The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-03
THEIR HEARTS ARE FRISkY
MEN whose Organs Refuse to Stay In
Their Proper Places.

""ose organs hefuse to Stay In
Their Proper Places.
From the New York Journal.
The human heart has been up 70
some queer freaks of late in various
parts of the United States. Indiana
leads, as she usually does, in the matter
of freaks. In the lively commonwealth
of Anderson lives one John Reville. an
enterprfsing, Woodworking baker. 1t
was Reville's good or bad fortune. as
ne looks at 1t. to WOO and win Mary
Hastings. esteemed by many of the
9 youth Of Indiana. When the engage
ment OF the baker to Mary was an
nounced there was much anger among
the girls less favored suitors.
Henry jameson, who had felt certain
OF Mary's affection, did not content
himself with mere words. He lay in
wait Tor Reviile on the night of Jan. 80.
and when the happy lover left the house
or his finacee Jameson rushed on him,
and pressing pistol to Revilles heart,
pulled the trigger. That would have
been the end of Reville had he been
built like other people. But it happen
ed during recent illness his heart had
shifted from the left to the right side
so that the bullet that was to have
ended his life sped harmlessly between
MS seventh and eighth ribs, and to-day
he Is about again, almost as well as
ever, and preparing for his wedding.
AS for jameson. he is in Jail, thanking
his stars, now that his jealousy has
cooled down, that nature helped him to
escape the gallows.
Almost as queer Is the case of Ma
rion Gilmore of Chicago. Marion is a
young girl of Is and is employed as a
saleswoman in a dry goods store. No
one ever suspected that anything was
wrong with her heart until the other
day, when she underwent an examina-
N hxya
surance company. The medical man
found that Marion had been born with
a proper heart enough, but IL had
gradually worked its way over from
the left to the right side. being located
now close to the ribs in the place where
her liver ought to be.
Miss Hattie Benedict has a heart that
Tor months past has been in a state of
transit, moving from its normal posi-
ton toward the right side and up and
down and then back again. Miss Ben
edict lives in Marengo, Wayne county,
this state. Four months ago she fell
into a trance that lasted until last
Monday, when she practically regain
ed consciousness. DR.. William Hub
bell. who had her in charge said the
first words she uttered were:
Il am alive. Please do not hurt me"
Then she passed her hand to her
right side and declared that her
heart" was hurting her. DIR. Hubbell
made an examination and found that
her heart had shifted fully four inches
to the right and four inches upward.
The doctor was by no means surprised,
as the heart had been guilty of similar
eccentricity three times during the
trance condition. Each time the organ
went back to its old position, and DIR.
Hubbell declares there is no danger to
be apprehended. He can give no rea-
son for the strange phenomenon.
Elmer Harris heart began to change
two years ago. Harris lives in Minnee-
apolis. and the doctors there have been
keeping close watch on him. They say
that every three months Harris heart
has moved half an inch with absolute |
regularity in a diagonal line toward |
the lower right side of his body The |
movement seems to take place in |
jumps that occur toward the end of |
every third month. When the migra- |
ton is going to stop is a problem that /
IS filling the unfortunate owner of the /
heart with much uneasiness. His gen.
eral health does not seem to be affected /
and he says he feels no pain. He never /
knows that his heart has shifted until /
the doctors tell him so after each move 4
Here in New York city DR.. Cyrus \
Edison has a queer case in one Of the /
patients whom he has treated for con-
sumption with his now famous remedy 4
The patient had lost one lung. the /
right, before he came to DR. Edison.
and had been given up as a hopeless
case by a half dozen physicians. DR.
Edison himself had but little hope Of
e1ecting a cure, as the left lung had