gradually improved. |
Long years afterwards when my grand |
father went to a banquet or with the boys |
to the club, he could drink liquor by the |
gallon without feeling It's effects. He would |
drink until the pressure OF alcohol became |
uncomfortable, then would raise his skull |
cap allow the fumes to escape and resume |
his merry gambols with the flowing |
bowl"
by Jove," said the commercial angel
from Chicago II wish / could get such an |
arrangement for my own USE"
lone of the queerest cases ! ever heard |
Of" said man from Buffalo. Occurred in |
our city some years ago certain lady |
was taken i'll with a mysterious trouble. |
and gradually faded away 10 skin and |
bone. The doctors said there was but one.
way to save her life and that was by a |
TRANSMISSION of blood. The faithful fus-
band consented TO the operation and their
veins having been opened and Joined by |
means OF a suction pump several quarts OF |
forced into her emaciated body. The ope-
ration was success ald the woman ranov- |
cred and grew strong. But strange thing |
occurred. Not only the blood. but a por-
tion of the mans individuality seemed to |
have been Infused into the lady's veins.
She began to ! e. emble her husband to such
a degree that people remarked 1t. Her
voice became deep like his. her walk |